Chapter 34
Camilla was led out of Campbell’s group in handcuffs. Her hair was rumpled and she looked terrible. Her both cheeks were red from numerous slaps and her ears were bleeding but couldn’t be observed because of her hair covering it.
She looked haggard and can hardly be recognized as the beautiful Camilla Dickson. Photographs were being taken, video of her coming out of the company was being recorded and before being pushed into the police van, she looked back and her eyes locked with Joel.
Joel was following her behind. He can’t believe a thing that was said by Rodrigo’s family nor Camilla herself. She was saying something else but her eyes were showing pure innocence.
He doesn’t know why but he was perceiving innocence in all her words. Something isn’t right, why would Camilla say such things.
But as their eyes locked, he saw her eyes welled up and quickly, she turned her face away. She was taken into the Van and went towards the police station.
Ambrose Kelvin’s remains were taken away and Grandfather Larry was rushed to the hospital. Everything seemed to be in pandamonium.
The more the bodyguards tried dispersing the journalists, the more the news spread. In less than an hour, the news of the event in Campbell’s group became the hottest news in town.
The journalists were not in when the whole commotion took place but they got the exact recording and photograph of Camilla Dickson.
That made Joel suspicious. Who leaked the whole incident out to the journalists? Every aspect of the incident was displayed including the humiliation of Camilla. Joel concluded that something isn’t right.
Rodrigo arrived at the hospital, his mother was sobbing. The sob was sincere. She would not be able to forgive herself if anything happens to her father in-law.
She had promised her late husband, Rodrigo’s father, that she would look after his father. She didn’t want anything to happen to him. She was only aiming at Camilla, to separate her from her son.
She didn’t mean to hurt her this much either. But Ella and her daughter took it too hard on Camilla too. What if that security dies, Camilla will end up in jail?
This was too much for her to understand. She knew, definitely, that the missing documents were in safe hands. Ella’s men must be in possession of it. She only hoped that they would not become covetous before returning it back.
Mirabel was trying to console her mother that her grandfather will be fine. She said all these were happening because her brother sold them cheaply to a whore.
She never stopped blaming him over and over and eyed him. Rodrigo didn’t answer a word. A lot was going on in his mind but definitely his sister was right. He had become a victim of love.
He is yet to decide on what he would do to that woman but he knows she would experience a bitter side of him much more than the sweet part she ever knew.
The doctors have been attending to grandfather Larry and eventually, when they came out, the senior among the medical consultants said grandfather Larry had developed a stroke. They were lucky to have brought him on time, otherwise, he would have been dead already.
But he would be alright with proper care and medication. When Rodrigo went into the ward to see his grandfather, he saw him looking pale and weakly.
The smiles were gone and he looked two times older than he used to be. He tried to communicate but Lola came over and took his hand “Everything will be alright father, I promise you”
Her voice choked and Rodrigo took over, telling his grandfather that he was taken back to the company. Camilla is going to be imprisoned for what she did to him and the entire Campbell’s family.
She must spit out the whereabouts of the documents and he would get it back. He apologised for not listening to his grandfather and mother.
He had thought she was real, he didn’t know that was a covetous and ambitious woman. But he promised he would make her pay for what she’s done, she would wish they never met.
That evening, Eduardo asked his mother to invite her sister for dinner in the Anderson’s Mansion. He wants everyone to be present and he would be there as well with Jenny.
Susan Anderson knew something was odd about that. She had always been the one to call them all for dinner and as for Clara, she’s not a member of her family and she doesn’t visit her often.
All the same, Susan Anderson said okay and immediately placed a call across to her sister. She enticed her by saying Eduardo was organising dinner for his loved ones and she was inviting her.
But she would be the host. The dinner would be in the Anderson Mansion. After much persuasion, Clara agreed to come.
Mrs Anderson sighed for relief. Thank goodness that Clara’s head was normal that day, otherwise, she sure would decline and not explain why.
When everyone was seated, Eduardo and Luke came last. Jenny was there already when her husband came from the company.
But unknown to her, there were people waiting outside that neither she nor Eduardo’s parents knew about. When Eduardo arrived at the dinning, instead of the dinner starting, he asked that everyone should wait, there is something everyone needed to know.
