Lucy POV
I felt relieved to find out about Kent's confession. I thought he did it because he loves Eloisa and he just hit on me because they want to have a child. I felt broken that day when Eloisa told me that they planned it all from the very first start until I conceived our baby Austin.
As I walked outside, I saw my car nearby. I wonder how it got here when Kent brought me himself. Until I saw Cassandra waving at me in the driver's seat.
"What? Are you kidding me?” I said while coming towards her.
She's having a cigarette in her mouth.
“What took you so long? Now my work is your driver!” she jokingly told me.
I chuckled and set a silly smile on her.
"How come my detective is now my driver? Oh, I'm so sorry. Did Kent call you?” I asked Cassandra.
She giggled and nodded.
I rolled my eyes towards her before I get inside. I sat in the driver's seat while Cassandra moves beside me.
“Hmmm, you know what, I waited here the whole night! I thought you would wake up and kill him but I guess, you failed to resist his attraction!” she said with her teasing smile.
I gulped my saliva when I recalled what we did that night. My cheeks reddened all of the sudden. She noticed it.
"What about the revenge thing? I thought you team up with your fake hubby Gale to get revenge on Eloisa and Gale? What happened?” she doubts about me.
I know she won't believe what I have to say so I decided to keep it a secret.
“My plans changed. He promised to get Austin to me, and we will leave the country to live a peaceful life with him!” I said the important detail at Cassandra.
Of course, I had to because I trusted her so much. She's my friend. She's always there when I needed her. She is like a sister to me.
"Did you trust him? What if it's another trick to fool you again and to destroy your plan to punish them?” she advised me.
I started the engine of my car and didn't reply. Cassandra knew my answer when I am quiet. I decided to trust Kent again. Call me bitch but I can feel his feeling for me is real.
I drive her home and we bid hood yes to each other. I took a deep breath as my car park outside the mansion. I was the one who opens the gate since Gale fired his last servant.
His car was here so he didn't go to the office yet. He's always early when going to his restaurant but it's his first time to work late. Is he waiting for me? Why? After what he did to me, he had the guts to face me? I hope nothing will happen today. I just want to rest and be ready to tell him that I wanted to back out on our plan besides he's the one who betrayed me. He's been having an affair with our enemies.
I was only three steps away from the entrance when I saw him sitting on the couch. He's holding a bottle of beer.
“Hi! Are you sick?” I asked him quite staying in my position.
I'm afraid to come closer because of what happened yesterday. It is still fresh in my mind.
He lifted his face and seemed like he's drunk. His eyes look dazed.
“You didn't come home last night. Where did you sleep?” he uttered while making another gulped of beer?
I thought both of us can do whatever we want to do when it comes to personal life. Why he's acting like my dad now?
"What do you care? Gale, it's your first time to act so sensitively about this matter! I can go anywhere, and I can sleep with anyone I like without your permission! You're not my husband anyway!” I said but I exclaimed when he throws the bottle of beer towards me.
I got frantic.
“What's wrong with you? If you have a problem with anyone, don't bring it here!” I yelled at him, but he quickly stood up and I saw him glaring at me.
I thought he will attack me again, but he didn't.
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Kent decided to go back to his condominium to check what he found at Eloisa's secret cabinet.
He's still not ready to find what's the hides here but this is for the sake of Lucy and Austin. I promised her that I will find Eloisa's hidden agenda. She was one hundred percent sure that she's having secret plans to take Lucy out of her life. It's her obsession since she was young back then. I knew how Eloisa killed those frogs with a knife. She's my playmate when we were a child. She's merciless and evil.
I emptied the plastic bag and spread them on my table. My eyes widened to see different types of mobile phones. I check them and all of them were no batteries, but the sim card was there. I took one and inserted it into my phone.
I can't believe what I saw in the inbox. It's a thread of conversation between her and the name Brian. It's about a kidnapping plan. I saw Lucy and Sir Raphael's name on it. I read a lot of their conversation and I don't know what to teach anymore. I can't imagine how I managed to live with a killer like her. She destroyed many lives and killed someone he closed too, and it was Gregory. I read her last message to him that she will visit him to comfort him the day he died too.
My sweats started to roll down my face. My body started freezing. I will take this to the police station as evidence of her evil deeds. I will put her to prison too just like what she did to Lucy. She framed her while she just gave birth to Austin and her father was in the hospital at that time because of an accident she also made.
It was Eloisa all along. She was the mastermind of everything.
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Lucy felt relieved that Gale didn't attack her. He told her to go upstairs to have a rest.
"Yeah. I need that. Thank you for everything, Gale!” she told him, and he looks surprised.
“Are you telling me that you want to stop to finish the plan?” he asked me.
I tried not to make him mad since he's drunk. She will talk to him maybe tomorrow if he is now in his decent mind.
"No! I mean, I will be grateful to you forever for helping me. That's all." She said and informed him that she isn't feeling well. She needs a good sleep.
"Okay. I have to go. Don't forget to call when you wake up, okay?” he told me before we parted ways.
I slammed my back on my bed. I fell asleep easily.
Until...
Lucy POV
I was about to open the door when I discovered that it was locked outside.
I try to twist the knob again, but it won't budge.
“Gale? Where are you? Are you joking right now? Please, let me out!” I keep shouting and banging the door.
I began to panic. I look for the phone, but he took it too. I can't find it inside my bag.
"Is this for real? Did he locked me for real?” the only words I muttered as my tears fall continuously.