"Archie, you scared half to death!" Mika cried out, clutching her chest.
"Don’t change the subject. Tell right now, who is he? And what, exactly, is your relationship with him?" ’Does she really think I’m that easy to fool? After seeing them like that? No way.’
Besides, based on that man’s attitude alone, he would never allow his sister to associate with soone like him.
Mika’s expression soured. "Archie, I already told you. We’re just roommates."
"Fine. If you’re just roommates, then tomorrow I’ll take you to find a new apartnt." With a grim expression, Archie started to shut the door, intending to go to sleep.
"Archie, but... it’s perfectly fine for to live here, isn’t it?" Mika grew anxious the mont she heard that; she had no doubt her brother would actually drag her out to find a new apartnt tomorrow.
’Perfectly fine? She actually used those two words to describe this situation.’
Archie’s temper flared. "It is *not* fine! Mika, you’re a young woman! How can you be living with a man? Are you out of your mind?!"
The mont he finished speaking, Archie slamd the door shut with a resounding BANG.
Mika stood frozen in the doorway, staring blankly for a long ti before she could process what had happened.
’Yeah, I must be out of my mind,’ she thought. ’Why else would I have co up with a lie like being roommates to fool him?’
’Does this an I really have to go apartnt hunting with him tomorrow?’
After shutting the door, Archie dug a charger out of his bag and plugged in his phone.
He hadn’t been back in thirteen years, and the first thing that happens is Mika making him this furious.
The image of that man still flashed in his mind. ’That guy... you can tell just by looking at him that he’s no ordinary person.’
’His outfit alone costs five or six hundred thousand, and with that face like he’s at a funeral, he’s clearly not soone you should ss with.’
’But how did Mika get tangled up with soone like that?’
When he was in the bathroom earlier, he could vaguely hear the two of them arguing outside, though he couldn’t make out what it was about.
He had to find out exactly who that man was and why he was living with Mika.
Not just anyone was worthy of being with his, Archie Sumrs’s, sister.
At this thought, a cruel, cold smile touched the corners of Archie’s lips, almost imperceptibly.
After he turned it on, his phone was imdiately flooded with nineteen text ssages. Before he could even read them, a call ca in.
"Hello?" He frowned at the number on the screen before answering.
"Sumrs! You finally picked up! You were about to give a heart attack!"
"My phone was dead. What’s up?"
"Sothing big happened! When I went to your house this afternoon to pick up your parents, the neighbors said they haven’t been ho for over ten days. They said your parents probably went to Tridell to see their daughter."
"That’s impossible. I’m at my sister’s place right now, and I haven’t seen them."
The person on the other end of the line paused, then offered a bold guess. "Maybe... sothing happened to them?"
Hearing this, Archie’s expression instantly darkened. After a long silence, he finally spoke, his voice flat. "Okay. I understand." Then he hung up.
’Not ho for over ten days? To see their daughter?’
He had been so worried sothing had happened to Mika that he’d co looking for her straight from the airport. He never imagined it was his parents who were already in trouble.
’Wait, that’s not right! If sothing happened to Mom and Dad, then what was that phone call I made after I got off the plane all about???’
——Countdown, Day Five!——
With her brother there, Mika barely slept a wink all night.
She finally managed to drift off just before dawn, but it felt like she’d barely closed her eyes when the sound of knocking jolted her awake.
Sporting dark circles under her eyes, she yelled resentfully at the door, "Archie, let sleep a little longer!"
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