
Chapter 9.
Claire opened the door of Raven's unlocked room, turned her head inside for a moment, then stepped in cautiously.
He walked up to Raven's bed in the corner, while his ears heard the sound of water gurgling from the bathroom shower in the bedroom.
His hand was holding something he was carrying from the outside. After a long sigh, he sat down on the edge of Raven's big bed and was covered in a thick blanket.
He put the thing he was carrying under the pillow. After that he sat quietly, as if he was waiting for the owner of the room who was bathing.
Soon, the sound of water in the bathroom could no longer be heard.
Claire held her breath for a moment. He went inside without permission. But because of the anger he felt since then made him not want to think any longer.
The next second the bathroom door made of transparent white fiber was opened. Raven stepped out of there with just a piece of white towel wrapped around her waist.
The towel covered up to his knee. While his chest that field with fine feathers like in both calves is not covered, so Claire can see it clearly.
Claire's blood is as if it were being wiped. This was only the first time he had seen Raven like that. Although they have been living in the same house for ten years, Claire has never been like this. At least, he would knock on the door if he wanted to enter.
“You...!” Raven is surprised to find Claire in her room, even calmly sitting on her bed. “Claire!” he yelled at the girl who didn't stop watching him from far away. “Why did you barge in? Oh, where's my pajama,” Raven walked a few steps closer to her closet and was about to find her pajamas.
Seeing Raven's behavior, Claire suddenly got up from her seat and said, ”No need, Raven!” He walked up to the man who did not open his closet but turned to look at him.
Claire walked closer and closer towards him and returned her gaze strangely.
Raven felt uncomfortable. “What's up, Claire?” tanyanya tried to master the situation. “If there is something important, we talk about it in the living room only. Let me dress for a bit,” he said pleading.
The girl stood so close to him, that she felt almost unable to breathe.
Instead of listening to Raven's plea, Claire instead said coldly, “This is not the first time, right, Raven?” his eyes stared hard.
“You mean?” Raven doesn't understand. He was shocked to hear the girl's words. Moreover, the behavior of the girl was very strange.
“Oh, sori, I mean, I'm not the first girl to see you bare-chested like this right?” errativeness.
Raven was stunned to hear Claire's words. Slowly he said, “I don't understand you any more, Claire,” this time he returned the girl's gaze. His eyes were astonished and full of search.
Claire smiled. Raven was astonished to see him. Instead of answering her curiosity, Claire touched Raven's face with one of her hands.
Handsome and macho face. Claire rubbed the face gently, from her cheeks, nose, lips, all the way to her chin..
“What's up, Claire?” Raven tried to ask again, but Claire brushed him off, “Sst.
Raven remained silent. For a moment, he let the girl's fingers trace the curves on her face. Even he waited patiently as the girl raised her other hand and stroked her chest.
Raven closed her eyes for a moment, enjoying Claire's caress. Before long, he opened his eyes again.
"Claire...,” whispers slowly. Her blood churned because of Claire's caress. His breath felt stifled. All of a sudden he grabbed the fingers of the girl who stroked his chest and looked at him sharply.
Claire doesn't care. He put his foot up and tried to grab Raven's head with both hands. Then with a somewhat hurried breath he reached for the man's lips and kissed him.
Raven lowered her head slightly, welcoming a warm kiss from the girl's lips. As if wanting to reply, Raven also me\\\ slowly. Next to her hand hugged the girl's waist, while the other was resting her head.
For a few minutes they let go of each other, as if they had not seen each other for a long time.
Perhaps because of the cold attitude Claire had shown her lately, it made Raven feel uncomfortable. And now, when the girl was in his arms, Raven spilled all the restless and uneasy that had been enveloping her all this time.
He hugged the girl tightly, as if to fuse the girl's body together with her, so that they could not be separated anymore.
A little while later, after being satisfied with each other, Raven carried the girl's body to her bed and sat her there. He sat down beside the girl.
His hand stroked the girl's hair that was just scratched away. He caresses her with affection and also loving eyes.
“Raven...,” Claire mentioned the man's name. His eyes looked at the face in front of him. The face she loved so much. During these ten years he kept his feelings of love.
Raven returned her gaze gently. “Claire...,” whispers slowly. He lowered his hand that was stroking the girl's hair, then carefully he removed the knot of the pajama rope that wrapped the girl's body.
