Chapter 56: Her Personal Butler“Miss Fuentes,” he bow his head down and Fera signaled her to sit down. “Good to see you, Miss Fuentes. I apologize I took long to show up.” He sat next to her on a bench watching the other inmate playing basketball. It wasn’t safe to talk in that place but they had no other choice. “How’s everything, Baldo?” During her stay in that jail, she managed to calm her system up. She had made up her mind and was ready to face her problem. “Everything is honestly not fine after the news about you being in jail blew up. Your father’s enemy has been meddling in the transactions local and international. They are trying to ruin you completely, they saw this as a vulnerable situation for you and the best time to move. Fred had been trying to patch up things out of the country. Lora’s sudden…” he took a long breath and glanced at Fera before going on. “ Lora is a huge loss so is Felicidad.” She nodded, she was crossing her arm and trying to think straight. “
Chapter 57: Grandad’s Warning Nick’s POV“Who’s nana Felly?” He asked and they went silent. “The woman you took care of her,” Lora answered and he remembered the old woman she was in her baby picture.“They killed her, that means there is a possibility that it was them who killed her father too.” Ben fell into his thoughts but Lora wasn’t thinking the same. “I honestly don’t know. Miss Fairly wasn’t telling me something. If she would just tell me what she saw happened that night. How did she find her father’s body or why did she escape from their house that night? She would walk just like that and live with his father without reason.” Lora had been wondering since then. “Maybe she did really kill him.” Horrified Nick instantly turned his head to his cousin so as Lora.“That’s insane!” Lora angrily spat before Nick could.“I may don’t look professional but I know how to take my job seriously, I am just entertaining what is obvious for now with no bias. I understand, she look
Chapter 58: SuspectsLoraly POV “Get her out of that jail.” Those specific words came from Baldo and stuck in her head. Their conversation didn’t last for long but what mattered was Fera asked for her help. Who would set her up? “I won’t fail you, Miss.” She put her glasses on and turned her gaze to the papers on her table. The first suspect, Nick Kingston Hernandez, is the closest person to Fera. She might didn’t claim that she trust him at some point he was her weakest spot. He was the only heir of Hernandez who once dare to climb to Fuentes. He has full access to her apartment, that was the reason why he had flawlessly gathered those evidence. But those were stolen from him. Down her second suspect, he may appear innocent in this situation but he was a stalker and an admirer of Mr. Fuentes. He might be far from Hernandez since he didn’t acknowledge his father’s surname and use his mother’s, but he could still work with Hernandez. He might want to eliminate Fera to take h
Chapter 60: Split Work Ben POV Ben was looking straight at his monitor trying to decode the puzzle but he kept zoning out to her face, he closed his and shook it a bit. Lora had been breaking his focus since she got there. He knew that no matter how she mask her real attitude towards things he could feel it. Her cautious but acting impulsive response was suspicious. He could see it, she was trying to act impulsive and stubborn but he knew it wasn’t the real her. He saw her before, how professional she was and good at almost everything. ‘She doesn’t trust me,’ he mentally noted that fact. It was surprising to see her especially her decision to stay in a house of a man. No woman will suddenly decide to do that without a major reason. ‘What are you up to?’ He cleared his thought and looked from a different angle at Fera’s situation. He learn that a complainant appeared against Fera. He was most sure that the one who killed her father and the one who was toying with them now wer
Chapter 61: Lied“I…I was just wondering.” She added when Ben didn’t answer for a few seconds. He saw her regretful face when he started smiling. “He’s fine, just a gunshot on his shoulder. We were abducted for two days so don’t worry if he can’t visit you for a while. His grandparents probably ground him but he’ll find a way to you soon.” He said and guilt drew on her face, she has always been transparent when it comes to Nick. “Okay.” Her words may lie but her face and eyes couldn’t. He nodded and turned to leave. He didn’t know if it was effective to show her that they have done almost everything just to fix the mess and she wasn’t cooperating. A part of him was disappointed and a part of him was curious. Why would she lie and keep it if it wasn’t a major thing?He drove all the way home and looked for Lora, he found her in his kitchen eating alone while thinking about something. “I need your help,” said he. She snapped from her thoughts and look at her. “It depends.” S
Chapter 62: Hurt Little HeartFera’s POVAfter the prosecutor left, she was devastated. She stood straight but inside her, she was panicking and hurting. She walked back to her cell but that was not enough. She needs her room to vent out her feelings. “Fuentes,” she heard someone call her. She could feel her eyes teary and sore. It was the police who were assigned to her and Gale’s father. He turned his back and started walking. Even though she was hesitant, she followed him. Nervousness took over her body when she saw where they were heading. A few steps away from them was a stock room. She stopped following him and planned to run from him but when she turned to her left side there were polices stationed. He opened the room and waited for her. She was heavily guarded and ready to fight as she walk closer to him. “ Get in.” He said but she stopped at the doorway while the police were beside her. She instantly turned to him when she felt a sudden movement but she saw him hand
Chapter 63: HearingFera POV‘It's happening, I can’t believe it's happening.’ She thought while sitting on the left side. The hearing started swiftly while things couldn’t sink in her mind. Parricide was the only word that she understood. Disgusting. At the other corner, she could see Nick with his grandfather. Lora was there and Benjamin was her defense lawyer. Benjamin was interrogating her fake relative. “You are the second degree of Mr. Fuentes, correct?” asked he.“Correct.” Her gray and wrinkled skin spoke her age. She wasn’t too young to be playing around. He must do it most respectfully. “You lived in Evendale all your life, correct?” “Correct.”“You are sixty-five years old, correct?”“Correct.” “Your daughter was in jail for stealing and you need money to bail her, correct?” “The question was unreasonable, your honor.” The counterpart attorney instantly steps in. “Well then, let’s change the question. Parents of your mother were Villacarta and Suico, co
Chapter 64: The Truth“That’s just a poem! A mere imagination, how come a law graduate would think art could be a piece of evidence?” She even insulted him but it appeared lame as to how she acted. “Proceed to the last poem,” Benjamin said and everyone let him, some were holding their smile back, thinking Benjamin was just desperate to win.“He’s high, but he’s low, But he’s the best dad.He loves me so muchAnd that’s all I knowSo I hide the whistleCause I’ll Never BlowDad loves me So I’ll be the good Daughter as I should be.” He turned to Fera who was smiling in triumph. “You are hiding the evidence,” Ben said but she shook her head. “No evidence needed here, we can not win this by those lame poems, Ben.” She whispered but everyone heard it. The door suddenly opens and Nick came in. He was holding a white porcelain jar. Her eyes widen as she saw it. “I think I have the evidence.” He said and walked to Ben. He handed it to him and all of them saw how surprised she wa