Reckless – Episode 81&82

RECKLESS

Reckless – Episode 81&82

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[Book 1 in The Untamed Duet]

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Stacy’s hand went up too, coming down to Albert’s face, but she has enough self-control to stop before her palm could meet his cheek.

She folded her palm and slowly dropped it, breathing heavily with half of her eyeballs hid in her eyelids. She’s glaring so bad like a petulant, rebellious child.

Anita and Albert’s eyes were still wide, especially Albert’s. Did his daughter just try to slap him back?

“Stacy?” His voice sounded low. “Did you just almost slapped me?”

Stacy bursted into tears suddenly, walking to the last staircase to sit on and resting her balled palms on her knees. She stayed there sobbing.

Albert looked at Anita, and Anita nodded at him.

He went to sit beside his daughter, staring at her as she shed tears.

“Sweetheart, I’ve tried very hard to overlook his shortcomings and bloody personality, but I just can’t. Do you know what a lover means? You share intimacy, souls and hearts and body. You share forever, and if forever gets shattered cos he later broke you, I won’t be able to take it.”

Stacy kept crying.

“I’ll even tell you that I tried to find his family. I heard the story of how his bathhouse worker mum and his graveyard guard dad are both dead, but still, there should be an aunt and maybe uncle, right? I tried to find them so I’ll see someone to hold accountable if he breaks you, but I found nothing. The only Fabio family in the Bronx belongs to a handyman, meaning Cove isn’t a Fabio at all. He has been fabricating his identity. He’s not only a killer, he’s a liar!”

“I know,” Stacy sniffled.

Albert’s eyes darkened. “You do?”

Stacy faced him.

“He’s Thiago, didn’t you hear when I said it earlier? His surname is X.” She sniffled again, chest rising.

“Wait wait…” Albert spranged up immediately, eyes growing wide with shock. “Did you just say X?”

Stacy looked up.

“What?”

“Did you say X?” Albert repeated.

“I said X!!” Stacy yelled, standing too. “I never lie to you and he said it himself cos he never lies to me too!”

Albert held his head with his two palms, his body shaking suddenly like he had caught the flu.

“Dad?” Stacy gulped, wiping her tears a little bit from her cheek.

Albert laughed amusingly, getting down the one staircase before becoming serious, the his eyes turned murderously hard.

“That is even a greater reason for you to stay off him!!! X? I won’t have you enter that trap! Do you know the kinda family you’re talking about? Those sickly rich animals forced people to stop calling the Australian president by his Excellency title cos they feel the president isn’t worthy of the title! Their family head Nathan X is the only one people address as His Excellency in that country. They’re literally ruling Australia, and even after Nathan’s death five years ago, no one could still dare address the President as His Excellency cos they’re still scared!”

“And do you know who killed Nathan? His own evil son Thiago X, and who is Thiago? The same boy you’re stupidly in love with? He killed his father, he was sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment, but after one month in jail, he set the penitentiary on fire, burning more than hundred prisoners. Everyone thought he died in the fire, but he actually escaped to LA! He has been hiding here cos that bastard finished uni since five years ago! He’s lying to and deceiving everyone including you, sweetheart. He’s a criminal!”

Stacy’s palms suddenly began sweating, and her armpits and foot.

As she sweated, she’s also feeling cold. Two in one which made her head spin, and she nearly fell.

Anita quickly caught her. “Beauty! Take a deep breath!”

Stacy couldn’t even hear. Her ears are boiling, oozing steam.

Albert’s secretary suddenly ran inside, holding his wife tablet to his chest. He’s obviously rushing from the office, and he’s panting.

“Sir, you need to see this!” He handed Albert the tablet.

With a frown, Albert took it, and the news from Australia displayed on screen lucidly.

→ The X Family that has been laying low since five years ago cos of the death of the family head—Nathan X, is now back to the public after an awareness made by the heiress of the family—Shelby X, this morning. According to her, her half-brother didn’t die in the penitentiary fire. In fact, he had escaped to Los Angeles in America five years ago under the cover of his disguise name—Covey Fabio. Now, Shelby and the whole Australia government are after the bloody criminal with a bounty that whoever captures her in Los Angeles would be awarded a sum of a billion dollars for a job well-done.

Albert finished reading and instantly turned the screen to Stacy for her to read word for word.

