My Dad Turns Out to be Eyes

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"Go? But why?" Jessica wondered as Nathan closed the door and locked it again.

Robert looked around the room, fear taking hold of him as he stood in front of his daughter and rubbed his son's dry hair. She leaned over a little and looked into the girl's eyes, knowing full well that she had harmed her child.

"Someone has broken into your home in Singapore" Robert told him. "They destroyed all your stuff and made a crazy mess."

"Do you think it was Dimitri? Is that him?" Jessica asked before Robert handed her the plastic bag full of clothes he had just bought on his way here.

"I'm pretty sure of that" Robert told him. "Go and change clothes. We're going to Yogyakarta."

"Why go there?" Jessica wondered just as she felt Nathan's gaze locked onto her.

"There's a little inn near the beach there." Robert informed. "I've lived there a long time. Away, so—"

"There are many remote places by the sea" Jessica protested. "Yogya is not the only place that has a place to live by the sea."

"No, but it's far from Jakarta. That's my goal, Jess. I will take you as far away from Jakarta as possible for now. Regina, the new boss is still looking for Dimitri. He said there's no sign of him yet."

"Silly," Jessica murmured before taking the shopping bag from her father and taking a look inside. "And how did you know that this was my size?"

"Women's size isn't hard to understand, Jessie," Robert reassured her before Jessica moved slowly and was somewhat limp. Robert remained silent as he watched his daughter close the bathroom door.

Then he looked towards the bullet hole that was in the wall. His eyebrows curled up because they felt funny. "You pulled the trigger, Nathan?"

"No" replied Nathan. "Your daughter decided to shoot my wall."

"And how did he manage it?"

"Well, I don't understand. He was just using a gun" Nathan said, his voice dry before he looked at his laptop. Nathan was silent for a while to think about what he and Jessica had done before and his cheeks started to turn red. "He can shoot a good shot if he tries it with you."

"I don't want him near the weapon" replied Robert, his tone sounding low before he rubbed his cheek. He pulled his tie loose before then he turned to look at Nathan and that was when he could notice a slight red hue on the young man's cheeks.

"Well, he may have no choice, if you forbid it" Nathan replied. He then continued his sentence. "So, what are you going to do after this? Hiding where you're going until this is over? Don't you think he'll be able to find you there?"

"I knew he might find me and Jessica" Robert said. "But wouldn't living in a city like this not help either. She knows more about me and Jessica than I think. But I just want to know why he did it. He killed Marry but is still after Jessica. I'm not sure if killing Marry was enough for him?"

"There won't be enough for a guy like Dimitri" Nathan said, sipping his jasmine tea then pushing a gun to the end of the dinner table. "He knew that he had already managed to make our organization a bit uneasy. Yes, what better way to distract the organization. Of course by keeping their best agents busy hiding their daughters."

"I'm not the best agent" Robert replied to Nathan.

"One of them" Nathan murmured. "What difference? He met you. And he knows he can torture you. Especially after knowing the whereabouts of your precious daughter."

"He tortured me well through my daughter" Robert muttered cynically. He then continued his sentence. "There's a message from our new boss...Regina. He said you'd be needed. Go back to the organization."

"Ah right," said Nathan pushing the lid of his laptop down. "Well, I'll take you away. Only then will I continue the journey to the organization."

Robert decided not to say anything more. He took a gun from the dining table and slipped it into his belt and waited for his daughter to reappear. 

Jessica came out a few moments later. He stepped closer to Robert while occasionally tidying up his clothes. The tights he was currently wearing stuck perfectly on his body and were dark enough to help hide the white bandages that were around his feet. He was wearing a simple white shirt top that was put in his pants and added again with a blazer that covered the shirt.

Whatisthis? Her father's dressing sense was perfect for her. But of course, he's his father.

"I think I'm gaining weight" Jessica lamented as she hobbled closer to her father.

"You look fine" the father smiled at him. "Come, our journey will be long."

"I see," Jessica nodded back to her father.

Nathan puts his hand in his coat to find the keys to his house again. She steps up to leave her laptop on the desk and follows Robert who has now taken Jessica out the door. Nathan locked the door to his house before they left. 

Robert had now rushed ahead of them, moving in a somewhat hasty manner away from them.

"Are you going to be okay?" Nathan ventured to ask as Jessica walked by his side and Robert quietly observed the conversation from the front.

"In Yogyakarta?" Jessica whispered back, slowly going down the stairs with one hand on the iron to help her step. "I'll be fine. He's the one I'm worried about."

Nathan's brows furrowed in confusion as he looked down the stairs leading towards Robert and stuffed one of his hands into his coat pocket. He lowered his head down, to the floor, before then he fixed his slipping glasses on the tip of his nose as he lowered his head.

"Mrs. Robert?" Nathan confirmed. "Why are you worried about him?"

"She must have been under pressure for too long because of me" Jessica whispered. One of the girl's hands was raised to push her hair behind her ears. "i'm sure she'll soon go crazy."

"It seems like everyone is full of high worries" Nathan said in a relaxed tone. "It's exactly what Dimitri wanted."

"Jessica, can you handle it?" Robert asked as he turned his head to look at his daughter. He felt that his daughter had talked to Nathan for too long. 

Jessica nodded at her father and finally reached the bottom of the stairs where Robert was. Robert reached out his hand to grab Jessica's hand, clasping her tightly before then taking to the street.

"I'll take a short walk around here before taking a taxi" Nathan told the two of them.

"You're gonna watch?" Robert wondered, finally hailing a taxi.

"Of course," Nathan said, his gaze turned to Jessica as he answered her.

Jessica didn't want to say anything in front of her father. He knew that his father would not approve of anything he thought at the time. Yeah, like saying a romantic farewell sentence to the young man for example. Nathan understood too. He knew that Robert would definitely shoot over the walls of his house if he said something out of place.

"Come, Jess," Robert urged him, unable to bear the pitiful gazes of the two young men and choosing to hastily open the back door of the taxi.

Jessica nodded. He took a second to glance at Nathan, smiling gently at the young man. "See you, Nathan," Jessica said later.

"Goodbye, Jessica," replied Nathan and the girl immediately got into the taxi.

Robert grinned, put his hand in his suit pocket before then he threw the yanga da bag in his hand into the taxi.

"Make sure the red hue on your cheek is gone, Nathan" Robert advised. "It's not like you in general. You look like you're in love."

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