Chapter 35

Christiana closed her eyes, preparing for what was to come next, she knew her acrimony for Emerald would be taken even to the afterlife.

"Where is the gun?" Emerald demanded.

Some of the men came forward to her with a pistol in their hand. "I will end you myself!" Emerald collected the small pistol from the hands of one of the men she had hired.

She wiped the mouth of the pistol with a handkerchief with a triumphant glint on her face. "Tonight, I'd get the best sleep of my life," she muttered, clicking the gun as Christiana took a deep breath.

Just as she was about to pull the trigger, she was cut off.

"It's the police, your hands in the air!" The door of the warehouse suddenly bangs open as police come into the warehouse with a gun warning all members to put their hands in the air. Emerald was shocked, she turned to see that they were surrounded.

How did this happen? Who had betrayed her, she thought? She was shocked when Andrew came into the warehouse. He scanned the place for Christiana, and when he saw her, he sighed with relief. But then he saw his mother pointing a pistol at Christiana.

He was ashamed of who he called a mother, he never expected her to be this way, a selfish, cunny, despicable and disgrace to her family. The gun in her hand fell and she slowly raised her hands up in the air embarrassed.

Her eyes met with Andrew and she could see nothing other than disappointment in his eyes.

"Andrew!" She whispered, frightened when she saw look of shame he gave her.

Immediately one of the policemen walked straight to her, picked the gun from the ground before putting handcuffs to her wrist. "Do not touch me," she spat out, but they paid no attention to her.

"Andrew," she called his name again, but his eyes showed hatred and disappointment. He turned to look at Simone; the man his mother had hired to follow him unbeknownst to her that Simone was his private investigator.

He was grateful that things had worked out the way he planned.

He had packed his car in front of Christiana's apartment when his phone rang, Drew was asleep. He picked it up and answered it.

"I sent the image of you and Christiana kissing your mother successfully," Simone had told him as he smiled at the good news.

It was his plan to send those images to his mother. He wanted to catch his mother in the act, to prove that she really tried to kill Christiana, so he told Simone to send the picture of him and Christiana kissing in his Villa to his mother. When she had told Simone to kidnap Christiana, Simone alerted him, and he knew he had to be steps ahead.

The plan was to make sure Christiana got kidnapped and tailed his mother until she was caught in the act. At first, he found it hard to believe his mother would do such, he thought no matter the hard part of her she showed on the surface, she was a sweet woman who just didn't feel comfortable with the poor.

His heart broke seeing the woman who bored him in handcuffs.

He rushed to where Christiana was and lost the rope tied on her wrist and legs. She cried when she saw Andrew.

She was saved, "what of my father?" She asked, she wanted to make sure he was safe. Andrew nodded his head assuring her that he was safe.

"And my baby, Drew?" She asked him and he assured her, he engulfed her in a tight hug. "It's fine, I'm so sorry for my mother's behavior."

Emerald kept muttering words telling the policemen it was the wrong idea, but she was pushed into the car and taken off to the station. Andrew had told his father and the poor man almost had a heart attack.

Vanessa tried calling Emerald but couldn't get through to her so she sent a message: "If you don’t get Andrew to marry me by the end of this month, I'm afraid the whole world will know that Rachael is my stepsister and my father's daughter."

Vanessa sat down in her dark room, smoking a blunt to calm down her nerves. She felt at ease when she took a drag. She was beginning to go insane; she couldn't accept the fact and that alone made her cry.

"You are mine Andrew! Mine and mine alone! No one can have you. If I do not have you, no other woman will!" She spat out.

The police searched the car Emerald had used to come to the warehouse to see if she had left some important documents. They found her phone and saw the message Vanessa had sent to her, they gave the phone to Andrew and he was flabbergasted by what he saw.

Rachael was his stepsister! Rachael was Vanessa's father's daughter; his mother had an affair.

The news almost broke him. He couldn't believe his mother was such a woman, he couldn't phantom anything. It was hard for him to sink in what he read, and it hurt and broke him. He had such high regards for his mother, and he was finally seeing her true self.

The next day, Andrew's father and sisters flew to Sydney, Australia. Andrew didn't know how to break the news of who Rachael really was, he knew it would hurt her and break his father.

The thought of Rachael finding out bothered him, she would be devastated, it would be hard for her to accept and so will his father too.

This was what Vanessa had been using to threaten his mother, Vanessa was really obsessed with him. He went off to visit Christiana in the hospital.

He was glad when he saw that she was with Drew and John, He and John had met last night when he had informed him of Christiana's situation. He didn't talk much with John as he was angry with him and John understood where his anger was coming from.

"Daddy!" Drew exclaimed, running to hug him. He carried Drew on his arms and stared at Christiana who was avoiding eye contact with him.

"Are you okay?" He asked.

"Uhm," she hummed, still not looking at him. He sighed, "my mother would be taken to court on Monday,” he said to her unsure if he should tell her the devastating secret he recently uncovered.

"Are you okay?" Christiana asked, noticing his mood. She knew he wouldn't be okay after handling his mother to the police. "It's fine. One sorry," she whispered.

"No, it's fine. You do not have to apologize. I should."

"Andrew..."

"Christiana..." Both of them said the same thing at the same time.

"You first," Christiana ushered him to speak.

Andrew sighed, "I also have another news, Rachael is my stepsister!"

John and Christiana gasped, shocked by what they just heard. "I'm not planning on telling my dad, considering he almost had a heart attack, and I don't think Rachael would be ready to hear it.

"I'm so sorry," Christiana muttered.

"There is nothing to be sorry about, Vanessa was always working with my mom, all I have to do is use what she sent to my mom against her and sue her for blackmailing," he said, he dropped Drew on the floor.

"Now that you are okay, I think I have to go," he tells her. He didn't want to break down in front of her.

He was hurt, his own mother, the woman he cherished and loved, memories of him and his mother began to resurface as he wept.

He loved her and she failed to be a good role model to him, he was more thorn than anybody, he had used his own hands to bring justice upon her.