Chapter 14

Estelle’s mind went blank.

How could Aunt Frances fall off the roof? How did she…

Panicking, she rushed downstairs and even forgot to put on her shoes.

Someone else was at the yard now.

Crouching down next to Aunt Frances’ body, Camilla reached out to check if she was still breathing. Wearing a grin, she said to Estelle, “You’re too late, she’s dead.”

“It’s you, Camilla…”

Camilla got up slowly and looked toward her. “I nearly forgot that this old lady’s been with you since you were a child. I’m sure she’d take your side.”

“She couldn’t have gotten in your way with this grand scheme of yours, why would you kill her?! She had nothing to do with you!”

“Simply because she knows too much and she saw what she shouldn’t have in the first place. Those who know too much should die!” said Camilla while letting out a light chuckle.

Estelle shook her head in disbelief and cried out, “You’re nuts!”

Camilla did not seem to care and started to laugh uncontrollably. “I was even willing to sacrifice the child that I was carrying, more so she was just an old gardener.”

Estelle felt chills ran down her spine.

“Skyler, you have to come right now! Aunt Frances’s dead because Estelle pushed her off the roof!”

She watched on coldly as Camilla called Skyler up to tell on her.

It was as if she almost heared Skyler’s anger fuming through the phone.

After his parents passed away, Aunt Frances took care of Skyler. No one could have replaced Aunt Frances in his life, but she was dead now.

Aunt Frances died at her mansion and what was worst was that she fell off the rooftop.

“Camilla, I think it was a waste of talent for you to work at the 4S center. You could’ve been an amazing actress and the Oscars probably owe you an award.”

Shaking the phone in her hands, Camilla teased, “Whatever you say. Now that this old lady’s dead, there won’t be witnesses to the car accident five years ago. I’ll remain as Skyler’s favorite person.”

Skyler reached the mansion rather quickly.

The car came to an abrupt stop and Skyler dashed off the car. He looked devastated the moment he saw Aunt Frances’s body.

Walking toward him, Camilla held his hands and comforted him gently. “Don’t look, Skyler. Aunt Frances adored you so much, she wouldn’t have wanted you to see her in this state…”

“Estelle Sanders!” Skyler bellowed at her.

He grabbed Estelle by her collar, and he almost lifted her off the floor with his monstrous strength.

“Tell me why you’d do such a thing!”

Shutting her eyes tight, she lifted her body that was faltering. “If I told you that it wasn’t my doing, will you believe me?”

“What do you think?”

“If I were you, I wouldn’t have believed it too. I’m the only person in this mansion, and it’s me who’d be on the rooftop to watch the stars. There’s no one else here who could’ve pushed Aunt Frances off the roof...right?” mocked Estelle.

Gritting his teeth with his eyes burning with rage, Skyler stared at her as if he wanted to put bullet holes through her. “Give me a reason Estelle Sanders! First, my parents! Now, Aunt Frances! I want you to take out your heart to see if it’s black!”

“Skyler, calm down. There must be some unspeakable reason as to why Miss Sanders did what she did…” Camilla feigned innocence and pretended to be worried while she pulled his hands away from Estelle.

Camilla added, “Could it be that you haven’t been accompanying Miss Sanders to see the stars that she got angry and couldn’t control herself. Hence...she did this impulsively. I’ve reminded you that we should be more forgiving of her since Miss Sanders has been in a mentally unstable state recently.”

Staring into Estelle’s eyes, Skyler asked, “Is it true Estelle Sanders? Just because I didn’t watch the stars with you, you’re taking revenge on me?”

Estelle could not help but smile bitterly. She was deeply impressed by Camilla’s acting. Camilla even thought of the killing motive for her.

“It’s not true. It doesn’t matter if you believe it or not. I didn’t kill her.” Estelle replied.

“You do know that I don’t trust you at all right.”

“What do you want to do then?”

“I want you to die!” He spat out those words like they were squeezed out from his gritted teeth.

“Estelle Sanders, you think that I wouldn’t be able to kill you?”

Hurriedly, Camilla pulled his hands away from Estelle. “Skyler, don’t be rash. I can understand how Miss Sanders’s feeling. She must love you a lot, she wants to see you and watch the stars with you. But you didn’t want to see her. Hence, she got you here with this...would you first let go of her?”

“Camilla, you should leave first. You just lost your child! You should go home and rest. I’ll come home after I settle things with her.”

“I won’t leave, Skyler. I’ll follow you wherever you go.”

“Be good and listen to me…”

He spoke in such a gentle tone and used such loving words.

Men always had two faces.

The way they treat those they love and those they hate are poles apart.

“Do you want to kill me, Skyler?” Estelle asked helplessly.

“I’ve called the cops. I don’t want to dirty my hands by killing you,” replied Skyler.

“The cops should be here by now then? Let me go now, I’heardm hungry.” Estelle shook off his hands.

Furrowing his brows tightly, Skyler stared intently at her.