All Chapters of LOVE AND LIES: THE BILLIONAIRE'S WIFE'S RETURN : Chapter 31 - Chapter 40

GAIAKnowing how today was going to go got me shivering. My hands and feet were cold and my palms were sweaty. I could barely get any sleep at night because of how shaky I was. Was I sure I could do this? There was something in me that made me doubt but I just had to kill it because I couldn't back out now. As I walked in, the first person I saw was Jacob and Mark and some of the other men filling out one seat. They were here to make sure things went according to plan. As if that was not enough, the media had been called in. I was sure that was the work of Upperman. He had asked that the media should cover the case so that the news of Javon being arrested for theft would be broadcast immediately. Javon's lawyers were already here and I wanted this to be the final straw. The final day. Being that Clay was dead would be to my advantage but I didn't know how to bring that in yet. Perhaps I could wait a bit and let it be an element of surprise. His lawyers opened today's argument.

GAIAThey'd all been arrested. Jacob, Mark Upperman, and the rest. Everyone is involved in this case. I still couldn't believe I was able to pull off this case because the chances of being covered up were very high. After all, these men were rich. Very rich and at the end of the day, I might be the one who gets into trouble for trying to speak up. Knowing the American justice system, I feared that I might go down to try to find out the truth.The case gained more publicity than it was supposed to and that was exactly what they didn't want. Now, it was on every major news outlet and it would only be so long before they would be taken to court. It has also given me publicity. I was now the lawyer who saved Javon Quinten from going to jail. Since the media's knowledge of marriage five years ago was limited to them, I was just a lawyer. Back then, we were still really young, and my parents didn't think that exposing us to the press would be good for our marriage and its building, so

GAIA“Why didn't you ask for help from your friends? Surely, someone was willing to help out?”She scoffed and at first, it sounded like she was coughing but I could see the way her lips turned up in a bitter smirk. “Those hypocrites? They all ran away from us when things went south. Some of them even came here to harass your father and I about the money we were owing them and your father got arrested on multiple occasions because of it. We could get any help.”“Is that why you had to let all the servants go?”She nodded. My mother was raised in money so she wasn't brought up to know how to do my house chores. She was disowned though, for marrying my father who was broke at the time. I wasn't even surprised to hear this. It was obvious those people were here for the money and as soon as things went bad, they showed their real colors. But it was a very unfair thing to do. Some of them had been family friends for years and they had been long time friends of my father. Or so he thoug

GAIAIt took a whole lot for me to get back on my feet. The publicity the case gained shook my business in good ways and bad. First off, it gave us more market and I could see that if things went well enough, we just might be making even more profit this year. We got more investors from places we had never heard of before. Now, the bad news was that it was going to go down in history that my company had once been involved in a scandal like this. That wasn't exactly the kind of reputation I wanted but right now, there was nothing I could do about it. I was happy about the height that my company has attained in the past month since the case was settled. I'd asked my lawyers to keep me in the loop about what happened with Jacob and the rest. They deserved to stay in jail and rot for the rest of their lives and I will make sure that happens. They won't get away from trying to do this to me. Now that things were back to normal for me, I was still trying to get the one thing that I wan

GAIAIt wasn't easy tracking down the maid that was in the hospital ward with me that day. It had been so long ago and I doubted she still worked with Javon. Thankfully, I had Evan who used to be his master of staff. “Evan, do you remember the day my baby died?”Obviously shocked about where this conversation was coming from, he turned around and looked at me with wide eyes. “Yes ma'am. I remember.” “Do you remember seeing any maid in the hospital with me that day?”He came down from the ladder he had used to hang Juan's picture on my wall. “A maid? You mean from the old house?”I nodded. “No, I don't. Why do you ask?”I showed him a seat and sat opposite him. “There was a maid there and I'm very sure she worked at the house. She smelled so familiar.”He was silent for a moment. “Okay, then. I can help you check for her. Did you see her face?”I thought back to that day. I was very out of it so I might have actually seen her but didn't remember. But I could still remember seei