The Traps of Black Swan

Connor had expected Aarvi to be angry at him. Listening to her still address him as Dad and appearing worried, he glanced at his father.

After listening to everything, Aaron didn't only stop speaking with Jordan, he didn't even look Jordan in the face. Aaron commented nothing and stayed eerily quiet. It was obvious Aaron was angry, and one who could melt him was Aarvi as she was the victim of the whole situation.

Connor again briefed everything to Aarvi once she completed the soup. "By the time I got the information, Aaron was already at Lake Huron. We had reached there as fast as we could and that alerted those criminals. They wanted to get rid of Aaron quickly to teach lessons to other officers…"

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When Ava ran towards Aaron, the bullet pierced her bag. It bore through the layer of cookie steel jar and then the cookies hence the bullet had to halt.

The speed and force of the bullet pushed Ava so she fell pushing Aaron in the process. The sudden shock made her conscious. Aaron, who hadn't expected it, took a few seconds to swim to the surface but the deck was high hence he couldn't see Ava on it.

Connor and Jordan had witnessed the whole scene. While Connor ran over to the deck, Jordan entered the water to bring Aaron out. Meanwhile, the military and the criminals exchanged some bullets that Aaron heard.

Jordan took Aaron away without telling him about the little girl as the threat for him was still high. The military officers urged them to vacate soon to avoid bloodshed.

Having no choice, Jordan had practically dragged Aaron away saying his Cupcake wasn't there. He focused on keeping Aaron safe as Connor was there to protect the little girl.

Connor was relieved after making sure Aaron's Cupcake was safe from the bullet. But she didn't wake up and her pulse was getting weak. Probably she was thinking she killed Aaron.

He immediately shifted her to the nearest hospital where Connor's mother reached. Since both were senior doctors, the hospital permitted them to take care of the little girl.

Ava had no identity card or anything in her bag so they couldn't inform her parents. Since she wasn't waking up without any injuries in her head or anywhere, she was sent for more scanning.

The machines and equipment weren't fast and so modernized eleven years back so they were waiting for reports.

Meanwhile, Jordan and Aaron's car was followed and attacked for a long distance. Aaron was confused about the situation and he worried to death about Ava. He kept on repeating, he wanted to see his Cupcake.

Jordan didn't know what happened to Cupcake as he had seen her taking Aaron's bullet. Unwilling to leave any trauma in Aaron and see him live in guilt all his life, Jordan made his heart stone cold and lied.

However, it wasn't enough to put Aaron at ease, and staying in wet clothes, he was sneezing. Taking the chance, Jordan gave him a small dose of a sleeping pill and put him to sleep.

Everything was happening so quickly, the tension was too high. Jordan took the decision on the spur of the emergency so that he could think later after making sure Aaron was safe, as the rest of the family members were sent home safe under tight security.

Karsen was in Coasta with the Rivas flight so Jordan booked the tickets to Coasta, took their flight, and flew off the country S.

When Aaron woke up, he was on the international seas. Then the fight started between the two. Grandfather and grandson became poles apart from the same day.

On this end, Ava woke up in the early morning. Connor and his mother were still napping, when Ava had woken up and saw strangers in the ward. She had run away from the hospital without getting into anybody's eyes.

The nurses quickly noticed the absence of the girl. They informed Connor and the hospital staff, to search for the little girl.

Searching everywhere, Connor had reached the lake when he heard heart-wrenching cries that were repeatedly calling 'Aaron,' 'Ronron'

She walked back and forth on the deck when Connor had reached the deck. She suddenly started running towards the end, alarming Connor.

He was able to hold his nerves when Aaron fell in the lake because Aaron was a good swimmer. He ran behind her as fast as he could but the girl jumped to the lake. He leaped and managed to hold her hand before she could fall into the lake.

Connor had assumed she was killing herself until he got help to pull her up and she cried saying she had to look for Aaron and Aaron was still in the water.

She cried, struggling to get free from him without responding to any of his questions while he carried her away to the car. She had saved his son so Connor felt the responsibility to keep her safe so he took permission and admitted her to the military hospital.

She had fainted in the car after crying for a long time. She woke up and tried to leave yammering with the same name. She had even reached the gates of the military hospital from where it was impossible to leave without permission.

She only reacted to one line, "Aaron is safe. He is with his grandfather."

Ava stopped crying, looked at Connor for a few seconds. She went close to him, held his hand, and turned to the gates, "Uncle, please, take me there. I want to see Ronron." She sounded irrefutable and determined to see Aaron.

Connor breathed a sigh. The accident had led her to the development of psychological trauma. She should be handled delicately as she was very sensitive.

He held her little fingers and took her inside the hospital, "If you take the treatment, I will let you meet your Ronron."

Ava stared at him and became too silent. She took the tests, all the injections and medicines they gave her. She also answered all the questions about her identity hoping they would call Aaron.

They asked her to sleep in the night and Aaron would come in the morning but it became afternoon and nobody came. Since the door was being guarded and she was repeatedly sent back in, she broke everything until Connor ran over with another lady of fifty plus.

Ava called them liars, cried, demanded, and got angry without succumbing to any of their words to coax her. She didn't listen to the lady either.

They knew one day wasn't enough to calm her but didn't expect her state to get worse. "Call Jordan. Let her speak to Aaron." They knew her main intention was to make sure Aaron was alive. Since they had landed in country S, that could be the easiest and better solution.

The lady's words were enough to stop her cries and became obedient. She eagerly looked at them waiting for them to call Aaron and give the mobile to her.

They didn't have an international call facility in their handphones so Connor took her to an office. He made her sit and called an international number.

Connor spoke politely with his father. He didn't mention Ava's condition as Ava was listening to him with all her attention. "Dad, Aaron's Cupcake wants to speak to Aaron. Could you ask him to talk?"

Aaron and Jordan had many arguments due to Cupcake. He was already angered and he assumed Aaron's Cupcake was putting up her request without knowing her condition.

"Give her the phone," Jordan said.

Connor, who knew nothing about what was going on that side, handed the holder to Ava who eagerly held the receiver to her ear and cried, "Ronron…"

The nickname somehow further riled him up and he spat at her, venting his frustration at her, "He isn't coming back to you. Forget him." Followed by his words were beeps to notify the end of the call.

Ava, who knew she had pushed Aaron to the lake, misunderstood Jordan's words. If Aaron is alive, he would definitely meet her, why won't come to see her, then?

Seeing her frozen, Connor tried to speak with her and held the phone. "Ava… Ava…"

"I killed Ronron…" She mumbled to herself.

Connor immediately interjected, "No, Ava, Aaron is fine. He is with his grandfather. Ava… Ava…"

Anyway, Ava didn't believe his words. She thought he was lying to her for hospital treatment and Aaron was no more. Her mumble continued, "I am a monster. I killed Ronron…"

Connor was clueless about what she had heard from the other end, "Let me call Aaron again." He picked the telephone to make a call but Ava walked away.

He left the phone and went out of the office to see her fainted at the door lying in his mother's lap.

When Ava woke up that night, she had forgotten the whole incident and everything related to Aaron. Connor mentioned the names, places, and anything related to them but she had an extreme headache without knowing anything.

When Jordan returned to the country and got to know, he was in shock that how his frustration ruined one's life and she fell into depression.

He gave up his career feeling unfit for the profession and his wife left him in disappointment at his actions when he confessed what he had told to the little girl.

Jordan often thought of looking for Aaron's Cupcake but didn't have enough courage to face her so he never dared to ask her real name.

Connor indirectly took care of Ava's depression and treatment for a year.. During the treatment, she eventually forgot the traces of Connor, his mother, and the military hospital.