CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO, UNCOVER 2

 "This is my favorite place to be in this entire house," Elio said to Vida.

"The rooftop?" Vida asked and looked at him with a smile, he smiled back and said.

"Yes, the rooftop. Here I can see all the stars in the sky, the beautiful moon, and even the sunrise." 

"Is it that beautiful?" Vida asked looking a bit sad.

"It is, haven't you tried it before?" Elio asked.

"I never had the time. As an orphan, I have never had the opportunity to do anything fun. I have always spent every hour, minute, and seconds of my life trying to fend for myself and become someone in the society." She paused and continued talking.

"I have no right to enjoy."

"Well, now that you are with me. As my friend, of course, I will fulfill that desire of yours to have fun and live the life." Elio said and made her smile.

They both watched the stars together and the moon shunned on Vida's face making her look even more beautiful than before while Elio watched her with so much joy in his heart.

Camilo wanted to take the moment further by touching Mylar more intimately but the cry of little Kyla stopped him.

"Gosh, why did she have to cry now?" He complained bitterly and Mylar chuckled.

"I should go and check up on her," Mylar said and got up to leave but he dragged her back and she fell on the bed by his side.

He gave her a gentle kiss on her lips and said nicely.

"Don't bother yourself, you must be tired, I will go and check up on her." He got up with a smile and left, Mylar blushed at his words after he left.

But then, she couldn't stop thinking about what she heard Mr Julian and Miss Emelda saying and also about what she heard from Juan Jose, the man from the storage room.

"Is what he said about Father-in-law true?" She asked herself.

"But why would Mr Julian be harming his wife, it's unfair." 

She turned around uneasily on the bed, it didn't make any sense to her. She sighed and got up.

"I have to clear my doubts. I need to look into this." She said aloud and went out of the room. 

Vida fell asleep on Elio's lap. Elio whispered to himself.

"She's so beautiful even in the night." Then he suddenly heard someone call him, at first he thought that maybe it was his imagination.

Elio!!! The person called again and he turned around to see who it was.

"Mylar?" He asked.

She called him to come and he gently moved Vida's head onto the swing in the balcony.

"What's wrong?" Elio asked but instead of answering she dragged him away with her to the storage room.

"Who is this?" Elio asked whispering after he saw the man in the room.

"He says his name is Juan Jose, he told me strange things about father-in-law," Mylar replied and Elio suddenly turned towards her.

Juan Jose! Elio called and his breathing became heavier.

"J J?" Elio asked and the man looked at Elio, surprised, and asked.

"How do you know me?"

Elio went quiet for a while and then explained.

"That day, I saw a man go into my dad's office, I was curious and so I went after him. He talked to Dad about how he had completed tasks but the way they were talking, it didn't sound like any normal task. It was more like an assassination."

Mylar was shocked, now she was certain that whatever the man said about Mr Julian was the absolute truth.

Mylar explained everything to Elio and at the end, she said.

"I need to tell Camilo about this?"

"Do you think he will believe you? You know how he is, do you still want to tell him?" Elio asked concerned.

"I don't know if he will believe me but I still want to tell him," Mylar said with determination.

The next day, early in the morning. Mylar refused to let Camilo go for his morning workout. She made him sit down and then she explained everything to him.

"What nonsense are you saying?" He yelled at Mylar and got up in anger.

"How dare you say such despicable things about my father?" He yelled again raising his voice even higher. 

Mylar tried to calm him down but he still kept yelling and so she got pissed and yell back at him.

"This is why I didn't want to tell you. You are so immature, stupid, and unable to handle anything. I told Elio and he didn't react like this even though Mr Julian is also his father." 

"That's it, keep comparing me to Elio. If you find him so much better than me, then why don't you go ahead and be with him then? I am sure you already know about how much he loved you from college, isn't that why you are finding faults in me every time." 

Mylar already had the thought that she might have met Elio somewhere before and Camilo just confirmed it.

"It was Elio." She whispered.

Then the memory of the last years came into her mind.

"Mylar, I found this by the door. Who do you think it's for?" The younger version of Vida came in running with a bunch of beautiful rose flowers and a card on the other hand.

Mylar collected the card and read through it. It read thus.

"A foolish me hoping to find a way into your beautiful world. I hope with these beautiful flowers, you shine brighter and brighter. 

KISSES.

your secret admirer. 

Sign."

"What a stupid love letter," Vida said and laughed.

Mylar's pretty eyes went through the note over and over again and she smiled.

"It's nice." She whispered.

She remembered the other gifts he sent to her and love letters. She had fallen in love with the guy even without seeing him back then. 

One day she finally got to see a glimpse of him when he mistakenly wrote his name on the letter and gave it to someone to deliver it to her. 

When she finally saw him, she was determined to tell him of her feelings but on the day she decided to tell him, Vida came in to inform her that he had been transferred to another college. 

With this shocking realization, Mylar left Camilo and went downstairs.

"Mylar what are we going to do now?" Elio asked Mylar when he saw her come downstairs. She looked at him and for the first time, she saw the resemblance.

"It's you." She said out loud.

"What?" Elio asked confused.

"You are Eli." Mylar couldn't complete her sentence.

"Not Eli, Elio." He said and then suddenly remembered the letter he had written. In the letter to Mylar, he had written Eli Rafael.

"You know about that?" He asked looking down.

"Why didn't you tell me?" Mylar asked.

"It didn't matter, you were already somebody else. I just couldn't." Elio said quietly, Mylar felt sad.

"Don't be sad for me, I am actually in love with someone now," Elio said with a bright smile. He went close to Mylar and hugged her.