Lahat ng Kabanata ng Oops! I Left With The CEO's Heart: Kabanata 121 - Kabanata 130

My grip on my phone tightened until I thought it would crack. I looked back at Stefano. He had stopped crying and was back to glaring at me with indignant anger.I stared down at him, my mind racing as I continued speaking to Harry. "Can this be verified? What you're saying about this woman?""That's exactly what I'm working on," Harry's voice said through the phone. "She always had doctor's reports and everything to back up her claims. I just thought it was strange that almost the exact same thing happened to her so many times with different men. But if my suspicions are right, then Aguirre was probably telling the truth.""Keep looking into it," I said, my voice rough. "I need to know everything."I hung up and continued staring down at Stefano. My mind kept flashing back to Liam's swollen face in that hospital bed. His scared voice asking if it would happen again. The missing EpiPens that should have been there.Even if what I suspecte

The silence in the car stretched on as we all stared at Celia's blurred face on the laptop screen. A variety of thoughts were running through my head and I didn't know what to do with them.Tony was the first to speak, his voice barely above a whisper. "What was Celia doing here yesterday around the same time?"His eyes met mine, and in them, I could see the same hope; that there was a better explanation than what had just sprung into our heads."It's probably just a coincidence," I said finally. "Maybe she was driving.""I think so too," Tony started to agree, but Harry cut him off."I'm sorry, Mr. Miller, but I have to point out that this is far too strange to be a coincidence," he said, his fingers still hovering over the keyboard. "When I was tracking the IP address, the time of the order was exactly around the same timestamp that this CCTV captured the car. And now it turns out Celia was inside that car."Tony looked conflicted, like he was fighting with himself. "There must be a

Deafening silence ran through the room as Emma stared at me for what felt like forever.Then she started chuckling. Not the happy kind of laughter I loved hearing from her, but the sharp, disbelieving kind that made my chest tight."That's a very expensive joke, Alex," she said, shaking her head. "Celia? Really?"But when she looked at my face and saw I wasn't laughing, her smile died completely. Her eyes went wide with shock."You're serious." Her voice was barely a whisper. "You actually think Celia tried to hurt Liam.""Emma, just listen to me—""No!" She backed away from me, her hands shaking. "Absolutely not. I won't listen to this. Celia would never hurt my children. She loves them like they're her own."I pulled out my phone, showing her the screenshot Harry had enhanced. "Look at this. This is Celia's rental car parked behind Stefano's hotel at the exact time the cookie order was placed."Emma glanced at the picture, but her jaw was set in that stubborn way I knew meant she'd

I left the living room and went up to my room, immediately lying back down on my bed and staring at the ceiling. The ceiling had a small crack I'd never noticed before.I kept following it with my eyes, trying not to think about anything else. I wasn't sure how long I did that until my thoughts were interrupted by a knock.My body tensed even before the door opened and Celia poked her head in.She poked her head in, already in a different and much out-ier blue dress. "I was thinking we should go to the club tonight. Your parents aren't here, the kids are with their grandparents... we haven't been to the club in forever, you and I."The thought of loud music and crowded spaces made my head pound. "I think I'm getting a headache," I said, pressing my fingers to my temples.Celia pouted. “Oh, come on, Emma. So much has happened recently. Let's go and unwind a little.” She began shaking her body to an imaginary beat. “Come on.”Normally, her antics would make me laugh, but I didn't feel l

The room went dead silent. I could hear my own heartbeat pounding in my ears. I took a step back, clutching the diary against my chest like it could somehow protect me from all the horrors I'd just realized.My mind was still trying to catch up with what everything read. All those years. All those entries about loving me, about wanting to get rid of anyone who came between us.Celia closed the door behind her with a soft click. I opened my mouth, but no sound came out.Celia's blank expression slowly changed. The emptiness in her eyes was replaced by something that looked almost like relief. Her shoulders relaxed and a small smile tugged at her lips."I have to admit," she said, sitting down on the edge of her bed like nothing was wrong, "part of me is actually glad you know now.""Celia—""It's exhausting, you know?" she continued, smoothing her dress over her knees. "Loving someone for so long and not being able to tell them. Watching them choose other people over and over again whe