Chapter 40
Eduardo felt his fingers forming a fist. He was enraged by her words and his fury was all over him. His sister in a dunghill? That is too much wickedness.
And the demon-like aunt said she refused to die. She had wanted to kill the baby then. That was her intention then and all these years, she kept that secret in her heart. She’s a she- devil.
Without another word, Eduardo turned himself and left. He cannot wait there another thirty seconds otherwise, he would punch this demon’s face.
“Come and hit me, why are you going in your wheelchair, cripple Imbecile” Clara mocked. She saw his fisted hand and knew Eduardo was controlling himself.
Eduardo didn’t turn back to look at her but went away. He would find his sister if she was still alive. He definitely would find her except she was dead.
For the rest of that day, Eduardo had no rest. He must find his sister, he had to leave as soon as he was done with the signing of the project at hand.
With Clara’s confession, those men who were after Eduardo and Luke were arrested. They confessed to their crime just as Clara did. They were sent to jail after being found guilty.
In City A, Joel dashed into the President office when he left the hospital. The day’s work had come to an end but Rodrigo was still in the office. He wasn’t surprised when Joel barged in without seeking his consent.
“What do you think you have done Rodrigo? How can you go to that extent? How can you do all that you did in one day? You have done too much damage in one day and I don’t know if you throw yourself into the yellow river, your sins would ever be washed away.
How can you say such words against Camilla. She saved your life back then isn’t it? Yes, she did. When she didn’t even know anything was going to exist between you both.
You made her fall in love with you, I knew you practically nurtured her feelings and eventually, she grew to love and she loved you the most in this life.
But today, you refer to her as a prostitute. A whore and an object for sexual satisfaction. That was too much to say about a woman you claim you once loved.
Even if you don’t have feelings for her again, suddenly your love for her disappeared, you still shouldn’t say such horrible words. You are a murderer. Not by Killing another human being, which would have been better but because you murdered a woman’s self esteem.
You killed trust and love. You made it difficult for those who are yet to find love to see it as a scam. You did evil today beyond what you would be able to repair.
And that was not enough, you destroyed Sara’s coffee shop and demolished the house they live in. It was Camilla that crossed you, not the entire family. You made them destitute and homeless.
You had Jared beaten to stupor. Good, you have done your worst right? What are you going to do next? Have you satisfied your ego, taken your revenge..?”Joel reprimanded him.
“This would be the last time you question whatever I do or say. The next time you do so, you will never be able to recover from what I will do to you Joel!” Rodrigo threatened.
Who gave him the right to question him? Shouldn’t he be by his side and not on the side if that cheat, who aborted his unborn child. If Camilla had committed every other evil, and not aborted that child, he would have pardoned her.
But she’s committed an unpardonable offence by going that extreme. No wonder she told him on the night before he travelled that she doesn’t want to be pregnant.
It implies she had aborted some pregnancies in the past. But this time, her crime exposed her evil deed.
“If I do, Rodrigo what will you do? You may be my boss, but I am older than you and you know it” Joel retorted back at him.
Rodrigo stood up and walked to stand a few inches away from Joel and stared at him with eyes red from alcohol and internal emotional breakdown. ” Say it again, ask me what I will do, go ahead”
Joel didn’t dare again. He was quiet. Rodrigo would go to the extreme if he says anything that would appear as if he was daring him.
Rodrigo turned and went away muttering ” I thought you said you were older than me”
Camilla cried and sobbed quietly. She was too weak to do it loudly again. Her voice is choked. She doesn’t know what she should sob About.
Is it about her mother and brother who had no place to lay their head or about her mother’s business that he destroyed. How will they cope till Jared gets a job?
Or is it about the words that Rodrigo said about her? He called her a prostitute he saved from the mire? She doesn’t know if he was hallucinating when he said it or if he was drunk?
He took her for the first time without her consent and he still has the conscience to call her a whore. He told her he loved her, he would love her alone for the rest of his life.
But he couldn’t keep to his words for a year, or two or even ten years. But already, he had turned his back against her so soon.
Love is a scam. It doesn’t exist. It is not real and cannot stand the test of time. But she still feels something for him. She knows what she felt for him was real, as real as touchable.
He would know one day that everything she did was being scripted. It wasn’t her doing it intentionally, but being remote and she had to do it to save her family.
Those people were the ones that loved her the most. She can’t trade their lives for a mere title and she cannot betray Rodrigo either.
When he discovered what happened to those documents she took and the audio recording she did, he would definitely regret what he’s done to her but then, it would be too late.
When he learnt his mother lied about what she accused her for, he would not be able to forgive himself for what he did to her. But then, she would never forgive him for the words he spoke to her and for what he did to destroy her family’s happiness.
Lola Campbell had pleaded with her not to tell Rodrigo back then what she said and even made her promise. Only for her to tell her son she collected such an amount of money from her in exchange for her to break up with him.
How can someone tell a lie and the lips not shake or his voice choked? This is too much for her to comprehend. This is maliciousness.
But she suspected that Emma and her mother would probably be responsible for all that has happened to her and her family. Besides Emma, who else was eager to share or rather possess Rodrigo in her place?
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Camilla sniffled. She hadn’t taken her bath in two days and her entire body still aches. As for her hair, she would cut it off when the opportunity arises.
Her scalp has sores and she doesn’t know if she can get treatment for it. Her swollen cheeks will return to normalcy after some time.
Will those rascals let her family go? She certainly knows if they let them go, they would come find her at least. She wants them to know that she doesn’t regret being in jail to save their lives.
If the chance comes again, she would do it over and over to save them both. They meant a lot to her and no matter what happened, she will love them forever.
She sniffled and cleaned her tears. She had lost count of how many times she had cleaned her tears. She gently touched her still flat belly and caressed it.
She doesn’t want anything to happen to her child. That’s the only thing from Rodrigo she would cherish for the rest of her life. She would protect it and never let anything happen to it.