Chapter 88

There was just one question in their individual mind, who tried to poison Joanne?

He watches as the doctor's car zooms off, forcing the thoughts down his mind. She was at the bedside when he walked back, still clutching at her stomach.

“How are you feeling now?” He had a worried look on his face that was quite disturbing when he asked, she struggled to answer his question, her mind racing as she did .

She was starting to admit that there was a need to be careful —

“Who do you think did this?" She asked, still looking at him with a deep concern that showed her anxiety.

He tried as much as possible to hide the fact that he was worried as well, though his heart beats gave away the moment.

Each making a thudding noise that echoed through the room.

He walked to the door and shut it close, surprised at his actions she swallowed a deep breath.

“I am going to ask you some questions, and I want you to be truthful."

" What does that have to do with all of this? “ She asked.

He looked at her stunned at how naive she could be. “If you want to know, this has a lot to do with all that is happening.”

" Fine, I was a maid.” She answered.

Still looking up at him, he wondered where he was going with all the questions he should be asking.

“Just her ?"

Once again, she was left with having to think everything through , she thought back to every moment … Having to tell him more would mean disclose on why she had left the dinning to go make that call

“What is your question exactly, what do you want to know?"

She was being naive about all of this and already, it was starting to irritate him further.

He took a good look at her . “You are afraid ain't you?"

"Afraid, why should I be ?”

"it is easy to see that you are hiding something.” He muttered.

This time he walked to the window, he paused and turned to face her.

“See, it is easy to see that they had it all planned out. Someone lured you here and there as I said, so they could be able to do all of this. I guess their action is not to kill you but to send a warning.”

She chuckled. “Anyone can do this, if they were were going to drug me, it would have taken someone with my —”

Joanne stopped Talon and stood still amidst all of this. She could see the truth,and it was not far off.

“ Then how are you convinced it is someone here?”

He was upset, but not overly surprised given

her recent behavior. Of course, he had seen standing up for people at the park but it was starting to get a whole lot more serious than it should be.

Logan sighed. “It was all not going so well and you are too blind to see it. Even the little glitches and all that they've left behind are evidence… Why are you turning a blind eye?”

She managed to think of a reason for him to speak that way, perhaps it was time for her to start thinking the same way he was and start pointing out reasons why she had the need to be more careful.

He walked closer to where she was, and stood not too far. He had a hand on her shoulder.

“Just try and remember, was there anything off today."

In Joanne's mind she went through everything again, from the moment she had walked out til this, there was Indeed something odd —

There were signs that someone had been at the study as that would explain the perfume and the other scent in the room; she had stood for a minute to decipher what it was but shrugged afterwards.

it had been from the clothes of the culprit, Joanne thought to herself. Still, she couldn’t figure out what the person was going to gain from all of this. Stalling for time, in the vain hope that something might come to mind, she was left in silence — Her mind racing through the events, through the odds?

“But why?” she finally asked.

Logan didn’t feel inclined to answer. He studied her for a moment shaking his head, then shifted a bit till he was face to face with her .

Sequencing the heavy breaths that have been more rampant since the past hour, he sighed.

“I guess Brock was right. All of this is to bring about a drift, eventually I thought you were going to sense something’s wrong—the attacks, the Poison which I still feel is a kind of distraction to keep our mind busy.”

Joanne struggle to get up, she does so painfully…As she walked to join him by the window she tapped her finger to her lips as

she thought out loud.

“I think I know what you are trying to say, I think I can guess what all of this is about.”

“Yeah it is all planned, Paco died my arrest, they won't be able to be an eyewitness, then with my disappearance later on. They would be able to take this cartel apart. And the fact that you are trusting with all of this would decrease the suspicion and make it easier for them to Infiltrate our Mafia, does that make sense? “

He glared down at her .

“I need control of the Mafia . “ She answered as she pushed herself away from the window and walked over to look at the doctor report

“You’re right, someone is behind all of this.”

For all that she’d known it was obvious, and , having it proclaimed out loud caused tears to prick her eyes. She hadn’t known him too well, and that fact that her own Mafia men would betray her saddened her.

Joanne continued on in a conversational tone, as if she were discussing nothing more

more important than what was already known.

. “It’s a shame in a way that someone here would do this.”

Logan nods in agreement.

“But who, I need to know."She stated bitterly.

" If you really want to know , we have to play a game.” He muttered.

" But are you ready to?”

Silence filled the room yet again.