EVELYN I sat in the restaurant with my legs bouncing up and down in anticipation as my heart thudded loudly in my chest. I didn't want to pick up the call, and I breathed out in relief when the first call ended, but before I could continue thinking, the phone vibrated again in my hand, and I couldn't help but be scared. I'd never had a good relationship with my father, even from the start. He'd always hated me and he wasn't afraid to show it. I knew from the time when I started growing up and I noticed the way he treated me differently. My friends always spoke about their fathers and the way they spent time with them and they bought them things. But not my father. My father didn't care for me, he didn't even know I existed until he saw me or I got into trouble. It wasn't even something that I could do anything about. Everything I did was an issue to him. I couldn't go out with my friends, I couldn't have friends over, I couldn't smile or be happy like other kids my age. He expe
JAVON The meeting with the board didn't go so well. Mainly because I wasn't listening and then they kept asking me questions. Today's meeting was for me to explain how the court case was affecting the company. Sales were going down since the public knew that the CEO of the company was in hot water with the military. “It’s not good for the business. it's affecting us. I mean, what will the public say?!”I didn't have the strength to answer these men, especially Mr Bertram who had always been after me. “Let the public say what they want to say. That's why they're the public, their opinions don't matter. Things are under control. Don't make them to be more than they are.”I didn't even want to attend this meeting in the first place because I knew how it was going to go but my assistant made me. My company was going through a lot with the current case against me and it was affecting me greatly. “How can you say a thing like that? They're the reason you have this company in the firs
JAVON I collected the phone from her as she stretched it towards me. I looked at the screen and couldn't believe what I was seeing. “I don't believe this. I would never sleep with you even with a gun pointed to my bead.”I got off the bed and began picking her clothes from the floor and I threw them at her. “Dress up and get out.”I picked up my phone to see ten missed calls from my lawyers. Wonderful, the last thing I needed was more trouble than needed. “Javon, why are you acting like this? I'm not the one who brought myself here. You brought me here, you approached me.”I turned around to face her. “Also, why the hell did you take pictures?”“Because I knew you were going to act like this so I needed proof that I didn't seduce you.”Why did I find that hard to believe? I wanted to say something but I just couldn't remember what it was. I tried to remember at what point I went over to her but my memory stopped at the bar when the bartender came to me. I don't even know how
EVELYN I didn't plan to let him know of my involvement early which is why I was surprised when he saw me outside. But it was all good. Early or not, it still didn't change the fact that I was now the lawyer.I'd received a call last night, saying that Mr Fulham, the man I was supposed to be under, had called in sick and he had asked that I take his place. At first, I couldn't believe what I was hearing because the chances of this happening at this point were so slim, but it had happened, and now, I was here. “Plaintiff, you say you have a witness in court today?”Even though I'd done this many times before, my heart was still beating in my chest as the judge called for me. But I didn't show it. “Yes, your Honor. I do.”I turned to the audience. “Sergeant Clay. Please step forward to the podium.”As the man walked up to the podium, I took that time to steal a glance at Javon. Based on what I'd heard and read, Javon should react.But even as he looked at the man until he got to the
GAIAThis was the first time I was going to be seeing the security footage. The way it was heavily guarded made me wonder what exactly it showed. As he pressed play on the remote, I removed my eyes from the screen and moved to Javon. He still didn't seem fazed, didn't seem like someone who was on trial for doing anything wrong. And it bothered me. As soon as his eyes met mine, I looked back at the screen. For the first few minutes, there was nothing there, and then I saw someone. It was just a figure, just a figure of a man walking into the building. They had got to be kidding me. How did they figure out that it was Javon just from this? I could barely even make out the race of the person because of how disturbed and distorted the video was.There was a storm and this person was covering their face with their jacket. His lawyer paused the video and turned back to Clay. “So, as we can see from that very short clip, we see nothing. It is pretty obvious that it's a man from the b
JAVON “Does that date have any significance to you?”I kept thinking about it as I rode in the car away from the court house. Was it supposed to? I'd tried speaking to her when we were done to ask her why she asked me such a question.“Gaia, please wait up.”Other lawyers were around her and I was skeptical that she might not answer me. They gave me weird looks as they walked away. “What is it, Javon? You know you shouldn't be speaking to me, I'm a lawyer. And not your lawyer.“Listen, I know. I just wanted to ask you something. Why did you ask me if the date meant anything to me?”She rolled her eyes and looked away. “What do you want to hear? I asked you because I needed to know what I would use to bring you down and of course, you didn't remember. What was I expecting? It never meant anything to you.”Before I could process her words, she walked away. What did she mean by the last sentence? Was it supposed to mean something to me?I couldn't get my mind off it.There was some
GAIAYou have got to be kidding me. How could this happen? How could I have taken his phone without knowing? I stood in my room that night wondering how the hell this could have happened. I knew it was when we bumped into each other but the chances of this ever happening were very slim. But it happened. And it was already really late. I have no idea if he has noticed yet because he was a busy person and he didn't have the time to look at his phone a lot. Another reason why I was panicking was because I'd used Juan's picture as my screensaver and the moment he sees that, he would want to know more. So I might as well just believe that he had seen it already. Gosh, why did I have to bump into him? The door opened, and Bella walked in. “Hey, you're back early. How was your day?”I let her come in and sit down before I started telling her anything. As soon as she was seated, I told her everything without leaving a single thing out..“Woah, that's a lot. But then, what's wrong with
GAIA There was a problem. I didn't know how exactly I was going to find out the truth. Also, I needed to get my phone back from Javon. I had called my phone and sure enough, he had picked it up immediately. He had seen the pictures on my phone and he wanted to meet up with me. I'd ask him to just drop the phone in the house or just mail it to me but he refused, saying that he wanted to speak to me about something. There was nothing to say to him. The kid wasn't his. After all, he had killed the only one that was. Regarding the court case, I was going to start with Sergeant Clay and speak to him. He’s the one who started everything so I would want to speak to him first. He was in a meeting right now, so I had to wait, and then my phone rang. Well, Javon's phone actually. “Hello? Who's this?” “Miss Everly, is this you?” My shoulders relaxed a little. “Yes, it is. Good day, Mr Quinten.” I heard him sigh heavily. “I’ve been trying to get to you until my se