“Me? Get caught?
Who do you think you are talking to?
I am Angelica Yuan Philips!
The first daughter of the Philips family and the heir to the Philips empire.
I am the most beloved of my parents and they all, including that idiot I call a husband, eat from the palm of my hands.
Hear that?
They all believe in me.
Come on Macy,” Angela changed her voice and adopted the innocent one she usually used before other, “do you think that anyone would believe that I would do anything bad?
I can’t even kill a mouse let alone a person.
Ha ha ha!” She said and laughed hysterically until she laid on her back on the bed.
After she had laughed to her fill, she rose up again and faced Macy.
“And do you know why I am telling you all this?” She asked and Macy shook her head.
“Please, enlighten me,” Macy said and by this time, she was genuinely shocked.
This isn’t what she had bargained for.
This was like investing in the shares market projecting a profit of 1. 02% but then getting a hundred percent profit and more.
“I am telling you those because I want you to leave.
I don’t care what reason you give to the company for breaking your contract but this time, I am not leaving you alone.
You have a month to leave town.
I sent you to Africa last time but this time I won’t be so merciful.
I will send you straight to hell,” Angela said with a voice and an expression that told Macy that she was dead serious.
“Let me ask you something, were you behind the explosion in the set when we were shooting our movie?” Macy asked though she already knew the answer.
She just wanted to make sure that she had covered all the grounds and Angela wouldn’t have a way to recover from the fall.
“Why do you ask since you already know the answer? But I didn’t put real bombs there.
The supplier must have delivered the wrong ones.
I just wanted to scare you. I wouldn’t kill you before so many people. It would be troublesome,” Angela said and she hissed.
“Why am I feeling itchy? Can you scratch my back?
No don’t touch me.
You might infect me with your poverty.
You think that because you are more beautiful than me you can get all you want?
Not when I am around,” Angela talked to herself and Macy had had enough.
“Aren’t you afraid that I might tell people all what you have told me? I could even be taping you for all you know,” Macy said and again, Angela stopped scratching herself, looked at Macy for a while and then laughed again.
“You are too naïve Macy. More naïve than I usually thought you are.
Who would believe you?
Mom and dad think that you are jealous of me, Andy thinks that you are still in love with him and that is why you hate me and I act my part well and the idiot believes it all,” Angela said and continued trying to reach her back where it was itching her.
“Did Andy know that you were the one who drugged me and looked for men to sleep with me and that was how I got pregnant?” Again, Macy just wanted the idiot called Andy to hear the truth.
“Of course not! Who do you think I am?
I wanted you out of the way and I needed to do something that would make him hate you.
I gave my virginity to him but he still loved you.
I tried all I could but he always cried that he had betrayed you and he didn’t know how to tell you.
His world revolved around you and I had to make him hate you.
Imagine how devastated when he found out that you were pregnant?
And imagine who was there to wipe his tears and make sure that he was okay?
Yours truly.
That was why he didn’t have a problem in helping us when we drugged you that day of the auditions and carrying you to the utility room.
Ha!
If he only knew,” Angela looked at her hands and started working on her nails.
“But why do you hate me so much? Why?” Macy genuinely wanted to know where all this hatred was coming from.
I really don’t have a reason why I hate you to be frank.
I just hate you.
You shouldn’t have been born
Better still, you should have died the day we were exchanged in the hospital because that way, grandma would never have run to you that day,” Angela said and May sighed.
“I wanted to hate you too but there was no need.
I would be like you and I would just carry a useless burden in my heart and get sick and depressed and there was no need.
All I can do is wish you all the best in this life Angela.
But know that it is true that nothing is ever hidden. Even the safest closets get opened and the owners forget to close them and all the bones hidden in there come tumbling down,” Macy said and stood up to leave.
“Wait,” Angela called and Macy stopped and looked at her.
The night I drugged you, the men I had paid said that you didn’t go to their room and you thought that you had slept with Andy.
It wasn’t him because he was with me in the same hotel the whole night and my plan was to accidentally make him see you and those men in bed but you weren’t there.
Who did you sleep with?
I have told you all my secrets and you can answer just this one question.
Who did you sleep with?” Angela asked and Macy looked thoughtful for a while.
“I also thought that I had slept with Andy that night.
I had been drugged and I had never touched his body and the deep voice sounded like his.
When I woke up, he was gone and when I met Andy later, he didn’t say anything and I thought that he was just shy because he had taken my first time….,” Macy wanted to continue but Angela interrupted.
“You were a virgin? You had never slept with anyone?” She asked and she, for the first time, seemed genuinely surprised.
“Yeah. I was a virgin and Andy and I had decided that we would do it during our marriage night and that was why I thought that he was shy because we had broken our promise to each other.
That was until I realized that I was pregnant and went to tell him.
You know the rest, right?
You were there and you really helped rub salt into the wound,” Macy said and Angela snorted.
“And what did you do? Nothing.
Just like the coward you are.
Isn’t it the same way you didn’t do anything when I hit you with that car and then lied to you that your child had died?
God! You are so nauseating sometimes!
How did you not want to see your child?
You still believed me when I told you that he had died,” Macy stopped and looked at Angela.
She couldn’t believe that she was hearing.
“What did you say? My baby is alive?
He is really alive?” Macy was on the verge of tears and she almost ran towards Angela to shake her but she remembered that she was still wearing the small camera on her chest.
She yanked the camera, turned it off and put it in her pocket and then walked towards Angela.
“I had already known that you hated me at that time and that was why I didn’t believe you until I saw the body.
Have you forgotten that you showed me a baby girl’s premature baby and told me that that was my child?
I buried her and I still visit her grave!
I was seventeen ANGELA!
I…. WAS…. ONLY…. SEVENTEED FOR HEAVEN’S SAKE!
You took my innocence from me and you are here gloating about it.
I swear I am ready to go to jail and take up all your crimes because I will kill you here and now if you don’t tell me where my baby is right now.
Where did you take my baby?” Macy asked and Angela was frozen at the outburst.
She wasn’t expecting it.
Macy walked towards her and held her by the neck and started squeezing.
“Tell me where you took my baby.
He is almost seven now and you are saying he is alive?
Where is my baby?” Macy tightened her hold and Angela was lucky because May and Richard burst into the room at that moment.
“MACY, NO!” Richard shouted as he held her and pried her fingers from Angela’s neck.
“My baby! She must tell me where my baby is,” Macy said and Richard hugged her.
“Ssshhhh! It’s okay.
We will get your baby back.
May,” he called to May as he still soothed Macy, “don’t let her go until she tells you where she took that baby.
If she refuses to tell you, stage an accident and kill her.
We will still find out where the baby went without her,” Richard said and till he got in and got a hold of Macy, Angela’s eyes were on him.
“Who are you?” Angela couldn’t hold herself anymore and asked.
“Your worst nightmare.
You will regret for everything you have done to hurt Macy,” Richard said, then looked at May and held Macy’s waist and led her outside.