Stacy instantly felt dizzy from the shock. She felt queasy and rushed upstairs, holding her tummy.

Anita went after her.

“You should check the second news, sir.” The secretary said.

“There’s a second news?” Albert blinked, raising the tab to his eye level again to scroll.

Then, came the second news.

→ After laying low for five years, Shelby X is back to shake Australia with the family doings such as; Launching of her first Human Cryonics, Space Exploration and Satellite Tech. As at now, Shelby X is the richest human in the world with her newly-revealed net worth being multi-trillions. She overtook Albert Montana and Kaylee Wesley in the game. The world is still in shock about how a blind heiress could achieve that much.

Albert fell against the couch behind him. The tab fell from him, and his eyes felt dizzy too as he shook his head several times as if trying to convince himself he didn’t just get overthrown. He has been humbled.

By a blind Shelby X??

He gulped, dragging his palm across his face to fight his dizziness.

“Sir? Are you ok?” His secretary asked with concern.

Before Albert could reply, Stacy came rushing back downstairs with Anita at her tail, hollering.

“Beauty!”

“Sweetheart!” Albert stood straight, but Stacy just rushed past them.

Outside, her friends are just arriving. They came after seeing you circulating Australia news online.

“Babe! Cove… I mean Thiago is a crimin—”

Kehlani was still talking when Stacy got in her car quickly.

She drove out.

Albert and his secretary drove after her, and Anita drove out too.

The girls all packed themselves back into their cars, all zooming after Stacy on the road.

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[Two-bedroom Apartment]

Dorian grabbed the two pillows behind him, freeing his back. He threw the pillows at Kaylee, but both could only land halfway to her. His energy ain’t that impressive yet.

“I never asked for a replacement, did I? I never asked for a fuckin replacement bîtch! I thought you knew me better than anyone? You should know I’d rather die than let anyone take my fuckin place!!! I am Dorian Wesley, your only friggin son! Not a nameless Jeremy!!!”

“I just knew you’d display your ungrateful tongue to me, and at this point,it’s irritating to even answer you, but yunno what? I’ll give you the reply you want cos you need it! Throughout the months Jeremy acted as you, I had peace! I was at peace with myself and I once wished you’d stay in coma forever and he’d continue acting like you! He gave me no headache! He didn’t rape! His stage presence was even sharper and fuller and yours! Jeremy was a better Dorian than you who’s the real Dorian! You foolish son!”

Before Kaylee could even finish saying that, Dorian already got down from the bed, lifting the monitor beside him. He threw it at his mother, but Kaylee quickly went out of the way. The monitor shattered.

Dorian immediately held his chest, squirting blood from his mouth.

“The clotted blood is starting to come out, but you really need to calm down and conserve your energy, Dorian.” The doctor said.

“And who are you to talk to me???” Dorian faced him with a devilish glare which didn’t freak the doctor.

“I’ve been working my arse off since last year, doing everything possible to keep you alive in coma and trying hard to make you wake!!! You will not ruin my efforts with your hothead cos if you do not sit and rest right now, you will slip back into coma and won’t wake up for years!!”

Dorian scoffed, spitting blood again —on the white bedspread this time.

Kaylee still stood where she was, but now she has dropped her purse, and her smile is derailing.

“What? Are you pained?” She scoffed. “Don’t forget I am your mother, and I know your only weakness is when people talk down on you. So now…sit your arse down and inhale.”

Dorian’s lips were still wet with blood as he sat in bed—right on top of the bloodstained sheets.

“Tell me, everything… everything…”

Kaylee smiled, stepping closer on her extra tall heels.

“That January night last year…..” She drawled intentionally, stopping right in front of him.

[Back To That Night]

Kaylee stood, slowly with shadowed, curious eyes…

“Why do you have my son’s face?”

“No….” Jeremy shifted back on his butt, literally dragging it on the pavement, fearfully.

Sensing he’s not gonna talk soon, Kaylee signalled to Angela to take Dorian to their private hospital since his pulse is still throbbing.

Angela obeyed and bundled Dorian’s bloody body back into her own car behind them.

She drove off, and Jeremy instantly stood. He began running back to Lynn’s dead body, but Kaylee blocked him, and he stopped with a gasp.

His chest is high, like he’s holding all his breaths there. He doesn’t look like he’s breathing at all.

