After that, Amber’s life started growing hectic again, and over the weekend, she was called to the university for a meeting. Halfway through the meeting, she received a preliminary report from Ian about Frank and Sarah’s HIV test results. The results had come out a while ago, and both of them tested positive for HIV.
Given Trysta’s vindictive mindset, Amber assumed that these results were likely to be correct.
During a break in the meeting, she called Trysta and told her everything. Amber’s tone was very calm, and she even advised, “I think that this result will be quite shocking to the both of them. You should take care of yourself.”
Trysta’s tone was relaxed. She languidly replied, “It’s no wonder Sarah came to my place and made a ruckus. She must have figured out what had happened to her. Don’t worry. I know what you’re worried about, and their affairs won’t implicate me at all.”
She was so confident and unhurried in her response that Amber was momentarily at a loss for what to say. Only after spending quite a while to recollect herself did she finally ask, “Do they really deserve this?”
Trysta’s tone was blunt and cold. “From my point of view, yes. I don’t believe in retribution from heaven, not unless I do a little something myself. You might not know this, but my motivation to live was to see them suffer their just retribution. And now that I’ve seen it, I’m very happy.”
As Trysta continued her harangue, she grew more and more excited, and an almost feral happiness consumed her. In the end, she couldn’t suppress it and impatiently hung up on Amber.
Actually, Trysta headed straight home, because Sarah had appeared at her house. This time, she was smarter, and immediately called the cops. After Trysta’s mental state had improved, she had temporarily moved into her sister-in-law’s place. Thus, Sarah couldn’t find her, so she had brought the police to blockade Trysta’s parents home.
When Trysta arrived, Sarah was crying at the front door. Trysta’s parents were impatiently talking to the police “according to them, their own daughter had gotten hurt. To then be accused by the assailant was ludicrous.”
As soon as Trysta showed herself, Sarah immediately stopped crying and her gaze focused on Trysta with inconsolable hatred.
Sarah had rid herself of the fear that Amber and Trysta had seen when her mental condition had been breaking down, and now, all she felt towards Trysta was hatred, a boundless hatred.
Trysta had ruined her, so she would ruin Trysta back!
But Trysta didn’t care. In her eyes, today’s Sarah was no more than a lump of garbage. She directly asked the police, “What’s she suing me for?”
“Are you Trysta herself?”
“Yes.”
“Miss Sarah is suing you for intentionally harming her person. According to Miss Sarah, on the 24th of February, you invited her to drink at a bar to complain about your marriage, and then after she fell intoxicated, you commanded a man with AIDS to sexually assault her.
Afterwards, you even made that man harass her for the next month and a half. We also have video evidence that shows that you indeed went drinking with Miss Sarah at a bar on XX street, and that after you left early, Miss Sarah was brought away by a strange man. According to Miss Sarah’s testimony, the man who led her away was also the one who has been harassing her recently.”
Upon hearing the accusations all laid out, Trysta laughed and then pointed at herself. “Me, harm her?” She spread her hands innocently, set her smile, and then apathetically continued, saying, “What is she to me that she would be worth attacking? Has she told you that, on the 12th of March, she was caught doing the deed with my husband at the Axton Hotel?
And before then, I never even knew that my friend, my dearest friend, was actually my husband’s mistress. On that day, when I went drinking with her, I didn’t drink very much because I had just found out that I was pregnant. It was she who said, of her volition, that she’d drink it all for me, to drink my misery away. It’s impossible that I intentionally got her drunk.”
“You’re lying! You’re the one who purposefully led me to do so! And I didn’t even drink very much. Based on my usual alcohol tolerance, I shouldn’t have gotten that drunk from that much alcohol. It’s you! You must have put something in the drinks!”
Trysta looked at the police unemotionally. “If she’s saying this without any evidence, then can I sue her for libel and slander?”
The police replied, “That’s your right. But before that, we still hope to clarify a few things. This is the male that Miss Sarah is referring to. Are you certain that you don’t recognize him?”
“I don’t!”
“That’s impossible! You have to recognize him. However, he disappeared, and nobody can find him anywhere. It must be because you had him killed! You knew that when I found out that I had contracted AIDS, I would definitely seek you out. Thus, you must have killed him beforehand! Trysta, how could you!? You’re a murderer! Police, arrest her! She’s murdered someone! Arrest her!”
But neither the police nor Trysta made a move. Trysta’s gaze made Sarah feel like she was a little clown, which deeply provoked her. But before she could say anything else, one of the police officer’s phones rang.
After a quick conversation, he definitively announced, “That strange man has been found. According to him, he’s been at an Internet cafe during these past couple of days, and the reason why he was harassing Miss Sarah was because Miss Sarah told him that she was about to become the young miss of a rich household.
Thus, he wanted to extort some money from her. Furthermore, he has a health certificate that proves that his body is healthy, and that he doesn’t have AIDS.”
Upon hearing this, Trysta’s family all started smiling, whereas Sarah went even crazier. “That’s impossible! You must be the one behind this whole conspiracy. It must be you! I never said anything like that to him!”
Trysta’s mother venomously spat at her. “What do you mean ‘impossible?’ What do you mean ‘you never said anything like that?’ Instead of being a productive member of society, you’ve chosen to be a loose woman. Who knows how many strangers you’ve slept with, how many diseases you’re carrying. How dare you slander our little Tata like that! Officer, we’d like to sue her for libel and slander!”