The warrant had already been made and the detective and a few policemen headed to Samantha’s house.


    Samantha’s informant had just gotten to the police station by the time they left. He wanted to speak to the guy that was taken and locked up.


    He exined to the man at the front desk but he wasn’t allowed to speak to him. Frustrated and ready to leave after all the pleas, ir and Dn walked into the station.


    The man quickly recognized ir as Samantha’s enemy. It clicked into his mind that she was the one who nned everything. The fact that she was with Dn as well was proof enough.


    He quickly rushed out of the station to call Samantha.


    ~~~~~


    The detective banged on Samantha’s door severally before she opened it.


    She lived in a condominium in an exclusive estate. The building was like that of a hotel, it was elegant and expensive looking.


    He thought that she must have a lot of money to live there or it wasn’t hers.


    “Who are you? And how may I help you?” She asked when she opened the door.


    The detective smirked and took out his ID from his wallet, shoving it in her face.


    “I am detective Jones, from the national district. And you are under arrest for defamation, nder and so many others. You are free to call yourwyer because it’ll be tough.” He exined to her with joy.


    “What?! There’s no way. What are you talking about? Where is your warrant?”Samantha was agitated and anxious already, she had not received the call that she was waiting for.


    “Oh it’s right here. Did you think I came here to drag you for no reason? Oh no ma’am, I don’t waste my time unnecessarily. Cuff her!” He took out the paper from the envelope and showed it to her.


    Hemanded one of the officers that stood behind him to cuff her.


    “Wait! What are you doing?! How dare you?!” She screamed and attempted to hit the officer.


    “You have quite an attitude for someone who hasmitted lots of crimes. If you hit this man, I will make sure to add an extra year to whatever sentence you’ll be getting in the future. Keep that in mind, ma’am.” He warned her.


    “Who sent you, huh? That bitch, ir? She’s the one right? That stupid bitch!” She screamed as they dragged her out and into the police car.


    The detective did not answer her because it wasn’t necessary. He already sent another unit to pick up Richard and they should already be on their way back to the station.


    Meanwhile, Samantha’s phone rang severally, but she had already been taken and couldn’t answer it. It rang continuously on her couch.


    The detective sighed in relief when she finally kept quiet. No one paid any attention to her, so she had no choice but to keep her mouth shut.


    Samantha on the other hand had a feeling that ir was involved in her arrest. She kept staring out the window, her n failed terribly and there was nothing she could do about it anymore.


    The drive to the police station wasn’t as long as it usually was because the driver was really fast.


    ir and Dn were already waiting at the station. Dn kept pacing while ir sat in one of the chairs in the waiting room. Her palms were folded together.


    The detective came into the roomter.


    “Dn, good afternoon, ir. We finally got her.” He shook hands with them.


    ir got up immediately she saw the detective, she held Dn’s arm for support.


    “Really? Where is she?” ir asked.


    “You!” Samantha rushed in immediately andid eyes on ir.


    She wanted to pull her hair but Dn blocked her from doing so.


    “Hold her still!” The detectivemanded the police men behind her. They made sure she was properly binded before holding her arms, preventing her from attacking ir again.


    “You lied to me! I thought you hated him?!” Samantha could not hide her shock and annoyance towards the situation.


    She had been fooled the whole time. She knew ir was smart but she didn’t know Dn would help her out too.


    “Really? If we start to call out liars, I think you would pass out as the biggest one on earth right now. I thought we were friends, Sam.” ir spoke as calmly as she could.


    She felt a surge of anger immediately sheid eyes on Samantha. She wanted to hit her on the face but decided to control herself. ir clenched and unclenched her fists.


    “You are the fucking liar. And no, you were never my friend, especially when you took Dn from me!” Samantha shouted.


    “Sure, except you are the snake in this building. The biggest deceiver on the entire. You have lied to me for years! You have deceived me and my entire family who epted you and treated you like their own! My God, Sam, you are so wicked and evil. I took Dn from you? When was there ever a time you told me you had feelings for him or whatever? Was I supposed to read your mind?! You are the sickest person I’ve ever met.”


    ir stood in front of her, all the energy that she wanted to suppress slowly made its way out of its hiding ce.


    “Shut up! You stupid bitch! I hate you so much! You have had everything so easy and you always had that stupid sick smile on your face every damn time. I wanted to break you and see you actually cry your senses out. You deserve sadness for putting me through hell!” Samantha screamed.


    “And I loved you genuinely, as a friend would love her friend. I had everything easy? Did you even know me at all? I had to work my way into everything! And then I had to marry someone I didn’t even know for my family’s sake! No offense, baby. But guess what, he turned out to be a wonderful person, so I don’t regret it. You already made me cry, you already put me through hell and where has that gotten you? I wish I knew this side of you from the beginning. And no, I deserve happiness, why? Because I’ve been nothing but good to you, I’ve been there for you when everyone else abandoned you. When you were alone and afraid, ir was fucking there! And you stand here to tell me shit?! You are insane!” ir screamed at her.


