Chapter 385 - GOODBYE
Chapter 385 – GOODBYE
Tonight, they were at a small airport which was a private property of the Tordoff family. Hailee and Ramon were there to send off Ian and his sister, Ciara.
Ian had to leave for a while because Giana would definitely be looking for him and that was a dangerous thing, considering that Ian was the one who had supplied her with drugs.
Therefore, Ramon would hide the man's whereabouts for the time being.
"It won't be more than two years," Ramon said, promising that. After all the problems were solved and Giana was under control and the situation was safer, then Ian could come back at any time.
"Two years…" Ian nodded his head. Two years wasn't a long time, but it couldn't be said very short either, especially when he had to be away from someone who had been in his head lately.
Ciara, Ian's sister, hugged Hailee as they chatted in hushed voices. Hailee bought the little girl a big teddy bear and she seemed very happy to receive it, while Ian and Ramon walked away a bit to have a talk between the two of them alone.
"If I didn't know the situation was better than this, then I would have thought that you were doing all this to distance myself from Hailee." Ian still remembered how Ramon sent him to Lexus' house because he didn't want him to stay in the same house as his wife.
"You can think so," Ramon replied nonchalantly.
"I think our relationship can be a little better after this," Ian grumbled, shaking his head in disbelief at the man before him. "I thought we had become friends, at least."
"Don't let your imagination soar too high," Ramon warned Ian. He didn't like the word 'friend' to describe the relationship between the two of them.
"That's up to you," Ian grumbled as he rolled his eyes, as if to say he didn't care.
"Once you get there, someone will take you to a house where you will live." Ramon briefly explained about their problem. "After that you are not allowed to contact anyone. Anybody." Ramon confirmed this many times. Because it was very important.
"I understand." Ian nodded and took a deep breath. "In that case, let me call someone."
Ian then reached out with his palms open, asking Ramon's cell phone to call someone.
Ramon raised his eyebrows questioningly.
"You cut off my communication completely from the outside world, so at least let me contact someone one last time before I return in two years," Ian said, then added. "I wish you could solve this problem sooner so I don't have to wait two years."
Ramon stared at Ian for a moment before he handed his phone to Ian. It was his personal cell phone and he just handed it over to the man in front of him.
"Don't take too long, you'll run out of credit," Ramon said before walking away.
Hearing this warning, Ian couldn't help but gape and shake his head in disbelief.
How could someone who was one of the five richest people run out of credit? Was that a joke?
But then, he looked at Ramon's phone and realized that it needed a password to be unlocked.
"Hey!" Ian cried to Ramon. "What's the password?"
Ramon glanced at Ian over his shoulder before he replied, "My wife's birthday!" he exclaimed.
Actually Ramon didn't need to say 'my wife', but he seemed to get used to showing his claim over Hailee whenever he talked to Ian and that was really annoying.
Of course there was no need to guess hard to find out who Ian was contacting at this time, because there was only one person who had been quite close to him.
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Zia was playing the piano in the living room when she got a phone call from Ian. At first, she didn't want to pick up the phone call, thinking it was Aidan trying to call her again.
Somehow the man always managed to get her number, no matter how many times Zia changed it, only this time it was different.
After three unanswered calls, a message arrived in her inbox which read;
'It's me, Ian. I'm using Ramon's cell phone. Please pick up.'
Only then did Zia pick up the next and fourth phone call. She couldn't be blamed, because what Aidan had done so far had left quite a deep trauma for Zia and she couldn't act as if those things never happened.
"What are you doing with Ramon's phone? Where's your cell phone?" Zia asked Ian directly and stood up to walk to the back garden, leaving her piano.
"I didn't say this before, because I was waiting for the right time, but I don't think the right time ever came." Ian started. He was quite confused about how to tell Zia, so he tried not to think and said what was on his mind right now.
"I don't really understand what you want to tell me right now," Zia laughed softly. "Can you be more specific?"
"I don't think I can come over to your house again for a while," Ian said in a lower voice and Zia knew this was something serious.
"What is it? Did you get a mission from Ramon again?" Zia asked. She knew what Ian did to Giana and didn't comment on it at all, because she thought that Giana deserved it after what she and her uncle did to Hailee.
"Yeah, sort of," Ian mumbled.
"How long?" Zia asked finally after being silent for a while. This was not the usual…
"Two years," Ian answered curtly.
"Two years?" Zia was quite surprised and shouted, making the two maids who happened to be passing by stop and stare at her questioningly.
"If you want to blame someone, blame Ramon," said Ian hastily. "In fact…"
And Ian spent the next ten minutes explaining his situation to Zia and the reason why he would be gone for the next two years.
At that time, Zia didn't know what she was feeling, but for sure, the loss made her cry, even though Ian wouldn't know it…
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"I guess this is the right thing to do, don't you think?" Hailee asked, in a slightly bad mood after saying goodbye to Ian.
"Of course," Ramon replied dispassionately. He was quite happy to send the man away.
Hailee chuckled when she heard that answer and then took out her cell phone to check today's news, while outside, the sun was almost setting, leaving an orange hue in the sky that looked very beautiful.
"This news is still hotly discussed even though three days have passed," Hailee mumbled and smiled, satisfied with the headlines written by the reporters, based on the information she provided.
What Hailee gave them the night after the event was a video file of the conversation between herself and Giana just before they left the lobby.
Since it was a video showing the events of that day, there was no doubt that it was true.
Especially when Hailee gave the video directly to them, so there was no indication that she made up the words in the video.
And in the video, Giana admitted that she caused Hailee to have a miscarriage and also that she took drugs which caused her to have a miscarriage.
In this short video which was less than five minutes long, there was a lot of information that journalists could dig up and find out more about the truth and it was not an exaggeration to say that you should not underestimate the ability of journalists to search for news because it was their very field to begin with.
"You look happy," Ramon said softly as he kissed the top of Hailee's head. He loved it when Hailee was laughing, angry or sulking.
"Of course," Hailee replied cheerfully. She then turned to Ramon and gave her husband a quick peck on the lips. "Now they can stop bringing up your relationship with Giana."
Hailee's tone changed when she said her last sentence and this made Ramon laugh. Sometimes, he would forget how fast Hailee's mood swings could be.
Her facial expressions and moods could change in a matter of seconds.
"So annoying, you know? To open a news article and find news about you and Giana," Hailee grumbled.
The times when the news about the affair between Ramon and Giana was so big and spread all over, Hailee couldn't even read the news or watch television without seeing the stupid news.
And it really sucks to be reminded of that all the time.
"You're such a jealous wife," Ramon teased. He put his finger under Hailee's chin so she could look at him.
"Yeah, I'm jealous," Hailee admitted easily. "Why? Are you the only one who can be jealous?
"It's okay," Ramon said with a smile. "I love seeing you getting jealous, you're so cute when you're angry."
"Don't try to seduce me," Hailee snarled, but Ramon could see the joy in his wife's eyes.
"I'm not seducing you Mrs. Tordoff, but if you feel like it, maybe I did it without realizing it."
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Giana smashed her room again, she didn't know how many times she had done this, littering her room with shards of glass.
Her anger was unstoppable and it was not only anger that she had to deal with, but also her addiction that made her suffer.
Giana couldn't think straight. She needed the drugs, but she couldn't reach Ian at all.
It wasn't just because she needed the drugs that she contacted Ian, because she wanted to catch Hailee's best friend and put him behind the bars, making sure he would rot in prison as a dealer.
But, alas, no matter how many people she deployed, no one could find where Ian was now.