Chapter 62
Luke was behind the steering wheel and Camilla sat at the copilot seat. She felt relaxed and familiar with Luke as if she’s known him all her life.
Eduardo had gone to his Mansion and brought Jenny along to the dinner. At such a time, the chauffeur was excused from duty and he drove the car himself.
He told the happy excited Jenny that they were going to have dinner with his sister. They just have to do all they can to make her open minded and accept them.
Jenny said that was a good idea. As they drove in the car, Eduardo asked what kind of music she likes and Jenny suggested hop.
He inserted the latest hip hop and Jenny was singing the lyrics. They were happy as they sang along. Eduardo kept glancing at Jenny at intervals and she was meeting his glance with a smile.
When they arrived, Eduardo took a reservation at the top floor. That hotel was one of the ones owned by their company. Being the President of the company, he was welcomed by the employees as they bowed slightly.
Eduardo’s facial expressions became cold. Jenny wondered if he was still the same person she was in the car with a while ago?
As he nodded to the employees, they all dispersed and went back to work. Eduardo held Jenny’s wife as they walked carefully into a private booth.
Not quite long, Luke and Camilla arrived. As expected, Luke already knows the reservation that is meant strictly for the family.
The employees bowed slightly again when they saw the second young master. Luke waved at them before ushering Camilla into the booth where Eduardo and Jenny were already seated.
Camilla was wondering how easy it was for them until Luke whispered and said it’s one of the numerous hotels owned by the family.
Oh… Camilla nodded as they took their place. Camilla looked refreshed mainly by coming over and enjoying freedom she thought she had lost forever.
The last time she went to places like this was before Rodrigo travelled. And that was the last time he was hers. When he returned, they became severed forever.
Eduardo stood up and hugged her and Jenny did the same. The siblings were happy and Both Eduardo and Luke waited for Camilla to take her seat before they did.
The waitress came over to take their orders and Camilla glanced at the waitress as her eyes became teary. She used to be a waitress back then, before she met Rodrigo.
She wished she never met him. He showed her love but at the same time, he thought of her hatred and showed her wickedness as much as he showed her love.
The only thing she can say right now, was that his love was probably not genuine. He didn’t love her, just pretending and having sex with her.
If he truly did, he wouldn’t have said those horrible words about her nor gotten engaged to Emma within such a short period.
Perhaps he was part of the whole drama. Maybe he was seeking a convenient way to do away with her. Anyways, they were separated from each other forever. She’s in her world and he is in his, World apart.
“.. Camilla”Eduardo repeated and now, Luke tapped her. Camilla shivered and looked at her brothers. She knew they had talked or asked her a question.
But now, she looked embarrassed. She smiled to cover up the awkwardness in the air, but it was too visible to doubt that the smile was a forced one.
“Is anything the matter?”, “Are you alright!” The two brothers asked her simultaneously. It’s really surprising to see her suddenly forgetfulness and tears fall from her eyes.
“Sure, I am fine” Camilla replied, quickly wiping the tears off. Her actions were contradictory to her claim. How can she be alright, when she wiped tears off her eyes.
“You can’t be fine Camilla, with those tears in your eyes”Eduardo refuted. How can she say she’s fine when it’s so glaring that she’s not fine.
“I’m fine. Just remembered I used to be a waitress..” Camilla replied and smiled. The words shocked her brothers. A waitress?
Camilla looked at their faces and she knew they wanted to know more. She added “I was a waitress and I loved my job back then until I met Rodrigo, and I stopped being a waitress and became his personal secretary” Camilla said.
The waitress brought their orders. She’s so fast and Camilla wondered if they were ready, waiting for them to arrive.
When the waitress went away, Eduardo asked “Is Rodrigo the billionaire who I read about?”he asked, picking the cutleries.
“Yeah, Rodrigo Campbell. He was my boyfriend”Camilla replied and that statement pricked her heart. He was in her past now, she’s moved on with a new life.
Seeing her voice choked, Jenny took her hand and gave it a light squeeze. “Everything will be fine Camilla. Someday you will find love again” she said, coaxing her sister in-law.
Camilla sniffled and glared at her with a grin “Love? I am done with that word in my dictionary” Camilla replied and saw the disappointment in Jenny’s face.
“What?” Luke exclaimed and Camilla looked at him and nodded “that’s because it doesn’t exist!” She affirmed.
They were almost at the club when Rodrigo ordered Joel to drive in the direction of a certain place. He needed to see that Kimberly of a woman.
The woman was right when she said he murdered Camilla. Sara also was right, he was the one who murdered Camilla. He was the reason for all that happened to her.
If she hadn’t met him, she never would have experienced this fate in her life. His mother was part of the conspiracy that made her end up in jail.
She went to jail for doing nothing. He should have listened to her, he should have given her a chance to talk to him but he didn’t.
He hurt her, tortured her in his own way. But alas, he treated her unjustly and he can’t find her now. He wants to see her, apologise to her and make his ways right before her.
But she’s nowhere to be found. How can he find her? He would visit Ms Kimberly and plead with her to help him with any clues that she knows about.
But when they arrived at the address, he was not allowed to get in. The security guard went in and soon came out, asking him if Ms Kimberly asked if he came to tell her where he kept her dead or alive?
Rodrigo replied and said it’s none of the things she said. He wrote a note asking to be given to Ms Kimberly.
He was surprised when he saw Ms Kimberly stepped out and straight away asked him if he’d decided to give her the information on how to find her goddaughter.