Clara was already irritated by the way Eduardo was talking. He was said to organise the dinner, she wants to know why he did it. Is there something else she needed to know and plan a fresh attack?
She can’t wait to see her sister also go childless like her. She has a loving husband and two great kids, they would have been three if she hadn’t disposed of one.
Whereas, she didn’t have any child and she was an idiot hence she divorced him and left him alone without a child. She was opting for an adoption soon.
“Thank everyone for being present. I want to also thank Clara for making out time to be present. I know this dinner will remain forever green in your heart for the rest of your life…” Eduardo said, glancing at his aunt without even a slight smile on his lips.
“It’s ok. Just get to it at once” Clara urged him. The next attack, she must ensure that her men strike him down and Luke too the same day if they can.
Eduardo looked at her with an expressionless face and asked “Aunt Clara, what did my parents ever did to you that you found difficult to forgive?” He tried his best not to jump on her and choke her neck.
Clara sighed. What is this boy saying, has he gotten a clue to anything yet? ” Of course not. I am a very simple minded person” Clara blew her self praise.
“Fine then. And today I am going to ask you why you did what you did many years ago. Where is my sister, the baby you took from my mother when she was born!” Eduardo blurted out.
Susan Anderson shivered and gaped in surprise. She looked at her son and then at Eduardo, the latter was Furious but Clara was looking expressionless. She seemed to be calm as if nothing was wrong.
“Are you alright Eduardo? Has the accident affected your brain as much as it affected your legs? Are you nuts?” Clara inquired, looking offended already.
She was putting up with a bold face. She didn’t know what made Eduardo ask her such a question. She can deny it till the ends of the Earth, but he can never get evidence to back his claim.
Mr Anderson was surprised at his son’s question. Did Clara indeed hurt her sister? He believed Eduardo had a reason for asking her such a question and who knows Clara might be the one behind everything that happened to them back then.
“You are my aunt, my mum’s younger sister and yet you didn’t hesitate to cause her so much pain when you took her daughter away, your own niece.
You think the secret can be hidden forever, that no one would ever know that it was you who abducted my sister?”Eduardo paused and stared at his aunt with a frosty stare.
Everyone was spellbound. Susan Anderson was already sniffling silently. This is too much to be true. It can’t possibly be Clara who had caused her so much hurt all these years. She doesn’t know how to believe it.
Meanwhile Eduardo continued ” I already know you won’t accept it because you think you have deleted the surveillance camera that day. But thank goodness, technology has improved.
I have the surveillance recording that you deleted and I guess you would like to watch it too right?”Eduardo asked and Clara was dazed, her fury was seen all over her looks.
She feels like bouncing on Eduardo and tearing his flesh off his bones. This bastard discovered the truth finally. She was not going to give up but still put up a defence.
“You now want to frame me Eduardo? I know that I don’t get along too well with you but that doesn’t mean I do not like you as my nephew. Why would I do that to my sister and to my little niece?
I know that Susan is your mother but don’t try to come between us. We are siblings and we have been long before you were ever conceived. This once, I can forgive but next time, I will sue you for defamation” Clara gnawed angrily.
Eduardo laughed. Jenny and Luke were the most quiet ones. Luke knew somehow his brother was being busy and investigating his sister, but didn’t expect that his research finally brought him home to their aunt.
Aunt Clara is mean that is why her husband never had a peace day since he got married to her. The kind hearted man tolerated and endured her nasty and inhuman treatment towards him and despite being childless he continued living with her until Clara woke up one day and divorced him.
But how can she do that to his sister? Eduardo is not someone who frames or tarnishes someone’s image, he is too kind hearted for that.
“Me, frame you, defamation and whatever the heck you said. You are wicked Aunt Clara. You are mean and that didn’t not satisfy you, you still went after Luke and I, wanting to kill us as well.
Do you hate your sister this much?…” Eduardo was saying when Susan couldn’t take it. She raised her hand for Eduardo to pause” Eduardo, are you sure of what you are saying?
Clara and I are siblings. She can’t possibly do this to me. I can’t bear it if you keep taking more Eduardo…” Susan Anderson pleaded.
“I need you to talk some senses into your son. He is behaving weird and might need medical attention. He is cripple and perhaps it was affecting him …” Clara was saying in her defence when Jenny interrupted her.
