LOGINEva's POV
It felt like I had gone deaf. I couldn't believe what I was hearing. Or were my eyes failing me? I stared at the two again to check if I was mistaken, but I wasn't. Sitting there was my sister, Livia and my fiance or should I say former fiance.
"Oh Adrian, you made my dreams come true" Livia's voice made me snap out of my thoughts and back to reality. I saw her lean down and kiss him and I flinched. My sister was kissing my fiance. Livia was kissing Adrian! My brain felt like it couldn't process what I was seeing and my mouth hung open in shock.
"Oh you're as sweet as always my lovely wife. I would love to take you here" Adrian murmured and Livia giggled, pulling away from him.
"Oh stop playing around Adrian. Today is our first wedding anniversary. We have to go on a trip, I need to update my I*******m. Everyone is waiting to see where we'd be next. Come help me choose our next holiday destination" She said and I stared at them flabbergasted.
First wedding anniversary? Livia and Adrian were really married, and have been married for a year now. I shook my head in shock. I had never felt so betrayed. They had enough money to waste going on trips but couldn't get me a lawyer to prove my innocence like they had promised. They let me rot in jail all this time while backstabbing me.
I couldn't take it again, I stepped out into the open without hesitation. "What's going on here?" I snapped in anger and in pain.
Both Adrian and Livia turned to me and their eyes widened on seeing me. They both looked like they were seeing a ghost and seeing them up close, realizing that I hadn't been dreaming and all this was real, hurt me so much.
"What the hell is going on here?" I yelled again, feeling more anger and resentment towards Livia and Adrian.
They finally snapped out of their shock. "E.. eva" Adrian stuttered.
"What are you doing here?" Livia stood up and faced me. I scoffed at the first question she was asking me after eight years of not seeing me. She didn't even look happy or relieved to see me and I was now seeing these two backstabbers for who they truly were, they had lied to me all this time.
"You don't look so happy to see me sister" I sneered at Livia, my eyes blazing in anger. To think I had gone through all of that and my sister was playing love with Adrian.
"Aren't you supposed to be in jail?" Livia asked and I stared at her in disbelief. Was this really my sister?
"How dare you? How dare you say that to me Livia! How dare you!" I roared at her in anger. My hand were itching to beat her up. I wanted to walk closer and smack her across the face. How could she betray me and ask such questions. I felt so hurt that I could just break down in tears at that moment.
"Why are you here? How are you here Eva? Did you break out of jail?" She asked that annoying question again and I glared at her. If looks could kill, I was sure that both Livia and Adrian would be six feet below at the moment.
"Is it really true?" I asked, looking at Adrian. "Are... Are you two really married"
Livia smirked and raised up her perfectly pedicured fingers. I saw the shining diamond ring on it that told me everything I needed to know. "Seems like you lots don't get news in the prison so much" she said and tears welled up in my eyes again.
"How could you? How could you betray me" I asked, the pain I felt was so evident in my voice.
"I guess Adrian was too good for you. Who would want to be with a criminal after all" Livia said with a shrug and I was even more hurt.
I turned to her, shaking my head, "I'm not a criminal, I didn't do it. I didn't commit any crime and you know that Livia" I said to her and she gave that annoying smile again.
"That's not what the records says" she said and my heart was broken again.
"You're the reason I was put in prison in the first place" I pointed at Livia in anger, tears rolled down my face at this point but i didn't bother wiping them away. I was too hurt to not cry and try to pretend I was fine. "You put me in that situation. I didn't kill the CEO and you know it. You asked me to take the fall for you, you promised that you would get me out of prison-"
"Where is your evidence to prove such accusations, Eva" Livia interrupted me with an evil glint in her eyes. I couldn't believe I had let her fool me. I couldn't believe I had really let myself believe that taking the fall was fine. I was a fool to not have seen the bigger plan sooner.
"I believed you Livia. I waited for you all those years, I told them that my sister was coming to get me, I told myself that it would be over soon. That you would get the best lawyers and prove my innocence. Everyday I sat, for eight years Livia! For eight years I waited for you to come get me out of that hell hole" I cried with my voice breaking. "But what did you do? Not only did you lie and deceive me, you also betrayed me. You got together with my fiance! You lied to him and took over the family company with him" I said, realizing that I was an utter fool. A bitter smile painted my lips as I stared at the two people who had ruined my life.
"Let's all calm down" Adrian finally spoke up. "Eva you are a jail breaker, you can't be caught you. You need to return back and Livia and I will get you out this time" he said and I stared at him in disbelief. Had I really been dancing to their music so foolishly that they thought they could command me to do their wish
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