All Chapters of Mafia's Marriage Contract: Chapter 81 - Chapter 90

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A Cheating Scandal (8)

Elle is shifting in her seat. She picks up a tissue from the table and dabs her eye. Sitting across her is a sharp eyed woman in her forties with bright blonde hair and horn rimmed glasses. They’re at a cafe uptown and are seated at a private parlor within. The woman’s name is Alexandra Knowles, one of the most ruthless journalists in the country. With a reputation to fish out gossip from almost anything, Alexandra is feared among the elites. If there isn’t any story, she’ll make one up but she must always get the latest gossip.She’s now interested in Elle’s story. That morning, she received a call from Elle Swanson and it is the scoop she needs. Elle has taken pictures of the scars on her body and also showed screenshots of some very interesting messages.“Are you sure?” Alexandra asks in glee. “Hector is having an affair?”“I’m positive!” Elle claims. “I think it’s my sister, Scarlett. She’s after him again. She’s sending him texts from a different number but I can recognize her t
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A Cheating Scandal (9)

The guests are slowly entering the lavish hotel lobby, awestruck by the grandeur of it all. Their host, Mr. Karwoski truly went out of his way to make it a night to remember. Silver glass walls are adorning the walls of the lobby while a large ombre chandelier is illuminating the entire area.Everywhere one looks, they’re dazzled by the atmosphere. Prominent celebrities and businessmen are chatting casually, some smoking in a corner while others are at a gambling table, playing cards. Servers dressed in black and white uniforms are smoothly walking around, offering quiches and drinks to the esteemed guests.Among them is Hector, who’s patiently waiting with a drink in his hand. If all goes well, he and Scarlett will unite that night. His investors already own a majority of the shares of Hawkins Group. Even Ryder won’t be able to fight them off.A Maybach stops in front of the hotel and Scarlett steps out of it. She’s wearing a backless sequin dress with vibrant shades of red and scarl
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A Cheating Scandal (10)

The hotel is buzzed with guests and the employees are all busy working. They’re sliding in and out of the staff corner, catering to the guests. Several servers are lined up and are waiting to serve.They’re all so busy, that they don’t notice one server is slowly inching toward the backdoor. He casually puts the tray away and walks along a corridor. Many of the servers are rushing past and he greets a few of them with a smile.“Guests at hall number four want shrimps!” He exclaims to one server. “Go go go!”“They ran out of drinks at hall five,” he tells another server. “Refill ASAP!”The other servers don’t think much nor do the employees. They reply with thanks and are so busy that they don’t notice that this particular server is not one of them.He struts along the corridor and once he’s out of sight, he takes out a card and punches it in front of a door’s scanner. The door slides open and he enters the back staircase which is strictly for the staff.“Boy, my sister sure knows how
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In the Forest (1)

The camp is alive with the chatter of the students who are happily enjoying their day off. All the students have been assigned an activity to ensure the feast at night will be a delicious one. Some are collecting wood for the fire while others are on kitchen duty.Kat is busy peeling potatoes. Her hair is tied up with a pink scrunchie and she’s busy with her work when a shadow falls on her. She looks up to find Troy.“Troy?” She asks. “What’s up?”“I want to talk to you,” he abruptly says.“I can’t, I have to peel-”Troy doesn’t wait and grabs her arm. Kat protests but he drags her away from everyone. Some of the students are giving her a jealous look because she’s attracting the most popular boy in the school towards her, but Kat is affronted by his behavior.“What’s the matter with you?” She exclaims when he releases her. They’re near the edge of the forest. There are several cages nearby which are housing guard dogs.“What is the matter with you?” Troy retorts. “Why are you doing t
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In The Forest (2)

Ryder picks up the phone in one ring.“Ryder!” Kat gasps. “Thank god you answered!”“What’s going on?”Kat quickly tells him that Troy confessed his feelings to her. Ryder listens to it all, his mood becoming grim.“Sis,” he begins. “You know the consequences of his feelings for you, right? Vincent Hawkins will not stay still. He’ll try to dig out information about you and if he discovers about our deceit, the first person he’ll target is you.”It’s the truth. Kat is an expert hacker and developer. If Vincent tries to bring them down, then Kat will be a major obstacle in his way. Not only is she skilled but she’s also Ryder’s sister. It puts her in a precarious situation indeed.“I have to keep up the ruse!” Kat claims. “Troy is a witness to Isabella’s murder. He knows who did it. If I can just make him talk!”She’s finding herself cornered. Now that Troy has confessed, her own feelings for him are complicating the plan. She wants to ask him about Isabella but if she does that, he’ll
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In The Forest (3)