Rodrigo said on the contrary, he wants to know if she can tell him about her last moments with Camilla. He wants to know. He didn’t know a thing about Camilla’s sudden disapprance.
He may have dealt ruthlessly with her. But the last thing he could ever do to Camilla was try to murder her. Kimberly said he already killed her when he went about kissing another woman before a Camera and sent her photos.
Rodrigo said it was just an act. That kissing held no emotions. It was void of feelings and was only a way to torture her.
Kimberly said she knows nothing about Camilla’s disappearance as well. She just wants him to find her goddaughter. Anything else, doesn’t really concern her.
Without another word she hissed and turned around, got in and shut the door behind her. Rodrigo sighed, where will he start from?
Rodrigo realised how much he needed to be alone. He wants to stay away from anyone distracting him. He asked that Joel take him home.
Larry Campbell was angry. He talked sense into his daughter in-law. A woman does not seek the interest of other people against her own son.
Did she love Rodrigo so much or was she trying to favour Emma Martins? If it’s the latter, which definitely was, she was wrong.
Rodrigo’s happiness should come first before her rather than trying to please someone else’s daughter. Was she so eager to be in laws with Ella and Martins?
How can she ever be able to wash her sins away? Camilla was innocent and she stilled her heart, lost her conscience despite all that happened to the girl?
Was she wrong to have fallen in love with Rodrigo? Love is a thing of the heart. He himself wants Rodrigo to be married to his late friend’s granddaughter but definitely not adopting Lola’s method of separating them.
To say the least was the torture the girl went through. She was pregnant. How can a woman be subjected to such inhuman treatment by the woman whose grandchild she was pregnant with?
She should seek Rodrigo’s forgiveness and try to undo what she’s done. She must find Camilla and bring him his great grandchild.
As for the company’s documents, he doesn’t want to know a thing. She must provide him or Rodrigo the documents. She should urge her co-conspirators about the documents and retrieve it back.
Mirabel couldn’t hold back her emotions. She started sobbing loudly. No one tried to stop her from sobbing but they were not ready to offer her their shoulders to weep on.
Who was going to offer in the first place, is it her grandfather Larry Campbell whose temper flared up at the meanness of his daughter in-law or her mother whose sins have found her out?
She doesn’t know why she did what she did. Her part of treatment against Camilla was so mean as well. She remembered the slaps, the insults and her hair plucking into her hands.
She testified against her and ensured she was jailed. Camilla was to spend the rest of her life in prison for murdering someone who didn’t die.
She had also done bad. Why did her entire family do so much evil to an innocent person? First her mother and then she while her brother’s actions capped it all climaxing it with his brutality.
And that person happens to have a little member of her family in her belly. This was too much for her to bear. She sobbed and wished she didn’t return home the time she did.
That at least one person is pure and guiltless about the whole scenario. And not all of them. Camilla and Kimberly accused Rodrigo of murdering Camilla.
He murdered her of a truth but not him alone. They all of the Campbell’s family did. As her grandfather went away in his displeasure, she also turned and left.
Lola was left alone standing in the sitting room. Her teary face was an understatement compared to the guilt and regrets that now clouded her mind and soul.Còntens bel0ngs to Nô(v)elDr/a/ma.Org
Why did she do it, conspired against Camilla with such evil people? Why did she do it, why, why, why?
Rodrigo arrived home and told Joel he could leave. He doesn’t have the courage to meet his gaze. The fellow told him back then to intervene and not allow Camilla to go to jail.
But he was displeased with him and even threatened to have him fired. Now, reality dawned on him and he didn’t have a place to put his face.
Joel stood, wanting to say something but he just couldn’t. He nodded and left. After Joel left, that was when the guilt of his distrust and love dawned on him.
Rodrigo just couldn’t imagine how inhuman he had treated the woman that loved him.
He went to his wine cellar and brought out some vodka. He poured himself and gulped it down at a time. “Camilla my love” and gulped down another glass of alcohol.
The temperature became high and he pulled off her suit, leaving only the inner wear. He couldn’t bring himself to imagine what he had done to Camilla.
So, she was innocent after all. She was indeed not guilty of all she was accused of doing. She was actually protecting her family from danger and ended up being jailed.
Why didn’t he trust her? Why did he easily accept the accusations against her without screening their words? How could he have done this to the woman he so much loved?
He even saw her for just once and called her a low life. Perhaps if he had rather spoken to her out of the depth of his life for her, she might have opened up to him there and told him all that happened.
But he didn’t. He even said horrible words about her and ensured she listened to his words. That was too much torture from him.
He demolished her home and her mother’s business. Where are they living now and how are they surviving?
He was so furious that he couldn’t think straight. That is what anger does with a man’s sense of reasoning. He should have sat down and analysed the whole scenario before losing his reasoning.
He was done with two bottles of Vodka already and was already feeling tipsy. He had a great tolerance for alcohol otherwise, he would have been drunk already.
But even at that, he was feeling tipsy and seeing things in double and triple. He stretched his hand and took another bottle of Vodka.
How can he ever be able to forgive himself? How can he right his wrongs with Camilla when he couldn’t even find her. He wants to kneel and beg her to forgive him.
Rodrigo was now staggering. With the unfinished bottle of alcohol in his hand, he was walking towards his room. He was staggering and feeling as if the stairs were closer than they used to be.
As he reached the top of the stairs, he staggered into the master bedroom and gulped down the rest content in the bottle and sank into the king size bed.
He wants to forget his misery. But he didn’t know how long it took, but soon drifted off to sleep.