Claire loves Raven. Therefore he felt helpless when Raven's hand untied the pajama strap on his waist, so that gradually his shoulder was exposed.
He closed his eyes in resignation as the man moved a step forward, and kissed his neck.
The man's breath was hunting near his ears. He can hear it clearly. Even when the man's lips no longer just kissed his neck, but had already moved, Claire felt unable to fight back. He can only sigh.
Raven knew Claire was giving her a chance, so she braverly revealed the girl's clothes to the side and Claire almost gave up on the man tonight, if only his hand had not felt accidentally under the pillow and found something. Something that made him realize immediately. That's why he came!
Suddenly Claire pushes the body of Raven who hit her. He got up from the bed and hurriedly tied back his pajamas and tidied them up for a moment. Then with a sudden look of cold eyes, he said, “Why do you have the heart for me, Raven?” tanyanya sad.
Raven gasped. The girl moved away from him and walked into the closet. With a single jolt he opened the closet door and took out a pajama from there. Claire led her towards Raven who was still sitting in a daze on the edge of the bed. “Wear!” he said as he thrust the pajamas at Raven.
With a clueless look on her eyes, Raven put on the pajamas that Claire had taken and put them on quickly, replacing the white towel that was wrapped around her waist.
Claire waited for him for a moment, and when Raven finished wearing her pajamas, Claire said, “There's something I want to ask you, Raven,” she said seriously. He walked up to the bed and took something from under the pillow.
“What is it, Claire?” Raven looked at the thing Claire was holding.
A photo! His heart suddenly rippled. When Claire handed the photo to him, he accepted it with a sense of anxiety.
He saw it once, and it turned out to be true! This is a photo she fears will fall into Claire's hands one day! And it turned out that the day he feared was today!
“Claire, where did you get this photo?” tanyanya.
Claire sneered. “It doesn't matter, Raven,” the answer is calm. “Now you answer my question, are you really doing it, Raven? Were you really with Rachel in her apartment? You easily spent the night with her, right? Did you not remember me then? Can you imagine how I feel about knowing this? Can it? Answer me, Raven! Answer!” snapped Claire.
Raven bowed. He did not dare to return Claire's gaze that hit his heart. Doldrumsily he sat on the edge of the bed and said quietly, “I didn't do it on purpose, Claire. I was framed,” he clenched both his hands forward, holding back furiously. “That's all I can tell you. The rest, it's up to you,” Raven let out a long sigh.
Claire walked away and sat down in the chair. “So, you were framed? That's what you said?”
Claire said it herself. The look on his face showed disappointment and also sadness. “If it wasn't for the photo being accidentally found in Rachel's desk drawer last night, then forever I would have thought that you were the best man for me in the world. And I will definitely choose you. But, now I just realized, if it turns out my assumption is wrong!”
“Claire, I'm sorry..,” Raven said with regret. “You don't care anymore about this photo, Claire. Isn't Rachel gone? You no longer need to think about it.”
“Even though Rachel is gone, but knowing you've done such a despicable thing, makes it impossible for me to forget her, Raven. I think we better not get close to each other anymore, because my heart will hurt when it's near you. Just do your job well. And never again interfere with all my affairs.”
Claire got up from her seat and walked to the door. “Ohya, you better watch out for your new secretary, because even if she works for you, she seems to be more on Kyle's side than on yours. I think you understand what I mean.”
Raven gasped at the words from Claire. New secretary? Tracy meant?
Wait a minute, this photo was found in Rachel's desk drawer last night, as Claire said. And no one else has sat there except Tracy who replaced her since a week ago.
Tracy's more on Kyle's side? Then that means Tracy found this photo and gave it to Kyle, not to him? And then Kyle gave it to Claire?
Raven felt her chest being crowded with raging anger. He asked Tracy, What does it mean to do all that?
Is it true that Tracy was the ringleader that caused her and Claire to clash today? If it was true, then Raven would never let it go.
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The cell phone in Claire's room rang. Claire snapped out of the daydream as she walked along, the next she was from Raven's room earlier.
In a hurry, Claire opened her bedroom door. He walked quickly to the side of his bed and grabbed his cell phone lying on a small shelf beside the bed.
“Halo?” answer Claire quickly.
“Halo, this is Miss Claire right?” there was a woman's voice across the street.
“Yes, right,” Claire snaps the phone next to her ear.
