Chapter 146: Desperate Measures

“Who told you I came to see you because I cared about you? No, I don't care about you and I know what you did already. I know you told Alex the truth about me and Isabella and seriously, you really actually did that? After I warned you not to tell him? Do you even know that I was actually planning to consider getting in a relationship with you? I was planning to resign from my job and leave Isabella for good. I was planning. I was considering being with you, leaving Isabella to be with you. But this is what you give to me in return? You actually sold me out to Alex. Really? You ruined everything, you idiot,” he said to her.

James stood up and stormed out of there angrily. Lily just watched James as he stormed out of the phone booth and didn't even turn back to look at her.

She was stunned and shocked at the same time, she couldn't even move from where she sat.

“I can't believe that I just lost this opportunity. What did I just do? How could I tell Alex the truth?” she thought to herself as she immediately stood up and stormed into her prison room.

She started throwing things away and breaking a lot of vases and glass, she was very frustrated as she scattered her bed and threw away the pillow.

“How. How could I do this? How could I fall into Alex's trap? I can't believe that Alex tricked me and I actually fell for his trick. I can't believe that he tricked me into telling him the truth. I just do not. How could I miss this opportunity of a lifetime? I mean, I've been waiting for so long for James to actually accept me and finally be in a relationship with me.

I've been waiting for so long. I even poisoned Isabella just to be with him, just to get the slightest opportunity to be with him. And I'm even in jail just because of James and how much I love him.

And I cannot believe that just because of one thing I just blurted out right now, I lost this opportunity. I can't believe that James was actually considering being with me and I just messed up everything.

I can't believe that I messed up this one last chance that I had with James, whom I truly loved. How could I do this? How dare Alex trick me into telling him and falling for his tricks? How did he intrigue me like this? How did he trick me into telling him the truth about Isabella and James?

I can't believe that I actually fell for Alex’s trick, I'm going to make him pay. Just him. Wait, let me get out of here.

I'll make him pay for what he did and I will make sure, and I’ll sure make James like me again.

Even if I have to plead and ask for his forgiveness, I will make sure that this opportunity doesn't pass like this. I will get James no matter what. I just need to get out of here as soon as possible.

She just remembered that her dad had promised her that within a day he would get her out of prison. And now it is already a day and she's still here. Her dad hadn't come back to get her out and she got really angry.

After a while with her discussion with James, she requested and was granted a phone call, then she immediately dialed her dad's number.

Her dad picked up almost immediately. “What do you want now, Lily? I told you to hold on for me. I told you to just hold on a bit and I will get you out of there. Why do you keep on disturbing me?”

“Dad,” she interrupted. “Dad, you promised to get me out of here within a day. It’s more than a day now and you haven't even gotten me out. I need to get out of here immediately. Dad. I'm desperate right now. I'm about to lose the person that is most important to me. The love of my life. I'm about to lose him. Just get me out of here already.”

“Dad, I promise if you don't get me out of here within the next 12 hours, I promise you I'm going to ruin your reputation. I'm going to scream out loud to everybody that I'm in prison and I don't need to tell you what saying that to the crowd would do to your reputation which you spent years building.”

She threatened as her dad just laughed out loud from the phone.

“Just keep threatening. Enough of your threatening. All you just have to do is just ask me politely for me to release you from there, but you keep on being rude. I wonder where you got this stupid behavior from. Why? Why do you always have to be rude about everything? Can't you just ask me calmly and plead with me to just get you out of there? Yet you still threaten me.

I've been rushing everything I'm doing over here just so I can get you out immediately. But still, you are still ungrateful. If you can't hold on for me to get you out of there, forget about coming out of that prison. I guess you just want to enjoy being there and you will spend a very long time there if you don't come back to your senses and talk to me nicely and politely.

I'm your dad for crying out loud. Why do you always have to act aggressively? All you just have to do is just speak politely and I would have done what I had to do since. But now you just have to threaten me every day. Do you think it is easy to get you out of prison? Was I the one who pushed you into poisoning someone? Did I push you to do all those things that made you end up in that prison?

