Even though two girls were meat lovers, they especially liked poultry products.

Eva woke up to lots of sticky notes in the villa and a good appetizing meal but... vegetarian dish.

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She stormed in the refrigerator and found, 'Love, I threw all the chicken.♡' sticky.

...

Aria had taken boiled egg during brunch but Alan ate it. She took one more but he ate that too and heard, "Not only chicken, no poultry."

'You petty man, I will make sure you regret soon. Hmph.'

The very same day evening two lambs decided to go on strike against their husband.

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Noah's silent unresponsive phase worried everyone. It was getting difficult for everyone to understand him.

Zara had seen him just go and lock the door in the night, saw him silently leave for the work skipping breakfast.

She tried to ask him to eat, scolded him, became upset over it but nothing worked out. She didn't want to trouble Aria or the other two more but seeing him that way she felt her heartbreak.

But she knew those three would at least convince him to eat so having no choice she called Aria at noon two.

Aria was in the meeting, she paused it and answered. She or the other two couldn't get Noah on call who had sent them 'busy in a meeting' repeatedly.

"Sister Zara, is everything alright?"

"Arrie, are you three busy? I can't see Noah like this, he isn't eating anything from yesterday night. I tried my all but he didn't react."

Aria cued Levi to continue meeting and left the meeting room, "We will check on Noah. Sister Zara, take care of the company, Noah might not be able to handle..."

Zara cut in, "No, he is working like a nonstop robot. He finished all today's work, pending files, rearranged, and preponing meetings. I'm getting scared looking at him..."

Aria's eyes involuntarily filled up. The feeling of desperately keeping busy with work to forget how they were feeling wasn't new to her.

Even though how hard we try, the heart would seem to squeeze up every second while working giving sharp pain to remind them they are hurt, they aren't fine.

"Sister Zara, take care of yourself. We will look for him." Aria didn't let her emotions affect anyone and calmed Zara as she left the office.

She called Rian and asked him to reach Noah quickly.

She dialed Eva's number and spoke, "Noah needs us. Can you cook your style of fried rice for him? He hadn't eaten anything."

Noah likes Eva's authentic vegetable and chicken fried rice.

Eva didn't want any more explanation about the situation and understood everything by Aria's tone. She closed her laptop and went to the kitchen, "I will replace chicken with prawns... Alright, I will come soon. Don't come to pick me. Go to Noah."

Aria took a U-turn after hearing her. She hadn't told her she was going to pick, and she didn't know how Eva guessed it...

Aria noticed passengers in black Sprinter were looking at her behind the tinted glass. She felt suspicious but drove ahead.

She soon realized they were following her closely. That wasn't the bodyguard's car. She quickly brainstormed, "Eva, send me Jake Davies number now. Don't drive fast."

Aria hung up and dialed her bodyguard's number. She skipped waiting for him to greet, "Where are you guys?"

"President Cooper, all our car tires are flat. I'm at the garage. Another team is checking out the security footage."

Aria smirked and glanced at the rearview mirror after taking the right turn, she saw the car following her. She saw Eva's message popping up with Jake Davis's number.

She instructed her bodyguard, "Make sure all our cars in the company garage go through a THOROUGH check."

The bodyguard already knew it was something major and also realized Aria wasn't in office, "President Morgan, why didn't we notified by any? Is Assistant Levi with you? Don't stop the..."

"I'm alright. Quickly complete the work and call me." Aria hung up the call and dialed Jake Davies's number.

Jake didn't have Aria's private number, "Police lieutenant Davis here. May I know who is calling?"

Aria didn't beat around the bush or cared about the awkwardness, "Aria Cooper speaking. I am being followed and I'm not sure the level of threat, is it possible for you to take action immediately?"

Jake Davis on the other end looked at his mobile in astonishment but it soon replaced with responsibility, "Where are you? If you are driving, don't go to the secluded area. Share your location..."

Aria cut in and told the plan, "I am currently driving towards your police station on Vella road but I will not enter the premises which will alert them. So C junction would be better, I'm driving black McLaren P1, they are driving Black Benz spinster. Make sure to be a group and armed, I don't want to take chances about cops or the public. Am I clear?"

Jake: O_O

'It should be cops work to plan out.' He shook his head to come out of the daze and signaled his team to drop all work and move out.

"Be on ca... Is it alright for you to be on call for live updates?" He wanted to say 'Be on call and keep me updated' but reframed it. He wasn't sure if it was due to their past or her position.

"No problem." Aria responded and could make out they were taking actions quickly without questioning back Jake even once.

"Where are you right now?"

"Taking right towards Tank road."

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Similarly, she gave him updates a few times closely watching if that van was following her. She knew Alan would have got to know from his men who would be waiting for the right time to block them.

Aria heard the speaker in the car, "Object appeared... Miss, pass the junction."

"Alright." Aria saw the signal was green and as soon as her car left the zebra cross, it turned red.

She watched the rear camera view and saw four cops cars locking the Sprinter in four directions like a wind. Aria realized the road she drove had only her and the following van.

She was impressed by how Jake managed to block other vehicles behind. She didn't alight and saw cops were armed, asking the passenger and driver to get off.

But there was no reaction.

Aria knew it wasn't the right choice to alight if the followers were armed but seeing cars blocking that Sprinter, she let her guard down and alighted.

'Snap'