I woke up in bed with my phone ringing. I groaned as I rubbed my eyes and sat up from bed, reaching out to the bedside table to get my phone. I answered the call and was so shocked to hear Zab on the other side. "You guys need to come home." She said and I sat on the bed, fully awake, detecting the urgency in her voice. "What happened?" I asked her and she didn't need to be asked twice. She told me the reason she called me so early and I was dumbfounded at what she told me. "Okay. We'll be home in a few hours." I said to her before ending the call. I immediately turned to Gavin's side of the bed and shook him awake. "What is it?" He asked me sleepily, as he rubbed his eyes. I told him what Zab told me and just like my reaction, he practically jumped out of bed. "Are you serious?" He asked me and I just nodded at him. We both immediately ran around the hotel room, gathering everything that we own and packing them into our bags as fast as we could. Silence filled the car as we drov
I still can't believe that Kacey had the audacity to call us out with her lies, and as much as I wanted to fight fire with fire, I did what our lawyers advised. They released a statement the same night that denies the allegations against me and Zab. "Good evening to everybody. I am Michael Harrington, the head of the legal counsel of Catherine Zoe and Cassandra Zabrina Aragon. Speaking on behalf of them, we deny all the allegations that are being pointed at my clients. Hence we will also be adding a defamation lawsuit on top of the already high pile of cases against Ms. Kacey Ruben." I concentrated on every word that he was saying. "The Aragon family will not take the bait that was thrown at them and wishes to proceed with the trial without resorting to an unorthodox method. We want to show everyone the whole story without any embellishments, cuts, or pretentious allegations so we requested from the court that the whole trial would be televised live. Showing a live broadcast of the t
The day came, the day of the trial. I know that we're prepared for whatever they would throw at us but I'm still very much anxious. We don't know what Kacey has under her sleeve, I just hope that this won't get dragged out."Are you ready?" I asked Zab as we got to the court."Ready as I'll ever be." She replied to me and I just held her hand to at least let her know that I'm here for her.Gavin wouldn't be attending the trial because of work and that actually made me more nervous. I just hope that everything will go according to our plan.Zab smiled at me and we both got out of our car and went straight to the assigned courtroom for our case. As we expected, our lawyer, the prosecution, and the defense were already there. I looked around and saw the cameras that were set up inside the courtroom. The stands were already filled with reporters.As soon as we came in, cameras started flashing our way and some reporters mumbled questions at us that I could barely understand, the guards th
"We never really broke up. My friends were throwing me an out-of-town bachelorette party and when I got back, he was nowhere to be found. No text, no message, nothing. He never contacted me and then a friend of mine told me that Gavin was on the news here. He was a victim of stalking and was currently admitted to a hospital so I figured that maybe that's the reason why he hasn't contacted me. I hurried to the hospital and got his room number and that's when I saw them. He and Catherine were making out in the hospital room that they shared." Kacey said with tears filling up her eyes. I can't believe she's doing this. She's really painting herself as the victim and I'm just glad that Gavin is not here to hear this, it would have broken his heart. "As you can see your honor, in Kacey's eyes, she and Gavin were still together and was about to get married. Can you imagine how she felt when she saw with her own two eyes that her boyfriend is with another girl?" Said her lawyer then sat ba
Everyone stood there in silence, dumbfounded as my parents stood in front of Ruby. Blocking her from her supposed mother's view. Ruby looked at my parents, looking so confused at what was happening. She looked around and our eyes met, I gave her a reassuring smile. "You?" I heard my mom exclaim and so my focus turned back to her. My mom and dad were looking intently at Ruby's mom. "How..." She asked as she stood up looking around. Her eyes then landed on me and then turned back to Ruby and then back to me again. "Damn it. Why didn't I see the resemblance?" Her mom said as she stood up straight smiling at all of us as she faced our parents again. And before we get any explanation, she started running away from us. My dad gave a signal to his bodyguards and some of them ran after Ruby's mom, while the others stayed behind. "Are you guys okay?" My mom asked us. "Zoe? Zab?" She asked me and my sister and we just nodded at her and gave her a smile. She then turned her attention to Ruby
Its been two weeks since the day of the trial. Kacey had been incarcerated, our lawyer said that she has no chance of winning over her appeal, so that's good news. Andrea has officially turned over her apartment to Zab, and she's currently living there with Charles. After what happened, Charles didn't want to leave Zab alone and I'm seriously thankful to him for that. I've also been back at work and so far, everything is quite normal, well as normal as it could be. Me and Gavin told everyone about our engagement and they couldn't be happier for us, both our parents even wanted the wedding to happen as soon as possible when we told them the news. My dad even asked if I was pregnant.Putting all those good things aside, I'm actually getting more and more anxious as days pass by, because the day of the trial was also the last time I saw Ruby and up until now, she hasn't contacted me or anyone from my family."Cath, come on. She'll turn up soon, you just have to wait. Don't worry too much
It's been a crazy week. With all my deadlines lined up, I was so deep into work that the week just flew by, and the next thing I knew me and Gavin is already at the mall waiting for Ruby. We talked for the whole week, she had lots of questions and I tried my best to answer each and every one of them, but there are things that could only be answered by our parents. She wanted to have coffee first before heading out to the house, so we were waiting for her at a coffee shop on the ground floor of the mall. Besides, I needed the caffeine in my body, I haven't had any decent sleep the whole week. "Love, you look tired." Gavin said to me as my head started to droop. "Just work, love. I managed to finish all of it but I haven't slept for days." I said to him, taking a sip of my coffee. "Am I late?" I was a bit startled by Ruby's sudden appearance that I almost choked on my coffee. "Are you okay? Sorry." she said as Gavin handed me a glass of water from the counter. "No. I'm okay and yo
I heard Ruby sigh a deep breath and I took her hand and gave it a little squeeze as encouragement. She looked back at me and she smiled as she took another breath. "Ready?" I asked her and she nodded at me. "Ready as I'll ever be." She said that made me smile. "Then let's go." Zab said and she started walking ahead of us to the main house. I looked at Ruby again and we followed Zab. The doors opened as we got closer to the door and were immediately greeted by the smiling faces of our housekeepers. They were lined up beside the door, with Nana Rosa at the very end. "Wow. Mom and dad really went all out with your homecoming." Zab said as she walked inside the house, greeting everyone and then going straight to Nana Rosa. I, on the other hand, grab hold of Ruby and introduced her to all of the house staff. "And last but definitely not the least, the irreplaceable Nana Rosa." I said to her as I gave a hug to our nanny. "She was already helping our parents in the house even before we