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Isabella hugs her niece tightly with worry, "Are you okay?" while staring at Jack with very dark eyes, "What do you think you're doing?!"
As usual, Jack doesn't seem to be affected at all. He slowly adjusts his position, blowing out his cigarette smoke like a cloud hovering around him. "What did I do? Nothing!! I just wanted some questions answered." Despite his coldness, it seems as if he doesn't want to meet Isabella's eyes in some way.
"If you try to get close to my family again, KNOW THAT you have written the end of your career with your own hand," Isabella shouts in a very sharp voice, grabbing Elizabeth's shoulder to get her out of the room, an annoyed expression drawing her beautiful features..
Elizabeth immediately followed her aunt with quick steps, feeling the adrenaline rush disappear as if a heavy weight had been lifted from her shoulders.
"Thank God you're here, auntie," she says quickly as she follows her after the tension in her body melts away..
Slowly she looks behind her and as she expected Jack and Clara are there staring at them between looks of tension and embarrassment from Clara.
It seems that she is trying to think of a way to calm Isabella down. "Please don't get angry ma'am !!" Clara stutters and between looks of indifference and boredom from Jack who doesn't bother to move from his place.
"What an idiot, how dare he!!" Isabella mutters to herself as she heads to her black car... black as night around them. "Do you know him, auntie? He seems like he knows you?!" Elizabeth tells her, who must have heard her..
Her aunt suddenly shuts up from her thoughts as if she remembered something. Completely upset, she opens the car door. "No, I don't know him. Let's leave." She gestures with her hand for her to get in.
Elizabeth immediately hears her aunt's words, even though she feels that there is more that has not been revealed.
As soon as Isabella closed the car door..
the sound of car tires hit the cold asphalt again, but this time Elizabeth was the one inside the car watching Clara from the window, trying to catch her breath with gasps from her failed attempt to run after them. 'Poor girl,' that's what came to her mind as she slowly looked at her aunt...
"So no... mean yes I know Jack but I don't want to talk or yes I know him but I won't tell you" she says with complete curiosity whispering to her aunt, whose hand muscles tense as soon as she hears the name 'Jack' holding the car handle tightly she narrows her eyes slowly directing them towards Elizabeth she knows she won't be able to escape from these curious eyes easily...
She sighed slowly, "We used to work together in the past. Don't worry about it... What's important for now IS that we go to the hospital to check on your mother." She placed one of her arms on the window while her hair strands hit the gentle breeze as if it was opening up memories in Isabella's mind alone.
Her niece watches her in the back seat intently, despite her curiosity to know more, she decides to respect her aunt's space... "Yes, she's right," she says to herself... as her eyes go to the street... the dim lights hit the reflection of her eyes... while her mind is occupied with many things, and suddenly...
Without any introduction, she grabbed the seat in front of her tightly, "So do you know who Mary Kate ?!" making Isabella jump from her seat and scream, "OH MY GOD!!" After she was about to lose control of the car wheel..
"Sorry," Elizabeth whispers, but despite that, she doesn't leave the chair she's clinging to as if it's the end of the world. She continues in her aunt's ear, "So who killed her? Did you get anything?!" It seems as if she won't leave her until she tells her something.
"Unbelievable!" Isabella mutters, turning to her, shaking her head in disbelief before finally responding after a long silence, "Yes, he turned himself in. He's in prison now."
As soon as her words fell, Elizabeth's eyes widened even more. "It's a man then?! Who?!" Leaning closer towards her____
"Yes, he is... her husband's name is 'James Arthur'... the police found him next to his wife's body after it was almost charred," Isabella replied, gripping the steering wheel more tightly, resting her back on the chair.
"Wait!! This doesn't make sense! How did no one hear her screams?! Why did he turn himself in!!" the young girl asks with a raised eyebrow and a skeptical voice while leaning her body on the chair like her aunt in deep thought as if some gears of her mind are trying to connect the matter.
"We found some atropine in her system, which means one thing," her aunt replied boredly, her eyes meeting Elizabeth's directly, as she continued, "She was feeling everything... but she couldn't scream."
Incredibly goosebump-inducing, there was a long silence between the two of them as if each person had a different impact on the words...
Before Elizabeth could say "bu.." or anything else, a loud ringing of her phone stopped her. It was her aunt's phone.
Isabella turns her attention to her phone and finally opens it automatically.. The name 'idiot' lights up on the screen, referring to the person her aunt hates the most, so she responds angrily, "What do you want?!" Not noticing Elizabeth stealing an ear, fully alert... It sounds like Jack's voice on her aunt's phone..
His voice came out in shock from the phone's speaker, "You won't believe that I'm in front of Mr. James's dead body now, will you?"