All Chapters of TCST 1: Secrets Beyond: Chapter 71 - Chapter 80

I knew from the start that putting mom in the foundation I built for abused women like her wouldn't be easy. Since I told her about it, she started to become distant from me, she didn't try to seduce me like she always do before. I was thankful for that because it helped me to build myself control, but the downside was she started going out to see someone. When I confronted her about it, we had a huge fight and threw out words. She cried in front of me and I couldn't just see her in that state, so I gathered her in my arms and apologized and hell knows what happened again after that. I stared at the blank ceiling of my room, thinking about the ribbon cutting of the foundation which was just a week from now. Mirna and I had become busy for the past few weeks, making amendments for the newly acquired and established companies. Thankfully, with our hands-on effort, they weren't struggling as last month, they were now doing fine and it would continue if the team wo

"Caleb, Callista wants to see you." I turned to Mirna who was now standing beside me. Handing back the cheque to the staff, I nodded and told her I'll go. What does she want now? "She's in her room. She actually wanted to go here so you won't have to climb upstairs but she said she was tired and her feet hurt." "Okay, thanks. I'll go and talk to her. We'll go home after this. Instruct everyone to make sure that the facility will run smoothly starting tonight. I'll give them a raise for this." "Will do that," I nodded one last time and made my way to my mother's room which was located on the second floor of the facility. This place was huge as well as the building and because we were planning to house a lot of women who have no one to go to, we decided to expand the facility's into a six-story building instead of just four. A huge sum of money was invested here and it was also thanks to the donors and foundation member

.... no one ever thought that the kind-hearted CEO of Craige Inc. whom most young businessmen look up to as a role model hides this kind of secret. No one expected that the secret he was hiding was as big as this. Truly, we cannot judge a person by how we see them every day. We have to look into their depths carefully to unveil their dark secrets hiding beyond their good Samaritan façade. A gasp escaped my lips as I felt my heart still clenching in pain after I read the end of the article I had just written. This has been long overdue, and now I was able to finish it, though unexpectedly. I thought I wouldn't do this anymore after the week I spent with Caleb in Baros, after a week of love that we shared together on that island. But then, life gave us an unexpected turn. I didn't even know why I wrote this nor how I was able to wrote this. My mind was a mess, I couldn't think properly yet reading the outcome of the article, it didn't need an

Hazel Quin's "I'm sorry, Hazel. I didn't want to do this but Stephanie promised me something that would help my mom and brother. You know how much I love them. You won't see me again because I used the money and resources that Stephanie gave me to go overseas and she doesn't know this. She only told me to watch on you and look for any possible ways to wreck your relationship with Caleb and after she gave me her promise, we would part ways." "I cannot stay in there anymore. I don't have the audacity to look straight at you again after what I did. But at least, I told you, right? If you wish to clear your name and use this message, it's fine with me. Tell Caleb that I was the one who did it with Stephanie's supervision. You only wrote the article and couldn't publish it and I used that to execute Stephanie's plan. Even if Stephanie finds out that I told you, she couldn't do anything anymore because I made sure that none of you will see me again." "This

I was left in silence after that, my mind slowly processed what he just said. He needed to take any action, he wouldn't let this one go. "D-does that mean..." Before I could even complete my sentence, the door of his office opened again and when I glance in its direction, Mirna was standing there with four policemen by her side. She looked at Caleb first and then at me, her eyes lost all their emotion when they met mine. "Officer, please, take her." The men with her didn't need to be told twice, they immediately walked in my direction to hold me. I looked at Caleb, hoping he would help me but he just stood there, without doing anything, watching these men pull me out of his office. "Caleb, please, listen, I didn't do it!" I pleaded as I tried to break free from their grip. "Please, just listen. Let me explain!" But my pleads were heard by deaf ears. He didn't do anything and just watch, even when tears started to fall