“Are you Anita Wolfe’s son from Los Angeles?” She smirked.

Jeremy released all the breaths in his chest at once, and he fell back on the ground, gasping.

Kaylee squatted in front of him, smiling deviously. “Your mother is one of my loan customers, and I know you cos when loaning people in my bank, I take identities of family too. You and your twin sister were infants when your mother borrowed the loan, but year after year, she makes sure to send the new appearance of her family, so yeah…I know you, Jeremy Wolfe.”

Jeremy gulped, fingers scratching the pavement like he wants to enter the ground.

“And I was surprised too when I saw you had the same face as my only son, but at the same time, I wasn’t surprised cos doppelgangers still exist. Then you talked just now and I heard you have the same voice as my son too! Looking at you right now, he’s only taller than you by an inch… Gawd is really wonderful.” She laughed, so tricky her red lips seemed like it’d swallow him.

Jeremy gasped again when he heard a car honk from afar, and Kaylee looked back.

A car headlights shone slightly, but not for long before it disappeared. No one’s coming that way.

“Don’t be expectant, Jeremy.” Kaylee smiled again. “This road only has one cheap hotel at the end, and the hotel was closed just last week. I guess you and your friend were going to the hotel to lodge without knowing,” she clicked her tongue, glancing over Jeremy’s shoulder to see Lynn’s dead body still lying in blood. “May her soul rest in peace.”

She looked at Jeremy again. “Oh… it also leads to an exclusive tattooist shop where Dorian went to get himself tattoed, and the patrons of the shop won’t stop to help anyone on this road if they drive past… Don’t wait for help, none is coming, dear.”

And this is when Jeremy’s shaky energy gathered.

He raised his knee at Kaylee and jabbed her on the chin. The woman lost a teeth, and her nose bled as she fell on her butt with a very loud yelp.

Jeremy stood, turned around, and ran for his life with tears on his face. He ran past Lynn’s body on the ground and cried harder.

‘I’m so sorry, Lynn.’ he thought sorrowfully, but that was the end of his run cos he was attacked in the front by Kaylee’s guards.

The heavily-built men suddenly appeared from nowhere, attacking him from all angles.

For him to study moves and use them against the owner, he has to be calculative and calm, but right now he’s far from calm cos of the cold shock in him, so how will he be calculative at all?

He was taken down by the guards, and two of them placed their legs on him to hold him down.

Kaylee walked up to them and dragged him up, sending two blinding slaps to his face.

Jeremy fell back to the ground, crying. “You killed Lynn and the taxi driver, and I’m badly injured!!! Now you wanna hold me down? I never expected Dorian’s mum that I adored to be like this! You’re not human!!!”

Kaylee ignored him, taking a tissue from one of the guards to wipe her bloody lips slowly.

An extra guard brought a new car for their use.

“Get the girl’s body and the taxi driver’s body in the car, set the taxi and my car on fire, and wipe off the blood on the road. Also, take care of the road cameras and check for any witness…clear them.” Kaylee ordered.

“Yes ma’am!” The guards chorused.

They did as they were told, and Jeremy was forcefully dragged into the car with them too.

As they drove away, the guards set the taxi and Kaylee’s car on fire after they removed all traceable items from the two.

Jeremy and the two dead bodies were driven to a reserve forest where abandoned wells are.

The taxi driver’s body was thrown into one of the wells, and Jeremy’s eyes widened madly.

When the guards started taking Lynn’s body to the second well, he stood quickly.

“No…this is wrong… She has family too. Let’s take her to her family I don’t mind going to jail!!”

He was kicked off, and he stood immediately, dragging Lynn’s body with them stubbornly.

The moon sat brightly in the sky like a mute witness, and the dry leaves on the ground were crunching.

Kaylee picked a thick stick from the ground and slammed it on his head from behind. Jeremy lost his breaths and energy. He landed on the ground heavily, and dry leaves flew up.

Lynn’s dead body was thrown in the second well, inti darkness.

Then, the guards began gathering big stones to throw into the well so the few visitors of the forest won’t perceive their odour when they start smelling rotten.

As they piled stones into the two wells, Jeremy’s eyes brewed hot tears from where he lay weak on the ground, and his heart broke.

It got destroyed.

Coming to Los Angeles for Dorian’s concert was the biggest mistake of his life. He shouldn’t have done it.

