The Traps of Black Swan

Chapter 159 - Fourteen

In front of Aarvi's bedroom.

After running away from the kitchen, Dax and Shawn went to complain to Zain who stood frozen in front of Aarvi's room.

They could feel his mood was off and it was still hard for him to accept his sweet little Pumpkin changed herself, she hardly shows her true self and loathes her own innocence. However, they didn't let their mood down and chose to cheer the man.

"Brother Zain…" Shawn grimly called.

Dax whinged, "Your Pumpkin is vile. She wants to chop us and grill us to tender and juicy meat."

Shawn overreacted, "She eats human meat. A living demon!!"

Zain chuckled, glancing at them exaggerating. He pointed to her room and commented, "Her room is more masculine than any men's room."

Dax hummed while Shawn saw Laze majestically patrolling inside and pointed, "Even that bratty cat is heartless like my Little Heart."

Dax doesn't like the purs of the cat so he chose to stay away. Zain watched the cat's intense gaze of its green eyes as though they were intruders.

Then Zain turned to two men, "Let me hear..."

Shawn grinned and Dax asked, "Now Dum Dum is hiding herself attacking inconspicuously, what if they get to know her presence? Is she permanently going to hide?"

"She is meant to shine in the business world," Shawn grumbled.

Zain patted his shoulder as he moved towards the entertainment room, "Pumpkin's plan was never to hide but attack face to face."

"Huh?" Shawn was confused, "Then why is she concealing?"

Zain casually glanced at the duo and revealed, "Well being of you three and the useless Kelly family."

Dax rubbed his forehead thinking of everything, her farsightedness is excellent but it was deeper trouble for herself.

Shawn worded out, "She is inconspicuous to avoid us being the target of Leon Harmon."

Zain hummed and added which the duo already knew, "Leon Harmon isn't a player of healthy competition. He is a dirty scumbag who goes to any length to win what he wants. He kidnaps, threatens, kills other's family members or their loved ones to win. He is a control freak because he wants to win on everything."

Zain leaned on the glass wall of the entertainment room watching the swimming pool and artificial waterfalls. The scenery, the architecture, and the modern aesthetic of the mansion could easily make it a dream home for anybody that even he liked.

Zain continued after the pause, "Leon Harmon can't reach me. As much as her life is in danger, your lives might be on the line if he gets to know Pumpkin is playing him like puppet attached to the strings. This is the reason she didn't want to associate with you guys after being comatose and acted like she forgot you all in the beginning."

Zain who noticed the waterfall architecture carefully for sometime, walked out of the room to go near it. Shawn and Dax didn't know how to handle her proposition, 'Then will she be hidden till Leon Harmon is beaten? What if they go face to face unexpectedly?'

The more they tried to clear, they were having new and different complex questions. Shawn strode faster to catch up with Zain and asked, "Is she permanently going to be in ambush?"

Zain paused and spoke when Shawn stood in front of him, "This is the main reason she doesn't want you guys to know much. The more you guys worry about her plans, she will impute herself."

Her life becoming the problem for somebody is what she doesn't like so Zain hoped Dax and Shawn would be the same with Aarvi.

Zain faintly smiled seeing Shawn's faint angry face, "She will ask us if she needs help. Believe me, she will do it. Hence enjoy your life forgetting all these." He again walked towards the pool with Shawn in tow.

Shawn understood Zain's words but he grumbled climbing the stairs to reach the top of the waterfalls, "You didn't answer my question."

Zain sighed in resignation and responded, "Nope, she is waiting for something. Then she will unmask her presence."

Shawn discerned Zain doesn't know it and curiously saw what Zain was trying to do. His eyes widened when he noticed a stone move which didn't look moveable. "Brother Zain, how did you know it?" He sat down and pushed his hand inside. 

Zain blurted out, "Wait..." But he was too late.

By that time Shawn had pulled his hand out holding a black bracelet, "What's wrong?"

Zain sat down looking speechlessly at Shawn. His Pumpkin isn't innocent naive anymore. Even if they keep the bracelet back, she will clearly know it was moved and she was too smart to realize he was the one who got that spot but not Shawn.

However, he even knows Aarvi will definitely guess, he wasn't the one who moved the bracelet.

He was there to meet and greet her. He didn't want her to think he was there to scrutinize her things. "Shawn Rivas, why did you become Director of Rivas securities?"

Shawn paused while checking on the bracelet and responded, "I wanted to give a helping hand for Bro and to protect Little Heart."

"Yet you haven't learned that you shouldn't leave a clue anywhere and whatever you do. Especially when you find such secret things." Zain sighed and pulled his hand to check the bracelet.

The shiny reflective bracelet dazzled under sunlight. It was a black lava stone beaded bracelet with a metallic black crown charm but there was a gap for a single bead in the string. 

Shawn, who was thinking about the hidden bracelet, didn't bother about Zain's comment and discerned, "Brother Zain, this bracelet signifies the ones who Little Heart is going to avenge. One bead is removed which means the end of Grace Wells. Are there fourteen more? Who are they? Who is the crown?"

Zain too guessed the same as Shawn. He held the crown falling into deep thought guessing the crown and other beads.

Dax who reached them had heard Shawn's voice, he noticed the bracelet and spoke his mind, "That black metallic crown turns black over time. The crown is Dum Dum, either she will destroy the beads and give color to her life or become one in them turning black else loses her life."

Shawn: "..."

'What the hell! how did he even think of it?'

Zain hummed to Dax's theory and displayed the crown. "Woah!!" Shawn exclaimed looking at the crown changing color in the light or sunlight or maybe the temperature.

Dax probed the important question, "Who are fourteen more?"