“I beg your pardon Aunt Clara, I don’t like you referring to my husband as being cripple. If there’s anyone here who needs medical attention, it’s you!” Jenny snapped at her.
She didn’t know Eduardo had a missing sister until that moment. How can that be, that a baby be separated from her family from the moment she was born.
And if Eduardo is asking her the whereabouts of his sister, she is certain that he is saying the truth. He cannot make such a claim without being certain of it or having evidence to prove his claim.
Clara turned to glare at Jenny. She saw her staring at her back with the same hostile looks. So this girl has got guts, she can talk back at her arrogantly? She would vteach ebr a lesson and she would never forget.
“Fine, everyone listen. I know this treacherous woman will not speak the truth nor confess to her crime. But everything needed is in the police custody. When she gets there, she would say the truth even if it has to be forcefully.
Besides the evidence of abducting my sister, a daughter of the Anderson family, there is also a witness to her crime of wanting to destroy Luke and I for reasons only she could tell..”Eduardo declared and took his phone, dialling a certain person number.
There was silence everywhere. Can this really be true? Clara was behind the misery the family had been experiencing? How can someone be so mean to her own family?RêAd lat𝙚St chapters at Novel(D)ra/ma.Org Only
Seeing that Eduardo really called the police, Clara threw caution to the air as she yelled ” Yes I abducted your sister and I want you dead both you and Luke. Ask me why I wouldn’t?
Steve was supposed to be mine but Susan took him away from me. I hadn’t for once stopped loving him and wished he had Married me rather than her.
Why should she be the only lucky one? She’s married to the best husband in the world and has kids, happy with a complete home and riches.
She had always been the most loved one by our parents and now, she became lucky in her marriage too. Why not me, why couldn’t I be happy and loved once in my life.
When she told me where she was going to give birth to her baby, I went after her and as soon as the baby was born and the nurse went to take care of her, I attacked the nurse and took the baby away.
Your sister is somewhere in City A. I don’t know if she’s dead or still alive. I paid a drug peddler a large amount of money to take the baby far away from where her family would ever find her.
I want Susan to suffer and lose her sons. I want her to end her life in misery and become a childless woman like me. I was the reason for your accident and I am still planning on how to destroy you completely..”Clara was confessing to her wickedness.
Susan Anderson couldn’t take it anymore. She started sobbing. How can this be true, how can she believe that her own sister is behind everything that has been happening to her and her family?
What had she done to Clara to deserve this. She’s always been mean and terrible and their parents detest that attitude of hers and hence she claimed they loved her more.
But even if they do, how was that her fault? How was she to blame for something that happened Many years ago? And today, her daughter was missing for the sake of Clara’s jealousy.
Steve Anderson was furious. For something as flimsy as that, Clara abducted his daughter. He can’t believe that her unwelcome attitude towards his family was caused by such an act of wickedness.
He probably would have lost his sons just alas she made him lose his daughter. He was taking the case from Eduardo and would not rest until he set his eyes on his daughter.
The police officers were inside the Mansion already. They were quiet and let the accused finish confessing to her crime.
” You did so much evil and without a pinch of remorse? I don’t have eyes for you back then. It was Susan that interested me and we fell in love.
Why did you get offended because I loved your sister and not you? You took my daughter away all these years? What has my baby done to you?”Steve Anderson bellowed.
At this time, Jenny had walked over to her mother in-law. She was supposed to be consoling her but she was sobbing herself. Two women sobbing and holding each other’s hands.
Who was going to console the other? Eduardo looked in the direction his mother sat, and he frowned. He couldn’t hide his fury seeing his two best women crying because of what Clara had done.
“You must know the whereabouts of my daughter, where exactly is she?” Steve Anderson thundered. He felt like strangulating the so-called sister he had.
” Don’t worry yourself too hard father, she will cough out the truth when she gets to the police station. Officers take her away” Eduardo ordered.
The officers came and handcuffed Clara ” Even If you slit my throat open, you will never be able to find your daughter Steve. You’ve lost her forever hahahahaha” Clara declared with a mocking tone.
“I swear you will spend the rest of your life in misery Clara” Steve Anderson cursed and Luke said ” my brother and I will find our sister, but you, you’ll never have the chance to experience freedom for the rest of your life”