Chapter 62: Trust Amidst

Hearing those words from Alex immediately made Tricia understand that he had already become suspicious of everything and wanted to find out the truth. Of course, Tricia was very smart; she wouldn't just let the truth spill out so easily. So she nodded and followed him, unable to help but giggle, making Alex a bit confused.

“What is wrong? Do you find my investigations and questions very cunning? Or what? Or you don't like it?”

Alex asked Tricia, who shrugged.

“No, it's nothing like that. It's just that I find it a bit weird that you're suspecting Isabella. I have known her forever, and she shares everything with me. She tells me everything. She literally does not hide anything from me. So if she were going to do anything with Professor James, of course, I would be the first person to find out about it. But anyways, if you are still suspicious of her, it is fine. You are a man, and you're in that position. And of course, Professor James is very intimidating. I mean, he's very handsome, well-built, and even rich. So of course, he would be intimidating to you. But that does not mean that you should not trust Isabella one bit. She's trying her best to put herself in that position where you can trust her without even thinking twice. Yet you still always find a way to not trust her. Believe me, if she was doing anything, I would have known. She won't keep it a secret from me.”

Tricia was already trying to assure Alex, who nodded with a fixed smile.

“It's fine, it's fine. I understand. I know. I just want to get full information on everything that happened that night because for some reason, I still don't understand why John is acting like he did not witness everything from the start to the end and how you helped, but yet he kept mentioning your name. And I want to know how you could not save her from Professor James but John could do it? How is it possible? Was it that he chained her or what? Or did they have to fight? What happened?”

Alex asked as Tricia stopped in her tracks.

“It is better we talk about it here. There's no need to go to any secret place because nobody can actually get us where we are. Nothing so important. Yes, I went to help her, but I couldn't get in. He did not allow me in, and I pleaded with him to please give me Isabella because I knew she came there to see him immediately. He sent her a threat message, and if you are in search of that threat message, she already deleted it. That aside, I wanted to go in and save her. He was stronger than me, and I knew that if I was going to fight this, he was going to make my grade suffer. Yes, Isabella was able to come out, and he did not let her out, but she signaled for me that I should go because if I didn't go, then I would have to suffer it, which is the truth.

Professor James has that in him. He makes sure every student has to suffice, whether it's by his course or someone else's course. He will make sure you don't pass it. And of course, I don't want to repeat this school anymore. I'm already growing old in this university, so I had to go. But that was the moment when I saw John, and I pleaded with him to please get her out of there since he was a newbie and he wasn't really practicing any of his courses at the time, and he's not even studying anything close to his courses that would make him borrow courses from him. He could go there, and of course, Professor James let him in or whatever. I don't even know. I never asked him details, but I was sure that he did his best to save her because I pleaded with him.”

Tricia said as Alex nodded. Not that he nodded because he was convinced, but he nodded because the stories were totally different. What John told him was different from what Tricia was telling him right now, but he just had to nod and believe because of the confidence Tricia was using to say it. It was like she was sure of what she was saying, but John said something different.

“John only said he saw Tricia run away. He never said Tricia pleaded with him,” but at the same time, he decided not to think too much. What if John was just trying to label himself as the hero and not mention Tricia? That is the reason why he said she ran off.

“It's fine. I just wanted you to please keep an eye on Isabella for me. Very soon, one of these days, I will face Professor James myself, and I will make sure that he pays for everything he did. Mostly, he would pay for trying to touch my own future wife. He would pay for that. That alone. Nothing else. Nothing more.”

Alex said as he bowed a little to Tricia in respect before walking away. As Tricia stood there, hands folded, she began to think about what he said and felt scared for Isabella, who was chit-chatting with Mirabelle.

“This girl is really going to get in huge trouble. Oh my God.”

She quickly checked the time, and it was still very early. It wasn't even more than an hour since they had arrived, and the next set of meals had not even arrived.

“When are we going to leave this place? Oh my goodness. I just hope Isabella can cope until the very end without anything happening,” Tricia muttered to herself before walking away.

At the same time, from that side of the room, Alex's mom came out with a tray of cookies in her hand. She had already listened to everything that was said by Tricia to Alex, and she was in utter shock as her gaze was now fixed on Professor James.

“How could he do something like that to my own daughter-in-law? He has to leave,” she muttered to herself.

Now this was where the big problem was going to start because Alex's mom had already mistaken everything and now saw Professor James being the bad person and Isabella the good person. Of course, the tables would turn around, and in a very bad way, in ways that they did not even expect.