Melissa hummed in affirmation and remarked seeing Patrick amusing himself, "It isn't the only IQ enough to lead a life, it's your creativity, presence of mind, and your will that leads to success. IQ is just a stupid number."

Aria proudly responded, "Exactly, hence my husband says I have 0 IQ."

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Alan: "..." He couldn't understand why she gets happy hearing it.

Patrick appended, "Your EQ is low too."

Aria countered with a straight face, "Thank god I have low. Unlike you who uses it in favor and fools as many girls as you want, Director Morse."

Patrick squeezed his eyes shut holding his head without daring to look at Melissa. After a round of scolding, they had lunch and stayed till evening before the couple left.

Alan had bid them saying, they will visit with Vince next time when Melissa asked about it. Aria was glad they didn't ask her to reveal her maternal identity.

She who was calm and composed in Morse mansion was tense by remembering the hereditary health issues, "Alan, I think I should once go for a complete body check again. And what if the baby we have will contract such health issues?"

Alan had thought she didn't take seriously when Patrick explained. He pulled her near, "Nothing will happen to you and you are perfectly healthy."

"But..." Aria tried to retort but Alan cut in, "If you have such doubts, let's get another check, alright?"

"And you are not allowed to hide anything from me." Aria didn't forget to add. She is very well aware that Alan always tries to avoid things that will worry her,

Alan hummed kissing her forehead but she again started, "What if our baby faces such problems?"

Alan twisted her ear, he can't say what will happen in the future but seeing her worry for the unplanned and unborn baby he didn't know what to say, "Why worry about things that aren't there yet? Your 'our baby' is making me think as you are pregnant now. Are you?"

Aria rolled her eyes, "No, I am not. But I am afraid."

Alan threatened which worked, "If you are scared, let's not have any."

Aria: "..."

Aria zipped her lips and dozed off soon giving rest to her brain.

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To stop Aria from worrying unnecessarily, Alan took her for a complete body check with numerous kinds of tests which took the whole day to complete.

Zeke Wen was in the city hence Alan met him directly along with Aria with the reports and narrated everything. Zeke Wen assured Aria that the chances were very low as it broke at her and she didn't have any kind of health issues.

Aria let her worry down after it and started thinking whether they should have a baby soon or later.

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When the couple felt they could finally let their guards down, there was another problem raising up bold and wildly. Roxy broke her mobile and sat on the chair clutching her hair in frustration in the glass studio.

Rian who was on the other end, quickly reached her to see her crying, "Roxy, what happened? Why are you crying?"

Roxy sobbed as she responded, "Mom is hospitalized. I had blocked all the numbers Jasper Madison was contacting me so he started torturing Mom to call me there. Yesterday, he was drunk and hit mom with a chair, now she is in ICU."

Rian wiped her tears and hugged her, "Let's go there and check what is happening."

Roxy nodded, wrapping her hands around him. Rian patted her back gently as he dialed Nathan to arrange the private jet to country X.

She stopped Rian from informing the real cause to Alan or Aria not to worry them which was a huge mistake. Alan and Aria were notified as they were visiting Scarlett Cooper generally.

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In the country X

Roxy and Rian left on the same day evening to country X and reached the next day afternoon of country X timings. They didn't check-in to any hotel and directly went to the hospital without thinking somebody must have faked it to get them to country X.

Rian and Roxy hurriedly entered the hospital and asked at the reception, "Where is the patient named Scarlett Cooper?"

Receptionist: "Give me a minute sir, I will check it."

Rian rubbed Roxy backhand, seeing her tense, "We will handle it. Don't worry."

Roxy hummed but she couldn't control herself. Just the thought of her father still beating her mother boiled her blood. She couldn't understand why doesn't her mother divorces him.

"We don't have a full day to wait for you?" Roxy bitterly remarked.

Rian tried to calm her, "Roxy, relax."

The receptionist who checked the list twice raised her head and responded, "I'm sorry miss, Sir, we don't have any patient named Scarlett Cooper."

