An Extra Guest

Brad shouted, not caring if his words her hurt Lily or not. "I don't give a fuck about you! You're tired? Then fucking sign the divorce papers I've been throwing at your face since eight months now. I want kids, you can't give me that. We're running on the edge of bankruptcy, and you can't even save me too!"

Tears had filled Lily's eyes. "Please, you're making noise. Brad, I'm sorry-"

His hand slapped her face as she got closer. It was a hard slap that instantly left a cut on her cheek bone. She cried out in pain. Now, Brad had not meant to hit her. But then, he didn't care.

"Go, get the fuck away from me!" He yelled out unapologetically.

Then stepped into his car and stormed off. He didn't know where he was going to. He dialed his phone to call Peter, who had been somewhere else working on a mini mission for him.

"Did you get it?" He asked.

"Yes sir. I was able to find a location on her recent post. We tracked the address and found a place. I'm in there now. Although, there isn't much we've found yet--"

"Trash the whole area! Burn the place down! How dare Alison treat me like this! Find every document you can find. I want to know how she became rich like this. Her back bone, is she married? Everything there is to know, okay! Meet me at our spot in the next one hour." He hung up before Peter could say anything else.

"That's if we even have one hour more..."

***

"Alright dear, go wait in the car. Linda will stay with you." Richard said to his daughter as soon as they were outside. There was another back entrance so they followed though there to avoid any dumb question from anyone.

"Yes daddy. And I'm so glad you can be with us miss writer. Or is it Mrs? Are you married?" Kari said with a face so pure of innocence.

Alison only laughed. She noticed that Richard was staring at her a little too focused. "Um, no actually. I'm very much single, sweet Kari--"

"--um, Maggie. I'm the only one she allows to call her Kari." Richard corrected, but not out of disrespect.

"Oh, of course. I'm sorry, Maggie." Alison said. This brought a smile on Maggie's face before she was taken away by Linda, her nanny.

Now, silence joined the room as Alison waited patiently for Richard to start talking. To start confessing!

Her patience worn out but just as she asked, "why have you been hiding?"

Richard said at the same time. "You look beautiful."

Both of them exclaimed."Huh?"

Richard straightened up. "I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. Hiding?"

Alison blinked, "yes. You told me to come to this party to reveal yourself. I mean handing me am invitation was a smart move, you didn't give me the VIP invitation because you didn't want me to suspect it was you. So you gave an ordinary welcome to my party invitation. And you lied that it wasn't even your party!"

Richard couldn't hide the confusion in his face and voice. "Alison, I think you should calm down and listen to what you're saying." He stared at her like she needed help. Did she?

"But--!" Just then, a message popped up on her screen.

_it's not him. Apologize please_

Instantly, fear crept inside of her as she thought of the meaning behind that message. It only meant one thing. The person was in there at the venue with her! Not wasting time, Alison jumped to her feet and began to look around.