FIRE AND ICE 🔥~~~~~~EPISODE 14
Then she thought of her career. Which agency would agree to take her now? Even if the doors are open, the so-called young Miss who's after her life wouldn't allow agencies to take her in and no agency would want to fight those people for a D-list singer like her.
And that husband of hers. He isn't even here to pick her up, which means she was right all along. He has forgotten about her. Anyways, why was she even adding him to her list of worries? Whenever she sees him, she'll just drag him to the civil affairs bureau to get a divorce. After all, what she needed the marriage for, she couldn't protect it anyway.
"Young Miss, please get in the car," Spid said as he walked over with two cups of milk tea in his hands.
Hearing that, Jeslyn instantly remembered what Pink warned her about and she took a protective stance.
"W–what do you mean?"
Spid stretched the milk tea to her and said: "Now that you have won the case, you should take something. You haven't eaten since."
Jeslyn took the milk tea from him but that didn't make her relax her guard. She looked at him skeptically, waiting for him to explain what he meant by 'get inside the car'.
"Where do you want to go now aside from following me?" He asked her with a brow raised.
He knew that her property had been taken from her but his boss told him to not care about it in court, so he didn't bother to bring it up.
"I still have other places I can live. I'm old enough to take care of myself. By the way, I don't know you, and you still won't tell me who sent you." She said while taking the straw in the cup to her lips.
Seeing that she was dragging the content in the cup, Spid's eyes smiled before he said:
"Hmm," he nodded. "I can see that you have a place to stay, it's written all over your face. As for who sent me, I don't know how you both got to be familiar with each other, also, that isn't my business. I'm almost done with my task, so don't make..."
"Sister!"
The minute Jeslyn heard that voice, she knew Christine was about to play the white lotus card in public. She would probably cry and show the world how much she loved her sister.
Jeslyn didn't bother to turn back and hurried into the car. "Mr. Spider, please start that car, I don't want to have anything to do with those people."
Spid turned to look at the court entrance. The Chou and Zhou families with a few reporters were heading towards them with Christine running over while wiping her face. She looked like a good sister crying for her older sister.
Spid whose face was concealed behind a mask narrowed his eyes at Christine who was a few steps away from the car before he opened the driver's seat and got in.
He waited for Christine to hold the knob of the back seat's door... attempting to open it before he turned the key, started the car, and stepped on the accelerator.
The action of the car speeding out of Christine's hand shocked her into falling with a loud thud!
Unfortunately for her, the area she fell to wasn't a flat surface, so she fell head-first on the raised side of the road.
"Christine!" Mrs. Wales screamed. She rushed to help her and rested Christine's bleeding forehead on her lap while screaming for an ambulance.
Looking at the cameras, Christine burst into tears while saying: "Mother, father, older sister hates me now. She misunderstood me again." Her voice grew weaker and weaker until her eyes closed and her breathing went slower.
"Christine!"
"..."
"Call the ambulance, hurry, my child!"
The reporters ran wild and started to take pictures of Christine who had fainted.
"Poor Christine, that fall must have shocked her so badly, coupled with the hatred from her sister!"
"Jeslyn is too ungrateful. Christine did so much just to preserve her life and yet she almost ran her over with a car!"
"Jeslyn might not have killed her grandfather, but with what she just did, she is capable of killing someone, such a black-hearted lady, hmph!"
Even though it was obvious that Jeslyn wasn't the driver of the car, the people believed that she asked the driver to run Christine over.
The public that was rejoicing over Jeslyn's release a while ago suddenly didn't know what to start feeling anymore.
Some were in a dilemma, asking themselves how they would feel if a family member they loved so much testified against them in court.
Some supported Jeslyn while others supported Christine.
Whatever the public thought, one thing was apparent. Christine was not hated by the masses, instead, they felt sorry for her. Also, she succeeded in making Jeslyn a dubious character in the eyes of many.
....
Inside the car heading to the airport, Jeslyn could be seen with her head on the headrest, eyes closed and breathing calmly.
Spid pulled off the mask to reveal a well-sculpted face. He glanced at the sleeping Jeslyn, then curled his sexy lips into a faint smile before he picked up his phone to make a call.