If he’s opportune to go back in time, he’d chose to stay at home.

Now in a strange city, he’s getting involved in a murder case involving the mother of the singer he adored.

Fate is too cruel.

Kaylee’s phone was handed to her when it started ringing, and she picked too quick.

It’s Angela.

“Coma, Kay. Rian landed in coma. And the worse part? It’s indefinite. The doctor said he might not wake up for several years. It’s too severe I don’t know what to do…” Angela sniffled, crying.

Kaylee cut the call, showing zero emotions like she had been expecting this. She looked back at Jeremy on the ground and sighed.

She walked up to him and squatted beside his weak body.

“You’ll be 24 next year, and you only attended highschool. You didn’t attend uni cos your poor mum is too poor to fund your uni education… How about I change your life?”

Jeremy’s red, sorrowful face came up.

“Be my son. Act like him till he’ll wake up, and I’ll forget about your mother’s loan debt.” Kaylee said.

[Present Time]

“The fact that he acted as me is making my stomach twist in a mad kinda way, but I can’t blame you, so all the blames will be on him. He has to pay for acting like me!” Dorian threatened bitterly.

He’s still sitting on the bloodstain, looking so crazy with his haphazard hair waving around his head.

“That’s why he’s going to jail for trying to kill you and killing Lynn. He’ll be lucky if he doesn’t get death sentence.” Kaylee smiled.

“And why is Angela not here? He should be here, sucking my di+k!” He looked up with contempt.

“Oh what if I told you that bîtch is obsessed with Jeremy now.” Kaylee laughed slowly. “She seriously thought I wasn’t aware of his affair with you back then. If only she knew you never keep anything from me.”

“Obsessed with Jeremy? What the fûck!” Dorian shouted, but he instantly held his chest and vomited saliva. Just saliva.

“Stop raising your damn voice! You’re still too weak!” The doctor cautioned.

Dorian lay flat in bed, grunting.

“Going to jail suddenly doesn’t feel enough for this Jeremy. I need to off him with my hands.” He muttered.

“Can you forget about Angela now? I got you the prettiest doll in this country who you’ll have complete control over cos her father will soon drop dead.” Kaylee said.

“I knew I had a sweet mum,” Dorian smirked in bed.

“All you have to do now is rest here and wait till we leak the fake news to the public.” Kaylee nodded.

No words were spoken again.

She left with the doctor, and outside the house, they met a couple—the wife who poured onion water on Jeremy and the husband whom Jeremy beat up that year.

Kaylee had contacted them.

“You’ll be the ones to discover this attic, and you’ll be the one to break the news.” She said, handing them fat money envelopes.

They took the envelopes with greedy smiles. “We’ll do a great job, ma’am.”

—

[Elite2 Hotel]

Trevor and Matteo are currently in front of the TV, both shivering as they watched the trending news.

From Australia to America. In fact, the whole world is looking for Covey Fabio/Thiago X right now.

The criminal two in one.

And immediately Stacy left this hotel two hours ago, he left this hotel too.

Now, they have no idea where he is. His line is saying it doesn’t exist.

The remote fell from Trevor, and the phone fell from Matteo.

“I know I said if Wizard turned out to be a criminal, that I’m willing to go to jail, so why am I shaking?” He muttered fearfully, shivering harder.

“He once told me his real name started with T, but I never expected this brutal revelation. A criminal wanted by the richest person in the world? Shelby X? His blind half-sister? I swear I can’t think…” Matteo held his head.

Trinidad barged in, and Trevor raised his hands immediately.

“Yes! Cops are here we’re dead!”

But seeing it’s Trinidad, he lower his arms slowly.

“T-girl?”

“Tomboy, where the hell is crap boy?”

“You expect me to know?” Trinidad snapped. “I heard the news and I’m running mad right now I can’t even concentrate!!! Where the hell is that bastard his line isn’t going through!!”

“He left since two hours ago, taking his phone and laptop with him in his backpack. I have no idea.” Trevor explained.

“F+k!!!!!!!” Trinidad held her head, screaming out insanely. “I’m going to kill that insane man if I get my hands on him!”

“Man?” Matteo blinked.

“You didn’t see the part where his real age was mentioned in the news?” Trinidad glared. “He’s 25! He finished uni five years ago! His young teen-like face is a deception!!”

