Dr. Miles waited for hours only to show up to Aviona's funeral when everyone else was gone. As Manager Cheng and he went out the car, they noticed Martin walking away from Aviona's grave together with some securities.

"I did not expect that he was still here," Manager Cheng whispered to Dr. Miles as they started walking with the bouquet of white lilies with them. It was Aviona's favorite flower and so Dr. Miles had it specifically ordered for their visit.

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Martin and Dr. Miles met halfway, and they stared at each other for a while without saying anything. They both were hurt of Aviona's death and their eyes shared the same sentiments. Martin withdrew his gaze first and directed it to the bouquet of white lilies Manager Cheng was holing in his hand, he smiled bitterly at the beautiful flowers and left.

"He acts so strangely good when God knows he must be the one who killed her!" Manager Cheng was really disgusted with Martin's face.

"We aren't sure of that," Dr. Miles sighed, "But we can both agree he also loved Aviona so much,"

"There's a big possibility that its him since as we figure out, Ava holds the top shares of LGC. He must have hated Aviona for it, knowing she left him with nothing significant," Manager Cheng was not in the mood to give Martin some sympathy so he outrightly loathed him in front of Dr. Miles.

"Did someone verify about Ava's body in the morgue?" Dr. Miles asked. Seeing Martin right there gave him some chills, wondering if he had some idea about the fact that Ava was still alive.

"No, don't worry Dr. Miles, I made sure everything is clean," Manager Cheng's face hardened at the thought. It was the first time Manager Cheng did some illegal tasks for Dr. Miles, but he was far to smart to be leave any mess. No one noticed and suspected that no child was killed together with Aviona. "Besides, the one who handled Aviona and Ava's funeral were only representative from LGC, so they probably take everything without question. I even manage to put up a DNA test for both bodies they buried,"

"Send the man who saved Ava abroad, make sure his mouth stay shut," Dr. Miles was desperate of the thing. "Give him all the money he needs,"

"No need to worry about him," Manager Cheng tried to assure him, "He's far too grateful he had helped you. But I'll do as you say,"

"Just want to make sure we didn't left any trace for them to follow," Dr. Miles pointed.

"Nobody knew Ava is Melvin's child. Not even Martin knew it. They will surely not suspect you all because you have no connection to Ava in whatsover way, as per their knowledge," Manager Cheng told him confidently.

"Great, I want everything in order before I leave," Dr. Miles told him.

"Dr. Miles, are you really leaving everything here?" Manager Cheng tried another attempt to convince the doctor to say, "How could I explain this to everyone specially our VIP—"

"Manager Cheng, we already talked about this,"

"But you love your career here as a doctor and you can't just turn you back against it. You are the top greatest doctor in this country and—"

"I had committed a huge medical prohibition. I don't deserve to be the country's top doctor that's why I'm leaving it behind," Dr. Miles said without any hesitation. As a doctor, he's conscience was being hunted down for the mistake he did that costed Aviona's life. For that, he cannot anymore go on wearing the great doctor's badge.

Besides, he had Ava right then and he must keep her safe. That's the only thing he can do for Aviona. Perhaps with that, he can move on from all the things that had happened.

"By the way I need another birth certificate for Ava," Dr. Miles instructed the last, "Named her Xhemin lae,"

Manager Cheng frowned at the name as it sounded familiar to him but when he remembered where he heard the name, he chose not to say anything about it.

***

After two moths of struggle, finally Salsa got a chance to come near Martin. The man was barely coping up and he had shut himself out from everyone. LGC was then temporarily held by Margo, awaiting the court's order for Martin's uncle to represent him and Salsa was trying hard to stop that.

Martin was no at all himself. He barely eats and had kept himself drunk most of the days. If he was not in the wine room, he locked himself up in the Golden villa's master bedroom, sleeping around the things that Aviona left, at times too, he sat in the veranda staring at somewhere blankly and crying.

This time, Salsa finally managed to bribe the head maid to let them come and visit for a while. She wanted to try something in order for Martin to finally fight back his depression and continue moving on with her and Collet.

When Salsa stepped out of the car, the head maid who welcomed them almost fell from where she stood upon the look of her. She stared at Salsa for a while utterly disgusted on her desperateness but then she just shoved off her personal prejudices as the latter had paid her a good amount of money.

"The Master is in the veranda," She told Salsa and the nanny that was carrying Collet.

Salsa did not anymore answer and just went to the veranda to see Martin. She found him sitting idly, staring at somewhere, stinky, unshaven and unshowered. He was holding a bottle of wine in his hand, almost empty.

"Martin," She called on him, but he did not head her call as if he wasn't hearing anything. Salsa held a deep sigh and walked closer to him, but Martin stayed idle. He did not move at all, not until Salsa showed herself in front of him, showing herself in a completely different way.

She had colored her hair deep black and spent time in the salon straightening it up as she was naturally curly. She had spent bucks also tanning her white complexion to imitate Aviona's skin and purposely wore contact lenses to share the same color of Aviona's eyes. She too wore some of Aviona's clothes and perfume which she had gotten from Aviona's closet with the help of the head maid.

"Aviona?" Martin called on her and his eyes welled up in an instant at the sight of Aviona's looked a like. Salsa made sure she looked like Aviona and so Martin will eventually respond to her. Margo told her she need to make another Aviona to wake Martin did so she just took her innocent advice into her advantage, hoping it would work.

"Yes, Darling its me," She said imitating the way Aviona called her husband.

"Where have you been?" Martin hugged her immediately and cried, "You left me, I thought you weren't coming back, I'm so sorry my darling! I will never do that again to you and Ava!"

"Hush darling," Salsa comforted him, "I'm here, I just went away to pick up our daughter,"

"You went and pick Ava? Where is she?" Martin asked very much happy with the thought. He was like a child who had found her mother and was willing to do what his mother would tell him to do.

"Yes, Ava come here!" Salsa signaled the nanny to come close. "Look Darling, Ava had grown up already but she's still as beautiful as me, isn't she?"

Martin's messed up self, hesitated a bit with the look of how big Ava was already. The last time he checked she was still a little baby, yet the Ava that Salsa showed him was already a toddler.

However, Collets' hair was colored and straightened too, and she had been tanned like Ava so the messed up and childlike demeanor of Martin accepted such ploy just to satisfy his own self.

He looked at again Collet one more time and noticed, she was holding a bouquet of white lilies, Martin paused and smiled at the view of the flowers before he kissed Collet in the head.

"My beautiful Ava," He said, and Salsa smiled victoriously at what she had seen.