Trapped By The BEAST
Chapter 42's

Crystal closed the bathroom door in a bathrope that covered her body. The girl looked pensive as she sat on her bed.

"Haihh, stupid Crsytal. What if Damian really told Kenzo" said the girl with a riled face.

The Flashback

The elevator door closed and Crystal turned around and stood in front of Damian with a fixed look.

"Help me escape as far away from the man as possible."

Damian was silent in place while staring at Crystal with an untouchable cold gaze. Crystal stood up with twinkling eyes hoping as if despairing of her current state. The girl looked at Damian as if the man was hope and the only way she could be free from Kenzo's restraints.

Damian was still standing in his place and fixedly returned the girl's gaze. His mouth did not open at all and just stood like a lifeless statue.

Crystal's hopeful face gradually dimmed as she received no reaction from the man before her. His shoulders weakened and his head lowered languidly gazing towards the elevator floor. 

"Forget it." she said weakly as she turned her body back towards the elevator door and turned her back to Damian.

The two human children just stood still and did not open their voices until finally the elevator door opened on the floor they were headed to.

Flashback off

"Haihhh, stupid." he said again, muttering annoyed and walking towards his wardrope and trying to forget the shameful thing.

After putting on her sleeping pajamas, the girl went to the dresser and sat there staring at her reflection. He took a hair dryer and immediately dried his hair. 

After a few minutes, the door of her room opened and showed a Rose figure entering her room.

"Miss, dinner's over."

"I'll be down in a minute" he said as he combed his messy hair.

When he finished, he hurried out of his room. Surprisingly he did not find Damian who would usually always stand at his door and even other guards.

Crystal's forehead wrinkled in confusion, yet she continued her steps with a questioning face. He stepped until he finally reached the dining table and then sat on the chair he used to occupy.

Crys looked at Kenzo who ate her dinner in silence and did not open her voice at all. The man did not glance at him at all from the start he came there.

Crystal seemed to want to open her voice, but finally she undoed her intention. His finger grabbed his fork and knife, then started eating his dinner in silence as well.

The silence broke as Kenzo's phone on the table rang loudly. Kenzo grabbed his phone and picked it up.

"Speaks!" said the man coldly to the caller.

Crystal glanced at him curiously, but while eating his dinner it was not too obvious that he was peeking at the man.

Kenzo's face suddenly turned tense after a few seconds he was silent while hearing the caller. Crys clearly captured the man's strange-looking facial changes.

Kenzo is not a man who is good at showing his expression. The man's face was just flat and cold every time like there was no life. But his reaction this time honestly made Crystal shock and shock.

"I 'il be right there." after saying that, Kenzo got up from his chair then passed past Crystal in a hasty step.

Crys turned to look at Kenzo's back as it climbed the stairs and slowly began to disappear from her sight. Until a few minutes later, Kenzo came back down with after his neat suit.

In her heart Crystal was eager to ask where the man was going at night like this in her cloak, but again she held him back.

Until finally Kenzo disappeared in the door and faintly heard the sound of a car moving away.

"He never walked that fast." monologue Crys turned his head back to his now unappealing food.

Crystal was getting confused and astonished. Damian, now Kenzo. What's really going on with them?

Not wanting to bother, the girl went back to eating her dinner with an unfeeling face.

***

On the other side

A man is seen sitting in his big chair while smoking his cigarette and exhaling thick smoke that fills the dimly lit room.

As he took the cigarette out of his mouth, he lifted his legs up on his desk and looked at a man standing in front of him with a slanted smile.

"So what he's hiding is Adam's surviving daughter" he said, staring at the man in front of him.

"Yes." Yeah."

"Good, you gave me very useful information, so I could come earlier this morning" he said.

"Then, what about his older brother?" ask again.

"Still looking for his missing sister" replied the man who was still standing firmly.

The seated man began to put on a big smile full of victory. His hand slowly pressed his cigarette butt onto the table.

"If she's holding her sister, then we'll hold her brother."

The Flashback

A middle-aged man walked into a room that looked dim. Inside the room were two men younger than him.

The middle-aged man was named Adam Delwyn Alterio, while the two young men were Kenzo Edzard Duanovic and Desmond Archer Killian. Kenzo and Desmond are investors in the development of Adam Alterio's latest technology product.

Adam came in and sat down on one of the couches in the room.

