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MIA“What did you go to her house to do?” “To talk to her. I wanted to see if I could call her out on her bullshit and get her to drop the claims once and for all. We both knew she was lying, our friends knew it, Xavier knew it. None of them would believe her. She was jealous and evil, that's what she is. That's why she did it.”They continued. “What happened when you got to her house?”“I knocked on the door. I could hear loud music playing. So I knocked hard. There was no answer. When I tried the door handle, it opened and I let myself in. The house was empty, she wasn't home. That's when I saw the gun in the chair, just laying there.”He wrote something down, covering the notepad with his hands. “Why are your prints on the gun, Mia? They didn't just magically appear there, did they? Why did you touch it?” “I wanted to take it with me. Madison is crazy and I know that she will do anything to make sure she wins this. This whole thing is a fan to her and she's playing you guys re

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XAVIER“She doesn't need a lawyer. She didn't even let me talk. She can handle those people herself. She may not be as helpless as she looked.”I knew Mia wasn't helpless. I just didn't want her to think that she was doing this whole thing alone, that's why I was always involved. When her father called that she had been taken to the station again, my uncle called me to come back home since I was out with Kaan. He asked me not to go to the police station because he didn't want a conflict of interest. I was also a concerned person in the case and me being too involved in Mia's questioning might make Madison look like the victim. “I hear her father is pushing the whole thing, Madison, I mean. He wants Mia in jail. He's pushing hard. Their lawyer is a good friend of mine. He told me the man is paying off some very important people. Apparently, the publicity is doing wonders for him and he's going to try to get the most out of it. If this whole thing goes to court and they get Mia arres

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XAVIERHe went silent. “I must warn you not to say anything about my nephew's girl though. He's not like me. He will break your nose. However, we should talk first. We've come to tell you to tell your daughter to drop the claims.” Joshua sighed, interlacing his hands. “And why would I want to do that? The poor girl is pretty shaken up by the whole thing. She got shot by that lu-, by that girl. The only reason she isn't in jail already is because I hear you're helping her with the case and her father is an old partner. Been trying to meet up with him but he's not returning my calls.”“I wonder why.” I murmured. He heard me and then chuckled. “You make me seem like a bad person. You know, I should be mad at you, Xavier. You used my daughter, jilted her when Mia came along and you expected her to go down without a fight? I didn't raise a wimp. She has every right to do what she did.”Since he spoke to me directly, I decided to answer. “You’re right. You didn't raise a wimp. You rai

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XAVIERMY calculations were right. Right before dinner,Xerxes and I were back at the house. There was nothing I told them they didn't already know. Madison stalked me and disturbed me for years even though I told her I wasn't interested in her. Never for once did I shower interest in liking her or anything like that, yet she kept going after me. There were a lot of witnesses to it too. Not to count the amount of times Madison attacked Mia about stealing me from her. The questions were nothing serious but they did speak to me about going to court. “Will you still maintain this side when you're in front of a jury? Are you just doing this because she's your girlfriend?” Even if she wasn't, Madison had disturbed me for too long and I was done with it. If it was someone else that was involved with this, I would equally do the same thing. “There they are! I've been waiting all day for you to come home. I have a surprise for you. Do you want to see it?” Kaan was in a happy mood and

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MIAThe next day, I felt much more better than the others. My body felt stronger even though I knew that the moment I started to feel good, things would get jinxed. “Can we get pizza? I'm hungry and maybe some ice cream too, banana. Yeah, that would be nice. Something for the heat.”“We both know it's not about the heat, it's about you wanting ice cream. Own it”.I ignored her because I knew she was right but I didn't want to admit it.“There’s a Dominoes beside us. I'll just go there and get it. Don't miss me. Will you be fine alone?”I nodded .“Don’t get caught up with nonsense. I know you're easily distracted.”She flipped me off as she closed the door behind her, leaving me in silence. With nothing else to do, I decided to just lay in bed and enjoy the breeze coming in through the window. That's when I remembered that I had been speaking to Xavier last night and I slept off. I laughed, knowing that he'll bring it up. Esme must have my phone, I have to wait for her to come back

