Mason tried calling her, but her line was occupied for the longest time.What he saw in his mind was happening right before his eyes!He rushed back into the manor to take another set of car keys and got into another car. Just as he pulled out of the manor, the black Bentley that Zoe drove was nowhere to be seen.His face was twitching so much that he thought he was having a spasm.Then, he made a call to Yanni’s kindergarten and asked one of her teachers to check on her. Five minutes later, the teacher was panicking hard. She was so scared that she was about to burst into tears. “Yanni’s gone, Mr. Mason! We can’t find her. S-She was just napping a minute ago!”His phone almost slipped out of his hand. He was almost certain that Lila kidnapped his little girl. He suspected his aunt last time. So, she created an alibi for herself and made him think that she was in Edo City. The truth was, she was in Edo City. It was just that there was more than one ‘Lila’ in the world and th
Lila sneered, “Do you really think I love Westley?“No. I can’t stand it when you were so deeply in love with him, Lisa. I wanted to ruin your marriage and I pulled it off! As expected, Westley finally left you and little Mason behind once I created enough havoc by misleading him on a few things. “I had a chance to get close to him, but he was so dense. I could do anything to seduce him and he wouldn’t even lay a finger on me! I’ve followed him around, tending to his everyday needs like a servant for the past few years, but he wouldn’t even bat an eye at me, much less sleep with me.“It didn’t matter, though. After all, no one could take your horrible temper!“Your son, however, has been having a wonderful life with Zoe. They looked so happy together that it made me jealous. There’s no way I’m going to let them off the hook. They need to suffer!“Do you want to know something, Lisa? I’ve killed a lot of men. At first, they loved their wives more than anything, but they became dis
Lila had goosebumps. Then, she started recounting her own tale.“I, too, used to be naive and kind-hearted!“After I got married to Cliff, we adopted a little girl. She was beautiful and candid. I gave her all of my love, but I didn’t count on one thing. She went ahead and grew up to become an exquisite lady years later. The only thing was, she climbed onto my marital bed and had sex with my husband!“My damned husband had an affair with his own freaking adoptive daughter!“Do you want to know something, Lisa? She was just eighteen years old while he was forty. I saw with my own eyes how he thrust into her so vigorously.“They had crazy sex on my marital bed while they talked dirty to each other.“Cliff told our stepdaughter that he loved her more than anyone else!”…Lila broke into laughter. She laughed so hard that tears came out. “He told her that he loved her most! Well, then. What does that make me? Am I the worn-out, crumpled servant? “I can’t even imagine when they st
Zoe’s consciousness was slipping away. Her visions also started to become blurred.She could hear Yanni crying next to her, screaming for her to get up.'I can’t die!' Zoe thought to herself. She needed to take care of Yanni as well as Jamie. Most important of all, she needed to live her life with Mason!They had just patched things up today. They couldn’t even wait to make love because they loved each other so much. A bright future awaited them. He told her that they’d have a brand new year. He promised!Oh. How she wished she could live to see it come true.How she wished she could witness their children’s growth with him. It’d be lovely if they could be with each other until they were both wrinkled with old age.They had finally reconciled. They were finally able to love each other.How was this fair?!Be that as it may, Lila injected the drug into her. Now, she was also losing too much blood. It was highly unlikely she could make it out alive.She loved the world. She lo
Mason asked Mia to look after Yanni and descended to the deep ravine again to search for Zoe. Days passed and he had barely gotten any shut-eye.Aside from the search and rescue team sent by the city, he spent a huge amount of money and formed a private search party that was comprised of more than eight hundred people. He was going to save Zoe at all costs.The most crucial first twenty-four hours had come and gone.Then, three days passed. Now, it had been seven days since Zoe had fallen off the cliff, but there were no signs of her. It was as if she had vanished off the face of the Earth. At the same time, Lila was nowhere to be seen. The experts weighed in on this, remarking that they might’ve dropped into the deep end of the river in the ravine. Since it was located very near to the coast, then maybe…No one had the heart to finish the rest of the sentence. Everyone could tell that the youngest and richest businessman in Brookesville was on the verge of falling apart. He
All of a sudden, Mia turned around. Her eyes were filled with tears as she said with trembling lips, “You’re out of your mind, Mason! You have lived here for one whole year. That’s enough. If you’re not going to think about your parents, then think about your children, at least.“Yanni has nightmares every single night and Jamie hasn’t spoken for the entire year! Of course they want their mother back, Mason, but they need their father now. They’re extremely on edge because you haven't been home for so long!“Your children need you, Mason!”His face twitched slightly in response. After a long time, he brought the remaining cigarette to his lips, intending to smoke it. However, it fell… He stared at the fallen cigarette butt for a long time before he responded in a husky voice, “Thank you for everything you've done for the past couple of years!”Tears welled up in his eyes. After that, he didn’t say anything. That night, he sat by the edge of the cliff and brought Zoe’s violin wi
He didn’t want to be with anyone else other than Zoe. It was simply impossible!…Mason sat in his office for a long time. He didn’t go home until it was evening.Darkness began streaking across the sky as his black Rolls-Royce drove through the ornate gate and stopped at the yard. Only a faint ray of sunlight clung to the skies, reluctant to let go.He killed the engine, opened the car door, and got out. Yanni came running out of the manor, held his legs gently, and called out to him affectionately, “Daddy!”At that moment, his heart shivered.The dormant memories came back with a vengeance. This used to be the kind of moment he described to Zoe when he was still trying to win her heart to reconcile with him. He’d come back home from work and their daughter would run over and hug his thighs as she called out to him. He had leaned in her ear and said softly, telling her to make a baby girl with him!Yanni’s eyes resembled Zoe’s so much that it felt as if she was standing rig
Mason refilled the pit with sand, making it look like it had never been dug up. He was in a trance for a long time before he rose gently and left with tears in the corner of his eyes. At the end of the day, he was still just an ordinary man. He couldn’t defy the laws of the universe and bring the dead back to life.He might’ve possessed massive wealth and wielded immense power, but neither could bring Zoe back to him. Try as he might to find her, he knew, deep down, that Zoe was gone for real.He’d have to trudge through the rest of his life without her!…It was evening by the time he went back to the city. His black Bentley drove on the street steadily and the back window was lowered halfway through. Turning his head to the side, he watched quietly as the clouds danced across the sky. His gaunt face was devoid of any expression.What he didn’t see was that Zoe was standing across the street, looking lost and confused. She was robbed of her previous memory and had no fami