"How are you Mr. Alterio?" ask the man named Desmond.

"I'm good." replied Adam.

"I can't continue this cooperation anymore" Adam said at length while issuing a brown envelope containing the cancellation of the contract. Desmond was startled and immediately stood up with an angry face.

"You can't just stop it. This project is already halfway through and must be completed." Desmond said full of anger after hearing about it.

"This chip is very dangerous for the world. I can't continue this anymore for the safety of my family. I will pay the entire penalty for the cancellation of the contract." said Adam, then stood up after putting the envelope on the table.

"I'll be pulling the entire research crew into the development of this chip. Thanks Mr. Duanovic and Mr. Killian has entrusted me to develop this product." said Adam while leaving the room.

Desmond yelled angrily while throwing the brown envelope given by Adam onto the floor. Kenzo remained silent in his seat and did not open his voice.

Flashback.

***

It had been three days since Crystal saw her brother again with her own eyes. Kenzo has not been seen in the Mansion since that day, the day the man left in the middle of dinner after receiving a phone call from out of nowhere.

Crystal also can't go to Kenzo's office to meet Karina and talk to her. Now the girl is sitting pensively beside the fish pond while feeding the beautiful fish.

He folded his legs in front of his chest, then hugged his legs and leaned his chin on his knees while watching the fish in front of him swimming charmingly.

"Miss." call Rose.

"Hmm." Dehem Crys is not in the mood.

"Lately, miss looks uninspired, what's the matter Miss?" ask Rose.

"Nothing" he answered briefly.

Rose let out a slow breath while staring at the withered backs of the Crys. Rose racked her brain to find a way to get the girl back excited and forget about her problems.

"Miss, let's cook something if you're bored and don't do anything" Rose asked. Crystal shook her head weakly still uninspired.

Rosepun directly pulled the girl's arm with a face of vigor. "Let's lady, don't laze around, you have to move a lot" he said.

Crystal snorted resignedly and inevitably could only obey and follow the direction of the pull of Rose with the steps of ogah-ogahan while Damian just remained silent and followed wherever the girl went.

***

On the other side

A thin-looking man with his mustache and beard beginning to grow longitudinally was eating the fast food he had just made.

The man was Allaric, the older brother of Crystal who still did not give up on his younger brother who disappeared without any news to date.

He ate his food quickly before he finally had to hand out brochures to people again.

In the middle of his eating activities, suddenly there was a knock from the door of his house. Allaric turned his head, then stood up and opened the door.

When he opened the door, it also saw the figure of a man in a neat suit.

"You who?" aric asked looking at the man confusedly with a frown.

"I have information about your missing sister. If you want to know where your sister is, come with me."

***

"Aws." Crys grimaced in pain as she accidentally sliced her index finger with a knife.

Hearing the ringing of pain, Damian who was nearby immediately approached her quickly as well as Rose with a panicked face.

"What's wrong?"

"I accidentally sliced my finger."

Crystal closed her index finger with her right palm, but blood immediately poured down her wrist until it dripped on the floor.

"Good, wait a minute."

In a panic Rose stepped away to look for a clean cloth to cover her fairly deep cut.

Damian deftly removed Crys' right hand, which was closing her index finger, then carried the girl's finger towards the sink and washed it with running water.

"Shh." a soft hiss came out of the girl's mouth.

Crystal closed her eyes unable to see so much blood from such a small wound. The sight of blood only reminded him of the events of his bitter past.

"This is the cloth" Rose said, handing over a clean cloth to Damian.

"I'll call the doctor here." Rose added again and went back somewhere.

Damian turned off the sink faucet, then bandaged the girl's finger to hold the bleeding.

After finishing bandaging, Damian looked at Crystal's shriveled face enduring the pain while closing his eyes tightly. The man was speechless looking at the face of the girl in front of him who looked charming.

"Stupid."

Crystal's facial sharpener slowly returned to normal when she heard Damian's soft, flat hiss. He slowly opened his eyes to see the figure of Damian who was still staring at his face fixed with a fairly close distance.

The two human children fell silent while staring at each other without taking their eyes off.

Damian spoke just as flatly and as gritty as ever, but somehow this time it sounded so warm and not as cold as usual. That was what made Crystal speechless in astonishment as she looked at the man.

Seriate....

Next Up: tomorrow.