Elliot sensed that Sophia was mad. He responded hastily, “Yeah.”Wylie smiled, “Go ahead, then. We’re just here to look for Hamish.”Elliot nodded and led Sophia out of the elevator and got into the car. Acting quickly, he explained, “Don’t overthink it. We’ve known each other since we were very young. Back then, Edmund and the others picked on me when my legs were injured and no longer worked. “She was the one who stood up for me and we got closer after that. You can say she’s the only friend I had in those bleak days.” Her lips twitched involuntarily. Did he think she acted out of the kindness of her heart?He was lucky that she did not make things worse for him. Why would she stand up for him?“Is her name Wylie Shaw?”Henrietta, Wylie’s mom, made a trip to the city and decided she wanted to elope with a rich guy. Then, she came back to demand a divorce from Sophia’s alcoholic father. About a year later, he wanted to marry Emma and made Henrietta take Wylie away.It look
Chester pondered for a while before saying, “The guy who stabbed Elizabeth died of a heart attack. However, I came to discover that it wasn’t a heart attack that killed him. “Instead, someone tortured him to death and the news was suppressed. With this in mind, the person behind Elizabeth has to be very powerful. Edward Patton fits the profile.”Sophia thought this made sense. “True. You should look into him and see if you can dig up something. Don’t worry about the two drivers, we have them. Not even Edward’s men can find them here.”Hanging up the phone, Chester decided he would walk the stairs instead of taking the elevator. He wanted to calm himself down, so he remained quiet on his entire way up.Finding out that something he had firmly believed in for so long was entirely wrong was depressing, to say the least. He began to tear himself down after that. He doubted everything he did and was at a loss as to how he could begin to make amends.That was why the earlier call from
Chester sneered. It really was Edward Patton.Without saying anything, he hung up and looked at Elizabeth. “When did you start getting involved with Edward? Was he helping with all these schemes from behind the scenes? Your baby. Was it his?”Tears started falling from Elizabeth’s eyes. Edward was her last trump card. She could not drag him into this. She had to lie. “You’re wrong. We’re just friends.”That pissed Chester off. Taking out his phone, he made a phone call, “I got Elizabeth. It was true. She has been communicating with Edward Patton all this time, but she insists on lying about it. Can you and Elliot make a trip here and use whatever it is you did to me and do it to her too?”Sophia replied, “Arrange for two men to watch her. I’ll swing by tomorrow. There’s still something I need to look into.”He responded, “Sure thing.” He had submitted himself to Sophia and believed her completely. His faith in her was so absolute that anyone could call it blind faith!Tomorro
“All of the Facebook posts Elizabeth made were fake. She was deliberately driving a wedge between us. She can never have my baby because I’ve never slept with her. Also, I only ever bought the necklace for you. “The guy in the picture having dinner at her place wasn’t me either. I’ve long stopped having any feelings about her. I only feel indebted to her. I have no idea when, but I started loving you. Perhaps it was after we got married. Perhaps it was earlier than that…”His thoughts traveled far, deep, and unlocked memories of a distant past."In fact, I first saw you back in college, but you barely paid me any attention. Elizabeth, however, kept showing up. “I didn’t much care about her at first, but she probably knew what to say to get my attention. She started talking about you. She told me that you were dating Brody and had loved him for a long time. All the way back from high school, in fact. You got into that college because of him, too. She also said your diary was full
Elizabeth’s ward was locked fast.He used to worry about her health. That was why he gave her the best medicine and the most expensive single ward. Now, it served him well as an interrogation room. Chester had used the itching powder on Elizabeth. Compared to him, she reacted poorly to it. She was twisting and turning on the bed, her hands scratching herself ceaselessly. At first, she was concerned that there were people watching her, and she had only scratched at her clothes. After that, she threw all of her concerns out the window, reached into her clothes, and started scratching at her flesh.It was an unseemly sight to behold!After a while, Elliot wanted to leave and look for his wife so he could look at something more pleasurable. The disdain was clear on Chester’s face too, but he had to do it. “Come clean and I’ll give you the antidote. Otherwise, you can scratch at yourself until the end of time.”Elizabeth planned to act all pitifully and gain his sympathy at first,
At the same time, Elizabeth’s heart sank. What did Sophia mean? What did she learn?Sophia dropped a bombshell and left it at that. She started walking back to her seat nonchalantly. Elliot’s gaze never left her as she walked back to her seat, his lips curling into a smile.That was more like it!This was how Chester should have started the interrogation, instead of being influenced by his relationship with this lady. He was too soft on Elizabeth and turned the interrogation into a party!Sophia had to step in and do it for him!He gripped her hand when she came over and said, “Why did you do it yourself?”“I can’t stand her!”Smiling, he said, “Here. I’ll rub your hand.”Withdrawing her hand, Sophia glared at him and signaled for him to mind his manners. He had nothing to say about that. Tsk! He was minding his manners well. After all, he was not kissing or carrying her right now.Sophia could not care if Elliot got it through his own head. Turning around, she looked
Sophia asked, “Do you notice that her ear piercing’s bigger than an ordinary one?”Chester nodded.“Do you know why that is?”He shook his head in response and looked at Phoebe, awaiting an answer from her. Elliot, on the other hand, smiled. She really had a knack for torturing people. Peeling off the truth layer by layer meant the person being tortured would feel the pain step by step.Chester probably did not know that Sophia was also pulling his strings at this moment. She sat upright and stared at him. “Phoebe says she got this unusually big ear piercing from a time when she saved a man by the lake. That man was drowning and grabbed hold of one of her earrings before he lost consciousness. “She was pulling him out of the lake with both of her hands and she couldn’t spare one of them to brush away his hand. In the end, the man tore away one of the earrings and almost took one of her ears with it. “It was bleeding by the time she went back and one of her earrings was gone.
So, that was the whole story. Chester laughed unexpectedly. He was laughing at himself for being such a fool. Elizabeth had him wrapped around her finger. He gave up the idea of pursuing Phoebe and agreed to become her boyfriend. Elizabeth used to tell him that he was the first man she loved when she confessed to him. He did doubt her because the girl who saved him at the lake told him that her heart belonged to someone else and that nothing would happen between them. He asked Elizabeth then.Did she remember what she said to him when she saved him?She answered that she almost died trying to save him, so she did not remember anything about that. He was heartbroken about it back then, but now it turned out that she was merely impersonating Phoebe. How could she have remembered it? However, he almost killed his true lifesaver for her sake. He cast his mind back to all the times he had cruelly accused Phoebe and the sense of despair in her eyes. She must have been heartbroken.