Forgotten Romance: Take Me Back To You

"Should we just grab a meal since she ignored us both?" Zion suggested when they got tired of calling their unreachable friend. 

Jade obviously turned off her phone for who knows why. Though she left a note on her bed that says, 'Don't look for me, I have to go somewhere.'

Jasmine sighed in defeat and placed her phone back in her bag. "Please, cause I'm starving." She made a face. "And I will definitely kill that woman once I see her!" She clenched her teeth in annoyance. They consider each other as best friends, yet Jade seemed to be keeping a lot of things from her. 

"Relax." Zion smiled sweetly. "I am also worried about her but I'm sure, whatever her reason is, it must be important."

"What else is new?" She heaved a sigh of defeat before she followed the man. 

They got inside the elevator and went down the first floor. 

Jasmine was about to walk towards the hospital's cafeteria when Zion suddenly held her arm. The burning sensation she felt when Zion touched her sent shivers down her spine. 

Her heart skipped a beat as well!

"Z-zion…." She stammered as soon as she glanced at the man. "W-what are you doing?" She blushed.

"Can we go somewhere else? I would like to have a meal with you at a nice restaurant." The man smiled before he let go off her hand. 

"E-eh?" Jasmine couldn't help but be surprised at the man's suggestion. Did Zion asked her to have a decent meal with her at a nice restaurant? Is he inviting him on a date? Her mind was in a muddle that she wasn't able to think straight at the moment. 

"I am kinda sick of hospital cafeteria's menu since I've been eating it for weeks now so if it is okay with you then can we check the nearby restaurants?" Zion explained. 

"Ah, oh… o-of course… sure… why not." She faked a smile but her face suddenly went dim after. She thought the guy was asking her on a date but turned out that he was just sick of eating the hospital dishes. 

What a mean guy! She hissed within her while following Zion at the parking lot. Anyway, she's contented with this kind of set-up since she'll have the chance to be with Zion unlike the other women lining up in front of his clinic just to get a glimpse of him.

She didn't know but her ambitious smirked was very evident on her face that Zion even noticed it.

"You looked like someone who just received a good news. What's with the victorious glow?" The man curiously asked. 

"Victorious glow?" She raised her brow innocently. "But I am always glowing." She grinned playfully.

"Fine." He chuckled playfully as well before motioning the woman to get inside the car.

ON THE OTHER HAND, Sonny shed a river of tears before she wiped his wet cheeks. The pain of the past still lingers in his memory and it was deeply engraved in his heart. 

It was too painful to remember so he tried to bury himself in his work just to forget it temporarily. It worked for over the years but now that he saw the man he detests the most, he can't help but get emotional. 

No one knew about his pain except Suzette, the chairwoman. 

She was there when his happy family crumbled down right before his eyes! 

He was planning to ignore it for the meantime but he suddenly paused at the thought that crossed his mind. Then his eyes immediately glanced at the book lying on the floor. He was staring at it for a few seconds before he totally picked it up. 

He placed it on the table and opened the book. It is not his intention to read the content but he flipped through the pages and stopped at the page where a certain photo was clipped on it. The first photo was a picture of a young girl who seemed to be sixteen years old and the second young lady seemed to be around 11 or 12 years old.

A folded paper was also inserted on the page so he took it and read the content. Looked like it was Vista's last will and testament before he died. It was sealed with his famous stamp so it could be the last testament he wrote before he died. 

To Sonny's curiosity, he read the whole content and was shocked at the mind-blowing information that he found. He knew about the only daughter of the Hawkin's but he never thought he would discover the existence of Vista's eldest daughter from another woman. 

Zenia? He yelped in shocked. 

"So you have another heir, huh. Does she even know about you?" Sonny muttered and brought out his phone and took a photo of the last will and testament before putting it back on the pages. He'll try to search for the child if she is still alive. 

And what he will do to her depends on the moment he lay his eyes on her. 

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IT'S NINE IN THE MORNING. 

She then took a cab after paying the bills. It took her ten minutes to reach the house at Z subdivision. 

"Miss Jade…" Susan greeted the woman who just entered the house. "Did you forget something? You should have called me beforehand instead of coming back." She didn't notice that Jade wasn't home last night. 

"Don't mind me, Susan." She smiled and excused herself and trekked the staircase to their room. 

"Okay." The old woman replied. But seeing the outfit she was wearing today, she creased her brow questioningly. Isn't that the same outfit she wore yesterday?

She was trying to recall it but after a few seconds, she shook her head. Maybe she saw it wrong…. Then she continued watering the plants at the living room. 

As for Jade, she's been staring at her closet for quite a long time after taking a bath. She's meeting Rachelle so she has to at least dressed up. However, she heaved a heavy sigh. It was only then that she realized how petty her outfits were for the past few years. 

"Guess I don't have a choice but to visit the clothing store, huh." She muttered softly before pulling a simple dress on her closet. 

"Please send a cab at #4097 Dahlia street. Thank you." She made sure to call the subdivision security while preparing to leave the house. 

"Yes maám. The cab will be there in five minutes." The security personnel replied before hanging up. And true enough, the cab was already right in front of her at exactly five minutes.

She hasn't open her phone yet but she must have received a lot of calls not just from the company but even from Jasmine. 

UNKNOWN TO HER, Marcus couldn't help but be anxious when he didn't see Jade came to work the whole morning. He tried calling her numerous times but he was always redirected to the voicemails. Same result happened to Sonny since he asked him to call the woman too.

"Were you able to call Jade?" Marcus asked Sonny as soon as he went back to his office. He had a meeting with the executives that morning so he left Jade's work to Sonny for the time being.

"I'm sorry Mr. Hanes, I couldn't get a hold of her till now. Why don't we report her to the police since you said she didn't come home last night? What if something bad happened to her? What if she met an accident?" Sonny suggested but he sighed when he realized the flaw in his own suggestion.

The person has to be missing for twenty-four hours before the authorities' tag it as a potential case. But if a powerful man like Marcus informs them then they will surely work overtime to search for Jade. Why is he not using his position to search for his missing wife then? Sonny thought. 

"Do you know any of her friends working in the company?" The young man looked at him in the eyes. 

"A friend?" Sonny thought and lit up after when he remembered the lady working with Jade when she was working in the human resource department. And recently, she got Jackie as a friend as well. They might know where she is at the moment. "Oh yes! Let me call her here." He voiced before he dialed the extension number of the human resource department. 

After a few more minutes, a familiar woman shyly entered the CEO's office. It was evident to them that she was a bit trembling. 

She's nervous!

"Miss Jasmine, please take a sit." Sonny motioned the woman to take a pew at the empty couch. "'I'm sorry to call you all of a sudden but my boss here wanted to ask you about something."

"Mr. Lee told me that you're close with Jade, is it true?" his cold hoarse voice made the woman a bit unease. 

"Y-yes sir." She gulped to hide her nervousness. 

"Then you should also know where she is right now, I ȧssume." His eyes tell her that he didn't know what happened to Jade last night. But why did Jade keep it from him? She got curious. 

"You didn't know? Jade was rushed to the hospital yesterday and she spent the night there."

Marcus suddenly froze after hearing Jasmine's words.