Chapter 79
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ALIYA TORRES
She only sobbed before taking me in her arms as Ray stood in our living room glancing at us awkwardly. I parted from my mother turning to Ray and telling him a thank you before he left.
'What are you planning to do?" My mother asked me and I had never felt like this. Like being caught between a rock and a hard place. If I reported this to the police and took the matter to court, I would have to look for a good lawyer.
A good lawyer came with money and I wasn't exactly Elon Musk with money at the moment at the same time reporting the matter to the police would lead to Ethan being brought up in this. He would go to jail and no matter how much I wanted him to suffer, I loved him. I loved him and that was pathetic of me.
'I'll sue Julian Perez", I finally said with a firm resolve.
'Aliya think about this. The man must be powerful perhaps we moved on. Let the dead rest, let your father rest darling. He wouldn't want you to be hang up on him like this",she explained and I shot her a deadly look.
'Should I let him be scot free while he goes on killing innocent people. Mom you sound like Ethan, afraid and cowardly when we could save so many lives by putting Julian Perez behind bars"
I didn't care whether I was harsh or not. Julian Perez deserved to rot in prison him and his daughter..I hated them. I hated all of them.
Now I could understand where Crystal got her traits from. She was just like his father someone who took joy in hurting others. I recall the first day she attacked me for absolutely no reason making accusations against me. The apple surely didn't fall far from the tree.
'At what cost? If he killed your dad and the other men how sure are you he'll not kill you for trying to put him behind bars. I know you are hurting Aliya but this is not the time to act foolishly. I miss your dad terribly but bringing up his death will only bring trouble"
'Then what would you have me do? Sit back and wait for karma to strike him?" I asked viciously watching look at me in bewilderment.
'Yes that's exactly what I want you to do because if you pursue the matter longer who knows where you'll end up", she placed her hands on mine and I couldn't believe she was saying that.
I thought she of all people would understand where I was coming from. We both lost dad when we shouldn't have. Dad would have been here with us if- forget it, no one was willing to understand and if doing this would somehow bring justice to my father so it shall be.
'I'm not giving up bringing justice to Julian Perez. I'll bring him down even if it kills me", I muttered standing up from the couch and yanking my hands from her.
For the next past days, I had spent my time in Ray's apartment assessing each and every document in the blue file I had taken from Ethan Carter.
Ha! Ethan Carter, I should have gotten used to calling him that. Everytime I thought about him, I realized how stupid I was to think that maybe one day, I would be called Mrs Carter. He never had any plans for me in his life, did he?
It was all talk for me to open his legs for him and I did. I fell for the mouse trap hard without even thinking whether the cheese ,which was Ethan Carter, was poison. He was poison to my life.
I let my guard down with him. I let myself love him and now I was paying the consequences because every time I work there would always be an ache in my heart reminding me that I was broken. Mocking me that I wasn't good enough to be someone's girlfriend, mocking me that I was only good enough to be a second choice and nothing more.
'Aliya are you listening to me?" Ray asked pulling me out of my trance.
'I'm sorry what were you saying?" I asked taking pizza off the box and taking a bite out of it. For the past two days that's all I had been doing lately.
Looking at these documents, eating pizza, secretly crying myself to sleep and repeating the same cycle over and over again until I was sure I would lose my mind.
'The mechanic who inspected the van, I called the number indicated here and guess what?"
'What?" I asked impatiently.
'He's dead, Ali. Suffered from a heart attack months ago"
I groaned slicing his name down with my pen as I ruled him out as a witness to the case. I hadn't taken the matter to the police yet, I wanted to make sure I had witnesses that would indeed prove that the brakes were tampered with by a man hired by Julian Perez.
The said man who had been hired by Julian Perez was like a ghost because apart from the picture we had of him from the CCTV there was nothing else about him. No address, no specified family member, no phone number.
I was starting to see like I was jinxed but I was going to rest not now and certainly not until Julian was behind bars.
'It's time you get rest. You've been going at it for days, Aliya",Ray suggested and I agreed to him, saying that once I got home, I would straight away head to bed.
It took me ten minutes to get home by foot and I wasn't going to let the case rest instead I would dig in deeper find some sort of connection of Julian to Ethan Carter. Maybe he was the key.
I opened the door turning around to see and old man probably in his sixties seated across my mother.
'Aliya",mom called and the old man stood up walking towards me with a cane in his hands.
'Aah she must be my granddaughter"