"Hey, get the plane ready."
…
That night, Ray was seen at a bar drinking himself into a stupor.
"Ray, that's enough, stop it already!" His friend tried to force the glass off his hand.
"Let go of me!" Ray pushed his guy's hand away.
"What the hell do you want, Ray? You never liked her, so what's your problem?!"
"Yes, I never liked her! For four years, I felt nothing for her, she was like a pest to me, but what the hell did her lawyer mean by all that? What did she tell her lawyer about me?!"
"Well, Ray, actually it was 5 years, you two had been together for 5 years…"
"Shut the f*ck up and stop acting like that damn lawyer!" Ray's mind flashed as he was forced to remember the event in court.
"Mr. Ray, for how long have you been together with Miss Jeslyn?"
"Four years–"
"From your report, it's been 5 years, Mr. Ray….Your honor, if Mr. Ray cannot even remember how long he and Miss Jeslyn had been together, then how can he claim he loved her?"
Ray watched as the judge nodded his head before the mask lawyer continued.
"Mr. Ray, have you ever had intimacy with Miss Jeslyn?"
"No."
"But she had visited you a lot in the past."
"Yes."
"Have you ever shown her your naked body?"
"No"
"Oh? And you mean she hasn't seen your great body anywhere before?"
"Yes, I have never shown her my body. She tends to be shy when she's with me and I wanted to honor and respect her, so I made things easy for her by covering up any time she came around."
"Then, what do you guys do when she comes around?"
"We either go out or watch some movies with popcorn while she sits in between my legs and I hug her in my arms. She likes that a lot…" his voice trailed off like he was reminiscing something.
He slowly looked at Jeslyn and saw she was glancing at her nails. She does that too when she's sad.
Ray slowly bit his lower lip. He didn't understand what funny things his heart was doing at the moment. It felt bitterness and anger, but for who?
"Ok, so, all in all, she has never seen you without clothes on. Your honor, please kindly note that down." The lawyer said before he continued. "Mr. Ray, what if I say that the reason Miss Jeslyn abandoned you on the altar and married a stranger was that she found out you have been cheating on her?"
The audience gasped and so were those watching from other places that knew the couple too well.
That allegation was too much for people to believe, so the majority of those that knew the couple denied the fact. They believed that the lawyer was only saying that to lead Ray to confusion.
"That's not true! I have never cheated on Jeslyn for the four…five years we have been together. If she's looking for something to defend herself for humiliating me on the altar and shattering my heart, then she should look for another lie to tell!"
Ray glared at Jeslyn. He was sure he left no evidence behind, so what could they find to pin the crime of cheating on him?
That's right, Ray left no evidence behind and even the videos that were sent to Jeslyn were wiped out, so how is Spid going to find the evidence?
"Fine… If Jeslyn had never seen you without clothes on, how then did she know about the tattoo on your butt?"
The audience took in a sharp breath and so did Ray.
"W– what are you talking about?" Ray panicked.
"What I'm talking about, Mr. Ray is that you have a tattoo… a butterfly tattoo on one cheek of your butt, and Jeslyn, who had supposedly not seen your body, knew of the tattoo."
"How is that possible?!" Ray was alarmed.
"That's right. How is that possible?... It can either be that she saw you in the shower, or she met you sleeping on your belly while naked, or you were sleeping with someone."
"T–that's not possible!"
"Hold on, Mr. Ray, let me analyze it for you since you don't understand."
The lawyer squinted before he continued, "Jeslyn whom you said is shy around you must definitely not enter your shower even though she's in your house while you were showering, let alone, you don't have a reason to shower when she's around.
Secondly, Miss Jeslyn cannot enter your room to meet you sleeping naked because you never sleep naked…" he paused to look at Ray's shocked expression.
However, Ray had his eyes glued on Jeslyn.
"...You don't sleep naked Mr. Ray and in fact, you hate that idea.
Thirdly, there's a possibility that you were sleeping with someone, unbeknownst to you both, the scene was being recorded and sent to Jeslyn, so she saw the butterfly tattoo. If you say I'm lying, pull down your pants."
