Chapter 18: chapter 18

Ela's POV,Kylen stayed with me while I shredded tears silently, the other day. Sam came too. They let me cope up with it in my own pace.I didn't give up. I continued leading my life.I shared everything to Kat. Now, she's more like a sister to me. She doesn't leave a moment for me to dwell in the past.Reading my face, if she finds a hint of sadness, she gets onto doing my favorite things.I finally landed a job with the position as Video Editor. Yes, I'm into editing and creating magic for content makers. They can be for advertisements, YouTube videos or reels. For us, video is everything and I love working on it.The company was impressed with my existing projects and the fresh creativity I bought into them.I'm boasting. Ain't I?Well because I'm happy and kinda love celebrating each and every win.I went on trips, in and out of LA with Kat and Rick. More like third-wheeling them.I visited my parents as well, went for a brunch with my friends who stay in Boston.Hm. Talking about Kylen and Sam. We catch up rarely, these days, but make sure we have fun and wars until I have to kick them out of my place.Hehe. They are sweet. But then, they ofcourse had their own lives and problems to be dealt with. I couldn't be dependent on them.We were meeting at least once in fifteen days or something. But as the days passed, my workload increased, and they also started being more distant.Tomorrow marks my six months of living in LA!! And to my unhappened wedding.Well, I still don't know what to believe in. Shawn's love was as real as his thrash words were.But Kylen and Sam weren't aware of his love. They all saw was Shawn's unconditional hatred for me.Ironically, Shawn believed the truth after I lied in front of the cops.He had tried reaching me out by calls, many a times. I didn't bother to answer it.I sighed looking out of the glassed walls of my cabin.I'm planning to have a little hang out with all of my pals tomorrow.Kat was in already. If Kat, by default her boyfriend is also in.Remaining were Sam and Kylen. I had dropped a text to them in the morning and hadn't received any reply yet.I don't even know where Sam is!I dialed his number to find out his phone was switched off. Kylen is the only one who knows about his whereabouts.I called Kylen and he didn't answer, as usual.Nevermind, I left my office early today.I went straight to Kylen's place. His guest house, I mean. Hoping to see him there as it literally took more than an hour of traffic to reach there.Parking the car, I got out to see a new car parked beside his. It was not Sam's.Without these two idiots, tomorrow's day would be incomplete. Because it's been six months of me being kidnapped as the wrong bride!I smiled walking to the wooden door and rang the bell."No! I didn't order anything", I heard his voice before the door opened."Hey-""What are you doing here?", Kylen whispered, sounding disappointed in seeing me."Who is it?", I heard a female voice from inside, unfamiliar obviously."I'll be back in a minute!", he replied."You better be!", the other voice echoed.Kylen grabbed me, getting us out of his porch."Woa. What's going on?", I looked at him."You are not supposed to be here at this time.""At this time?", I scoffed, "You have grounding rules now?""Be quick.", he spoke."Okay. I called you a several times and you didn't pick them. And that is why I'm here to invite you for tomorrow's day out as-", I was interrupted."I can't. I'm busy.", his four words arrowed at me.Well. "What about Sam?""I have no idea where he is. Are we done?", he asked with a rigid face."You know what, get back inside and sorry for interrupting for whatever was going on in there.", I started to walk towards my car. I heard his footsteps following me."Nor!"Opening my car's door, "Just forget that we had this conversation, Kylen."He slammed the car's door before I could get in."What is up with you?!", I stared at him.Pinning me against the shut door quickly, he dived into my eyes."Did I smell jealousy here?"I chuckled, "Why? Because you have a woman in there?"He simply observed me."If you are waiting for my answer, I'm not! Infact, I'm mad at you. This is not the way you are supposed to behave with me! You didn't spare a minute to listen for why I was inviting you."He gulped down a lump in his throat."Go with your dramatic bestie wherever you wanted to go tomorrow. I'm not available and Sam isn't returning my calls either. And don't come here without informing me.""Only if you had answered my calls, your highness, I wouldn't be here at all.", I gritted.He released me slowly.I got inside my car and taking the car in reverse, I didn't bother to look at him.I cancelled tomorrow's plan with Kattsy. My mood was off. I told her I had a work in due."Hey Ela! Weren't you on leave today?", a colleague asked."I'm crazy, you know, to work on leave.", I said switching on my laptop.It was almost 9 at night and I was still busy in editing a clip, trying to find the right font for the text.My door opened, "Hey."Recognizing the voice, "You don't get to see me without returning any of my calls.""Sorry Ela. I just wanted to talk to you.""Not now, Sam. I'm busy.", I continued scrolling on my screen."Not even five minutes?""Nope."Sam left and I breathed loudly. I took off my anger on him. Damn it.Next day, morning,My doorbell rang vigorously. Why can't she ring the bell like a normal human!"Kat! What on earth happened-", my voice trailed off seeing Kylen."Sam is missing! All the money is gone from his account too."Guess my reaction.