    Hurt and rage mixed together with every word that came from her mouth.


    “You almost destroyed me, Samantha. You almost destroyed my husband too. If you say you loved him then you wouldn’t have tried to hurt him. But the only thing you have always cared about is yourself and no one else. It’s so sad that you never stopped to think about our friendship. You never even for once spoke to me about all the hurt that you said I caused you, but that is on you. I don’t care and it’s none of my business. You will have to pay for what you have done to us.” ir’s voice went back to being calm.


    “Did Richard tell you? He toodbyou everything right? That slimy bastard and son of a bitch. So you all nned all of this against me? Even you, Dn? You really love your wife huh? Well, I hope you all rot in hell. Fuck you!”


    She shouted and attempted to hit Dn with her fist but ir pushed her away.


    “I will make you pay Samantha. You messed with the wrong family, you really shouldn’t mess with the Lancasters in your next life because I will be watching you. And I will follow you to the end of the world when you try to run away. I will ruin your entire life, I swear.” His voice was dangerously low and calm.


    It made Samantha break into a sweat.


    “Take her away.” The detective ordered them.


    “Let me go! Please, forgive me Dn. I didn’t want to hurt you but she made me do it. She took you away from me.” She cried.


    “You are sick.” He told her before theypletely dragged her out of sight.


    “My God, she’s gone, she needs mental help, detective.” irmented.


    The man was surprised that ir still cared about her even after finding out about what she did to them.


    “We’ll see about that.” He answered.


    Just then, Richard walked into the waiting room.


    “If it isn’t the devil himself.” Richard smirked, he was referring to Dn.


    Dnughed so hard immediately that everyone kept staring at him with amused looks.


    “I am so d that you acknowledged that. At least you tried to amend your ways, so I will notpletely destroy you.” Dn smirked.N?velDrama.Org holds text ? rights.


    “I thought we agreed to not send me to jail, ir? What happened to your promise?” He asked.


    “You weren’t innocent Richard, you have done evil things that deserve punishment and so I cannot let you go free.” ir told him.


    “Wow, I’m guessing this devil here made you do it.”


    “I will not tolerate you calling him a devil, I made the decision on my own.” She answers him.


    “Whatever, you both deserve each other.” He answered.


    “Oh yes we do, thank you for thatpliment.” Dn held her hand tight.


    Richard scoffed as he was being dragged into a holding cell.


    The detective turned to them.


    “Thank you for helping out in this investigation. I appreciate it.” The detective shook their hands.


    ir was still devastated by the confrontation between herself and Samantha. It hurt her to see her ex friend in the situation she was in. Binded with cuffs and held like an animal about to be ughtered.


    But she had to let her go. Samantha was no longer a part of her life and it would do ir good to forget about her.


    “Let’s go, ir.” Dn helped her up from the seat and held her hands.


    She turned to the detective.


    “Thank you for your help.” She said to him,


    “We will take it from here, ma’am. You are free now.” The man smiled faintly.


    ir gave a small nod, before she followed Dn out of the building and into their car.


    Immediately ir got into the car, she burst into tears.


    “What is wrong, ir?” He pulled her closer to him.


    ir cried while Dn patted her back and whispered soothing words in her ears.


    “It’s okay, my love. It’s okay, we’re okay.” He said.


    “Thank you, Dn. I wouldn’t have done this without you.” She told him as she wiped the tears from her eyes.


    “I wouldn’t have done this without you too. You were so brave, I’m so proud of you.” Dn told her with a smile on his face.


    “Thank you but can we go home?” She tried to smile back.


    “Sure, we can. Let’s go.” He answered.


    Dn drove back home and ir immediately went into the house. She wanted to sleep because she had a terrible headache.


    Donna wasn’t in the house, probably in her room, Dn thought.


    He made himself a cold espresso


    coffee with lots of ice in it. Dn went outside, to the verandah precisely.


    He sighed after the first sip.


    “So nice.”


    His phone rang in his pocket and he picked it up to check who it was. It was his dad.


    “Good afternoon, dad.” Dn greeted him.


    “Afternoon, I saw the news, you caught a notorious thief who happened to be a friend of your wife. Isn’t that a disgrace?” He scoffed.


    “Not now, dad. Can you please save all of this for some other time? I really cannot speak much right now, thank you.” He answered.


    Dn’s father wasn’t satisfied with the fact that he did not ask him for his help. So he wanted to do everything in his power to frustrate him, it wasn’t as if he meant any real harm.


    “Now you’re busy? If you had let me help you, this would have been over a long time ago. And we would all be sipping cognacs right now, isn’t that so?” The manughed richly.