Roxy spoke as she pulled her mobile out and pointed to the number, "That's impossible, I got a call yesterday that my mother is admitted in this hospital and you even said she was beaten..." She paused understanding where it went wrong.

The receptionist checked the number when Rian dialed Scarlett Cooper's number. The former responded without realizing Roxy was paling, "I am sorry, this is not a hospital number."

Rian spoke when the call was answered, "Aunty Scarlett?"

Roxy had heard the caller saying her mother is admitted to the hospital, beaten by her husband. Now she discerned 'how would the hospital know her mother was beaten by her father?'

Roxy and Rian hadn't even tried to call Scarlett's number the previous day.

[Rian, how are you?] Rian heard Scarlett's happy voice on the other end and glanced at Roxy in confusion.

Roxy held Rian and started running out as Rian hung up the call, "Rian we should leave here quickly."

Receptionist: "..." She shook her head thinking somebody must have played a prank on them.

Rian held Roxy and asked, "What is going on?"

Roxy explained, "It was a fake call saying they are from hospital. My mother stays in institute quarters and they will not allow dad to enter there. Somebody wanted to bring me here or..." Her eyes widened stating, "Rian, Dad wanted to bring you here. We should leave quickly..."

Roxy again pulled him and sat in the first cab, "Airport... Take us to the airport." But Rian ordered differently, "Stop the car... I said stop the car."

Roxy couldn't understand why he was stopping the car, "What's wrong?"

The divider between the passenger seat and driver seat avoided Rian reaching the driver, the doors of the car were locked and he failed to open the door as the car started moving.

Roxy realized why Rian asked to stop the car and why the cab driver wasn't stopping it. It was clear, she just took the cab which was at the entrance, and that cab was prepared to kidnap them.

She quickly took out her power bank and started hitting the plexiglass divider but it was of no use. She couldn't even make out a scratch on it.

Rian who noticed the edges of the glass wasn't clearly attached, he quickly stormed her bag and found nothing useful. "Give me your mobile." Roxy handed him without another word and she broke the car window panel instead of the plexiglass.

While Rian called the cops, Roxy shouted outside, "Help! Help..." The onlookers looked at them confusedly but it wasn't of any use.

Rian complained to the cops, "Vehicle number, XXXXXX is kidnapping us. we are on the Marshella road heading north."

The driver hadn't thought they could have taken the local telecommunication card and didn't expect them to act spontaneously instead of getting scared. He changed the route quickly from the highway to avoid cameras.

Rian heard the response and hung up the call. The cab driver called somebody and spoke, "These two are over smart. Change the plan and send somebody to transfer them to another vehicle."

Roxy grounded her teeth and pushed her hand out and forcefully hit the window of the driver seat while Rian tried to stop her seeing the glass edges hurting her arm. "Roxy, come to this side, Roxy..."

He was scared to pull her hand which was already wounded. It will slit her hand if he pulls her forcefully.

On the third hit, Roxy broke the window and quickly grabbed the glass piece and tried her best to reach the driver but he moved away cursing her continuously.

Rian grunted loudly to get her attention, "Roxy!"

Instead of Roxy, the driver got distracted and Roxy poked at the side of the neck.

"Ahh... You sl*t... Ahh..." He cursed and cried in pain.

Roxy didn't care about her hand and again jabbed the side of the neck. It was deeper and the driver yelled in pain. "Ahh..."

'Screech' the cab moved irregularly on the road.

'Bum.' then the car hit the roadside divider in no time.

Rian who noticed what was coming up, wrapped himself around Roxy pulling her inside, protecting her back by the seat and her front by himself and the impact hit him on the plexiglass hurting his back and back of the head.

Since the speed wasn't high, the car didn't topple but the driver's head hit the steering wheel and he lost consciousness.

Roxy wasn't hurt by the accident other than her left hand having numerous scratches and wounds. "Rian... Rian..."

Rian felt dizzy and tried to sit back on the seat. His voice was ailing when he said, "Call... brother... cops..." Then he couldn't keep himself up and collapsed.