That comment was supposed to be funny but everyone was too shocked to laugh.
Jeslyn and Ray were known to be the best couple in Rose City. Their lovely relationship was the envy of every lady. That was why the people were angry when they thought Jeslyn broke Ray's heart.
Ray couldn't defend himself, and neither could his lawyer. So Spid went ahead to finalize his words.
Now that they found out Ray was the unfaithful partner, the people couldn't help feeling betrayed.
"Your honor, Miss Jeslyn found out her fiance of five years was cheating on her. Heartbroken, she thought of making him pay. While leaving to cancel the wedding, she saw a man coming out of the bathroom and asked him to marry her for one year before divorcing her.
Miss Jeslyn and that man were strangers, and Jeslyn never cheated on Mr. Ray.
So, your honor, Mr. Ray's testimonies cannot be taken because he said those words out of anger for Miss Jeslyn. He was angry that she humiliated him on the altar and also wanted her to suffer.
We are men with egos and when a woman shatters our ego in public, we tend to want to make her pay. Mr. Judge, you are a man, so you can relate."
That was how Ray was labeled an evil fiance by the people and they started praising Jeslyn for destroying him on the altar.
Ray snapped out of his reverie and held the tumbler firmly.
"Jeslyn, I won't let you off!" It would have been nicer or less painful if the man she chose over him was someone she knew.
Picking a random stranger over him was the greatest insult Jeslyn could give him and it was about to drive him crazy.
"Jeslyn!!!" He screamed her name in frustration and rage as he smashed his glass on the tiled floor.
"I won't give you rest, I promise. I'll ruin you and make you pay for everything you did to me!... Ahhh!" He swept off the wine bottles and cups on the table, including phones.
"Ray, take it easy, you'll hurt yourself. I thought you didn't have any feelings for her, now look at how you are."
"I don't have any feelings for her! Damn it!"
"Tell that to an idiot who would believe you. Tsk." His friend clicked his tongue in irritation.
He sat there and allowed Ray to continue venting until he couldn't vent anymore and broke down. His reason for reacting this way was not known, but whatever it was, Ray's friend was sure that regret was part of it.
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And that husband of hers. He isn't even here to pick her up, which means she was right all along. He has forgotten about her. Anyways, why was she even adding him to her list of worries? Whenever she sees him, she'll just drag him to the civil affairs bureau to get a divorce. After all, what she needed the marriage for, she couldn't protect it anyway.
"Young Miss, please get in the car," Spid said as he walked over with two cups of milk tea in his hands.
Hearing that, Jeslyn instantly remembered what Pink warned her about and she took a protective stance.
"W–what do you mean?"
Spid stretched the milk tea to her and said: "Now that you have won the case, you should take something. You haven't eaten since."
Jeslyn took the milk tea from him but that didn't make her relax her guard. She looked at him skeptically, waiting for him to explain what he meant by 'get inside the car'.
"Where do you want to go now aside from following me?" He asked her with a brow raised.
He knew that her property had been taken from her but his boss told him to not care about it in court, so he didn't bother to bring it up.
"I still have other places I can live. I'm old enough to take care of myself. By the way, I don't know you, and you still won't tell me who sent you." She said while taking the straw in the cup to her lips.
Seeing that she was dragging the content in the cup, Spid's eyes smiled before he said:
"Hmm," he nodded. "I can see that you have a place to stay, it's written all over your face. As for who sent me, I don't know how you both got to be familiar with each other, also, that isn't my business. I'm almost done with my task, so don't make..."
"Sister!"
The minute Jeslyn heard that voice, she knew Christine was about to play the white lotus card in public. She would probably cry and show the world how much she loved her sister.
Jeslyn didn't bother to turn back and hurried into the car. "Mr. Spider, please start that car, I don't want to have anything to do with those people."
Spid turned to look at the court entrance. The Chou and Zhou families with a few reporters were heading towards them with Christine running over while wiping her face. She looked like a good sister crying for her older sister.
Spid whose face was concealed behind a mask narrowed his eyes at Christine who was a few steps away from the car before he opened the driver's seat and got in.
