Amelia stared at Michelle with a confused expression.


    "Don’t talk like you haven’t cheated on Richard before," said Amelia.


    Immediately, Michelle’s cheeks med with embarrassment. However, she felt more embarrassed calling Amelia her mother.


    "Well, now that you’ve found out the truth, you’d better keep your mouth shut about it and tell no one, especially your father. Unless you want him tond in the hospital the next second," Amelia threatened.


    She smiled at Michelle who still stared at her with a shocked expression, and left the living room after taking the pictures. There were so many she feared one of the servants would see it.


    Michelle red at her mother’s back, understanding that her mother didn’t seem like the mother she knew before. She had changed.


    In the room, Amelia slumped on the bed, beside Robert who was already asleep. Due to the poison she gave him, he would be sleeping more than regrly, and there would be a case where he would sleep and never wake up again.


    But she didn’t bother herself with that. He had already signed all his properties to Jack and her and she didn’t care if he never woke up ever again.


    However, her mind was upied with another thing; the pictures in her hands.


    She flipped the pictures, her eyes ring into them with furrowed eyebrows, wondering how she’d been so careless and who might have taken the pictures of her.


    "This is bad... bad," Amelia thought out loud, her grip tightened on the pictures. But then, they released when she realized something. She stared at Robert who was sleeping peacefully, a smirk on her lips. "I shouldn’t be worried if he finds out about this."


    Standing up, she walked towards Robert and caressed his hair. "It wouldn’t matter much if you found out about anything. You are going to die soon anyway," she added. She leaned in to peck his forehead before rubbing off her kiss stain.


    Sighing, she walked towards the vanity mirror and dropped the pictures in the drawer.


    **


    "You’ve been busytely, Kace? What have you been up to?" Selene asked, peering at Kace with a curious gaze.


    Xavier had not returned since he left the night before, leaving Selene worried about the situation he might be handling. However, she did receive a good morning text from him, instructing her to take care of herself.


    The text left her blushing all morning.


    Then all of a sudden, she saw Kace at her doorstep. It’s been weeks since theyst saw each other, and she couldn’t help but wonder what he’d been busy with.


    A slow grin appeared on Kace’s lips when he heard Selene’s question.


    "A lot actually," he replied, which only piqued Selene’s curiosity.


    "Allison did mention you had an ident at her college. You had a fractured rib, but to me, you don’t look like someone who had a fractured rib," she said, popping a grape in her mouth as she walked towards the living room to turn on the TV and have a rxing weekend.


    <i>Shadows of Deception </i>was finished, and a date would soon be scheduled for when they would go on a movie tour to promote the movie.


    "Let me guess, you lied to her to get her attention," she finished, settling on the couch.


    "That’s a huge usation," Kace defended, following suit with a bowl of popcorn in his hand. "A huge pole did fall on my back when I was protecting her..."


    Selene cocked her eyebrows at him.


    "Alright, fine! I didn’t incur severe injuries. I just lied so that she would take responsibility for them, not because I wanted her attention," he rephrased. "And she’s doing her job well," he added, a small grin on his lips.


    Selene gave him a side eye before her gaze focused back on the television.


    "Yeah! Sure," she responded, popping another grape in her mouth.


    "Forget about that. How did your visit to the rk mansion go? Any bondings with your family—"


    "They want me to divorce Xavier," she interrupted him. "Because of a family feud that urred between Mr Wace and my father," she added.


    "I figured that was going to happen," Kace thought, slightly surprised. "Mr rk is still angry at my father for what happened."


    Selene nced at him. "Can you tell me what exactly happened?"


    "Hmm..." Kace hummed, popping a few popcorn in his mouth. "Honestly, I don’t know the story well since I was little when it happened. But I heard that my father lied against Mr rk and used him of something he shouldn’t have, something that wasn’t his fault at all. The me nearly cost Mr rk his life, if old rk hadn’t intervened," finished, popping loads of popcorn in his mouth as the movie started.


    "Then the best person to ask what happened is Xavier," she said. "I want to know the entire truth."