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MARK“What a long night,” I said to myself as I prepared myself for work the next morning.The doctor hadn’t given me any information about Alexa, which had left me worried. However, now that the case was over and I didn’t stand the chance of losing my company, I wondered if I should risk it to go over to Mr. Silver’s house to either see Alexa or even Noelle, her best friend because till now, I was still worried about why she suddenly showed up at my house.On my way downstairs, I got an email, talking about a huge sum of money and properties allocation, making me a little confused.I called Brent.“Good morning, Mark,” Brent answered.“Good morning,” I responded. “There is something I saw in my mail right now that seems to be confusing me,” I added.“A mail, isn’t it?” Brent asked, much to my surprise.“You know about it?” I asked him.“Yes, I do, and I should have called you to explain things properly, but I am having a busy morning already, but I knew you would call,” he said.“Wha

IVY“What for?” I asked them, trying to keep my voice from trembling. “Why do I need to come with you?” I asked further.My chest was already beating very fast because I knew exactly why they wanted me to come with them. Worse, I just finished speaking with my mum, and the fact that I could be joining her in jail made shivers run down my spine.“They don’t like being asked questions, Ivy. Just go with them,” Lina Barry leaned in and advised me.And judging by the look on their faces, she was probably right.“Okay, I am ready,” I managed to push out the words.I could very well be walking to jail from here, but I didn’t have any other choice other than to go with them.As soon as I said that, they turned and began to walk back to where they had come, expecting me to follow them, and I didn’t have the audacity not to follow them.They led me to the office of the mental home officials; where I had been taken to almost a year ago the first day I was brought here to get registered into the

ALEXANoelle and I stepped out and found Nelson waiting beside his car.“I am sorry I didn’t tell you, but Nelson insisted on driving us to the funeral,” Noelle hastily explained when she saw the look of confusion on my face.According to the plan, a hired car was supposed to be here because I didn’t want to drive myself to the funeral, and I wanted Noelle to be seated beside me, so she wouldn’t be able to drive.“But if you don’t want that, we can go back to the original plan and Nelson will just drive to the funeral alone,” Noelle added.“Oh, no, Noelle, I don’t mind, actually,” I said and I meant it. “There is nothing wrong with having someone familiar drive us, but are you going to sit beside me at the back?” I asked her.“Of course, Alexa. I already spoke to Nelson about it and he understands perfectly well,” Noelle answered.“Alright then, I think we should leave now,” I said.We got to the car and Nelson opened the door for us to get in. After he also did, he drove out of the c

MARK“You are going to regret this, Mark Ronaldo. Don’t ever think that the battle between us is over,” Donald Shell eventually said.If he was trying to threaten me, he didn’t succeed.“I think we now know that you don’t hold anything over me,” I told him confidently and with a smirk.“But I do have something over Alexa, and she will never say it to you, and that in itself, is a loss, Mark. You are going to spend the rest of your life pining for her, but she is not going to want you back or open up to you about what I did to her,” Donald Shell said with a smirk of his own.I was infuriated instantly, but I bottled it inside of me and pretended that I wasn’t moved by it.“I don’t think that’s left for you to bother about, Donald. Just leave,” I told him.He was pained that I wasn’t acting upset and in his head, he thought that he hadn’t succeeded, and that was when I realized that I shouldn’t have ever let Donald Shell know that he had any form of effect over me.With a clenched jaw,

ALEXA“Give me a second, Alexa. I need to get something sorted out really quickly,” Noelle had said.That was some minutes ago.“What is it?” I had asked her.“You don’t have to worry about it. I just need you to concentrate on your dad’s funeral and I will be right back,” she had said.We were both whispering to each other because the priest was speaking at that point and everyone was paying rapt attention. There were only a few attendees anyway.“But you know I need you beside me,” I had told her, wondering what on earth she could possible want to sort out.“I know, and I will be right back, but this is very important. I need you to trust me, Alexa,” Noelle had urged.“Alright then, fine,” I had succumbed.I needed to pay attention to what was going on in front of me anyway, so there wasn’t time to keep going back and forth with Noelle. Besides, I also needed to trust her. She had been with me all this time.“But I need you to make me a promise,” she had said before leaving.“What i