Would Michelle be treated like this? She didn’t think so. Stacy love her, and she wanted her to be her sister in-law, she would’ve treated her with care.
And Michelle also had a fiance who loved her from the bottom of his heart, Abigail was sure that she would have been so happy, she would’ve smiled in her sleep.
Abigail remembered the time she met Michelle, she had her happiness written on her face, even she, who was just an outsider, could feel that.
If she could, she wanted to rather be the dead Michelle, instead of the substitute for her.
It was so cold!
The freezing temperature had interrupted her thoughts, she hugged herself tighter, but it didn’t help. Was she going to freeze to death? If so, maybe it was better, her sister would be safe, her life or death was not important.
She didn’t dare to breath, every breath she took was so cold that it hit every part of her body, she was afraid to freeze her baby too. But she had to breath.
Abigail put both her hands in front of her mouth and covered it, so that when she breathed, it wouldn’t be too cold, and her baby would at least not feel it.
“Sorry, baby, I’m letting you suffer.” She apologized to the baby in her tummy.
……
In the meeting room, Joshua and Quinn were both standing on one side, their mood dignified, both of them with a cup of coffee that was still hot.
“I’m here for Bill today.” Quinn said after blowing out smoke.
Joshua’s face immediately changed, his brows raised, and then frowned. His eyes changed. He looked like a startled lion.
“Why is he not here?” He asked coldly, waving off the smoke in front of him, his voice full of hate.
Quinn’s sight was on Joshua’s body, then his face, then he looked back, watching his cigarette. “He wanted to come, but he didn’t want your meetings to always end like last time.”
He stopped shortly, then took a few puffs in a row, and said, “He said someone wanted to kill Abigail yesterday. He saved her. And he hopes that you won’t misunderstand her, like, that she wanted to run or something.”
He shook his head, it was not fun to be the messenger. He didn’t want to be here, but Bill called him about 30 times, interrupting his intimate time with Ashley.
He had no other choice, that’s why he was here.
Joshua was not as mad as he expected, he only nodded his head.
“You believe him? That fast?” Quinn thought he would have to convince him, he didn’t think that Joshua would believe him with just one sentence. This made Quinn not have any feeling of achievement, so he had to ask.
“Is there anything else he needed you to tell me?” Joshua threw him a look, blaming him for his nonsense. He sat down, and leaned back in his chair, like a lion.
“Yes.” Quinn didn’t even think about it and answered. “He said that he will try to get results as soon as possible in Michelle’s matter, but if you don’t want it, then he will stop looking into a dead person’s incident. So, he wants to stop the investigation, but still be friends with you.”
“Why bother, for a woman to ruin a friendship.”
“Shut.” Joshua interrupted him, annoyed.
“I’m just trying to help, we three…”
“Enough!” Joshua hit the table, causing Quinn to get so startled that he stepped back, and stopped his talk.
Joshua raised his tall body, opened the door, and left the room without replying to Quinn again.
“Hey, so are you going to forgive him?”
Quinn yelled behind Joshua’s back, knocking on the wall, “If you keep quiet, you are not putting me in a nice place either. I am going to be kicked by Ashley when I get home. Hello, someone save me please!”
Joshua went downstairs annoyed, just when a maid ran into him.
“Sir, Missus is causing trouble again, she bites anyone she sees!” The maid stretched out her arm, on it were bite marks.
Joshua frowned, and said, “I thought she hasn’t done that for a long time, didn’t the doctor say that she got better?”
The maid thought for a while, and said carefully, “Missus is looking for Miss Abigail, since last night she has been asking for her, she doesn’t sleep, she doesn’t rest, anyone who comes near her gets bitten. Sir what should we do?”
“Just go and get her!” He didn’t even want to say her name. She was his Michelle, for ever.
“But…” The maid paused.
“But what?” Joshua frowned even more, now more annoyed than ever.
The maid thought for a while, she didn’t dare to tell him. Stacy had asked all of them to shut their mouths. If Joshua got wind of it, all of the maids will be punished. Stacy was a girl hard to please, she could do anything that she thought of, any of the maids were afraid of her, none of them wanted to snitch on her.
“Say it!” Joshua yelled.
“Say what? Look at my dress, Joshua, is it pretty? It’s my birthday in three days, the butler has already started arranging a party for me, Joshua, you should also come.” Stacy came in like a little bird, showing him her new dress, she has already forgotten about Abigail who was still in the freezer.
The maid looked at her frightened, and Joshua immediately knew something was going on. He waved his hand, letting the maid leave.
