What is Sebastian planning?
CHAPTER NINETY- SIX Crystal opened the door and waddled in, it was odd because the lights were off, and she wondered if Kayden was asleep already. It’s barely eight pm and he is asleep? She closed the door with a soft thud because if he was asleep, she wouldn’t want to wake him up.“Are you back?” She heard his voice from the darkness and almost immediately the lights came on, Kayden sat up from the bed rubbing his eyes.“Yes, I am.” She answered immediately, she dropped her tablet on the table, Kayden’s silver eyes landed on her and his eyes narrowed.“What is that?” he asked curiously and she shrugged.“What?” He got up from the bed and his steps doubled as he headed towards her, he pulled her face and his hands went into her hair. “What happened to your hair?” he looked just as baffled as he sounded. She pushed him away and took a few steps back, she could see the dissatisfaction in his face, he looked like a child denied of his toy. “As you can see, I got a new haircut…” sh
“Laurie didn’t come back last night, did she?” Deborah asked curiously as she stared at Paige on the other bed watching some of the Thai drama’s that she had recommended the previous night, and Paige shrugged, she wasn’t close with the lad so she didn’t care if she came back or not. “She is a grown ass lady, do you have to look out for her, do you think you're her mom?” Natalia asked as she did some touch up on her make-up, this was the last of their vacation and she would like to use the most of it, probably get the attention some of those attractive businessmen she met in the lounge last evening. “Everyone here needs to be looked out for,” Deborah’s brows curved and there was a taunting look on her face now. “Everyone except for you, because it’s clear you have other motives.” “I know you always want to pick a fight with me,” She sighed as she added one more layer of her fiery red lipstick to her already blood red lips, her eyes raised to glare at Deborah who was wearing a b
“I heard you dropped the charges against Natalia.” Kayden asked as he grabbed Crystal by the arm. Crystal had spoken to the police and called the incident an accident, she said she was trying to climb down the stairs in a hurry and she tripped, and because she was the victim, the evidences dug up became invalid. “Moreso, without my knowledge?” Her eyes lazily fell to the point of contact before they went back to his silver eyes that narrowed down at her. “Yes, and is there any problem?” She asked curiously as she tried to disengage from him, but all her efforts were futile. “Of course, there is a problem.” He tightened his grip. “Dropping all charges would render all my efforts useless, and since I have come this far why don’t w—” She interrupted him sharply. “I do not wish to be stressed,” she confessed. “Isn’t it enough that you fired her already?” “What are you talking about?” “Kayden,” she called him softly, she pinched her nose bridge in frustration. “There is no need for
“What are you doing here?” Paige asked Crystal, who was engrossed in making a particular design, she glanced up at Paige and a mischievous smile spread across her lips, Paige eyebrows raised up slightly, because recently seeing her in a good mood, is close to impossible? “Do you have anything good?” Paige peeped into the screen and saw that she was finishing up the art that she was doing in the memory of her mother, and it was exactly as she remembered Mrs. Cabin, Paige smiled back at her, she could already see the source of her happiness. “You did it?” “Yes, I did.” She grinned revealing her set of pebble white teeth and Paige felt some sort of comfort in her, she was relieved. “I guess I just have to do more brain work, the problem is my fuzzy memories.” She understood what Crystal was trying to say, Paige knew that her trying to remember a lot of things might cause some mental problems for her. “I can’t hide from my problems forever; I need to learn how to embrace them.” She an
“For me to help you, you have to tell me everything.” Kayden's voice came back again, and Crystal gripped the edge of her dress, this was everything she was avoiding and more, but somehow the past she tried so hard to run away from had caught up to her. Who could have done this? Is it Jake? He is the only one who probably still had access to those pictures. “Help me? In what way are you going to help me?” she croaked out after the long pause.“My team has been able to take down, most of the pictures, and we will proceed to start a serious investigation on whoever posted them, but I just ask one thing of you.” More tears slipped out from her eyes. “Tell me the truth, Crystal, the woman in the picture is you, right?”“Yes, it is.” She confessed feeling the sudden sense of shame flooding through her, maybe it was because she was faced with Kayden, but she was so embarrassed she could die. “Usually, I wouldn’t care what you think about me, but this time I will just tell you, I am not th
“Crystal, you can’t keep yourself locked in there forever!” Jake yelled as he bang on the door to his bathroom repeatedly, she didn’t come out to him, even though he had been asking her nicely to come outside and he had apologized to her countless times too. She had locked herself in his bathroom, ever since their small squabble, he would admit to the fact that he had overreacted. “Alright, fine, I was wrong, Crystal, I promise to not hit you again, so please come out, I am sorry.” He heard the locks on the door and it opened slightly, she stared back at him dead in the eyes, her lips pursed together stubbornly. “Crystal…” he reached for her face but she slapped his hands away in anger, one half of her face was swollen so badly, and her lips were busted too. It seemed like he had used a lot more strength than he had intended. “…I am sorry, I-I was drunk.” “You were drunk?” His lashes drooped down when he noticed the sarcasm in her voice. “You hit me because you were drunk
She scrolled further into the message, she heard a loud snap and she jolted in her chair. “Crystal! I can’t find my shampoo!” Jake yelled from inside the bathroom and she got up in a daze, her heart pounding in her chest. “I bought another one, it’s in the shelf.” She yelled back not moving an inch from where she stood but she peeked towards the entrance in desperation. “Thanks!” His voice lowered and she sat down on the chair again, she unlocked his phone one more time as she scrolled through his messages again, looking for that particular one that was the only message that interested her. “I told you it’s a thousand dollars per shots and I only do sleepy shots.” Jake had replied in one of the previous messages, which made her even more curious, because what did he mean by doing “sleepy shots”. “What is this?” She asked herself when she saw that the pictures in question, were pictures of herself and they were nowhere near decent. She had never taken these kinds of pictures,
“How are you feeling?” Paige asked Crystal who stared blankly at the ceiling, even though she could see Paige, she couldn’t speak to her, there were a lot of things she wanted to say but it was as though she had been stripped of her strength. “Crystal…” Paige called again, hoping for a response of some sort but Crystal simply blinked back at her, that’s right, what does she except? Crystal had just woken up from her coma, it has been five month since she was unconscious and she woke up about three days ago, it was natural she was still unresponsive. Paige glanced up at Cassandra and shook her head; Cassandra stepped towards the bed eagerly. “Crystal, can you hear me?” She asked reaching for her hands on the bed; Crystal just blinked back, tears welling in her eyes, tears that would later stream out of her eyes. “Why won’t you say anything?”The frustration was evident in Cassie’s voice, she wanted to hurl up her sister and shake her back to reality, a lot of things had happened to