107 Jias Abduction (2/2)

”Okay, then.” So, they picked up their luggages and walked towards the direction the caller had instructed them.

While walking,Jim was engrossed with different calls so they did not talk. Jia just dragged her small suitcase quietly while listening to Jim.

Soon,an aircraft crew met and greeted them as he guided them to climb up to their seats. It was a four - seater,light helicopter with single engine and a single main rotor.

Jim was still talking to his phone when he settled in his seat absent - mindedly. When,finally,a call was ended,another call went through.

”Dr. Wayne,a document is sent to you just now. Please,drop by here later to pick this up.”

”Document? ” Jia asked,wondering what coud it be. ”Perhaps,it's important. Go,pick it up.” She said,with a questioning look.

Jim hesitated but after a short while he decided to just go back and picked it up.

As soon as Jim descended,the crew who greeted them approached Jia.

” Ma'am,let me help you with the seatbelt and your headset.” While helping Jia,he also gave his instruction with the headset and how to see to it that the microphone was on and in the right place. He,then,proceeded to the seatbelt.

”This front seatbelt has a radial dial that can be twisted in either direction to release it.” The crew said as he demonstrated it to her.

”Thank you.” She, then, positioned herself comfortably and closed her eyes while waiting.

Suddenly, she felt the airbus was lifted up. She looked down and realized they were already high above the ground and Jim was notback yet.

Looking around first,being a bit confused,she,then,shouted into the microphone while looking towards the pilot.

”Wait,my husband is still not here! ”

They seemed to ignore her so she shouted again.

”Wait!What are you doing? ” She started to get panicked as she saw that they were already high up in the sky.

The pilot turned to the crew and nodded. Then the crew answered her.

”We are sorry, ma'am. We are just taking orders. Don't worry. We are not going to harm you as instructed.”The man, whom she mistaken as a crew, calmly answered her.

”What? Where are you going to take me?” She was already hysterical.

”You will be exiled in the middle of the rainforest. But don't worry, you are not going to starve. All your basic needs will be provided.”

Jia was now shaking ucontrollably all over. She stared at the two men around her and her eyes grew wide in sudden waves of fear.She had no survival skills at all. How could she live in the middle of the forest when she was even afraid of earthworms? She, also, knew that Palawan's rainforest was a home to lots of endangered species which made her fear intensified. She was even so helpless to think about jumping out of the aircraft to escape.

”Why do you do this?Who gives your order?In what way do I offend him? ”

”I'm sorry,ma'am. It's highly confidential.”

Jia's hearbeat was already on her throat that she could not almost breath anymore. She, then,remembered that the only hope of survival for an unskilled person like her was to keep her mind sound and intact. She should calm herself down and be highly vigilant.

Who could have done this to her?

Then, a suspicion dawned on her. She thought of Jim's father who was now, supposedly,his father in law.