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"What happened?" Catherine asked and took the phone from Anitra.

"Police reject the bail of Chelsey Black." She read out loud and chuckled. "This is mother's handwork."

Ace took her hand in his and let out a deep breath. "She deserves whatever Mom will throw her way, she shouldn't have touched you at all."

"That is by the way, are you both leaving already?" Anitra questioned and Ace hummed.

"We're done for the day." He replied.

*****

It has been two weeks since Ace and Catherine returned to London and resume college, a lot of things had happened within the two weeks and one if them was that Chelsey Black was fined £100,000 for physically assaulting Catherine Meyers Hampton. Catherine and Ace were done with their classes for the day and we're going to the parking lot, the security team following them at the back.

As soon as they got to the parking lot she got a phone call from her Mother.

"Hello, Mom?"

"Hi, Catherine. How are you?" Mrs Meyers asked.

Catherine got inside the car and placed her hand on Ace's thigh. "I'm good, mother. I hope you're doing good too."

After much convincing her mother accepted to use the Hamptons legal team. The fight for justice started two days ago with the next hearing adjust to a week.

Everyone was tuned in to what they call 'Rich people's tragedy'

Catherine was worried about her mother and hope that she was doing fine.

"I'm doing good too, I just wanted to know how you're feeling." She retorted. The car started moving and Catherine stared outside through the tinted window. She had a lot to say but nothing came out.

"I'm going back home with my husband right now, I'll call you when I get home." She said and her mother hummed.

"Talk to you later, sweetheart." Mrs Meyers said and Catherine hung up the phone.

"Is everything okay?" Ace asked her and she nodded. She placed her head on his impressively muscled up shoulder and closed her eyes.

*****

Alex Meyers banged his hand that was handcuffed on the table and glared at his wife furiously. "You'll get whatever it takes to get me out of here, Vivian. I can't let that witch win."He snarled.

Vivian placed her hand under her chin and stared up at her husband boringly.

"You're such a good for nothing man." She mumbled and shook her head. "I regret the day I met you. Just look at you." She said, pointing at his rough facial hair and his cell outfit. "You look like a beggar. I can't stand it at all."

Alex was stunned by Vivian's words. He stared at her with disbelieve and then contempt.

How dare she say that to him?

"What did you just say?" He asked calmly. Vivian let out a dramatic sigh and opened her back, she brought out a bottle of perfume and spray it on herself and then on him.

"You see, I can't go down with you." She uttered and stood up from the chair, "I am still young. I have a lot for me to do outside here. I can't rot in jail with you. I didn't kill your brother. I didn't set the house on fire. It is all on you." She said and grabbed her bag. "I hope you are not going to be killed. An eye for an eye, you know what I'm saying?" She giggled loudly and turned towards the door. She grabbed the door's handle and turned back to look at him. "I heard that Veronica Hampton is fully on your case. See you on the other side of the world, Alex. Because you're going to be killed, and no, I won't miss you."

With that being said, she walked out of the room.

Alex was dejected. How could she do that to him? How could she treat him like trash? How could she treat him like a wastebasket?

She masterminded everything and when it got hot for him she disassociate herself from him.

PAST....

Alex got out of the can that dropped him in front of his house and walked inside. He slipped his feet out of his shoes and slipped his leg inside a flip flop.

"Darling, I'm home!" He called on his wife as he walked inside the living room. Vivian walked out if the kitchen with a bowl of popcorn in her hand. She frowned her face the instant she saw him and thinned her lips.

He made to kiss her but she turned her face away and his lips landed on her cheek.

Alex noticed that something was off with her and he smiled softly at her. "What is going on, Darling?" He inquired calmly.

"Nothing is going on for you but everything is going on for your elder brother. When will you take my advice, Alexander Meyers. When will you realize that your brother enjoy seeing you begging him for money? He have a big company in London which his wife help him with. A very big company. A mansion. Why can't you make use of your head? Take him out. Be the good uncle and then take what you desire for." She said to him and he shook his head.

"I can't kill, Vivian. I can't do anything else but not killing." He told her and she smiled adorably at him. She placed her hand on his shoulder and stared up at him.

"Who talked about stabbing and shooting? Everything will be done indirectly." She told him.

"I can't." He muttered, shaking his head. "He has done nothing to us, Vivian. I can't do that. I can't take his life."

"Then get ready to lose me!"she screamed and pushed him to the side. "You're so nerdy. Gosh."

*******

And after all that she would leave him?

Alex chuckled bitterly as the police came to lead him back to his cell.

"I'll not go down alone, Vivian! You hear me? I will never go down alone!" He screamed loudly for her to hear.