Chapter 457


    457 Ruben’s schemes


    Jeslyn grabbed theptop from him and looked thoroughly at the picture. Indeed, he looked 100% like


    her husband. Her heart descended into a mess as she struggled to believe and not to believe the fact


    in front of her. 1


    Teardrops slipped down her eyes as she started to shake her head in a state of denial.


    “Impossible,” she mumbled, then yelled, “this is not true!!!” She bolted to her feet and mmed the


    laptop on the floor with all her strength, then looked at Reuben like a crazy woman.


    “My husband is still alive! Maverick is alive! I know it. I do not and can never believe anything that


    comes from you. You are a deceitful and evil person. Hahaha…Reuben, Maverick wille for you


    and he will kill-”


    “Enough!!” He finally yelled with anger seducing his face.


    “What’s so good about him? I met you before Maverick did! I was the third child on that sinking ind. I


    saw you first and I liked you!” he yelled, then walled towards the ss wall with his back turned to


    Jeslyn, then said.


    “Kwanted to approach you, y with you, and request for you to be my friend, but that bastard stole my


    opportunity!” he turned to look at Jeslyn, wildly insane with his hands demonstrating and pointing in all


    directions as he tried to convey how angry he was.


    “He told his father to send me and my father away, merely because I appeared instead of Damien! If


    not, I would have been in his ce right now!”


    “Hahaha… What a stupid ideology. So what if you were there? Who told you I would have liked you or


    wanted to be your friend? Huh?!! I don’t like you a single bit-”


    “You lie, you do like me. You liked Rubenstein, you liked Frank, so you would have liked me too!”


    “I don’t like Rubenstein but was only being nice to him because he looked pitiful!”


    “And Frank?”


    “Who is Frank?”


    “You don’t even remember him?… The guy who saved you from falling into the pool at a party you


    attended?” he frowned. 1


    That was when it dawned on her that the guy he was talking about was Ray’s best friend.


    “Why should I like my ex–boyfriend’s best friend? Are you insane… Oh yes, you are!”


    “Then let me tell you a story. Once upon a time, I was nine years old when I saw thedy I wanted to


    spend the rest of my life with. However, before I could approach her, she was stolen from me and I


    never saw her again. Twelve yearster, I whispered a n to my twin brother to ruin the person he


    thought was his nemesis. Actually, I made them hate each other but we aren’t going to be discussing


    that now.


    “The n to ruin Maverick was to grab a teenage virgin girl, make her out to be Rossa, thedy he had


    been dying to find, make him sleep with her, and get her pregnant, But if she couldn’t get pregnant


    from the first night, we could make Rex sleep with her… it was a backup n I didn’t tell my twin


    brother.


    “Fortunately, Maverick’s friends and brother took him to a hotel in Country G, prepared a girl for him


    and drugged him. The drug they used wasn’t the best, so I ordered a waitress to switch it. I sent the girl


    who was paid to sleep with Maverick away, so I could rece her with Vera, but unfortunately, I


    received a call that the little girl Maverick and I had been looking for, for almost thirteen years, had


    been found.


    “I left the hotel to look for her without knowing that you were at the hotel, celebrating your 18th birthday


    with your friends. Meanwhile, time was running out, so my good brother found out that nody was in


    Maverick’s room yet, so he asked that anydy should be found as soon as possible.


    “The men saw you when you were being escorted to your hotel room, looking drunk. They felt it was


    the best option, so they took you to him. By the time your pictures and information were sent to me, it


    was already toote. That monster had devoured you, my jewel!” he took a deep calming breath


    before he continued.


    ConTEent bel0ngs to N?v(e)lD/rama(.)Org .


    “I took you away from his bed and reced you with Vera. It would be a mess if he woke up to find no


    hickey on Vera. It would also be bad if Vera wasn’t wet down there, so I made love to her right on the


    same bed Maverick was and left hickeys on her.


    “When Maverick woke up, he couldn’t doubt what happened. From there on, I started stalking you and


    found out you were pregnant. I wanted to kill the child but I saw how happy you were, so I came up with


    another n to steal the child from you and give it to Vera when you gave birth, so I whispered another


    n to my brother.


    “That was how we sent Vera into Maverick’s home and made her pretend to be pregnant until you gave


    birth. I knew when your due date would be, so we caused chaos so Maverick and his brother wouldn’t


    be there when Vera ‘gives birth‘. As for the guards that were with her, Code 4, was one of my men


    whom I nted into the Lu faction. He made things easy for me until Maverick found out and killed him.


    “So after you gave birth, the children were swapped. At the same time, the Half heart came to im


    you and the child, but your mothers fought with their lives.”


    At that moment, Jeslyn frowned as images of a horrifying fighting scene shed past her mind. It was


    blurry at first but soon started to clear out. She saw Alice’s dead body, while Alex continued to fight,


    then she passed out and woke up two years after.


    Now it made sense. Teardrops slipped down her eyes.


    “You were sent to your grandfather in Country A when you woke up. I waited for you to heal from the


    emotional trauma you were in, but by the time I returned from travel to take my ce, you were already


    into Ray. I wanted to kill him but saw you liked him, so to be within your sight and slowly pave a way for


    myself in your heart, I killed the real Frank and became him, then made friends with Ray…”