    “Yeah,ugh all you want, it’s funny.” Dn muttered.


    “I have to go now, dad.” He informed his dad.


    “Yeah, okay. At least you made sure she was arrested, you are free to go.” He hung up the call.


    Dn groaned loudly, frustrated to the core already, he knew what his father was doing.


    He gulped thest of his coffee and climbed the stairs slowly. Just as he was about to reach thest step at the top, the doorbell rang.


    He groaned once more and ran down the stairs.


    “Who is there?” His voice boomed clearly throughout the house.


    Dn peeped through the hole and saw a delivery man with his security guard beside him.


    “Delivery sir.” The man answered and Dn opened the door.


    “How may I help you? What is he delivering, Harold?” He asked his guard.


    Dn was trying to be cautious because he knew Samantha was crazy and could try to harm them onest time.


    “He said he doesn’t know what’s inside but he was told to handle it with care. He also said Mr Ernesto sent him, sir.” Harold answered.


    “Ah, Ernesto. Alright then, I know what it is. Thank you.” He collected the package from the man and he left with Harold behind him.


    Dn went back inside to check the package. He sat on the couch and ced the package on the table in front of him.


    He opened it and saw a bunch of papers and ribbons and gift stuffing. He opened everything and brought out a small, ck velvet box.


    He opened the box and saw the rings inside it.


    “Woah!” He eximed.


    They were absolutely stunning, a mixture of simplicity, ss, beauty and wealth. If he could call it ‘money’ then he would because it reeked of it.


    They were so beautiful that he loved them immediately and he set his eyes on them.


    “Damn, Ernesto, are you some kind of genie?” He chuckled as he pulled out his phone to dial his number.


    “Mr. Lancaster, have you received your package sir?” Ernesto asked him. He knew that Dn would call him, he was expecting the call.


    “Ernesto, you are some kind of genius. I love them and I know that she would love them too. Thank you so much.” Dn grinned at the rings before him.


    He couldn’t stop staring at them.


    “It’s no problem, sir. I wanted to give you something that many would envy but cannot possess. That is a limited edition, there is only one of that kind.” He exined.


    “Wow! Thank you so much.” Dn genuinely thanked him.


    “You are wee, I should go now. I have work to do sir, thank you for patronizing me!” He eximed.


    “No problem, bye.” Dn hung up the phone.


    Dn kept admiring the rings until his eyes hurt him. The rings had slices of diamond cuts, it was hard to exin it but it was as if those precious stones were sliced and used to form a ring. It was simply gorgeous.


    He decided not to show ir yet, until they were getting married.


    “Mr, Lancaster?” Donna called.


    “Donna? How are you? You weren’t in the house when we got back from the station.” Dn told her.


    They had exined to her before they left the house. She knew everything at the moment.


    “I’m very well, I was resting. I see you have something there.” She moved closer to sit beside him on the couch.


    Dn grinned.


    “Yeah, I have a gift for ir.” He opened the box and showed the rings to Donna.


    “Wow! They are so beautiful! ir would love them so much.” Donna agreed with him.


    “I know right, I had them made when I went on a trip. I just got them back today.” He told her.


    “Oh, they’re stunning.” She cooed.


    “Yeah, like ir. I n on marrying her again, Donna, with this ring.” He picked out the smaller ring. It was a bit different from his own ring.


    Hers was more feminine and beautiful and simple, just as she loved them.


    “Dn, wow, that is amazing. My God, so much has happened that I can hardly keep up. I am so happy for the both of you because you came out stronger than before. I am so relieved for you both.” Donna smiled.


    Tears pricked the corners of Dn’s eyes but heughed it off.


    “Thank you, Donna. I’m happy too, that I got a chance with someone like ir.” He said.


    “She has changed your life for the better, sir. You are a different person now, in a good way.” Donna affirmed.


    Dn sighed and wiped a tear from the corner of his left eye.


    “I want to surprise her with these, I won’t show her now, until we’re ready to get married. She will see it when I put it on her finger.” He smiled.


    “I agree. She’ll be shocked when she sees it.” Donna agreed.


    “I just love that woman.” Dnughed.


    “I’m sure she loves you too. I have to get back to work now.” Donna got up to leave.


    “Thank you, Donna.” Dn smiled at her.


    Donna left him and went to theundry room.


    Dn packed the ring and everything into its ce and took it to his office. He hid it in a shelf in his office but then he took it out and decided to keep it in his safe because someone might see it while cleaning or something.


    He went back upstairs to check up on ir, she said she had wanted to sleep. When he got to the room, she was still fast asleep and she was wearing his shirt, he chuckled.


    “You, teddy bear.” She hugged a huge pillow as if she was hugging Dn.


    Heid beside her and removed the pillow, recing it with his body.


    Before Dn knew it, he fell asleep too.