All Chapters of Collateral Wife: Chapter 41 - Chapter 50

CHAPTER 41LORENA'S POVI am getting sick of this drill. Why can I not just go out and come home without having anything dramatic happen to me? I was having a great time dancing and watching Macho expertly mix drinks that tasted so good. It was a great experience and I was enjoying every bit of it. It was so good that I had to put off going to the bathroom until I couldn't hold it anymore.I asked Connor where the bathroom was and he pointed me towards the ladies bathroom. Through the loud music, he offered to take me there but I declined, not wanting to interrupt his fun time. He was showing off his moves on the dance floor , trying to impress a girl, so I let him be. It was just the bathroom, I could find it myself. I walked towards the bathroom and located it without difficulty. Thankfully, there wasn't a long line. I washed my hands and dried off before coming out."Hey, are you Lorena?" A drunk lady asked me."Yes, why?""Some guy told me to ask you to meet him out back." She s

CHAPTER 43LIAM'S POVI didn't want to be here but I just had to make it through dinner with them. I'd spent a week here already and it's the longest I've been home ever since I moved out to go to college. College didn't work out as I had other interests, interest my family didn't support. I mean, what was wrong with being a movie director?I had a passion for film and art and the theater but my family wouldn't let me do that, especially my mother. She desperately wanted me to follow in my father's footsteps and take over the company when he finally retired. But I wasn't cut out for such boring, monotonous life. I was adventurous and there was so much I wanted to do.Sure, I made a mistake and had to quit school, but that didn't mean that I'd given up on my dreams. I had a few projects I was working on but the fundings for them weren't available. Weird right? How can the son of a business tycoon and owner of a conglomerate not have money to fund a little film production?Easy. My pare

CHAPTER 45DEVON'S POVI have always found her breath taking. Her smile, her cerulean eyes so full of life and her bubbly personality. She made me want to be around her all the time. My heart ached for more than just friendship but I was afraid. She was my best friend and I didn't want to ruin it. What if she didn't feel the same way about me and I ended up complicating things? What if she rejects me if I tell her how I felt? Things between us would become awkward and that wasn't good, especially since we were partners at work too. So I bottled up my feelings and stuck by her side as her friend and someone who would always be there for her.I looked up and saw her walking towards me, her brown hair a shade of red under the sun. She smiled immediately her eyes met mine but there was sadness in them. I knew her like the back of my hand. I guess she'd had the talk already."Hey partner." I called, my arms open wide. She walked right into my arms and buried her head on my chest sobbing qu

CHAPTER 47LORENA'S POVIt was Maria's day off, and a few days after the shooting incident. Andrew was feeling a lot better now but he still needed to heal completely before returning to the office. Alfredo had been holding things down in the meantime. I was in the kitchen now, making breakfast. I'd finished making some pancakes and wanted to make some scrambled eggs when my phone rang. I picked it up and stared at the screen. It was my mom.I hadn't spoken to her since I'd confronted her about my identity. I knew she would be worried about me but I wanted to fix this myself. Andrew wasn't a bad person and frankly, I was starting to like living with him. This was the first time I was actually living. When I first got here, I was angry at Andrew for taking me and looked forward to the day my parents would take me home, but I didn't feel that way anymore. I couldn't go back to being locked up again and I definitely didn't want to deal with my father's gambling anymore. I would work har

CHAPTER 49ZOILA'S POVThe house was at the outskirts of the city, old and lonely, almost empty but we could tell there was someone inside from the smoke coming out of the chimney. After all the digging and non-stop investigation, we ended up here, Dev and I.We had done everything we planned to do; read through the documents from the accident and gathered a list of people who were never found at the scene of the accident. We also got the names of people who were found but did not reconnect with their families. I reached out to them from the numbers in the log book and most of them confirmed that they reunited with their families on a later day, others had changed their numbers and so there was no way to reach them. Devon called the women who had been travelling with babies to find out if they had found their children after the accident or if they lost them at sea.We did everything we could, really but got nothing. My mom and Dad found out we were looking into the accident, their co