He waited for Christine to hold the knob of the back seat's door... attempting to open it before he turned the key, started the car, and stepped on the accelerator.
The action of the car speeding out of Christine's hand shocked her into falling with a loud thud!
Unfortunately for her, the area she fell to wasn't a flat surface, so she fell head-first on the raised side of the road.
"Christine!" Mrs. Wales screamed. She rushed to help her and rested Christine's bleeding forehead on her lap while screaming for an ambulance.
Looking at the cameras, Christine burst into tears while saying: "Mother, father, older sister hates me now. She misunderstood me again." Her voice grew weaker and weaker until her eyes closed and her breathing went slower.
"Christine!"
"..."
"Call the ambulance, hurry, my child!"
The reporters ran wild and started to take pictures of Christine who had fainted.
"Poor Christine, that fall must have shocked her so badly, coupled with the hatred from her sister!"
"Jeslyn is too ungrateful. Christine did so much just to preserve her life and yet she almost ran her over with a car!"
"Jeslyn might not have killed her grandfather, but with what she just did, she is capable of killing someone, such a black-hearted lady, hmph!"
Even though it was obvious that Jeslyn wasn't the driver of the car, the people believed that she asked the driver to run Christine over.
The public that was rejoicing over Jeslyn's release a while ago suddenly didn't know what to start feeling anymore.
Some were in a dilemma, asking themselves how they would feel if a family member they loved so much testified against them in court.
Some supported Jeslyn while others supported Christine.
Whatever the public thought, one thing was apparent. Christine was not hated by the masses, instead, they felt sorry for her. Also, she succeeded in making Jeslyn a dubious character in the eyes of many.
....
Inside the car heading to the airport, Jeslyn could be seen with her head on the headrest, eyes closed and breathing calmly.
Spid pulled off the mask to reveal a well-sculpted face. He glanced at the sleeping Jeslyn, then curled his sexy lips into a faint smile before he picked up his phone to make a call.
"Hey, get the plane ready."
…
That night, Ray was seen at a bar drinking himself into a stupor.
"Ray, that's enough, stop it already!" His friend tried to force the glass off his hand.
"Let go of me!" Ray pushed his guy's hand away.
"What the hell do you want, Ray? You never liked her, so what's your problem?!"
"Yes, I never liked her! For four years, I felt nothing for her, she was like a pest to me, but what the hell did her lawyer mean by all that? What did she tell her lawyer about me?!"
"Well, Ray, actually it was 5 years, you two had been together for 5 years…"
"Shut the f*ck up and stop acting like that damn lawyer!" Ray's mind flashed as he was forced to remember the event in court.
"Mr. Ray, for how long have you been together with Miss Jeslyn?"
"Four years–"
"From your report, it's been 5 years, Mr. Ray….Your honor, if Mr. Ray cannot even remember how long he and Miss Jeslyn had been together, then how can he claim he loved her?"
Ray watched as the judge nodded his head before the mask lawyer continued.
"Mr. Ray, have you ever had intimacy with Miss Jeslyn?"
"No."
"But she had visited you a lot in the past."
"Yes."
"Have you ever shown her your naked body?"
"No"
"Oh? And you mean she hasn't seen your great body anywhere before?"
"Yes, I have never shown her my body. She tends to be shy when she's with me and I wanted to honor and respect her, so I made things easy for her by covering up any time she came around."
"Then, what do you guys do when she comes around?"
"We either go out or watch some movies with popcorn while she sits in between my legs and I hug her in my arms. She likes that a lot…" his voice trailed off like he was reminiscing something.
He slowly looked at Jeslyn and saw she was glancing at her nails. She does that too when she's sad.
Ray slowly bit his lower lip. He didn't understand what funny things his heart was doing at the moment. It felt bitterness and anger, but for who?
"Ok, so, all in all, she has never seen you without clothes on. Your honor, please kindly note that down." The lawyer said before he continued. "Mr. Ray, what if I say that the reason Miss Jeslyn abandoned you on the altar and married a stranger was that she found out you have been cheating on her?"
