Chapter 10: Evidence
Two weeks later...
Arianna busied herself with healing and recovering from her injuries. Her family wouldn’t let her do much, such as leave the house.
Even when they went on missions that excited her, she would receive a glare from her father that would make her want to run back into her room.
Arianna was inside her room, her phone in her hand as she scrolled through Vivian’s new Instagram post. In the post, Logan was hugging Clara who was smiling with all her teeth, while Vivian was in the background which seemed to be the beach, lying on the shore.
They posed as the perfect family, each smiling as if she had never existed to them.
Arianna’s eyes stung, but she blinked her tears away before she scrolled to another picture.
Her heart sank when she saw the image. It was a picture of Logan kneeling on one leg and proposing to Vivian.
Arianna choked on her saliva.
Logan had already proposed to Vivian to marry him. They were really trying to be a happy family, and then while she slid the pictures, she saw one of them holding a pregnancy scan.
Vivian was pregnant.
Arianna sniffled in her tears. She was such a fool. A very big fool.
If only she’d just stayed with her family and never left, she would have never met either of them and would have never been hurt so much that tears could no longer fall from her eyes anymore.
She stared blankly into her phone screen, her expression solemn, as if her soul wasn’t present in her physical body.
Then her eyes hardened.
She recalled Lilian’s phone number. After spending so much time with each other, it was a habit to dial each other’s numbers off by heart.
"Hello, who’s this?" Lilian asked immediately after she picked up on the fifth ring.
Arianna was silent for a second before she parted her lips. "It’s Arianna."
Then the silence lengthened with Lillian not saying anything for a while.
"Where have you been?" Lilian asked, the concern evident in her tone.
"I’ve been around. I just needed to go away for a while and think things through," she lied. "
"Did you see everything? They’re getting married."
Arianna sighed before she responded.
"Yes, I saw it. They can get married to each other for all I care." Then she moved the phone to the other ear. "Do you still have the videos that I sent you about a month ago, during Vivian’s birthday?"
"Yes, I do."
A smile immediately kissed Arianna’s lips.
"Please send it to this number."
In less than thirty seconds, Arianna’s phone rang with a new notification. It was a video.
That was her evidence. With that video, she will be able to destroy both Logan and Vivian’s careers.
"When will you be coming back?" Lilian asked.
Arianna took a pause before she responded. "Soon."
They bid each other farewell before they both hung up on the phone.
Arianna played the video on her phone multiple times, as if still unable to believe what was being displayed on her screen. Then she transferred the clip to her computer. It was always better to have multiple copies than to regret it later.
Arianna’s door suddenly rang with a knock. Her mother walked in with a smile on her lips.
"Do you want to come downstairs? Let’s watch those romcoms that you love so much," she offered.
Despite being married to an Englishman for years, Mrs. Wesley’s English was not fluent but manageable.
She had so much trouble learning English that her father had to resort to learning Italian, so he could communicate better with her.
Thinking back to their love story made their heart warm. She believed she’d found that kind of love, but she was solely mistaken.
"Of course, mother."
Together, the mother and daughter strode down the long staircase and arrived in the living room where The Perfect Find was already playing on the massive television.
However, the whole time Arianna was with her mother watching the movie, she was deep in thought. And this time, her thoughts were on Daemon. She had heard about him since he left the hospital after she’d declared she was returning home.
But Arianna decided not to think too much about it. It was better they never crossed paths ever again.
Thankfully, Cassian didn’t tell their father anything to make the situation even worse than it already was.
A commercial suddenly came up, revealing Vivian starring in her newest production.
Seeing her smiling like she hadn’t just buried her a month ago made her blood boil.
Mrs. Wesley reached for the remote, ready to change the channel, but Arianna quickly stopped her.
"Let’s watch, mother."
Mrs. Wesly was hesitant at first, a concerned look on her face before she dropped the remote.
They watched the commercial while Arianna’s fists clenched by her side.
After the commercial, the entertainment news came on, revealing the latest gossip, and just as she’d expected, Vivian and Logan’s engagement was the talk of the city, following up with her pregnancy which made netizens wonder what could have possibly happened to her.
The date of the expected wedding was also mentioned which made a smile stretch on the corners of her lips.
’You just wait.’