“What!!” Matteo and Trevor chorused with wider mouths.

“Told him not to hurt Stacy. If he knew he was a criminal, he shouldn’t have gotten her involved with himself. That sick pyromaniac.”

“Pyromaniac?” Matteo and Trevor chorused again.

“Wait…did you only read half of the news? He’s a pyro since birth, deaf naturally! Even before the news said it, I already knew it. What do you both even know about that insane man?” Trinidad muttered.

“Ah…my head…” Trevor groaned in complete shock.

Then, another burst happened. Stacy came in with her friends behind her.

Albert and Anita too.

“Stacy!” Trinidad rushed to her. “Stacy, are you ok?”

“No…” Stacy shook her head, tears gathering in her eyes. “Where’s he? Where’s Thiago? His line is saying it doesn’t exist… please don’t let me run mad…where he?”

Trinidad shook her head. “We have no idea too. Trevor said he left immediately you left too.”

“Ahhh…” Stacy turned around as another bile rose in her throat.

Her eyes dimmed, her stomach churned, bones seeming to become dust under her skin.

Cove didn’t leave, right? He didn’t burn hundred prisoners with the penitentiary five years ago, right?

Her hot breaths hung in her throt, refusing to go inside her.

She sweated on the temples, facing Albert and Anita who’re just entering.

Immediately Matteo saw Anita, she stopped walking. Matteo’s panic paused too. He gasped.

Then…the final burst happened…. Cops poured into the room.

Without talking to anybody, like ten of them started searching around for Cove, and two of them faced the people inside.

“Matteo Wolfe, you were his boss at the repair garage,”

“Was? No, I’m still his boss. I won’t deny him. Yeah, I know him, but right now I don’t know where he is too, and his identity came as a shock to me too.” Matteo replied.

“Trevor Wolfe, you’re his adopted brother?” They asked.

“Yeah, and he’s the best brother in the world no matter what y’all say. If you’re going to jail us, then do. But one thing’s for sure…we don’t know where he is.” Trevor said.

“Trinidad Brooke?”

“I’m his best friend, and yeah…I have no idea where that f+ker is too.” Trinidad nodded fast.

“Stacy Mon—”

“What Stacy?” Albert came forward, grabbing his daughter’s wrist.

“Sir—”

“They have nothing together. The bathroom picture he posted? Solid AI! He was obsessed with my daughter as the maniac that he is.'” Albert defended.

Stacy opened her mouth to talk against that, but Tania quickly covered Stacy’s mouth.

Albert dragged Stacy out, and her friends followed, but when Anita tried following, Matteo blocked her.

“We’ll need you for more questioning and phones scrutinization at the station, Matteo, Trevor and Trinidad. It won’t take an hour.” The cops said.

Trevor quickly grabbed Trinidad’s hand, and she didn’t shake it off.

“Sure,” she nodded at the cops.

“We should talk, Anita.” Matteo told the woman, nodding. “When I return from the station, let’s talk.”

Anita couldn’t even reply, cos her eyes are on the TV.

Another breaking news about the fake Dorian is out.

Jeremy Wolfe = Fake Dorian who locked real Dorian is an attic at his former apartment and then went ahead to start acting like the real Dorian for DIAMONDS.

Matteo faced the TV too, and when he saw the news, his head rang.

Jeremy Wolfe? Meaning Elmira twin?

He gasped.

Anita had to hold the wall for balance, head banging too. To think she agreed to sabotage Albert just to get money to take Jeremy back, and now this? How crueller could Kaylee get to do this to her?

How???

She rushed out, and Matteo followed her immediately.

Now the cops are left with Trinidad and Trevor, and as they followed the cops out, Trinidad kept looking back at Dorian in the TV.

He’s currently getting wheeled out of the attic, and he’s unconscious.

“You’re finally out of your hole, rapist.” She muttered.

Trevor heard it and his eyes went up, but he didn’t ask about it till they were out of the room.

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[Dorian’s Mansion]

Dorian already took his insects out of their glass habitat… Now they’re inside a small box in his pocket, and he’s standing lonely in the middle of his room, staring at everything.

Vanity. Useless.

Everything that’s not his own. Everything that came with his acting as Dorian. They’re about to crash.

He was tracing the wall with his index as he walked out of the room, going to his in-house studio.

