"Not necessarily, as it involves their reputation." Freda raised her gaze at Carla. "Ms. Lierger, is Mr. Giblo doing this to bring you to your knees?"
"He really is something." Carla gritted her teeth in exasperation.
Given the current situation, she was left with two choices. She either had to lower herself and marry Lucas knowing his family would always hold the matter against her, or she could go back to Zayn. In the former, she would constantly be ridiculed and wouldn't be able to see her children for the rest of her life.
She couldn't understand why Zayn was doing all this when he insisted she had slept with Lucas and hated her guts for it. Furthermore, he even had a woman by his side. Hence, she wondered if it was all just for the sake of revenge.
"She's calling again, " Freda reminded softly.
Setting her thoughts aside, Carla stared at her phone. Just a while ago, the call automatically cut off after ringing for a long time. But now that Lisa had called again, Carla knew she had no choice but to accept the call.
Carla answered, "Hello?"
"Carla, where are you?"
From Lisa's tone, Carla could tell how the woman was desperately suppressing her anger. Evidently, the former was extremely emotional and couldn't wait to question Carla about what
happened.
"What is it?" Carla was a sea of calm.
"What's wrong with you? Lucas has been beaten unconscious, and you're asking me what it is?"
Lisa blew her lid immediately. "Carla, the only reason I'm still speaking nicely to you is on the account of your brother. Therefore, you had better come home right now and explain to me what happened!"
"I'm sure you already have a rough idea, " Carla plainly replied. "Anyway, there's something I need to do now, so I can't go over. We'll talk again once I'm done-"
"Carla!" Lisa was unable to hold back her rage any longer. She bellowed, "You are about to marry Lucas, and yet, you are still involved with your ex-husband. In fact, you even threw yourself at him in the hotel and slept with him. Don't you have any shame at all?"
Knitting her eyebrows, Carla didn't respond.
"Furthermore, not only did you not protect Lucas at the crucial moment, you even bullied him together with Zayn by knocking him out. You devious woman! I'm not letting you off easy…"
Lisa berated Carla, "I'll give you one hour to come home and explain yourself. Or else, be prepared to suffer the consequences!"
Lisa ended the call the moment she finished.
Holding her phone, Carla frowned as she looked out the window with a heavy heart.
What had begun as a simple matter had escalated beyond her control. And now, she was left to clean up the entire mess.
Wait a minute.
A thought suddenly popped into Carla's mind. Considering how careful Zayn has always been, how did he let Mr. Naytr leak his movements? Could it be that he did it on purpose? He got Mr. Naytr to reveal his itinerary to Lucas so that I would be tempted to go and see him. After that, he arranged for the chaotic situation to happen so that he could use it to force me into canceling the wedding.
"By the way, when Jewel and I were at the villa, it was silent everywhere. I didn't see the children nor anything that belonged to the kids. It felt really strange."
Rogan suddenly felt suspicious and informed Carla, "Ms. Lierger, I believe the kids were never at the villa."
"Could it be…" Freda mumbled, realizing something, "that this is all part of Mr. Giblo's scheme?"
"It's entirely possible!" Rogan saw through the ruse. "They must have set this trap a long time ago and were waiting for us to fall into it. Bugara wasn't surprised to see me at all. Come to think of it now, they must have planned everything."
"Zayn!" Carla seethed. "How can you!"
"Seems like we have underestimated Mr. Giblo." Upon realizing it, Freda felt a shiver down her spine. "It's obvious that he has never gotten serious with us. If we had truly gotten into a conflict, we wouldn't have stood a chance at all."
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