“Nona, listen carefully,” the voice of the woman sounds serious. “This is a call from the hospital. I'm the nurse on duty tonight. I've been asked to inform you that Mr. Kyle had a terrible accident just now, and is now being treated in the emergency room at Hospital Y. We found the main phone number on his phone, which is your phone number. Are you his wife or girlfriend? Can you come to Y hospital right now?”
“Ohh....,” Claire felt her hands tremble and her knees feel powerless at the startling news she just received. “So, how is Kyle now?” claire asked curiously, trying to cover up her nervousness.
“Mr Kyle is very severe, Miss. I think you better come right now! Thank you!” the phone across there just shut down.
“Hei, hello..!” Claire wanted to ask again, but the voice across there was no longer heard.
Hospital Y, Claire thought quickly. I have to go there right now! Break it in the heart.
Claire hastily swaps her pajamas for a blouse and jeans that she pulls out of the closet.
He tried to calm his own heart that felt racing and comforted his heart with hopeful words so that his hands and feet would not tremble anymore.
“Quiet, Claire, calm down, Kyle will be fine,” he said repeatedly until his mouth muttered.
Once ready, Claire hurriedly walked out of her room.
Raven held onto Claire's arm that was about to slip. “Claire,” said, “What is this? Why rush? You want to go out?”
Claire pulled her hand from Raven's grip. “I want to go to Hospital Y,” he said quickly. “Kyle accident and his condition is severe.”
“You alone? Kuantar huh? Wait for me to change clothes first,” Raven intends to return to her room.
But Claire refused. “No need, Raven! I can go by myself,” it seems he still keeps his anger towards Raven so that it rejects his offer.
With accelerated footsteps, Claire left Raven speechless.
He walked down the wide, circular staircase, then to the large main door. After that Claire approached her car that was parked in the yard and as if she knew the Miss of the house was going to get out, the security guard who guarded the gate opened it.
Claire drove the car at high speed. Hospital Y was his goal, and the hospital was located quite far from his home.
Sometimes he walks straight, but sometimes turns left and sometimes turns right. Not infrequently he cut the road by entering the streets are rather narrow. After that he went out again to the big road and drove a few kilometers away, then entered again into another narrow road.
It seemed that he was almost at Hospital Y in ten minutes, otherwise a jeep suddenly blocked his path.
Claire stomps her car hard, as the jeep stops abruptly, as Claire is about to get out of the narrow alley and turn into a larger alley.
But instead of giving way, the jeep instead stopped completely by transverse means, so Claire's car could no longer get out of the narrow alley.
Three strong-looking and handsome men came out of the jeep.
Claire's blood gasped as the three men approached her car in quick motion.
His instincts said that the three people meant no good to him.
Claire's hand suddenly trembled, her entire body felt limp, as well as her face turning pale.
“Come, out!” snapped at the one man, who had the fiercest face among the three.
Claire was silent. The atmosphere around it was dark and quiet. Why choose the path that should be avoided? The bad guys usually hide there.
Let alone to get out of the car, even to move it feels like his legs will not be able to. He felt his strength was not there, defeated by his intense fear.
“Come, come out!” snatch them again. This time they not only snapped, but banged on Claire's car door from outside.
Because Claire locked all the doors of her car, they broke the rear windshield with a stone, then turned their heads inside to open the side door where Claire was sitting.
Now the door beside Claire was wide open. And Claire can't fight with them because she's just a woman.
He can only plead with a pale face pias, “Don't.... Just take everything you want. This...this handbag-ku many credit cards.., money...., and....” Claire thrust the handbag at them.
“Ah, we do need this, but before we will have fun first because this is the wish of the person who paid us, then you will we finish, then we will finish, after that only the three of us will get the payment doubled.”
The loudest-faced man pulled Claire's body out of the car, Claire curled up in fear.
It seemed, he could not possibly fight the three of them in any way. He was only able to cry as he pleased, thinking about his unfortunate fate. Even to scream for help he forgot.
But fortunately in those crucial moments, someone came to his rescue. It turned out that that person was Raven who was feeling anxious about Claire earlier and caught up with her later.
“Let go of him!” raven snapped furiously with a fiery face.
“Hey, you! Don't interfere!” One of them moved forward and attacked Raven.
But Raven, who had been equipped with martial arts since childhood, broke that person's attack with a single move. Even Raven punched him many times before he could reply.
