章 50: The Hidden Gem

Jasmine is staring at the window pane as the car moves away from the Jaxil Ville with a new driver. The driver that brought her to the village turns out to be one of the goons of the old lady.

Scaring him away using her knife is one of the biggest mistakes that she did. Now she is with a different driver who never speaks to her or to anyone else who is present in the car.

"I promised your father that I will make sure that you ride the safest plane possible and in order to make sure of that, I need to be with you during your flight to another country."

Jasmine smiles at the grandmother and gives her thank. Looking back at the past two days that she is with Grandma Feng and her goons, she had a lot of fun.

Even though her final call with her brother is tear-jerking, she knows that Aiden will survive on his own. He is already big enough anyway.

But as a loving sister like Jasmine, she still asking herself if she did the right thing.

"Don't worry, Aiden will be fine."

Jasmine nods at her and goes to staring at the bewilderness that they are taking. The Jaxil Ville is very far from the city.

Quite far even by car, it is located near the largest open terrain in the country and it is surrounded by tall trees with humongous shades.

Incredible sightings and friendly people, these are what the village holds.

Jasmine sighs as she looks far ahead and sees the roof of the airport in the borders of Germany and Switzerland.

They show their passports to the guard at the gates before entering the airport lobby. Jasmine made her final call to Aiden and smiles.

"Take care, little brother. Survive."

Aiden only hums as his tears start to pour once again. He doesn't know what truly happened but he has an idea that it is either him or his father's fault.

"O-Okay… You too, Jas…*sniff*"

Jasmine smiles sadly to Aiden before ending the call and formatting everything that is inside. Once everything is formatted, Jasmine throws the phone on the grinder and lets it pulverized into millions of pieces.

She goes out of the immigration room and faces her new family to the other country and smiles at them.

"I am ready."

***

Aiden is currently crying in Daime's arm as Primo cooks the dinner. He sighs as Aiden pours his heart out when he hears that his sister would be leaving Switzerland for training somewhere in China.

He sniffs the snot and wipes his tears using Daime's shirt. Normally, Daime would get irritated by this because it is too disgusting. But since it is Aiden, Daime is okay with giving him a leeway.

"Why does she needs to go? Training, my ass! Is your family hunting us now?!"

Primo is familiar with this type of feeling that Aiden is emitting right now. He knows that Aiden is just saying these things because everything just happened so suddenly.

No one is there to tell him what is happening with his family or what will happen to his life.

He sniffs once again as he coughs out after being choked by his own spit. Daime immediately went to his aid but the latter swats his hand away and sulks.

"Don't come near me, Santoro! I hate you!"

An electric current goes straight to Daime's heart, making him feel sudden pricks of small knives stabbing his heart. He wants to clench it and make it stop but there is nothing he can do.

The pain is too much and too unbearable that Primo taps his shoulder and shakes his head.

"Don't bother and just prepare the plates."

Daime sighs and nods before standing and goes to the kitchen table. Aiden is still sulking when Primo approaches him.

The older sighs and waits for Aiden to calm down before asking him if he could eat with them. Aiden looks at Primo with piercing eyes and is about to say no when the aromatic scent of the food is calling out to him.

"Yes, please."

Aiden is screaming inside his head for betraying him when he is about to say no to the Santoros. But the smell of food is too much that made his stomach grumbles.

"Carry me."

Primo chuckles before nodding at Aiden's mini-request. Daime looks at them with his head shaking as he chuckles upon seeing Primo's reaction.

"Come on, love birds. We need to eat."

Aiden glares at Daime as Primo carries him like a child. He pouts his lips as he sits in front of Daime while Primo distributes the food.

"So, Aiden-"

"Shut up! Don't talk to me! I am still mad at you!"

Daime flinches by the voice and looks at Primo, who seems to be getting angrier and angrier. Daime sighs and stands up from his chair and goes to Primo.

"If ever, we just scoops him up and throws him to the bed, do you think he will still cry?"

Primo looks at Daime with a toothy expression before looking at Aiden like a mad man.

"You know, that is not a terrible idea."

Daime chuckles and goes back to his seat. Primo sits on his own chair and they both quietly eat. Aiden is looking at them from time to time but the two of them are not looking at him at all.

After the dinner, Daime cleans the table while Aiden goes to the bathroom with a frown.

"I didn't meant what I just told them but why do they look angry."

Aiden is upset with this turn of events. He is so ready to tell Daime and Primo about his plan to their relationship but he can't believe something like this will happen.

He thinks of something else as he showers for the night. Primo had told him before that he can sleep on his bed while he sleeps in Daime's extra futon but Aiden is scared to sleep alone so he suggests Primo to just sleep with him.

Primo sighs but said yes otherwise.

"I also promised Daime that I will sleep beside him next time. What shall I do now? They are mad at me now."

Aiden sighs as he thinks of ways to apologize to the other two. Not knowing what they actually plan for tonight.

Outside of the bathroom, Daime looks at Primo as he hides behind the door frame and Daime inside Primo's room.

Daime opens the door of the room slightly as Primo readies himself to scoop Aiden up and throws him to the bed.

The latter needs to cool down and the two of them had a better solution to what to do.

"Ready?"

Primo nods and as the door opens, Primo attacks.