MISSING: THE LAST FOSTER

Chapter 24

"Faster, babe, faster!" Raixen said, yelling to cheer Shekinah to run as fast as she can. Shekinah's not looking back and just kept on running. Raixen is following Shekinah while looking at his back from time to time to see if there is still someone chasing at them but he can't see them without pointing the flashlight in his hand.

Thankfully they found a way to break the lock of the door and they were able to get out of there. However, when they successfully went downstairs, two men with a mask on faced them. Raixen has to try hiding Shekinah and have his arm protect her.

Shekinah's wondering if these guys is a colleague of that woman who approached her upstairs and tried messing up her mind. But the guys attacked them, they were able to fight back until they got a chance to come out from the house and run for their life when the one guy took a bow and arrow and tried catching them and the other person has a knife in his hand.

The woman didn't show up to stop them and that bothers Shekinah because she got cut in her shoulder. Shekinah gritted her teeth because of the pain. She can feel how deep the cut is, Raixen didn't notice it yet for she is wearing a black sweater that made her thankful because she is one hundred percent sure that he will get worried about her even more.

Shekinah's catching her breath while enduring the pain in her left shoulder. They're almost in the car, she can see it, only their flashlights giving them light in the middle of these tall and thick grasses.

"Faster, Rex. We are almost there," she said, shouting when the light of her flashlight was able to reach their car.

"Keep running, baby," Raixen replied. Gone the flying arrows chasing them and they can't see anyone behind unless they point their flashlights their and that would slow their run.

Raixen didn't waste a time and open the door of the car. Shekinah without looking back while enduring the pain of her shoulder hurried to turn into the shotgun and take her seat. Raixen hurriedly started the engine and when the car was able to leave the place the guys reaches the road. The guy even throw his knife so forcely that it did reach the mirror of the car in the back and crashed it.

"You okay, babe?" Raixen asked when they lost the boys already. Shekinah nodded and carefully taking her sweater off. She groan in pain of the cut and winced. Raixen noticed her facial expression.

"I have a cut," she said. Raixen's eyes turned serious and drives faster. When she finally take her sweater off, her white shirt became red. She lift the sleeve of her sleeve and see the cut. It's really huge and the blood is flowing in hee arm, more blood.

"F*ck! We have to get out of this area first before we can stop!" Raixen seriously said. Anger is in his voice. Shekinah agrees, they have to leave this place first before they can stop for a first aid. She always have a first aid kit in her compartment and good thing they brought her car. Well, Raixen have his too.

"We can't go home as fast as we get in here, it's rush hour baby. I can't go to hospital. A lot of people there in this hour," Shekinah said, while tying her sweater in above in her elbow to absorb the blood flowing down in her arm.

Raixen nodded to what she said and drives even more faster. He keeps glancing in the car's waze to see how many minutes they still have to get out of this hell of a place. Good thing there is no traffic lights and all in this place and he can go drive as fast as he can. Blood in Shekinah's wound is no joke, that's a lot.

"Just hold on a little, babe. I can pull the gas over there," Raixen said referring to the nearest post in their location. When Raixen stopped the car, he didn't waste a second and turn to Shekinah's side to see the wound. "F*ck! This is f*cking big and deep!" He swears and slowly reclining Shekinah's chair.

Raixen washed his hand with a water and started cleaning Shekinah's wound. He uses the bottled water they have left and the alcohol to apply pressure in her wound to stop the bleeding. Shekinah shouted in pain that causes by the alcohol. Her tears comes out while enduring the f*cking pain.

"This is so f*cking painful, Rex," she said while her tears are non-stop and Raixen still cleaning her wound.

"I know, I'm sorry, I wasn't able to look for you, babe," he answered and put a bandage in her shoulder. Shekinah groan in pain when it aches. "That would do for now, we have to get home as fast as we can, we need to suture that laceration babe, for now I just did a pressure so that would stop bleeding," Raixen added.

"Don't be sorry, it's not your fault. It's not your hand that stabbed me," Shekinah replied and winced.

Raixen hold Shekinah's hand until Shekinah fall asleep. While driving, Raixen swears when he imagined how that guy had a chance to stab Shekinah. Those guys are not the one who locked him in the room, those are other people. The silence of that place is just a bait, because there are so many people in there, hiding somewhere. There is no other house there aside from that house but those people managed to hide themselves and retain silence.

But by judging what happened, he could say that those people expected Shekinah to come over. Of course, she came there first. And what surprised them is the pictures in the wall. The entire Foster Family. He got a little cut wood in the room before it got locked. Those people clearly scaring them buy startling them. Good thing Shekinah is not a damsel in distress.

