“Thank you, Edmund.” “You’re welcome.” Sylvia put her phone away. Now that Odell learned about Tara’s past, he would not be that stupid to continue believing Tara was a pure and innocent girl. Sherry then said, “Syl, it’s Odell’s car. He’s coming out. Should we follow him?” Sylvia looked ahead and saw Odell’s car driving down the main road. It seemed like he was heading to Lake Victoria Villa. ‘He’s going to Tara’s place?’ Even though Sylvia no longer cared about his relationship with Tara, she was still curious and yearned for more gossip. She grinned and said, “Sherry, follow him. We’re in for a good show.” Sherry wore the same wide grin. “Alright!” …The black sports car sprinted in the night. Half an hour later, the car arrived at Lake Victoria Villa, Tara’s house. Odell got out of the car and the bodyguards immediately opened the door for him. The man strode inside the house. It was dark. The bodyguards did not notice the grim look on his face, so on
He asked, “Do you know the man in the picture?” Tara’s face turned white as paper. The picture showed her clinging to another man. She uncontrollably faltered as she looked at Odell’s frosty look. She said in a trembling voice, “O-Odell, who sent you the picture?” “Answer my question.” Tara’s gaze became evasive. She hurriedly said, “I-I don’t know him. I’ve never taken a picture like that! Someone is trying to frame me!” Odell then scrolled to the next picture. He showed her the phone again and said, “So, this picture is also someone trying to frame you?” The second picture showed her kissing Joshua intimately. Tara started to shake. “Odell, I…” Odell looked at her as he scrolled through his phone and showed her every intimate picture she had with Joshua. She took the pictures with Joshua five years ago when they were still together. Those pictures should have been erased from existence after Joshua was arrested. How did Odell get his hands on them? Sweat cov
Sherry asked in a small voice, “What did he show her?” Sylvia answered, “It should be a picture of some sort.” Back in the living room, Odell indeed showed Tara another picture and it was a picture of her being intimate with another man other than Joshua. Tara only had a glance at the picture before Odell scrolled to the next picture. The picture was also from five years ago and it showed her being intimate with yet another unrecognized man. Tara was petrified. Odell continued to scroll through the screen until the last picture in the album. It was a picture of her with another man on the bed and it was taken by Joshua himself. Tara collapsed on the floor. Odell retracted his phone. The filthy pictures would only stain his phone. He deleted all of them before he pocketed it. Then, he stared at Tara with the coldest gaze and asked, “Do you have anything else to say?” “I…I…” Tara stuttered and failed to produce a full sentence. Odell then turned to the bodyguard.
He grabbed her wrist and showed amusement in his gaze. “Why are you here?” Sylvia’s gaze shifted a bit and said, “I was wandering around and accidentally ended up here.” Odell grinned. “It was you who told Edmund to reveal everything to me, is it?” “What are you talking about? I don’t know.” Sylvia decided to play dumb. Odell did not linger on the question. He said, “It’s getting late. Let’s go back.” He then held her hand and walked out. Sylvia tried to retract her hand but his grip was too strong. She was dragged outside by force but before she left, she had a glance at Tara inside the house. Tara was still on the floor. She wore a horrified expression as if she saw a ghost, but the resentment behind showed that she wanted to eat Sylva alive. It was a horrible scene to look at. Sylvia grinned and looked away. Odell dragged Sylvia all the way to the main gate. Right before he shoved her into the car, Sylvia cried, “Odell, stop!” Sherry came over. “Odell, let
He grimaced. Even after a long and uncomfortable silence, he still did not elicit a response. He was trying to avoid the topic of divorce altogether. Sylvia pressed the issue. "Odell, have you read the divorce settlement agreement I sent you earlier?" The unnatural silence continued to ring in her ears. She turned her head to look at Odell, only to see him staring blankly ahead, the color on his face was drained completely. He held the steering wheel firmly with both hands and was doing his best to ignore her. Sylvia frowned. "Odell, say something.” He scowled. “We’ll talk about it when we get back.” His voice had become rather scratchy. There was a tint of exhaustion in his voice. Perhaps he was yet to get over what Tara did to him in the past, and how she made a fool out of him. He was still driving amid all this. Sylvia was beginning to get concerned that he would mistake the accelerator for the brake pad in his emotionally unstable state. “Alrigh
Sylvia had already bought a house here. After she divorced Odell, she planned to move here with Aunt Tonya and the children. Although it was slightly cut off from the central district, it was very close to the kindergarten. The environment was rather ideal and this proved to be a good place to settle down. After arriving, she carried her luggage into the house. In addition to her luggage, she had also ordered some furniture along with household essentials online, all of them which had arrived the same morning. After she was done putting away her luggage, the couriers arrived and pressed the doorbell. Sylvia began her busy day. Little did she know, the same black sports car from previously had tailed her while she was on the way here. The black sports car was now parked underneath the shade of trees right opposite the gates of her house. The man in the car lowered the car window and spied on Sylvia running around back and forth in the house. … It took the bett
Sylvia became speechless. She knew better than to search for his phone. With a disdainful glare, she told him, “I’ll get my phone and show you. Wait here.” “Hm.” Sylvia quickly went back to her room where the children were still sleeping soundly. Her phone was on the bedside table. After getting the phone, she ran out on her tiptoe, only to see a quiet and empty corridor. She frowned. She then walked to the next room and pounded on the door several times. "Odell, are you in there?” Nothing but a buzzing silence. She knocked several times, but still, there was no answer. She pondered for a moment, then she proceeded to call him. The moment the call was connected, she could vividly hear a phone’s ringtone coming from inside the room. It only rang twice before the automated message interrupted and informed, “The number you have dialed is currently unavailable”. The ringtone she heard coming from inside the room was cut off simultaneously. He was insi
Odell turned and stared at her with a fiery intensity in his eyes as he said in a deep voice, “I promise you that I won't get myself involved with her in the future. All I want is to live out the rest of my days with you, Isabel, and Liam. I want to watch them grow together as a family.” Sylvia narrowed her eyes. She remembered when she was pregnant, he was living in the house in Lake Victoria Villa with Tara. She remembered how she spent countless nights without sleep, thinking about what she could do to persuade him to change his mind. She recalled the moment she got the news that she was pregnant with twins, and the first thing she did was to go to him and share the good news with him. For all of that, what she got was essentially a half-year imprisonment, filled with repulsive looks cast at her all the time, not to forget the sixty slaps she received. When they remarried, she had a mind to live harmoniously with him. That was until he chose the words of Tara over her again