Semua Bab When Our Daughter Died, My Husband Cheated: Bab 91 - Bab 100

Melissa’s POVI don’t know what to do.Lottie’s hair is in a ziplock in my car. I feel like some kind of serial killer or a creep. I don’t want to have it anywhere near me, but that night, there was a voice in my head that told me to keep it.Told me that I could use it against Eleanor.I still can’t believe it. Maybe there’s just a mistake. Maybe Eleanor has dark-haired, dark-eyed people in her family. Maybe I’m overreacting.Or maybe it just means what it means. That Lottie is not Andrew’s daughter at all, and Eleanor has been tricking him all this time.“How could he not know?” I whisper to myself in disbelief.“What?”I’ve been so out of it that it didn’t occur to me that I’m at work, and I shouldn’t be speaking to myself like this or thinking out loud. Now River is staring at me in confusion, peering at my face.“What did you say?” he asks gently. “Are you alright, Melissa? You look a little pale.”“I’m fine,” I say, rubbing my eyes. I’m far from fine. I didn’t get a wink of slee

Melissa’s POVI stare at Andrew in complete disbelief, but when all the dust finally settles, I realize that well, I actually do believe him. I believe all of this. This was all bound to happen.I back away, a gurgle of derisive laughter escaping out of my lips. It’s almost hysteria, and I myself feel a little taken aback. Andrew frowns at me, but I just wave him off.“You know,” I start to say, “I have no idea why I expected anything different from you. I don’t know why I once thought that you’re this brilliant man.” I gesture at him, pointing at his face down to his feet. “You’re possibly the stupidest man alive.”“Take that back,” he hisses at me.But I just shake my head. “I can’t and I won’t. Because it’s true. First you think I’m this god-like thing who can manipulate everyone and everything. Then you think I’ve been hiding Allie for what, like a month now? You refuse to acknowledge that she could be gone. Then, I laid out the truth about Lottie right in front of you and all you

Third Person POVAndrew stares at the nurse, long and hard, as though this would make her retract her statement. She just looks back at him, unsure of what to say next, not really knowing how to address his reaction.The nurse indeed remembers that day. Melissa was all alone, weeping at the side of the bed, refusing to let the nurses take Allie’s body to the morgue.“Just one last minute,” Melissa kept saying then. “Please, her father hasn’t seen her yet.”And no one has seen her father too. The nurse certainly hasn’t, not after the first time the child has been brought to the hospital. Back then, she definitely wanted to tell Melissa that perhaps he won’t show up, but it turned out that she didn’t need to. Andrew definitely didn’t show up.That very thought is killing Andrew right now, pushing him to wither where he stands. The ground under his feet seems determined to push him off, but he would rather it swallows him instead.“She was looking for you,” the nurse said. “Allie, I mean

Melissa’s POVI didn’t argue with the cop when he told me that. I didn’t try to reason out that I had nothing to do with all of this and therefore I should’t be questioned.I’m still out of my body, even more so now that consequences may come. I don’t care if I go to jail for what I did to Eleanor. I knew in my heart that I was only defending Allie, and if I was given a chance to do this again, I would do so without hesitation.“She didn’t do anything.” Zane is the one defending me, even as we arrive at the station. “Why are you taking her in for questioning when she’s the one who suffered?”The cop doesn’t say anything. He just walks in and points a spot for us to sit. Zane stays on his feet, approaching him again.“Listen, I was the one who called you,” he says. “You know what happened here. Where’s the crazy woman who started all this?”A little flustered, the cop opens his mouth to speak, but that’s when someone from a higher rank walks in. It’s a plump man with a balding head. Wh

Third Person POV“You’re going to leave me with nothing?” Andrew asks in disbelief, wheeling around on Grandpa. “Because of… because of this?”Grandpa sneers. “You act like it’s such a small thing. It cost the life of your daughter, you fool! Wake up and fetch me that woman right now so I can send her to jail if you don’t have the guts to do it!”Andrew steps back, as though the words that just came out of the old man’s mouth are profanities and not a clear command. He doesn’t know how to process it.He only just found out about Allie’s death. And now he has to get over his grief to make Eleanor pay. Truly, he can’t bring himself to blame her.Because if he didn’t welcome her into his life before and allowed her and Lottie to have a big space in it, none of this would have happened.“Grandpa,” he tries to reason out, but Grandpa’s mind is already set.“Out. Now.”He turns to Melissa next. “Melissa….”But Melissa doesn’t even look at him. She just holds Grandpa’s hand in comfort, tryin