“It shouldn’t have been that easy,” Kelanie thought to herself, laughing as she closed the car door behind her. “Oh, Xavier I’m sorry for everything I had put you through over the three years of our marriage,” she mimicked, laughing at the little act she had performed. Kelanie couldn’t stop laughing at how easy it was to play the victim card, she could still remember how devastated Angelica looked when she mentioned the safety of her child. The drive home was slow, Kelanie knew she was playing a dangerous game, but with the evidence they had against Clarissa, nothing was going to keep her from going to prison. Kelanie quickly called melody, they might not like each other but Kelanie knew melody was a useful tool in her plan. “Hi Melody,” she said in a calm voice. “Kelanie, hi, it’s been a minute,” melody responded smiling into the call. Whatever reason Kelanie was calling her for, melody knew it was going to be good. “I just heard something, but I don’t think it is true,” Kel

“What?” Xavier and Angelica shouted at the same time. “Peggy Kane is alive,” Amy repeated, showing them a video of Peggy in her house receiving treatment.“Come inside,” Xavier said, ushering her into his office and locking the door behind them.“Where is she? Why didn’t you report to the police?” Angelica rambled out the questions.Amy explained everything, starting from when she had gone out of the hospital for a smile break, to when she had found the strange man strangling Peggy before hurting her head.“take us to her,” Angelica said, rushing towards the door.Kelanie was almost knocked down by Angelica who was in a rush.“Sorry,” Angelica shouted.Kelanie barely said a word as she noticed the nurse from the hospital, running behind her.“Xavier?” Kelanie said, trying to gain his attention.“Not now, I have somewhere to be,” Xavier snapped, rushing to catch up with them.Kelanie paused, something wasn’t right. Seeing the nurse meant they might uncover more than she was willing to

Clarissa was done playing the waiting game, Kelanie had avoided her long enough. “We need to talk,” Clarissa barged into the room startling Kelanie. “Clarissa, I would have been naked,” Kelanie shouted, pulling the blanket tighter around her body. Clarissa rolled her eyes, “huh, I’ve seen better,” she jeered. Clarissa sat by the vanity chair, the scowl on her face permanent, and her eyes looking around the well furnished room they had provided for Kelanie. “I see you have settled in nicely,” she taunted. Kelanie bit her lips, she thought that maybe if she would ignore Clarissa long enough she would get tired and leave her alone. “But you know the funny thing?” Clarissa asked, her eyes staring deeply at Kelanie. “no matter how much money you think you might have, it doesn’t change the fact that you smell like cheap trash, tossed around by men for cheap pleasure,” Clarissa sneered. Kelanie wouldn’t admit it but each word. Clarissa said, it felt like a dagger was slicing through

Kelanie sat quietly, listening to Alex as he talked about everything he had discovered. “I can’t believe she would do this,” Alex shrieked, looking angry at the thought. Kelanie had kept her face neutral, void of every emotion. She was still trying to process how easy it had been to turn everything around on Clarissa. Kelanie had been very careful in planting the seed of distrust in Alex’s mind. Kelanie didn’t have to take all of the praise, when Clarissa had In fact made the work very easy by attacking her. Kelanie smirked, with Clarissa out of the way she knew it would be easy to take control of everything. “I am always here for you Alex, you have your family now,” Kelanie said, pulling his hand and placing it on her stomach. Alex nodded, he was done allowing his mother destroy the family he had. Kelanie kissed him, sealing her promise, it wasn’t hard to break Alex, his constant need to be seen made it easy. Clarissa paced around the house, her mind troubled about how quickl

Alex growled, rushing towards Kelanie to save her, but the guard was faster, smacking his nose with the butt of the gun. “Alex,” Kelanie screamed, watching as he fell to the ground with a loud thud. Blood gushing from his nose, Kelanie couldn’t stop crying as the dragged her out of the house. “Xavier, Alex, please!!!” Kelanie screamed. Xavier and Angelica were terrified, the had thought the meeting was a cordial one, not knowing that Mr Russell had an ulterior motive. Clarissa rushed to her son, trying t help him up, but Alex shoved her away from him, his eyes in a fixed glare as he looked at her. Alex barked out a bitter laugh, “you won mother, this is what you have always wanted, Kelanie gone and just you and I, well here we are, just you and I, mother, I hope you are happy,” Alex snarled, walking out of the room. Clarissa was stunned, Alex has never spoken to her with such venom in his voice before. “What have I done?” she cried, kneeling by the door. Xavier held angelica’s