His fingers touched everything. The drum set, guitar, piano, booth, microphones and earmuffs…

They’re all turning to dust in his eyes, as if he’s shedding that part of him away. He was never meant to become a singer. Never his path.

The only hobby he has always had was ice skating, and the reason he chose to study Mass Comm was because he wanted to meet Stacy.

So… maybe Mass Comm and ice skating are the only things he owns, but he’ll even part with those ones now. Who skates in jail?

A fleeting smile caught his lips, sadness crowning his eyes as he touched his perfectly framed portraits on the wall.

Goodbye, to this life.

The stumbling of legs alerted him that someone else is in this place with her, and his eyes swayed as he turned around gently.

Angela stood right there, holding a backpack where she had packed few of his clothings and visa.

She came closer, panting impatiently as she pushed the bag at his chest. “The airfield is still free! Go there I poisoned the guards to stall for you. You can fly over to Seattle or Manhattan, and I’ll arrange for you to stay hidden before I’ll be able to fly you out of the country completely!”

Jeremy pushed the bag back to her, smirking. “I don’t need your help. I’m going to jail.”

“You’re just 24!” Angela yelled. “Are you gonna throw your life away just like that?”

“It’s none of your business, Angela.” Jeremy’s eyes went cold.

“Of course it is! I love you!”

And that was followed by the flinging of Jeremy’s palm to her face. Her cheek heated up immediately the slap hit her, and she staggered.

His cold eyes bored into hers. “In this lifetime, I’ll ever only love Stacy! If in the end she doesn’t love me back, then I’ll stay single for life!”

Angela’s eyes widened.

And the cops poured in like ants in sugar. They surrounded the room, and he’s sure they’ve surrounded the house too. Their guns were pointed at his head.

Kaylee came in last, slapping him hard across the face before locking his collar in her palms.

Tears flowed out of her eyes pretentiously, and she slammed his back to the wall.

“You’ve been a fake? A deveiver? Why!!!! Why would you do that to my son? Why would you use the fact that you have his face to torment him? Why would you act like him for one good year!!! You acted so well I couldn’t even find out as his mother!!! You’re a terrorist!!!”

Her second and third slap met Jeremy’s face. She punched him too, and the boy bled from the lips, but he never even made a move.

He just stared at her like she’s his smallest problem right now.

“If not for the couple who suspected something was going on in your former apartment and broke in to discover the attic, you would have continued deceiving me, and DIAMONDS!!! You’re an animal!!! And you’ll rot in jail! I swear!!”

Her words felt like stone hitting a tree bark. Jeremy just stared on hopelessly. When you’re ready for consequences, nothing freaks you anymore, and that’s exactly the point.

He was handcuffed, and the coldness of the cuffs against his wrists nearly made him cry, but he just locked up and followed the lead of the cops.

Outside, it felt like the whole of America had gathered to watch him.

DIAMONDS, reporters, the neighbors in the estate, and officers.

They’re all out…to watch his disgrace. His bones locked too.

He didn’t shed a tear. He’s never gonna do that. He was ready for this, and his stance won’t shake.

Multiple raw eggs landed on him immediately, plus stones and buns and ice cream… even pizza.

They’re throwing him all sorta things while throwing words too…

• Actor!!! You deserve an Oscar!

• You should be buried alive!!

• I knew my Riri wouldn’t fight publicly for a girl! My Riri is too gentle for that!

• So you locked him up like a rat since last year? Shame on you!!!

• My Riri would never stop his fans from fighting for him! He’d never threaten us with his album withdrawal! I should have known!

• Fake!!! They should better destroy that face before they jail you.

• Jail? It should be death sentence! He killed Lynn too! He killed Scott’s sister and reports says he buried her body in a well I’m San Francisco!

• You’re the worse of evil!!!

• DIE!!!!

Before they even got to the police car, his body was filled with junks from the throws, and his face is bleeding from the stones. The cops didn’t even try to stop the people from abusing him further. It’s obvious they’re in heavy support.

Immediately he was pushed into the car, the cuffs felt heavier on him,but he still kept his tears at bay.

Then…he saw his mother.

Anita is just getting out of a taxi with Matteo, and they’re both struggling to enter the crowd to get to him.

