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Madeline:
“Really? Then ask her where she was,” Lady Eugenia quickly recovered and posed another question, making Baxter hit his forehead.
“I’m not going to ask her where she goes and what she does. I trust her. She must have gone out for some needs, or maybe for the children,” Baxter explained, looking upset that he had worked the entire day only to
return to this mess.
“No, it’s okay, Baxter. I will respond. She’s your mother, and I respect her a lot,” I spoke in a soft and gentle tone, watching Lady Eugenia’s face turn harsh as she clenched her fist at my words and my tone.
“I’m serious, Lady Eugenia. I don’t mind you questioning me. You’re just like my mother. I know if you’re asking these questions, it’s because you’re worried for me. You’re worried I might make a wrong decision,” I continued, speaking gently, and noticed Baxter narrowing his eyes at me.
Somewhere along the line, we both knew each other very well.
“Anyway, I went out to take the kids for ice cream. They had been insisting on it,” I started to explain when Lady Eugenia shoved her palm forward from a distance.
“No, where is the file then, huh?” she screamed.
I looked at Baxter and then back at her.
“I don’t know what file. Was it with you? If you had it, it must be in your room somewhere,” I said.
She placed her hands on her waist, shaking her head while maintaining eye contact with me.
“It is not in my bedroom. Your wife took it. I saw it,” she screamed, and Baxter turned to give her a puzzled
look.
“I mean, I saw her take it with her, but I called after her. She did not stop,” she added.
I kept my calm, wearing only a sad look on my face.
“You know what? I’ll find it for you. Don’t worry,” I said, then stepped toward her room.
She followed me closely.
“Fine, go ahead. You’re not going to find it here,” she hissed.
I entered the room and began looking for the file. The drawers, the cupboards, the usual places.
“See,” Lady Eugenia hissed. “There is no file because she took it. Now she’s just pretending to be helpful while looking for it,” she continued, talking nonstop.
I ran my hand behind the closet and pulled out a file.
“Is this the file you’re talking about?” I asked.
Everyone went silent, not even a breath was heard.
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Lady Eugenia stared at the file, her face turning pale.
“How? How is this possible? It has to be a duplicate,” she muttered, reaching for the file and snatching it out of my hands.
“ I mean, I don’t know what the file looks like, so maybe–I don’t know,” I said, pretending to be clueless again.
However, Baxter stepped forward and took the file from his mother, checking it carefully. Once he was certain it was the original, he shut it and faced her.
“Why was the file tucked behind the closet, Mother?” he asked, waving the file slightly. “Why was it there p>
“Are you doubting your mother? You think I hid it there?” she cried, tears forming in her eyes.
Honestly, she was not wrong. She was not the one who had hidden the file. Yuvonne had.
I shared a glance with Yuvonne, who had followed the entire situation in silence, never mentioning her involvement or the role she played in helping me.
“Mother, this is the file. This is the real file you have been accusing my wife of stealing. Do you have any idea what you were doing? Why? What is this hatred for? Why would you lie about something like this?” Baxter demanded.
Lady Eugenia covered her mouth as tears rolled down her cheeks, finally realizing how badly she had fallen into her own trap.
As Baxter demanded answers from his mother, she started to cry and buried her face in her hands.
I was grateful to Yuvonne. If she had not helped me, if she had not taken the bag from me when I returned, I would have been in serious trouble.
When I entered the cabin and heard the two of them speaking, I honestly thought Yuvonne might have tricked me again, until I was about to leave and saw her gesture to me.
She made a hand motion, telling me to go around and ask about Byron.
So all I did was head toward the motel. Strangely enough, I did not run into Baxter.
He had been heading the same way, but I guessed he must have left before me and taken the woods while I stayed on the clear road.
I went to the motel and asked the lady standing near the vending machine about Alpha Byron, and she told me the exact same things Yuvonne had told me.
So when I returned, Yuvonne already knew I had come back with the information.
As Baxter almost raised his voice at his mother for ruining everyone’s peace, a loud screech followed by a thud from the rooftop of the cabin struck us.
We all gasped and immediately lowered our bodies. However, Baxter and I rushed to our children’s bedroom without checking what was going on first.
We reached the bedroom and saw our kids hiding under the bed. The noise that followed was the strangest
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