The audience gasped and so were those watching from other places that knew the couple too well.
That allegation was too much for people to believe, so the majority of those that knew the couple denied the fact. They believed that the lawyer was only saying that to lead Ray to confusion.
"That's not true! I have never cheated on Jeslyn for the four…five years we have been together. If she's looking for something to defend herself for humiliating me on the altar and shattering my heart, then she should look for another lie to tell!"
Ray glared at Jeslyn. He was sure he left no evidence behind, so what could they find to pin the crime of cheating on him?
That's right, Ray left no evidence behind and even the videos that were sent to Jeslyn were wiped out, so how is Spid going to find the evidence?
"Fine… If Jeslyn had never seen you without clothes on, how then did she know about the tattoo on your butt?"
The audience took in a sharp breath and so did Ray.
"W– what are you talking about?" Ray panicked.
"What I'm talking about, Mr. Ray is that you have a tattoo… a butterfly tattoo on one cheek of your butt, and Jeslyn, who had supposedly not seen your body, knew of the tattoo."
"How is that possible?!" Ray was alarmed.
"That's right. How is that possible?... It can either be that she saw you in the shower, or she met you sleeping on your belly while naked, or you were sleeping with someone."
"T–that's not possible!"
"Hold on, Mr. Ray, let me analyze it for you since you don't understand."
The lawyer squinted before he continued, "Jeslyn whom you said is shy around you must definitely not enter your shower even though she's in your house while you were showering, let alone, you don't have a reason to shower when she's around.
Secondly, Miss Jeslyn cannot enter your room to meet you sleeping naked because you never sleep naked…" he paused to look at Ray's shocked expression.
However, Ray had his eyes glued on Jeslyn.
"...You don't sleep naked Mr. Ray and in fact, you hate that idea.
Thirdly, there's a possibility that you were sleeping with someone, unbeknownst to you both, the scene was being recorded and sent to Jeslyn, so she saw the butterfly tattoo. If you say I'm lying, pull down your pants."
That comment was supposed to be funny but everyone was too shocked to laugh.
Jeslyn and Ray were known to be the best couple in Rose City. Their lovely relationship was the envy of every lady. That was why the people were angry when they thought Jeslyn broke Ray's heart.
Ray couldn't defend himself, and neither could his lawyer. So Spid went ahead to finalize his words.
Now that they found out Ray was the unfaithful partner, the people couldn't help feeling betrayed.
"Your honor, Miss Jeslyn found out her fiance of five years was cheating on her. Heartbroken, she thought of making him pay. While leaving to cancel the wedding, she saw a man coming out of the bathroom and asked him to marry her for one year before divorcing her.
Miss Jeslyn and that man were strangers, and Jeslyn never cheated on Mr. Ray.
So, your honor, Mr. Ray's testimonies cannot be taken because he said those words out of anger for Miss Jeslyn. He was angry that she humiliated him on the altar and also wanted her to suffer.
We are men with egos and when a woman shatters our ego in public, we tend to want to make her pay. Mr. Judge, you are a man, so you can relate."
That was how Ray was labeled an evil fiance by the people and they started praising Jeslyn for destroying him on the altar.
Ray snapped out of his reverie and held the tumbler firmly.
"Jeslyn, I won't let you off!" It would have been nicer or less painful if the man she chose over him was someone she knew.
Picking a random stranger over him was the greatest insult Jeslyn could give him and it was about to drive him crazy.
"Jeslyn!!!" He screamed her name in frustration and rage as he smashed his glass on the tiled floor.
"I won't give you rest, I promise. I'll ruin you and make you pay for everything you did to me!... Ahhh!" He swept off the wine bottles and cups on the table, including phones.
"Ray, take it easy, you'll hurt yourself. I thought you didn't have any feelings for her, now look at how you are."
"I don't have any feelings for her! Damn it!"
"Tell that to an idiot who would believe you. Tsk." His friend clicked his tongue in irritation.
He sat there and allowed Ray to continue venting until he couldn't vent anymore and broke down. His reason for reacting this way was not known, but whatever it was, Ray's friend was sure that regret was part of it.
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