That was enough to break him completely. He broke into tears, and the tears leaked on the cuffs on his wrist. His body trembled under the weight of his cruel fate.

Before Matteo and Anita could get to the front, the cops car already drive him away.

Matteo ran after the car, screaming….

“Son!!!!!!”

Hearing that, Jeremy cried harder. Finding out his father in this situation has to be worser than worse. He’s in shambles.

Kaylee was about to enter her own car to follow the cops when Anita knelt before her, grabbing the hem of her expensive dress.

“Kaylee, this isn’t fair! This wasn’t what we signed for! Why are you framing my son!!!”

Kaylee kicked her off with her heel, then smirked like a queen before getting in the car.

Anita got up, chasing after the car on the road, crying.

She knew she wouldn’t catch up, but she kept chasing.

She betrayed Albert for this, and now what? Her son is gone?

It can’t be real.

—

[Young Mansion]

The mansion is in disarray right now as everyone is getting dressed to get on the flight to San Francisco.

Lynn was said to have been buried in a well in San Francisco in the news, so Silas immediately booked a flight for everyone including Owen and Kane… even Reid is going.

Silas threw on his coat, sniffling like he wants to cry. He still has to play the sweetest husband alive anyways.

They’re gonna be checking for Lynn’s skeleton in the well maybe it’s really her. Scott is surely gonna recognize her skeletons.

Scott was already crying as they marched out of the house.

Kane tried to touch his shoulder,but he shifted away.

Owen touched his shoulder, and he just cried harder.

Kane looked at Reid with heavy hurt in his eyes. The fact that he can’t console Scott right now is a wound to him, and seeing him cry is hard to watch. Reid just patted him.

Reporters are outside, asking questions to feed their news, but no one is ready to answer.

Each got in their cars, and they drove off to the airport.

—

[Remo’s Mansion]

Standing by the window of his in-house arcade, Remo has a small grin on his face as if the chaos ongoing in the world was nothing to him which is true.

He swirled the ice in his cup and drank, releasing another grin.

“Gawd, I’ve never imagined a person would shake the world like this! I mean….what’s this if not brains!”

He turned around to face his friends who’re sitting on the snooker table.

Max is back from the hospital, and he looks rotten in the face with wounds from Reid. He’s only breathing.

“Cove isn’t the only one shaking the world. There’s Jeremy too… He locked real Dorian in an attic and also killed Lynn?” Frank said.

“Forget about Jeremy. Jeremy surrendered, didn’t he? But you see that bastard Cove? Or should I say Thiago? The cops can’t find him! No one knows where he fuckin is!! He’s a legend and now I know why I liked him at first. My likeness for him is seriously coming back!” Remo laughed.

He dumped his glass on the floor and his arms went akimbo. “He must be having so much fun watching the cops look for him cos I’m sure he’s watching! How I wish I came from his family too! Damn, Thiago X?. The name alone is doom!”

“Can you stop fanboying him?” Max groaned slowly.

Remo widened his arms, nodding excitedly. “But Jeremy is tough too. Killing Lynn and locking real Dorian up? Now I get why he was friends with Cove.”

“Don’t compare them, dude. Cove killed hundred prisoners. He burned them. That sicko is even five years older than everyone” Frank frowned.

“Reason why I can’t stop talking about him!” Remo laughed out again. ” I’m nineteen so he’s got six years on me. I should tryna be his little bunny, and now my videos of Kaylee? It’s useless against Jeremy cos Kaylee ain’t even his mother. I’ll just leave it for dad to use against Kaylee.”

He walked over the broken glass and went for the door, but he suddenly looked back. “I wonder how Scott is doing though. That soft bastard loved his sister like a girlfriend, and jow she’s suddenly in a well?”

“He has Kane,” Max stated.

“We’re his friends. He fucked up, but he deserves sympathy about Lynn at least.” Remo rolled eyes and left.

“What’s wrong with Remo today?” Frank said suspiciously.

“Thought you wouldn’t ask.” Max grunted, touching his face.

—

[Penitentiary]

The VIP of the penitentiary houses just one person—Zendaya’s dad. He sat like a king on his couch, legs mounted on the table in front of him as he watched the chaos with a smile on his lips. A guard is behind him, fanning him despite the blowing AC.

“Increase the volume of the TV,” he ordered, and the guard obeyed, picking the remote to turn it up.

