182 She really loves me! (2/2)
They packed up around nine in the evening and Mia tagged along with him since she started living in his condo but in a different room.
He was prepared to sleep early for the morning shoot when somebody pressed the calling bell of his condo. But Aeon saw no one outside, he was getting in when a package got his attention that was on the floor.
Mia who was still on her night skincare regime saw Aeon holding an envelope that had the logo of the hospital
She gulped nervously and snatched the envelope, presuming Leon Harmon might have sent the envelope to reveal the truth. Aeon might check it and throw her out. She wasn't ready to get dumped by Aeon Harmon when her life was in grave danger due to Leon Harmon.
She and Leon Harmon had used the Rivas hospital logo and forged a report to fool Aeon Harmon so she knew the hospital won't send her the report when she had never visited the hospital.
That time, Leon Harmon had managed to bribe a doctor to instruct Aeon as he was giving private treatment for Mia due to her identity as a celebrity.
Now, Aeon was confused by her behavior, holding a Pendrive in a hand. He thought she must be embarrassed to show him the reports and she wasn't recovering well due to recent activities. It didn't cross his mind she might be hiding something.
He saw the Pendrive in his hand again and assumed it might be a record of her session with her psychiatrist so he wanted to return it to her and knocked on the door, ”Mia, there is a pen drive too.”
There wasn't a sliver line of suspicion on his expression willing to respect her privacy. Anyhow he heard no voice from Mia. He knocked on the door but heard silence.
Panicked, he grabbed the spare keys of the room hoping she didn't do something to herself, and rushed in to see smoke sweeping through the bathroom door.
”Is she smoking?” He mumbled to himself and pushed the unlocked door to see her burning the report papers and flushing them quickly.
Puzzled by her weird behavior, he involuntarily grabbed a paper that was at his feet and read. It was a patient record log and he didn't find Mia's name in it.
'Wait? Why did she get this instead of health reports?' He thought to himself and discerned the name on the envelope was 'Aeon Harmon' but not 'Mia Craft' and why will the hospital delivery report in the night?
Mia was unaware that her own behavior raised the suspicion without realizing Aeon was watching her burn each paper to ashes holding a lighter.
Aeon was sure something's off and stood behind her reading the papers she was burning. He didn't want to see her lose control over her mental state and behave like a maniac all night for him to tend to her. He was too tired of it.
What he had thought to read was she was gravely ill looking at her behavior but saw a paper state as none of the Doctors under Rivas Psychiatric hospital are allowed to give private counseling.
'Then who was that doctor?' Aeon thought.
He saw her burn another paper which had details of doctor and photo to realize he was a professional artist from a different city hired for some pennies.
Aeon's lips arced slyly watching the woman desperately burning the evidence. If she was smart, she would have stayed calm then told him as somebody is trying to trap her and Aeon would have really trusted her.
Yes, he would have really trusted her due to their long friendship but her panicked state was giving out the truth that she was burning the real evidence. Now it didn't take much time for him to analyze she was acting all along to force him to be her boyfriend and might force him to get married in later days.
'She really loves me!' He exclaimed himself for her possessiveness.
He didn't disturb her, instead returned back to the bedroom and connected the pen drive to the smart television, and played it. There was a simple video of the fake doctor rehearsing his lines repeatedly.
'That voice?' Mia rushed out to see Aeon smiling watching the video. Her jaw dropped in shock seeing him happy and relaxed without getting angry or unhappy.
When his eyes landed on Mia, he smiled just like he used to smile in the teenage years and how he used to be lively and cheerful for Amiah. There was no containment and that smile reached his eyes, unlike the cold smirks.
”Thank god, you are perfectly alright.” He went up to her cupped her face and sighed a breath of relief.
Mia's eyes pooled with tears seeing him get happy by knowing she was fine instead of becoming angry for fooling him so many years.
The tears rolled down on her flushed cheeks uncontrollably as she apologized to him, placing her hands on his, ”I am sorry, I- I didn't… I just wanted to be with you.” She confessed.
”There There… Don't cry…” Aeon tried to coax her but she continued weeping in his embrace. Aeon softly patted her head feeling his burden off the shoulder hugging the quivering body.