Chapter 322: Safe Haven
The next day, Xander asked Rui and Dion to have dinner at Yang Ancestral mansion and to further discuss the matter pertaining to the Mirage triad.
Xander went to look for his father who was not in his room nor study area. He saw butler Gary and asked, "Where is dad?"
"He’s probably in the basement..." butler Gary guessed because Senior Yang often stayed there and checked his wife’s things alone from the past few days. At first he asked to help him out, but Senior Yang dismissed the butler saying he would personally check all the belongings of the late Madame on his own.
Xander knew what was in the basement. He walked and headed there but paused for a while. Those memories flashed across his eyes when his mother died. He remembered how difficult it had been for his father to bring him out of this place then, he was still a kid since he last stepped foot inside the basement.
He pushed the button and the door opened. This basement almost became his favourite room for a year... Because all the things that reminded him of his mother were here... memories were the only things that remained then and even until now...
As he stepped foot inside the basement, he saw his father sitting with a few things on the couch, he was going through the contents of a box, lifting everything that was inside.
His father looked at him when he felt his presence approaching. "You’re here. These are your mother’s personal things and I’m double checking everything for any information..." Senior Yang explained. Yera already told him that Xander was now aware about the twins.
Xander sat beside his father and looked at the numerous photo frames that were displayed in the Master’s bedroom before. There were a lot of them actually because his mother loved taking pictures and getting them framed to hang in her bedroom and admire them. Framing their photos and putting it all inside their bedroom at any available space had become her routine as well as passion since Xander was born.
"Your mom loved taking photos," Xander heard his father whisper. But Senior Yang kept almost all hidden in the basement because of Xander who had a difficult time moving on after his mother’s death. Xander would always cry whenever he would see his mother in the photos so Senior Yang decided to hide and had it all in a box duly sealed, away from Xander’s eyes.