Mr. Brown’s laughter increased, his crooked set of molars so hard to look at. His stomach looks like a ball.

“Now Albert only has to die, and the chaos will be complete.” He sighed loudly, tapping the chair armrest.

A visitor was reported to be here for him, and he was led out of the VIP to the visiting net.

As expected, Zendaya sat on the other side of the net, her round, big hat covering her face.

It left just her plump lips out—she got lip fillers, actually.

“What good news has my beautiful daughter got for me today?” Mr. Brown leaned in carefully, elbows pressing the table hard wood.

“According to Anita’s write-up, in a week, Albert has a public fundraising ceremony to attend. He’ll be offed in that ceremony.” Zendaya said, voice merciless, devoid of pity.

Mr. Brown’s crooked teeth protruded out of his mouth as his laughter spilled out darkly.

—

[Montana Mansion]

The girls are still here, even Albert.

They’re all in Stacy’s room with her, and while the girls followed every update online on their phones, Stacy kept trying Cove’s line.

She has heard ‘this line doesn’t exist’ for almost hundred times, but still…

She kept trying.

She didn’t stop.

Never paused.

Once it stops, she’d dial again.

“Oh my gawd Jeremy is never coming out I swear! DIAMONDS, Kaylee Wesley and Dorian are surrounding him. There’s no escape route. Also, he didn’t even deny!” Kehlani said.

“I pity Lynn so much. If her body is really found in that well in San Francisco, Scott would be broken. Oh, my captain.” Tania said pitifully, her expression bereaved.

“Cove’s location? Still unknown, but he’s surely still in LA. He hasn’t flown out. Trinidad and Trevor’s phones were scrutinized and nothing pointed to his location.” Tasha said.

“Tomorrow’s march has been cancelled cos of Scott,” Tania said.

“It’s worth it, Scott would cry too much,” Tasha supplied.

“I hope they catch Cove Thiago soon. Such criminal shouldn’t walk the earth surface,” Kehlani said.

“You think?” Tania scoffed. “You didn’t hear his history? He’s the only ultra-genius alive in the world right now. With that brain of his, catching him would remain a thought.”

“Stop! Everyone!” Stacy suddenly screamed out, blocking her ears with her palms. “Stop!!!”

With mouths agape, the girls faced her and Albert himself.

Tears flowed out of her eyes, and her palms refused to leave her ears. Her body is shaking, so bad.

Albert sat with her in bed, taking her palms away from her ears. He rubbed his palms together and placed them on her ears instead.

“From now on, yiu have nothing to do with Thiago X or Covey Fabio or whatever. Thankfully, there was no intimacy, so you getting his dirty offsprings in you is a no too. Calm down, and just sleep, I’ll take care of everything.” He assured.

His secretary call made him leave the room, and Stacy gasped, wiping snot from her nose.

Before any of the girls could come close, she bolted out of the room and went to her late mum’s room.

Now she remembers that when Cove penetrated her two weeks ago at the cemetery house, he most likely released in her cos she washed semen away from her coochie that night.

With shaky hands, she opened her mum’s private drawer and pulled out a park of card-like stuff.

Insta-answer strips was written on it…her mum’s last project before she died. These strips would detect even three days old pregnancies.

No need of blood. No need of urine.

You only have to spit.

As she removed one from the pack of strips, her heart was slamming, threatening to burst out of her ribcage to the floor.

She ran to close the door and locked it, her eyes refusing to look at the test strip for a moment…

If it’s positive, the strip line turns blue, but negative is pink.

Summoning her boldness, she gathered saliva in her mouth and spat on the strip line.

Hot sweat fell from her forehead to her palm as she waited.

Her world rotated, swung, went in a dangerous circle.

As she waited for the results, her heartbeats refused to stop coming rapid. She’d die if it comes any faster.

Her chest was drumming.

When the result started forming, she threw her eyes away, refusing to look at the strip.

“Thiago, where are you?” She muttered, feeling tears falling out of her eyes again. She nearly broke down. This is too much in a day, and now she’s about to find out her own fate in all of this.

She’s not strong enough.

“Thiago,” she sniffled, surging courage to raise the rest strip.

She held her breaths as she returned her eyes to it.

Her eyes blurred, she closed her palm on her mouth cos…

Right on the test strip result line… Sat color BLUE.

TBC.