From far away, she stopped and looked at the freezer. Poor Miss Abigail had endured too much in this house. The maids saw everything, and it pained them in their hearts, but none of them dared to say anything.
She was a nice lady, she was good to Missus, and they knew that she was never the one who killed Michelle. These kind of things happened a lot in rich families, and blaming it on others happened just as much. But Miss Abigail, she had to endure all this for no reason.
She hoped that Abigail will survive this, and that Joshua would go and save her.
Joshua pushed his sister’s hand away, and gestured to the couch, “Sit down.”
“Josh…” Joshua cleared his throat, and Stacy sat down. In this house, her brother was her only invincible opponent.
“Tell me, what have you done to Abigail?” Joshua stared at his sister’s eyes, his mood serious.
“Which of the maids told you!” Stacy said, her face innocent.
“If you don’t want anyone to know, you better not do anything. Lambert saw how you dragged her away.” His sister didn’t know her boundaries, but she would never do anything to Lambert.
“Tz, that woman was looking for it, I don’t know why you are trying to protect her. Have you forgotten? She is the one that hurt Michelle!” Stacy knew that she got caught, but she didn’t forget about dragging Abigail with her.
“That’s my problem, now, get her out!” There was no room for discussions, he demanded from her. Stacy stomped her feet, just when Lambert arrived.
“Sir.” He greeted Joshua.
“Go with Stacy and get Abigail, then bring her to Granny’s room.”
Joshua turned and left, Lambert gestured towards Stacy and said, “Miss, please.”
She was going to die, that’s what Abigail was thinking, her hair was already full of ice, her body was so cold that she was getting numb, she couldn’t feel it anymore.
She had leaned her back to one of the walls, her thin clothes were stiff. The fear of death was hanging upon her, and the feeling of tiredness was crawling up in her, sleep was waving at her.
No! I cannot sleep!
But, sleep was such a comfortable feeling, it was seducing her, she could not help but to close her eyes.
Suddenly, the door opened with a sound, light shined on her face, she tried hard to open her eyes, and she saw a couple of shadows coming towards her.
“Miss Abigail.” The voice of a man was calling out her name, her own name. Abigail’s eye lids were getting heavy, her eyes were not focused, she could not see the face of the person, all she saw were shadows moving in front of her.
“Are you okay? Mister asked me to come and get you.” The person lifted her up, quickly warming her up. She smiled at him, weakly. She had no strength anymore and sank in the arms of that person.
“Abigail, Abigail, Granny doesn’t want you to die! Abigail, Granny’s Abigail!” Someone was calling her, it was Granny!
Abigail opened her eyes, granny’s pale face was in front of her, really big, on it were tears rolling down, she looked at her sadly.
“Granny, why are you crying?” Abigail reached out her hand and touched granny’s face, the water on her face were clearly tears.
Granny saw that Abigail was awake, and started to cheer like a little child. “Abigail, you are awake! Awake! You are not leaving me again, never again!” She hugged her body, and started crying.
“I… thought… I thought… you will leave me just like Silvia.”
Granny’s tears were running down her face, causing Abigail to cry as well, “Granny, I am never going to leave you, I promise to stay with you, forever!” She promised.
“Miss Abigail, you are finally awake, Missus was so sad, she didn’t stop crying.” The maid said with tears in her eyes. “You don’t know, Miss Silvia just slept like you, and never woke up. Missus thought, you also…”
She couldn’t continue talking, and Abigail understood what granny was feeling, she took grann’s hands, and said softly, “Don’t worry, Granny, I am here, I am not going to leave you!”
“Yes, yes.” Granny nodded like a child, both of them hugging each other. It was a scene of the last goodbye, both of them emotional, and granny grew even more attached to Abigail.
Abigail did not only survive the freezer, and now granny loved her even more. With her demands, Abigail was back by granny’s side, taking care of her. When Stacy heard these news, she almost got unconscious by anger.
“Fuck, fuck! This fucking evil woman! This is not fair, how can this kind of woman get all the good things, was God blind?” Stacy cursed her, throwing and breaking anything she could grab.
Annie came walking towards her, and looked pitiful at Stacy. “Seriously, God is helping the wrong people. There is no logic behind this, we cannot keep a woman like her.”
“I don’t want to keep her here, but what can I do!” Stacy was making air for her anger, kicking things on the floor everywhere. When she was angry, no one dared to get close to her. Of course, she only dared to do this when Joshua was not there.