Seeing his friend being defeated, one more person came forward to attack Raven. But this one was easily defeated by Raven. He fell to the ground and screamed in pain like his friend.
Lastly, the most fierce-faced one advanced, he released Claire's arm that had been clutched firmly. Then he went forward to attack Raven with an angry shout. Raven was a bit overwhelmed to also serve this one, it seems he was the chairman and quite tough. But after trying hard, Raven was finally able to defeat him as well.
Hearing the noise, unabashed provoked the curiosity of the locals. They opened the door wanting to know what was going on.
Seeing that the wave was not in their favor, the three men quickly boarded the jeep back and left in a hurry to get gas.
Raven walked up to Claire and hugged the body of the girl who was still trembling in fear. “Calm down, they're gone now,” said Raven calmed the girl's heart.
“You all right?” ask one of the residents who approached them who had just come out of the house.
“We're fine,” replied Raven. He guides Claire back into her car, while Raven asks for help to leave her own car at one of the residents' houses.
Now Raven is driving Claire's car, while Claire is sitting next to her.
“We go home, yes?” ask Raven.
“Don't, we go to the hospital first,” Claire said. “I haven't seen Kyle.”
Raven didn't reject Claire's wish. He drove the car to Hospital Y.
Claire and Raven walk into the hospital door from the car, and they meet the receptionist to ask Kyle where he is.
“There is no such thing as Mr. Kyle being treated here, Miss,” the woman's receptionist said after checking the patient's incoming book.
“Try checking one more time,” pinta Claire.
The receptionist checked once again more thoroughly. “Stay no, Miss,” said. “This day there have not even been any traffic accident victims treated in the emergency room,” he said assured. “Moreover his name is Mr. Kyle.”
“But I received a call from the nurse here. He said Hospital Y, in the emergency room,” insisted Claire.
“Indeed that watch nurse what's her name? And where did he call from? How nosy to play people?” The receptionist was upset that Claire did not believe her description.
Raven advises Claire to check her phone. With curiosity Claire pulled out the phone from her handbag and checked the phone number that came in earlier.
It turns out that the last number entered was from a mobile phone number. Claire showed it to the receptionist.
“Well, right, it's a mobile number!” said the receptionist.
“This hospital if you tell the patient's family always by phone the hospital, and this is the provision that applies here. We are not allowed to tell through anyone's mobile phone, let alone the phone of a nurse.”
Claire nodded in disbelief. “So, who called me earlier?” tanyanya could not believe it.
“Try me,” said Raven while taking Claire's phone. He looked at the number carefully. A moment later he said, “It looks like this number is quite familiar to me.” Then Raven pulled out her own phone and checked the number there. “Tak is wrong again,” said. “This is Tracy's mobile number!” Raven's convinced.
“Tracy?” claire's trunk doesn't believe it.
“Tracy, that secretary of yours?” tanyanya.
“Iya,” answered Raven for sure.
Claire nodded again. “So, what did Tracy mean to confess to the nurse and tell me that Kyle had an accident and sent me to this hospital?”
“Can you be framed?” ask Raven.
“You mean, Tracy set me up?” repeat Claire can't believe it.
Raven shrugged her shoulders. “Kurasa, the incident was not accidental.”
Claire thought about the incident, when she was intercepted by the jeep in the middle of the road. “Oh yes,” said as remembered. “It looks like they said they were paid by someone, who ordered them to do so.”
“Then, that person must be Tracy!” sure Raven.
Claire and Raven looked at each other but were both silent. The next second seemed to remember something, they both exclaimed, “Kyle!”
Yeah, Kyle! Why did they forget to call Kyle?
Claire quickly searched Kyle's name on her phone, and scolded him as soon as she met. “Kyle, where are you?” claire asked quickly, her heart was relieved the moment she heard Kyle's own voice answer her call.
“I'm home, Claire,” Kyle replied. “New to sleep. What's wrong?” tanyanya was astonished to hear Claire's hasty voice.
“Oh, so you're home now? You're all right, right? Not an accident like Tracy said?”
“What? I'm fine, really. What did Tracy tell you?” kyle asked to know.
“Besok just told you yes. Raven and I are in the hospital right now. We're going home first. Raven had a fight,” he said.
Claire hung up her phone before Kyle could ask further. Then he and Raven excused the receptionist and both left Hospital Y.
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