384 A Bold Move

Sunday, November 11

Just like the day before, Noah was still on kitchen duty and so he prepared a hearty breakfast for the team. After eating, each of them helped out in clearing the table. When Damien left the room to take a shower, Amelia went to ask a favor from Katherine.

"Hey, um… I was wondering if I can borrow your bike?" she asked, digging her hands in the back pocket of her jeans.

"Yeah, sure…" Katherine nodded without thinking twice then retrieved the motorcycle's key from the drawer in the foyer and handed it over to Amelia asking, "Where are you going today?"

Receiving the key from the other, Amelia thought about it for a second before she answered, "I just need to find something. I won't be far. You can call me if you need anything… or text. Whichever…"

Amelia left soon after, leaving Katherine slightly confused as to why she was acting a bit suspicious. Amelia didn't even wait for Damien to come back out before she left—it was as if she left while he was not in the room on purpose. However, this was only Katherine's speculation and she didn't let it bother her. Later that morning, she decided to take Bear out for a walk so she went out and Felix left with her.

After a twenty-minute work-out, a long warm shower and a shave on the face, Damien came out to the living room only to find it empty. "Where did everybody go?" he wondered aloud, scanning the room and only seeing his men inside.

"Falcon left earlier when you went to the bathroom and Ms. Katherine took the dog out with Felix. The guy is in his room," Noah told his boss as he wiped the dishes dry.

Damien then went to Styles's bedroom, knocking before opening the door. "Yo, what's up? Come in." Styles nodded when he saw who was at the door.

"You busy?"

"No, no… I was just trying to upgrade some software. Do you need anything?"

"Amelia… Did she say where she was headed today? I was going to talk to her about something," Damien hesitantly asked, rubbing his nape sheepishly.

"She left?" Styles probed and tilted his head as he tried to recall if Falcon told him something but nothing came up. "I don't remember her telling me anything recently. Is it important? We can call her back…"

"No, it's okay. It can wait—"

"Hold on, let me check her tracker." Styles was already on his keyboard, typing so fast there were multiple windows popping up on his monitors. Damien wanted to stop him but results came out of the screen before he could even say something, his eyes focusing on the blinking red dot on the digital map.

"Where's that?" Damien walked closer, seemingly curious as he watched Styles work on his magic. The window zoomed in showing terrains on the digital map and the blinking red dot was moving.

"I do…" Damien muttered as the gears in his head tried to make sense of what he was seeing at the moment. "Park Estate. That road leads to the Park Estate…" It was as though he didn't want to believe that his mother was really heading towards that place but he couldn't think of any other reasons.

"Park Estate… But what would she be doing there?" Styles was also baffled as Falcon didn't tell him anything recently. His fingers tapped on the keyboard real quick, trying to locate the Park Estate on the map and from the looks of it, Amelia was about twenty minutes away from there.

Damien was also looking at the screen, seeing the same window as Styles and his heart raced faster by the second. "I… Thanks," he mumbled before leaving Styles's bedroom in a hurry.

He didn't have to think twice before deciding to go to the estate as well. His mother was on her way there and he didn't know why. That place was swarming with his uncle's men. He didn't want to imagine what would happen if she went there.

Hastily, Damien grabbed a key from the key holder in the foyer and made his way out to the elevator. Coincidentally, Katherine was back from the dog walk.

"Damien… You're going somewhere?" she asked when they bumped into each other.

"I need to go to the mansion. I think Amelia's headed there."

"What? Why? Let me go with you!" She was already handing the leash to Felix.

"No, just stay here. I'll call you later." He kissed her temple and hurriedly stepped inside the elevator, leaving Katherine, Felix, and Bear out in the hallway.

As soon as Damien got in the basement parking, he sprinted towards his Range Rover, clicking the key fob in his hand. To his surprise, a different car beeped and not his Range Rover. He looked at the key in his hand only to see that it wasn't his. He pressed the button again and searched for the car that blinked and made a sound.

A few cars away from his Range Rover was a red Lexus LC with its lights flashing. "Huh…" The car looked so 'Katherine'. Sexy and Powerful. Without thinking much, he got in the car and sped off into the traffic.

Carefully, he called Styles—who answered on the first ring. "Where is she now?"

"Still heading there. Are you going after her?" the voice from the other line spoke.

"Yeah. Keep me posted." He ended the call and stepped on the gas. He tried so hard to think of reasons why Amelia was going there but didn't tell him.

…

Park Mansion

Damien didn't see any unfamiliar cars outside the mansion, so he wondered if Amelia had snuck inside. He was greeted by a few servants when he walked through the front door but as he scanned the interior, it didn't look like they had visitors. However, Styles confirmed to him that Amelia was in the mansion.

He became more and more nervous as he surveyed the place until he found his way to the second floor. His instincts were telling him that he would find her in the study. With hurried but light steps and paying careful attention to his surroundings, he arrived at the end of the hall. He slowly opened the door to the study and his stomach almost dropped when he saw her in the middle of the room and met her widened eyes.

"What are you doing here?" He entered the room and closed the door behind him.

"Damien… I…" Amelia was equally surprised to see her son catching her in the act of snooping inside Frederick Park's study. She was too occupied and frustrated in her search earlier to notice someone's footsteps.

Damien scanned the room but did not find anything out of place—as far as he knew—but he was sure that she was searching for something inside.

Just then, heavy footsteps and some murmurs could be heard outside the study. Amelia and Damien knew even without seeing the person who was about to enter the study that it was none other than Frederick Park. 

Before Damien could say anything else, Amelia had already slipped behind a thick maroon curtain next to a shelf which was near the door. It was a bold move but it was the only place she could hide.