If I hear another threat from you, I promise you, you will spend the rest of your life in that jail,” he said as he just cut her off immediately without even allowing her to respond.

“Shit!” Lily exclaimed as she threw the phone away in annoyance and shattered it into pieces.

The prison guard looked at her in shock and immediately dragged her back to her room. “She’s crazy,” one of the officers said as she was being taken back into her room.

She felt really angry and stressed as tears slowly dripped down her cheeks.

“No, I need my dad to get me out of here. What am I doing? I'm just ruining things more for myself. I just hope that he gets me out of here immediately. I need to see James and speak to him. I need to beg him to not let that opportunity go. I really love James and I want to be with him.

I can't let him just forsake me because of one stupid mistake I made. One stupid mistake that Alex made me make.

And I'll make Alex pay for it. I promise. I swear on my life. I'm going to make him pay. He will regret ever tricking someone like me later,” she said to herself as she sat down on her bed crying uncontrollably.

Meanwhile, Lily's dad was already in the country and was with the judge speaking to him and trying to convince him to drop the case and just cut it off immediately, but the judge wouldn't listen.

He had to resort to threatening the judge. He started threatening the judge that if he didn't annul the case right there and then, he was going to take his career from him.

He promised the judge and threatened him that if the judge didn't find a way to get his daughter out of prison within the next six hours, he was going to revoke the judge's license.

“He will never ever be a judge anymore and his license would be seized,” he said to him as his bodyguards stood behind him, all of them wielding their guns as if they were ready to kill the judge right on the spot.

The judge didn't want to agree to annul the case before because he believed that Lily was at fault. He tried to explain that to her dad, but her dad wouldn't take any of it.

He started becoming afraid that Lily's dad might actually shoot him right there on the spot and just clear his corpse.

So he thought wisely that why did he have to help Isabella if his life and career were on the line?

There was nothing more he could do. He tried to speak for Isabella because he thought that she was being given injustice.

But right at this moment, his life was on the line and he was not ready to put his life on the line for someone he didn't even know. So better still, he would just annul the case and just let this matter go.

“He had messed with the wrong person,” he thought to himself as he picked up his phone and called the two prosecutors that the case had to be annulled.

Isabella's prosecutor immediately disagreed. “Why do you have to annul the case? My lord, this case is still ongoing and besides, you cannot annul it without Isabella's consent. Isabella is sick and she's still in the hospital. She's lying unconscious and she will wake up very soon. Let's just wait a bit for her. They might have concrete evidence to show the court. I believe that Lily is really at fault and she's guilty here,” he said to the judge as the judge shouted at him.

“Just shut up already! What do you know? I told you to annul the case. Right now we are annulling this case and there's nothing you can do about it. If you want to insist on going on with this case, I promise you, you're going to lose your job for good.” He said to the prosecutor as he cut both of them off immediately and faced Lily's dad.

“I already told the prosecutors to annul the case. Fine. We are having the case annulled already. Please just give us some time. We have to go through a lot of processes,” he said to Lily's dad.

As Lily's dad smiled happily. “Very good. I knew you would make the right choice.”

As he stood up ready to leave the office, his bodyguards followed him before the judge stopped him and said, “Is Lily going? Are you getting her out of prison right now?”

“Just wait. Let us go through the procedures well so that nobody will suspect anything happening,” he said to Lily's dad as he just nodded and walked out of his office immediately.

The judge just sat down feeling relieved and he felt hopeless, at the same time, he felt sorry for Isabella who was going through injustice, but there was nothing he could do about it.

I mean, his life was on the line, he thought to himself as Lily's father immediately drove home waiting for the case to be annulled so that his daughter could come home.

He wanted to make it a surprise for her, but he didn't like the way Lily was behaving. She was becoming rude by the day, but still, she was still his daughter and he would do everything in his power to make her get out of that prison. He said to himself as he relaxed on the sofa.