“Are you okay... Ms. Clara?” Jackie’s voice was tentative.
I answered with a simple “Yes.”, and I continued, “Did you see the news?”
“I did!” She continued saying after a brief pause, “I have asked a friend to look into this. I couldn’t find any helpful information here. The hotel’s surveillance footage was destroyed, so there’s no way to check!”
I nodded, let out a sigh, and said, “You don’t need to investigate about these. But you can help me find someone to monitor Nova Pearson. If possible, it would be best to confirm whether she has contacted Olivia and Yara during this time.”
Jackie was a little confused. She paused and continued saying, “Nova Pearson? Why?”
“I am still speculating, so I am not sure yet. Can you please check and see what information we can find about her first? We will wait and see what you would find to decide the next steps.”
For the other things that should be investigated, Dennis and Leo should have gone through them already. They must have checked all the basic necessary things.
It had been a while before she nodded and spoke again, “Okay, I see!”
After hanging up the phone, I lay in bed, unable to fall asleep, and I felt extremely blocked inside my heart.
After lying down for a while, I was about to fall asleep in a daze, but there was a loud noise coming from downstairs.
I was so upset by the noise - I woke up immediately and got out of the bedroom.
“Go find Clara for me now!” Olivia roared in the hall like crazy.
The nanny and the two sitters tried so hard to stop her and pull her outside. The bodyguards from the villa came out as well.
They were carrying her out.
I went downstairs and spoke, “What has brought Ms. Olivia here?”
The bodyguard stopped but still held on to the struggling Olivia.
“Clara, why did you put the blame me for your accident? Wasn’t it obvious that you deserved to suffer because you had already been nothing but annoying? Why the heck did you blame me for something I didn’t do?”
She kept struggling - If it wasn’t for the bodyguards pulling her, she probably would have rushed toward me and torn me to pieces.
I pursed my lips, “When I did blame you for it?”
She sneered, “Who would it be if it wasn’t you? Dennis is sending me away, and my parents abandon me. They all blame me - Everyone blame me for hurting you. I don’t deserve any of these, because I didn’t do anything! If I did all those, I would have torture you and let you burn in hell!”
Saying so, she struggled to come and hit me, but two strong men pulled her, and she could only wave her fists in the air a few times.
A group of people hurried in from the outside of the villa suddenly - Luna and Samuel got in.
Seeing Olivia making such a fuss, Luna couldn’t control her emotions - She didn’t even notice whether Olivia had stood firmly or not.
Luna slapped Olivia harshly, and Olivia fell to the ground. She covered her face and raised her eyes.
When Olivia saw Luna, she started tearing up. She said, in disbelief, “Mom, you never treated me like this before. Why did you hit me now for her? I am your daughter!”
Luna looked at her with indifference, “How did I treat you before? I thought you never realized how I have treated you before! Look at you now - What have you done? Olivia, have you ever repented on your wrongdoings?”
Olivia was taken out of the villa by two bodyguards. I suddenly said, “You don’t have to keep pushing her limits, maybe it’s not her.”
Luna and Samuel were surprised by what I had said. They looked at me and responded, “Ms.Clara, you don’t have to...”
“I wasn’t trying to help her!” I added, “It was just that none of Dennis, Mr. Link Kennedy, or the Lewis family could find out the identity of the hotel guy, why would we believe that Ms. Olivia was capable of pulling up the whole scheme?”
Olivia hated me and wanted to kill me - I knew this better than anyone else. But there were too many unresolved doubts about what had happened to me. Shawn Galaxy kept saying that Yara George had called him and given him the money.
But Yara didn’t directly contact Shawn, nor did Yara say these words to him in person.
The only trackable trace was the phone. But the voice of the caller could be altered, the phone the caller had used might be borrowed from someone else, or it was just a burner phone. If someone deliberately used any of these, there was no way to find out.
Besides, about the hotel guy, Shawn had mentioned that he was very mysterious.
Seeing me speak this way, Luna and Samuel couldn’t help going silent. They looked at me for a while and said, “Ms. Clara, you...”
“You should all head back first. We won’t be able to decide until we find out more about this matter.”
“Clara, stop pretending to be kind! Don’t think I had no idea you are a slut - You can’t bear with loneliness so you keep hooking up around. Stop pretending, you shameless hypocrite!”
Olivia pointed at me - She was lashing out at me with all the terrible swear words she could think of.
Samuel motioned the bodyguards to take Olivia away in slight disgust, then he took a look at me before he left, without saying a word.
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