Loredana frowned. Had she guessed it wrong?
“The safe number here is all double digits. There is no such safe number.”
Double digits.
Loredana looked down at the letters hx.08.za0102, and finally fixed her eyes on the two numbers in the middle, “What about 08?”
“Let me check for you.” The personnel’s voice came again, “Yes, we do have a safe numbered 08.”
Loredana basically understood what the alphabets and numbers meant. The number 08 meant HX bank’s safe no. 08. The last combination of alphabets and numbers should be the password. “What else can I do for you, miss?”
Loredana’s mind was pulled back to reality. She pondered and asked, “Could you help me find out who’s the one keeping this safe?”
“Sorry, I can’t. This is our client’s privacy. Our bank strictly stipulates that we can’t disclose our client’s personal information. If you need it, I suggest you handle it yourself.”
“I see. Thank you.” Loredana hung up, sat by the bed and looked at the thing in her hand.
She did not know how long she had sat there, until Coral came up and called her for lunch.
She held back her emotions and went downstairs. The huge villa was quiet and seemed empty. Samuel and Simona were sitting cross legged on the carpet and they were piling blocks. Samuel’s expression was a little impatient. It looked like he was forced to play with his sister.
That was because only Simona had a smile on her face.
Loredana came down and looked at the two children. “Wash your hands and come have your meal.”
Samuel, as if being given an amnesty, quickly got up and ran over. “Finally it’s time to eat.”
Loredana pinched his face. “Are you that reluctant to play with your sister?”
Samuel shook his head. “If she plays something interesting, of course I’d like to play with her, but block building is such a childish game, and I can’t really feel interested of it.”
Simona came over slowly and glimpsed at her brother. “You can tell me straightaway if you don’t like it. I didn’t tie you up nor force you though.”
Samuel looked at his sister. When had she become this articulate?
“Alright, alright, wash your hands and eat.” Loredana took the two of them to wash their hands. Simona turned on the faucet and put her hand underneath to fetch the water. She did not let Loredana wash for her. “Mommy, I’ll take care of myself in the future. You can just take care of the baby.”
Loredana was stunned for a moment and she smiled. Her daughter had suddenly changed. She felt that she had really grown up.
She leaned against the door and watched her daughter wash and wipe her hands dry.
During dinner, Coral asked, “Do you want to find them a tutor?”
Victoria used to teach them herself and they did not need tutors, but the situation was different now.
Loredana looked at them. She respected their opinions. “Do you want a tutor?”
The two children shook their heads almost at the same time. “No.”
They did not want to be watched by a stranger when they read and write, and they were not stupid. They had not gone to school yet and what kind of tutor would they need?
Coral smiled. “I have not much knowledge and I can’t teach. You’re pregnant, that’s why I want to…”
“You don’t have to worry about our study, Granny Coral. We’re not stupid, and we’ve not gone to primary school, it’s too unfair to confine us.” Samuel rejected the idea of having private tutors. Simona agreed too.
“Okay, I see.” Loredana asked the two of them to quickly eat. After dinner, the two little guys went back to their room. They found something to kill time by themselves when there was no one to play with. Coral cleaned up the dining table.
Loredana nestled in the couch. She was struggling whether to go to the bank to find out what was inside the safe.
She knew what Maxina said was true, otherwise the necklace would not leave such information.
If she had to face it sooner or later, she was afraid she could not escape from it.
Finally, she decided to find out.
This time, in order to avoid letting unnecessary people know her plan, she only brought a bodyguard.
She had kept something in HX bank and she was a VIP client there. The manager who received her last time received her.
“Are you here to get something, Miss Flores?” The manager was dressed in uniform. There was a duty card on his right chest. He led Loredana to the reception hall.
Loredana nodded.
“Then please come with me. Your safe is no.11 in area B,” the manager said.
“I’m taking from safe No. 08,” Loredana said.
The manager was startled and he quickly responded, “You had two safes in the bank, didn’t you?”
Loredana said yes.
“No. 08 is in area C. Please come with me.”
The manager took her to the storage place in area C. After putting his face in front of the face scanner, the wide metal door slid open. There were no windows there. The room was all illuminated by the light on the roof. The walls were made of metal and looked solid and indestructible.
“I’ll stop here. Please go in.” The manager stood by the door. There was another door inside. The room behind that door would be the place keeping safes.
Loredana said to her bodyguard, “Please wait for me here.”
“Yes, ma’am.”
She went in by herself and found safe no. 08 in the innermost position.
She took a deep breath and reached for the password.
When the last number was pressed, the click of the safe unlocking was heard. Without accident, the safe was opened and Loredana opened the safe door.
There was an envelope inside.
Loredana reached in and took the envelope out. She opened the sealing thread and took out what was inside the envelope. There were two letters in it. One of them said ‘Dear Jeffery, my brother’, while the other one didn’t indicate who the letter was for. Loredana wasn’t expecting anything when she opened the safety box. However, when she saw the letters, she frowned, and her hands were shaking. Loredana knew the letters were written by Jolene when she saw the words ‘Dear Jeffery, my brother’.
Loredana calmed herself down and continued to take out what was in the envelope. She saw a document. It was the Equity Agreement of the JK Group.
Loredana had never heard of JK Group. Based on what was stated in the Agreement, the JK Group was a company limited by shares. However, there weren’t many shareholders for the company because the Equity Agreement Loredana was holding was worth eighty per cent of shares of the JK Group.
Suddenly, something dropped out on the floor from the envelope.
Loredana looked down, and she saw an exquisite hollowed-out pendant on the floor. She picked it up and found out that it was a locket. She opened the locket and saw a photo in it. It was a photo of two persons. The photo was small, but Loredana could see the face of the person in the photo clearly. The woman in the photo had dark and long straight hair. She had a beautiful face, and she looked a little like Loredana.
But she resembled the man in the photo even more.
New Book: Beginning with a Daring Encounter
Celsie was tired of being labeled as an introvert, workaholic, and dull virgin by her friends. Determined to prove them wrong, she made a bet that she would do something daring on her 25th birthday. Now that the day had arrived, it was time to fulfill her promise. On her daring to-do list, there was one task: a one-night stand with someone.