All Chapters of The Bargain : Chapter 271 - Chapter 280

“Figures," Racheal said, "because when Steffan found the text I allegedly sent to Roni in my trash folder, it showed that the message had been sent around the time Skylar left, when in fact it was sent later that night”Racheal looked around the table. Leo sighed.“From your phone, it would have been easy to do that.” He said. “The doctor just had to change the time before he started. But in the telecommunication records? They needed a worker to manipulate it.”Racheal stared at the document Isaac was holding. It meant these new records were the ones that had been untampered with.“I need this doctor.’ Iris said quietly. Her face was dark with something that frightened Racheal a little.“He resigned last year,” Isaac said.“I need him. I will find him.” She said, stood up from the table and left. Racheal watched her leave with a mix of pride and dread. She wondered just what her mother would do to the man. She turned to see Leo watching her from across the table.Isaac and her mai

He froze, staring at the video.Danna Sherrod? How could his mother have been involved in a plan to get her own family hurt? It did not make sense. Coincidentally, he heard Iris’s voice ask the question that was on his mind.“You could be lying.”“I am not.” The doctor responded fearfully, looking at the person behind the video frame.“It does not make sense that a mother would be a part of a plan that would get her child hurt, no matter how much she hated that child,” Iris said.“I swear to you. I am not lying.” The doctor said. “She brought the job to me.”“Job.” Iris laughed darkly. “You call what you did to my daughter a job. Who was Danna Sherrod working with?”“Rosyln Rana.”“Good. But it still does not explain why Danna Sherrod would want to harm her own child.” She said.“She was desperate. She was anxious about her secret your daughter knew, and was afraid her family would find out soon.” The villa doctor said.He paused the video. This cannot be about the vault robbery.

Racheal watched Steffan. She saw the shocked expression on his face. She waited for him to turn and leave. Or to ask why she did not let him know immediately, instead of standing here wasting time speaking to her. Or even ask her how she knew.“No, I want to be with you now.” He said, surprising her. That was the last thing she had expected him to say.“What?”He said nothing.“Do you hate your mother so much?”He shook his head. “I should. But I don’t," He paused. “There is nothing I can do for her that the doctors can’t.”She tried not to scoff.“You think there is something you can do for me instead?”He said nothing for a while, just stared at her. “Let’s talk please.”She regarded him for a while, but since he was still keeping a respectful distance, she went with him outside, putting on her warm jacket. They walked down, down the paved walkway bordered by flowers and lawns that she had often walked on the days she had the strength to leave her ward, during her chemo.Leo h

Racheal turned to see her mother watching her. “Are you fine, Malysh?” “Yes, Maman.”“You don’t look it. Nervous about finally returning?” her mother asked. That had not exactly been what she had been thinking about, but she nodded anyway.“There is nothing to be nervous about. They are the intruders.” Her mother said, taking her hand. Racheal looked at her. She wondered how she was taking this so well. This was the first time she was returning to Xen too after all that happened to her there. Why was she not nervous or sad?She may be the exact copy of her mother physically, but they were the exact opposite in character. She often wished she was as strong as her. She was resilient, that was the only way she had gotten over all that happened to her. But she was not as strong-hearted as her mother.“By the way,” her mother said, drawing her attention again. Racheal turned to see her mother smiling. She knew immediately that whatever she had to say, had something to do with Le

Racheal and Iris arrived at Xen in the evening. They went first to the countryside mansion Racheal had grown up in, before Roni became the vice president and moved them to the presidential palace they had stayed at till she left Xen.As she walked through the garden, she took her mother’s hand.“Most of the memories I had of you were from this place.”“Malysh.” Her mother said, looking at her.“Yes. How you would chase me around here, scold me for discarding my shoes, and sniffling the flowers together.”Her mother laughed. “You liked to mimic me then. Sniff the flowers when I did, concentrate on a bud when I did.” She caressed her hair. “My mini version”Racheal smiled, and they continued their stroll in the garden. A walk they had often taken when her head had been around her mother’s waist. Now they were around the same height.“Why did you never pay someone to get me out of Xen?” Racheal suddenly asked. “You could afford it later on in life.”“I could. But since I was dying and