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XAVIERWhen Mia informed me that they had come to her room to threaten her,I stood up immediately and went there. They had the nerve to go to her and tell her all sorts of things. “Did they hurt you?”She remained calm. “Quite the contrary. I gave their clothes some water to calm down. They didn't seem very happy about that and they left here very very angry. I wonder what they'll do next. I wonder if she'll shoot her father next and say I did it. Gosh, they're so stupid.”She still managed to laugh even after everything. It was surprising. I don't remember the last time I laughed willingly. “I'm sorry that I have to put you through all this. You deserve better. By the end of this week, things should be sorted out. I'm really trying my best to see that everything gets done quickly. You shouldn't have been dragged into this at all.” “She’s my roommate. No matter what, I would have gotten the heat. I'm not worried, I'm used to the madness. I just want it to be over. She really want

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XAVIERBy the next morning, things had been set in motion. Ark had made it to the police station and told them what had happened, along with proof. Texts, calls from her and her father the day she was shot and the money wire transfer as a job well done. The look on the detective's face will always be one of my favorites. “Did anyone put you up to this? Did they threaten you?”Ark had been here for a couple of hours and the police had to call us in since we were involved. When the call came in, I didn't rush there because I knew what was going on. The first thing I did was call for Kaan and tell him that it was showtime. While in the car, he got a notification. “You will not believe this.”“What?” He handed me the phone, scoffing. Joshua Pierce was calling for a press conference to address the situation. What a joke. He wanted to play the victim game. Little did he know that the day held a lot of surprises for him. When we got down to the station, we met Ark there, shaking l

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XAVIER“I think I'll take the first chance. Mr Pierce, this little stunt of yours was a pretty good shot at making people think that you had the upper hand. But I'll be glad to let you know that this was a mistake.”The reporters turned around and all the cameras stopped clicking at him, turning my way to take pictures of us walking up the stairs. “Ladies and gentlemen, this is a pleasant surprise. Mr Volkov has decided to join us. Xavier, to what do we owe their surprise?”Gosh, I wish he would just cut it out with the pretense. “You called a press conference to tell them about Mia, and how she attacked your daughter. But you failed to mention that you paid someone to shoot Madison.” That causes a little chaos, the reporters jotting down what I had just said and then cameras turning to take pictures of him. He looked confused, like he didn't know what I was talking about. “How can you say something like that? That is a lie, a mistake! He's forming lies just to support that girl.

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XAVIERMy dad did show up during the weekend but I hadn't seen him. Mostly because he had gone to my other apartment and I'd hid away at my uncle's house so I didn't have to see him. I knew he would rather die than come here so it was the perfect place to hide. “Just got a call from the police. They've picked up Madison and her dad for questioning. They want to know if you or Mia what's to pursue the case. Do you think she'll want to?” Knowing Mia, I knew she wouldn't want to. She didn't like drama and she didn't like the fact that all this was happening in the first place. She wanted this whole thing to end. Her father and I had different ideas though because Madison had been a thorn in her flesh and if not for Ark's confession, Mia might actually have gone down for this. Not that I'll allow it. People like Madison and her father needed to be put in their place. “Mia is the one who will make those decisions. I don't want to do something she's not all hands in. I'll speak to he

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XAVIERMIa still hadn't woken up. Last night, I'd spent the night over at the hospital to see if she would wake up but just before she did, the nurses came in and gave her another heavy round of drugs that could knock out a horse. “Is that really necessary? Do you really need to give her all that?”She looked at me with tired eyes. “For now, she needs to be sedated. The doctors are running a couple of things and trying out certain things on her and she needs to be asleep for them.”That didn't make any sense to me but I wasn't the professional here so I just had to shut up and let her work. Throughout the while I was there, the constant beeping of that damn monitor almost blew my head out. In the darkness, I sat still and thought about the next step. Things were going awry and not the way I wanted it to. By now, we should have found her bracelet and gotten a couple of things in place but it wasn't working out. Things were even getting worse by the minute. By morning, Falcon's ca

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