The Love Trap of the Ruler.
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Xavier washed his hands on a white sink in a hospital room. Clear water sometimes changes color to become reddish. Xavier looked at the glass in front of him. His face was flat without any expression.
Just like his feelings now. It feels empty and cold. He doesn't know what he's feeling right now. Seeing his father die in front of him and also because of his own actions. He thought he would be satisfied but it turned out that he didn't feel the slightest bit of feeling.
Xavier looked towards the hospital bed. His father's body was covered with white cloth. No longer moving at all. Xavier took his breath. This was not the first time he had dealt with a dead body or a shooting in front of his eyes that took his life. But only this time he's this empty.
The door of the room opened suddenly. It raised the figure of Stevan who was directly staring towards Xavier who turned the field towards him. Stevan's face was sympathetic. He also looked towards the stiff body covered in a white cloth that was slightly stained with blood on his chest.
“I don't know should say condolences or how?” stevan asked as he scratched the end of his eyebrow which was not itchy at all.
“No need,” said Xavier wiped his wet hands with the tissue there. His eyes looked back at his father's corpse.
“I know you also don't remember what your father did to you and Graciella. So how could you do this to your own father? Are you numb?” stevan said inexhaustible. He did not like David Qing, his behavior that had already made Graciella and Moira suffer was extremely inexcusable by him. If there had been someone else who did this to David Qing, he would have been very happy to even say thank you. But if Xavier did this to his own father. Stevan was a little scared to see what Xavier could do to Robert.
Xavier was momentarily silent, then he glanced at Stevan with his flat face and sharp gaze. Seeing that Stevan was a little bit of a gutsy, for him Xavier is now like a psychopath.
“I can't remember, but I know what it's like to have a father separated from his daughter. He must also feel how his pain at the end of his life that his life was taken by the hand of his own son.”
“Alright, I understand,” said Stevan who can no longer say anything. Honestly, now he was afraid to see Xavier like this. The sleeping lion turns out that waking up would be so scary.
A boisterous voice suddenly sounded from outside the room. Xavier and Stevan were moved by it and immediately looked towards the door of the opaque-glazed room. Stevan took a breath looking at Xavier.
“I think your mother and grandmother have come,” Stevan said. Not knowing how Xavier would act against the two women.
Xavier just silently looked at the door, waiting for two women who would soon break the silence of the place.
The door finally opened, and it was true what was in Stevan and Xavier's mind. Monica and Liliana immediately rushed in to hug the stiff body of David Qing who was lying in the hospital bed. Their cries broke and also heart-wrenching roars instantly sounded filled the room. Xavier just kept quiet, Stevan glanced at the man, guessing how he felt now. He who has taken the life of his own father and also made his mother lose her husband and also become a widow.
“David? What the hell happened to you? How can this happen?” raung Monica saw her husband's pale face no longer shining. His body began to stiffen.
“My boy! How can this be!” liliana shouted that sounded heart-wrenching to anyone. No one would have thought, his son would go before him.
Stevan glanced back at Xavier. The man watched his family cry. But he could see anyway, his hands clenched very tightly. After all, he was also a child, cruel as anything, the man had once carried him wholeheartedly.
“Xavier? How could your father be? How do you allow him to be like that?” said Monica who seemed very devastated by this incident. He pulls Xavier's suit, shaking his son's body, which is riveted by his mother's behavior.
A few hours ago the man was still by her side. Although it is hard and sometimes ambitious. The man had been accompanying her life for dozens of years. Monica immediately drooped limp which was immediately held by Xavier, Xavier immediately carried the body of his mother who had been exhausted because he could not accept this situation. Xavier just took his breath. Want to say but it feels funny. “Xavier, promise me, you must find your father's killer,” pinta Monica by raving again before she is completely unconscious.
“I will definitely find it, Mom,” said Xavier who stepped past Stevan who only looked slick. What if they found out, Xavier also let his father die like this.
The multipurpose room in the hospital was boisterously filled with reporters who had been waiting for Stevan and Xavier from earlier. They are ready with a myriad of questions and cameras. All centered on the death of a former prime minister who was just hit by a bullet from a hitman. A news that must be very horrendous this country.
The sound and the Blitz of camera lights instantly filled the room when Stevan and Xavier finally appeared there. Xavier had to bring his mother and grandmother who were limp to see the last state of his father into the treatment room, so they had come to this place for quite a long time.
“We are here. I am Police General Stevan will represent a grieving family hereby stating that it is true that the news of the death of former prime minister David Qing at 20:13 am at the White Lotus restaurant, tonight.” Stevan opened the press conference. Everyone was listening to what Stevan said.
“General Xavier! We are so sorry for your father's death, so how did this happen?” said a reporter who immediately got a turn once Xavier and Stevan entered.
“I will explain the chronology, surely General Xavier is still devastated to see the death of his own father before his eyes. Mr. David Qing died from a sniper's bullet while meeting Mr. Peter with General Xavier. Actually they were after Mr. David and General Xavier, but ill-fated, Mr. David Qing who was the victim,”, Stevan said who took over the press conference.
“Then, who is the mastermind of this shooting?” ask the other reporters.
“Yes, we also want to let you know that we have arrested two people who played the assassin and they have given us one name that became the main mastermind of this murder, he said,” said Stevan directly replied.
“Is it true as many people talk about that the mastermind is Mr Robert Kim who is the grandfather of General Xavier's former wife?”
The mood was silent for a moment. Stevan glanced at Xavier with a deep breath. He shouldn't have been able to immediately tell the suspect right now.
“Really! He is Robert Kim, therefore I will also make an announcement to cancel my resignation from the military and will join the team to investigate my father's death will also arrest Robert Kim soon!” xavier took over. Everyone could see the flames of hatred that appeared on Xavier's face which made them also feel angry at Robert Kim.
“Mr Robert Kim is now in search because he escaped before we could act. Therefore we ask the public to play an active role if they meet people with stature and face like in this picture, immediately report to us,”, Stevan said again put the face of Robert Kim. Everyone focused on the photo. “Alright, that's all we can say now. We resign first,” said Stevan who felt this was enough to be notified to the public. Xavier and Stevan get out of there.
“What will you do now?” stevan asked Xavier, who he thought was very quick, he even had trouble following him.
“Facing with Robert Kim. We have to be quick before he uses Moira as his hostage again,” Xavier said glancing at Stevan.
Stevan heard it instantly stopped stepping, “Moira still alive?” stevan asked with a glimmer of hope reemerging in his eyes. Xavier just nodded slowly.
“You remember your duty. Graciella, that's your top priority. If I know where Moira is, whatever happens to me, save her,” said Xavier, who does not know how it will be. He had to think of all the worst things that could happen.
“I understand. But as much as possible come back, no matter how they need you,” Stevan said. It has been four years trying to replace Xavier and he failed, how else could he replace the father figure of his son?
Xavier just nodded slowly. He immediately held his communication device. "Report the location to me immediately. Prepare all the necessities. Wherever he goes! we need to be ready for an ambush!" xavier told the team he had ordered to follow Robert Kim before he even executed his father. So wherever Robert Kim goes, Xavier will be able to catch him right away. He was just waiting, if there was any chance Robert Kim would bring it to his son. That is now his main task!
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