Chapter 10: Unknown researcher.
The blue waters soaked her back as she floated on it,her eyes closed. The soft light the sunset provided reflected the green swimsuit. It was a beautiful sight,not the sunset,not the reflection on water,but of the body splattered on water. She flipped then focused on doing the butterfly stroke.
Focus.
Forget.
She pushed herself harder as she did the laps.
Blue. Blue eyes. Good distraction.
Damnation! Focus.
She kicked the water.
"Powerful kicks Kacy,just like your Father's '.
Father.
Why did the letter mention her Father? She had assumed the man was dead from her grandma's stories. She lifted her head high and took a quick breath and then continued for another lap.
She loved the water almost as much as she loved the kitchen. Both inherited from people she knew . From the stories told to her and from the few pictures she had of her parents, Acacia knew they were lovers of the water,the dad was a Marine environment educator,his wife a marine archeologist.
She knew alot about her mother as her grandmother talked alot about her, just like her,she had been curious since she was young and her curiosity led her to the ocean. She asked questions, learnt how to swim at a young age ,she even became a lifeguard at some point in life but that wasn't just enough to satisfy her curiosity so she ventured deeply.
She started digging into things,collected information and things,she stumbled upon some crucial information,out of her curious nature,she started researching on what she had found out with the help of her husband, she started receiving threats and had escaped several attempts of killing them.
They managed kill her Dad though, one night,shot at while protecting his wife,they were together that night but he had told her to flee and save her life,she had ran,but came back later to fetch his body but didn't find it,weeks later ,she found out she was pregnant.
She withdrew from the limelight and stayed with her grandmother, as soon as she knew the baby's gender,she started her preparations,she had known she was going to die, somehow. She transferred everything she and her husband owned to her ,even before she was born,including her secrets, and that included her enemies.
As the wise woman her grandmother was,she protected her from the truth until she was ready to hear it,they had vowed to stay out of her mother's affairs which had been quite easy because the kitchen excited her more. But someone had been digging, searching for the missing marine archeologist and everything had pointed towards her.
The unknown researcher had unknowingly made way for her mother's enemies to find her,when she had read the letter on the day her grandmother was buried,she knew they not only found her but also knew her secrets and the powers she held,after all ,it was in their lineage.
Her grandmother had the same gifts,she had passed the same gifts to her daughter (Acacia's mother),hers lay in her eyes and in the water,the water could never harm her,and she passed her powers to her Acacia. Her mother could see things before anyone did,that's why she prepared everything before she died.
Acacia gripped the handrail tightly, she had always brushed the possibilities aside but the letters had woken the fire in her,she was her mother's daughter after all. Since they didn't know her address, letters were addressed to her grandmother's home at the Island. A source she trusted delivered them to the city every month.
After taking lunch with Arctic and his sister who couldn't cease to praise her and ask her questions such as where she had learnt to cook, she had responded with the lies she had mastered over the years and a little bit of the truth for awhile until the message had arrived.
I have your letters. Meet me at the same point in an hour.
Hiding her expressions on the blank facade she always wore,she excused herself for the day and promised to return two days later. She had a feeling that the letters had information that would need her concentration thus the two days excuse. She was also a business woman,her empire had to be ran.
To say the letters did shock her was an understatement.
"Do you know how we found you? ' that was the salutation the letter provided, and the next part had sent her reeling in shock,she had forgotten how to breathe for a minute that she had almost fainted. The words were too hard to grasp, she had gone to the only place that connected her to her parents, the water. But the fifteen laps she had done left her more confused .
She climbed the steps to her room deep in thought. Her mother had gone back to the murder scene not too early to be caught by the people chasing them and not too late for the body to have been taken away,yet she didn't find the body. Something wasn't adding up.
The letter still lay on her bed,she picked it up.
'Your father is looking for you,he will lead us to you,again. Just as before ,you know what to do if you want to live'.
Again.
Just as before.
She weighed the possibilities in her head,the unknown researcher could have been her father ,looking for his wife and discovered the wife had died and transferred everything to a daughter, he had the resources to dig ,after all they worked together. Reality dawned on her high functioning brain.
They rescued him inorder for him to lead them to her mother but unfortunately, her mom dissapeared. But the question was why ,why now. Atleast twenty-five years had passed . Why did he start looking for her almost after two decades had passed?
For the first time Acacia wished she had someone to share her frustrations with,things were getting more complicated, she knew that no matter how much she ran and dissapeared, they would eventually find her. If they were keeping track of her fathers activities,he would always lead them to her,and God knows,maybe her mother had told him of all the secret hideouts they had.
She brushed through her hair in frustration. She really needed someone she could talk to before she ran mad. Her mind went to the siblings,could she trust them? She thought of the dream, Arctic was going to be captured, to keep him safe,she would have to not tell him anything.
'What if I find him first before he finds me? ' The thought filled her as she dandled with the tips of her wet hair. But how? She didn't have the nearest clue on where to begin with.
Acacia dried her hair ,slipped into a nightgown then under the covers, a headache was forming due to the stress and overthinking, she hated pills so she grabbed the bottle of water placed on the nightstand and took a large gulp. What she needed was sleep ,she would think about everything the next day.
Acacia blankly stared at the ceiling, willing for sleep to overtake her,she was just tired of everything. Meeting Arctic had built hope in her ,she had smiled more,laughed,cooked merrily while with him,despite his interrogations, he made her happy . Part of her became sad knowing that she would eventually have to leave.
They had easily trusted her ,she had noticed how Arctic stole glances at her,a warm smile on his face,his eyes telling what his mouth couldn't, he was afraid of chasing her away with his words,that's why he was careful with his words,after all ,he had seen her at the river,he knew she was hurting.
They trusted her. She repeated the words as if reassuring herself, even opening up on the death of their parents. Her head throbbed more and she closed her eyes.
The loud ringing on her phone startled her and her eyes flew open,the lights blinded her for a moment and she adjusted, she didn't know how long she had been sleeping but it was long enough as her headache was gone .
The sun was not even out and everything was taunting her,her phone rarely rung,she had no one to check on her . Her workers sent emails and messages if something came up,and she knew the ringtone to her work phone,this was her personal phone number.
Had they found her already? Panicking she picked her phone from the nightstand which had started ringing again. She stared warily at the strange number weighing whether to pick up or not,curious she decided to pick up when it rang a third time.
"Hello,did I wake you up?" Arctic's deep voice came from the other end of the line and she released her breathe she didn't realise she was holding. But again...
"How did you get my number?"
"I studied your resume ,the one you gave Berlah on your first meeting ,I found it there".
Suprised ,she went to her drawer and pulled a copy,and truely she had typed her personal contact instead of her business one. That was a huge mistake.
"Under no circumstance should you ever share my contacts with anyone " , she told him.
"Chill master,I am not planning to share you with anyone ". He replied with a soft laugh,Acacia didn't know if he understood or not,she had to change her contacts again.
"Why did you call me this early ".
"Just to say Hi and ask for your second name".
"Do you always call your employees on their off days?"
He laughed again and Acacia relished on his soft laugh, a smile formed on her face. This man made her happy.
"No,just special ones",he said softly. She didn't know what to reply. They stayed silent for a few seconds.
"I have to hang up now",she didn't wait for his reply and hung up. He was making everything harder than it was already. She was facing a dillema. The man was becoming to hard to resist,she didn't want to get attached,the open letter was a huge reminder to her problems.
"I just want my grandmother to hold me again,God,is that too much to ask?" She said aloud and she allowed the breaming tears to fall.
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