*A while ago*The other students are chattering all around her, busy with their tasks. Kat’s senses are on alert as she scans the area. There are thick trees all around them, surrounding them with dark shadows with only the light from the firewoods illuminating everything. The students are having fun roasting marshmallows or eating the feast which they cooked.“Hey Kat, can you help me clean these dishes?”Kat looks up to find one of her classmates, Janine, standing there. She’s holding a pile of dirty dishes and is sweating a bit.“Sure!” Kat exclaims and hurries to help her.“These people sure can eat a lot!” Janine laughs. “So many dirty plates!”“Well, we did work hard to prepare it,” Kat remarks. She’s still keeping an eye out for any signs of the stalkers.“I just wanna get this over with,” Janine says. “Mira and I have many plans for tonight! She was talking about going to the river for a midnight dip but I’m not so sure about it.”“Why?” Kat asks.“I’m kinda scared,” Janine si
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In the Forest (4)

Kat remains still as she’s carried by one of the kidnappers. By the sounds of the footsteps, she deduces that there are two men. Are they Hector’s cronies?“The boss told us to take her to him, alive,” one of the men says. “We’ll set off for the city in a while.”“Won’t they realize that she’s missing?” the one carrying Kat asks. “They’ll search for her.”“Don’t worry. The students are busy cooking, cleaning or whatever the hell they’re doing!” He spits on the ground, scoffing. “They’ll be too late in noticing that she’s missing.”“What do we do with her?” his partner asks. “She’ll wake up soon.”“She’s young and pretty,” the other one leers. “We can have some fun with her…”“But the boss said-”“I know what he said! But he didn’t say anything about not having our own fun with this gal. Just look at her. She’s gonna be our bed warmer for tonight.”Kat memorizes their voices in her head. The one carrying her has a soft and calm tone while the other one has a gruff voice. It seems that
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In the Forest (5)

“Hey Charlie, you got any cigars?” The gruff one asks his partner.“I might have dropped it somewhere, Freddie,” the quiet one says. Charlie and Freddie…the names ring a bell in Kat’s head. She had taken out a list of the men who work for Hawkins family. These two might be there. This makes perfect sense, she realizes. Hector paid these two men to kill James. There’s no other explanation for it. “It’s getting late. We’re supposed to transfer the girl,” Freddie says. “We should see if she’s awake.”Kat can hear the shuffling of feet and she quickly scrambles towards the back of the door. She holds her breath and waits. The footsteps are getting closer and closer. She raises her hands as the key rattles in the door…“Woof! Woof!”Suddenly a dog leaps out of the bushes and attacks one of the men. The man named Charlie whimpers and is gnawed at by the dog while his partner is confused. Freddie takes out his gun and points at the dog but someone tackles him to the ground.The sound of a
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That Night, the Rain Poured

*Flashback*The thunder is striking hard all around the city. Rain is heavily falling, blurring everything else. The traffic is bad at night and a public bus has been stuck on the road for a while, not moving at all. Troy is sitting at the back with earbuds on. He’s staring outside, but his eyes are blank. There’s no emotion in him, his heart numb and his mind racked with guilt. He’s thinking of his sister, Amelia, and of his sister-in-law or rather former sister-in-law, Scarlett. It has been almost over a year since their misfortunes and Troy can’t get them out of his mind. Amelia is still paralyzed and Scarlett is in prison for murder. However, Troy doesn’t believe it and suspects that his family has something to do with her imprisonment.He sighs out loud. There’s nothing he can do to help either of them and it frustrates him. The bus is slowly starting to move again and the traffic is clearing. Raindrops are covering the entire window with water, so he stares at the blurred ligh
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Aftermath

Kat holds her breath as she tries to process Troy’s tale. They had assumed Elle killed James and Isabella but it turns out that Hector was the culprit all along. “Hector wanted James’s property transferred to Elle,” Troy bitterly says. “If Scarlett got the inheritance, she’ll never let him touch it. Elle, on the other hand, was docile and obedient. She’d hand over everything to him. This is why he wanted Scarlett and James out of the picture.”James anticipated this, Kat concludes. He wrote the letter and hid it in Isabella’s old house so that she could one day find it. He knew that she’ll go there.There’s no point in trying to find it now, she inwardly sighs. Hector must have gotten rid of the letter. Nevertheless, they now have a witness to Isabella’s death and they can bring Hector down.“You have to come clean to your former sister-in-law,” Kat encourages him. “If you want to free yourself from the guilt, you must tell her the truth.”“I can’t!” Troy bemoans. “My mother-”“Your
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