CHAPTER TWENTY NINELILYI can not believe my ears. What did Nickolas just say? My dad? Kill someone? It is not possible. I know he can come off as a horrible person but that bit is not just possible. What is all this talk about the drugs and all of this hatred between them?My mind is spinning at this point, nothing makes sense anymore. Why would he kill Nickolas' father? I thought they were friends, business partners. Oh dear God. There is something going on here that I do not quite understand.“Dad. What the hell is he talking about?”“I have no idea either.”“You stand here and still deny it. Why am I even surprised?” Nick says. The anger I see in his eyes now is similar to what I saw last night. Deep hatred runs through his body and I am still here left wondering who to trust and who not to.Everything seems upside down at the moment.“Edward has gone to draft the papers.” I say out loud to no one in particular. “That means the warehouse attack is true. Does that mean the drugs a
CHAPTER THIRTYNICKOLASI pull up at my house still grinning. I can not seem to erase the look on Robert’s face when I walked in. The mixture of shock and eventual anger was epic. I should have done it sooner. I get out of the car, lock the door and get into my house, taking off my shirt immediately. I can not still be distracted by this happiness I now feel, there is still a lot of work that needs to be done. This is just one battle that has been won in this long war of ours and I need to always be on my toes. Lily’s face pops into my head as I step into the shower. She appeared extremely shocked to see me, it looked like she honestly didn’t know a single thing about what was going on. I shake the thought out of my head as I continue bathing. She is still one of them after all and when push comes to shove she will always choose them, just like she did all those years ago. I can not allow her pretty face to distract me like it had done on the boat cruise. All feelings for her defi
CHAPTER THIRTY ONELILYAs I see him burst into the room, for some strange reason I can no longer hold back the tears that I have been trying my best to keep at bay all this time. Looking up to his face I just feel this need for him to hold me and tell me everything's alright.He rushes towards me and holds me firmly as I sit down on the floor wrapped in my blankets. The tears rolled down my eyes like a water pipe that had just been burst.“It will all be alright, Lily.”I hear him say these words over and over again as his hands pat my back, doing his best to calm me down.I feel so pathetic at this moment, I know I need someone but that person can not be him. Not after everything he has done. He most definitely is not the person for me to trust, afterall he knew about it all this time and didn’t say a word to me.Summoning all the strength in me, I wrestle myself from his embrace and push him away. This feeling of weakness has to be transformed into something I can work with and the
CHAPTER THIRTY TWONICKOLASI keep on looking at her as she realizes exactly who I am talking about.“NO. Are you trying to tell me? Her?”I nod my head in approval“Yes. Ingrid is your mother.”“Wait a second. That means when we went to see her you knew and didn’t say anything to me.”“I felt that would be a lot to talk about at the time.”I know that if I tell her the exact reason why I could not tell her at that time she is going to hate me for life. Seeing her right now I can see how effective my revenge would have been. Robert took the glory from me by telling her but this is still how it would have played out if I had told her.So why am I feeling this way? This guilt creeping up on me as I look at her scattered hair and the messed up mascara on her face as she wipes her nose with my handkerchief. Why do I feel this need to console her?All through the drive here this thought was on my mind. I should be happy right now but for some strange reason I am not. Here I am consoling t
CHAPTER THIRTY THREELILYLooking out the window as we drive down to Ingrid’s house, I can not stop thinking. Thinking about everything, Life in general has not been fair to me. I must have been a really horrible person in my past life, that must be why I am suffering from all of this emotional trauma right now.Hearing bits of Nickolas' convo earlier, I know he is hiding things from me and not telling me the whole truth, Just another thing for me to add to my list of things I do not know I guess.I hate this feeling that is creeping up on me; the feeling of helplessness.“Are you okay?” Nickolas asks me.“I am okay.”I say this even though I know I am far from it and by the look I see him giving me from the corner of my eye I know he does not buy my story one bit.“It will be fine.” He says this and lays his hand on my thighs.I do not move as he does this because a part of me thinks this is a mistake. Maybe he was reaching for the gear shift and then he put his hands on me. I realiz
CHAPTER THIRTY FOURNICKOLASI enter into my apartment to see Scot sitting on my couch with his legs crossed. The judgemental look he is giving me is crazy but some reason it makes me want to laugh as well.“Hi.” I say. The guilt in my voice is evident. I was not expecting him to still be here when I came back but Immediately I turned the key in the doorknob and it was loose. I knew he was still here.I dread this conversation we are about to have. I do not want to tell him that I think I have now fallen for this girl who I came here to seek revenge on and who I have kept on insisting is my enemy. A part of me knows he has already figured it out hence the judgemental looks he is throwing my way.He motions for me to take a seat without even saying a word.I sit down and look at him and we both sit in silence. This is something he always did to me, just sit and wait for me to croak under the silence. Scot is extremely manipulative but then he is my friend and I know him better than any
CHAPTER THIRTY FIVELILYI am screaming at the top of my voice as I barge into the house looking for my mother.“Come out mom. Where are you?”I see her rush down the staircase to meet me. She looks so teary eyed as she appears and moves in to hug me.“My daughter.”I put my hands in front of us to create a wall in order to prevent the hug.“Save it. I am not your daughter and you know it. How could you do this to me?”She breaks down in tears as I continue talking.“All these years you lied to me and for what? So you could play at being a mother? You allowed me suffer all this emotional stress I went through in the hands of your husband while you watched and could not defend me. What sort of a mother is that?”“Lily.” she says to me.The tears I see in her eyes are genuine and I can see that my words sting her. My emotions are not wavering either ways because as much as I her I also know that she had no right to do what she did.I walked into this house with an anger that rivalled th
CHAPTER THIRTY SIXNICKOLASAs I ascend the stairs to my apartment, all I can think of is how the person that could have aided in this investigation is dead and it is all because of me. If he had not reached out he probably would still be alive right now. I can not stop running down possibilities in my head. Who killed him? I already know the answer to this one or rather I have an idea of who it is since I do not still have any valid proof to support my claim but definitely one names keeps on popping in my head. Robert.He definitely has to be behind this, I mean there is no other explanation for this. But then how did he find out about the meeting? How did he know what we were talking about? Does he have somebody following me? No that can not be possible I check my surroundings every single day so the leak definitely did not come from me. It has to be the informant.I do not even have an idea who the guy is or rather was. I can not even think of the next step to take now that this