“My brothers? What is going on with them?” Jade asked, wondering if something had happened that she wasn’t aware of.
“Bryan just got dumped by his fiancee on the set of their reality show! It’s all over the news. And Benne’s girlfriend… They say she is a murderer!” Evelyn said with a hysterical sob.
“Bryan got dumped by Sonia? How? Why?” Jade asked, ignoring her mother’s reference to Celsie.
“I don’t know! People took pictures, and everyone is talking about it. To think that both girls are best of friends! They are out to ruin my boys’ life! Tell your brother to break up with that girl immediately!” Evelyn cried.
“Mom! I’m very disappointed in you! You of all people should know better than to say things like that! If you know the kind of kids you raised, then you should trust their choices. I’m hanging up now,” Jade said with a disapproving tone as she hung up the call.
She wondered how Bryan was doing. At first, she had doubted their engagement, but after watching a few clips of their reality show and speaking with Sonia, she knew for a fact that they genuinely loved each other.
She dialed Bryan’s line immediately, but the call failed to connect. When she tried several times and it didn’t work, she called Mia instead.
“Hey, Mia! I’m trying to reach Bryan. Is he alright?” Jade asked immediately Mia received the call.
“I don’t think so. Sonia ended things with him earlier. I wonder why she had to go that far knowing she would hurt herself too,” Mia said with a sad sigh.
“What happened? Where is he?” Jade asked in a worried tone.
Mia quickly explained all that had happened, “…So I went to drop Sonia off at the airport and by the time I got back, I didn’t meet him. I went to his apartment and he wasn’t there either,” Mia explained.
“Alright. Thank you,” Jade said as she hung up.
Just a few days ago she had been thinking that her brothers were getting all the fun and romance in the world that she was lacking, and all of a sudden they were both facing so much hardship at the same time. How was she going to help them? Jade wondered as she walked out of her bedroom.
She returned to the living room in time to see Harry hang up the call. She watched from the doorway as he gulped down the entire content of the glass and gently dropped the glass on the table before heading for his room. Jade watched him curiously as he walked away, and then she followed him so she could see what he was going to do.
Once he got inside his room, he dropped the phone on the nightstand and lay on his bed face down, picked up his pillow, and placed it over his head before screaming into the mattress.
Jade who had followed him, and was watching quietly, could only imagine just how frustrated he was feeling to resort to such measure to let it out. It was just one stupid move from an equally stupid person that was causing so much trouble for everyone.
“Did something happen again?” Jade asked curiously.
Harry sat up and tried to compose himself before turning to look at her. Before he could respond to her question he received a text message notification, but his phone started ringing before he could check the text message.
He picked up the phone once he saw that it was one of his men calling, “Yes?” He asked once he received the call.
“We found the person who made the first post on Twitter.”
“Good. Send me the details of the person.”
“One more thing,” the man added before Harry could hang up.
“What?”
“The private investigator was found dead in his apartment an hour, and Jero was captured going in and leaving his apartment before then. I asked one of the men to tail him. And I sent you the pictures already.”
“Alright. Thank you,” Harry said before hanging up the call.
“What?” Jade asked curiously.
“Is this person Jero?” Harry asked, showing the picture to Jade.
“Yes. Why? Where is that place?” Jade asked curiously as she looked closely at the pictures.
“That is the private investigator’s apartment. He was found dead in his apartment,” Harry informed her with a sigh.. Too much stuff was happening at the same time and it was all beginning to get to him.
“Are you sure you don’t want me to be here with you when your family arrives?” Benne asked Celsie when she kept trying to convince him to leave before the arrival of her parents and Lucas.
“Yes. I’m very sure,” Celsie assured him with a smile.
Lucas had called to say their mother would be the only one staying with her in her apartment since it would be too small to accommodate them all. So her father and Lucas had decided to find a hotel closest to her apartment where they could lodge before coming down to meet her.
Benne had tried to convince her that they could use his apartment which was next to hers, instead of lodging in a hotel, but Celsie had politely turned down the offer.
“C’mon, Benne! They are my family, and I don’t need protection from them. It’s not like they’re going to eat me or something,” Celsie said in a lighter tone when Benne just kept staring at her as if he was searching for something on her face.
Benne let out a long breath, “I know. I’m just worried about you that’s all. You promise to call me if anything comes up?”
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
Loredana’s father left the family for his mistress, leaving them to fend for themselves abroad. When life was at its toughest, her father showed up with “good news” after 8 years of absence: To marry off Loredana to a paralyzed son of the wealthy Mendelsohn family.