He drives straight to their home so he can see clearly Shekinah's wound. They can't just be complacent of it, that knife can be have tetanus that can affect or infect Shekinah. He would never let that happen. Raixen drives as fast as he can when they finally enters their village.

"Oh God! What happened to Shekinah?" His mom screams in shock when he carried Shekinah in his arm and bring her into his bed.

"Laceration, mommy. Can I have a warm water please?" He asked and his mom nodded and hurried to the kitchen to get clean warm water he needed. Raixen again clean the wound and with the warm water around the wound. He took all his kit and everything he need to suture Shekinah's wound.

"Oh God! That is so huge and that's deep, where did she get that? Where are you guys came from?" He heard his mom hysterically said. Raixen chose not to answer his mom's question and focused on Shekinah. She winced when he started to suture the wound. She didn't move too much.

"Raixen," Shekinah mumbles when she open her eyes and saw Raixen seriously stitching her wound. She can't feel the pain of the needle, he probably injected her an anesthesia.

"Stay still, baby. It's almost done." she heard him said and just followed. She didn't move a bit until Raixen's done.

"You two need to explain! Why the hell you got laceration, Shekinah? Where did you two go?" Raixen's mom frustratingly asked.

"Just a minor accident, tita," Shekinah said and Raixen's mom looked at her like she is f*cking joking.

"Minor, you call that minor? That damn cut is huge and deep! What if you'll get infection because of that?"

Raixen closed his eyes to control his self, Shekinah hold his hand to calm him before he answer his mother, "mom, can you just leave us first? We're so tired, can we take a rest, please?" Raixen said and his mom looked at him with a glare before turning her back and leave the room. Raixen locked the room and the two of them sigh in unison.

"I'm sorry for that," Shekinah immediately said when Raixen's eyes met hers.

The guys shakes his head and smiled at her sweetly. "You have nothing to say sorry about, how are you feeling?" he asked.

Shekinah glance her shoulder that is wrapped with a bandage. "I can't feel pain yet, maybe because you injected an anesthesia to me," she answered making Raixen nodded his head.

"Babe, thank you for coming with me and I'm sorry for what happened," she sincerely said. Raixen sigh and hold her hand.

"I'm sorry for not believing your instinct first. I admit, when you said that what happened to your family wasn't an accident, I doubt that. But babe, I found this in that room." Shekinah's eyes went serious and take a look at to the cut wood in Raixen's hand. She looked at him before taking the wood.

'Justice for the Fosters'

That is what is engraved in the wood. Shekinah's tears again come out uninvited. "That house, those people, are they my parents people?" she asked and wiped her tears.

"But we can't still use that as an evidence, that is nothing, babe," Raixen said.

Shekinah nodded because she knew that. "I know but this can also help to enlighten other people's mind. It has a date in here, the date when my family died. The question in my head is who and why?"

"I am torn between thinking that those people are you parent's people or your parent's enemies people. That can also be a possibility," Raixen said and Shekinah agreed.

"I don't know anybody I would call as my parent's enemies. But I can also think their rivals in businesses but I don't think they would go that low, still that's a big possibility. You are right babe. Everything about my family's mysterious case is messed-up."

"People think that was an accident but I don't and when I gave a hint about my thought they called me getting crazy and just blinded because of pain," she said.

"I'm sorry for doubting you at first and thinking the same thing, babe. I just thought at first that you were just in pain especially when you didn't mention about that again for months."

Shekinah nodded and stared the wood again. That woman, that hologram, she can be a friend or a foe. She can also be just messing her mind with some actions and words or she could be possibly telling the truth.

Knowing her parents, or as far as she knew about her parents they would never have such kind of people but what if yes?

Shekinah gritted her teeth and remembered her sweater. She put it in the backseat of the car when Raixen clean her wound all the way here. The woman gave her a thing that she still don't know what. But she was told not to share it with anyone. That can be f*cking confidential. She will tell that to Raixen once she knew that the heck is that.

She knows she can trust Raixen.

She have bunch of mysterious and strange things at home that she still hasn't know what was that for or what is in there.

The woman's question echoed in her head. 'What took you so long?' Does she mean, what took her long to investigate the death of her family? Was that really long? She was just gaining strength back so she can fight with everything. Her mind was in mess.

"I need to go home," she said that widened Raixen's eyes.

"No! Babe, you need to take a rest plus I won't let you drive for yourself again! I can take you home later but take a rest first," Raixen retaliates.

Shekinah cupped Raixen's face a give him a peck kiss.

"I can drive, babe. The anesthesia is still effective, I really need to go home. I have bunch of work missed today, please?"

"Okay, I'll drive for you. My car is in your home."

Shekinah sighed and nodded. She just need to go home and check all of these. She can't wait to serve the justice her family deserves. She can't wait to know who is the guilty person that made her an orphan.