The next morning, Jimmy was surprised when Santiago stared at him with fury and he asked what happened,he had never gazed at him that way before.
“I tried to plead with everyone to let things go, about the scandal that broke out, but you kept objecting to it. I may not have lived in New Jersey or witnessed the marriage she had with Adrian but I have never concluded in my heart that he's a devil.
If Adrian was so mean, wouldn't he have called the police on Aurora when he regained consciousness that day at the hospital? He did nothing, I'm not sure his family even knew a thing about that incident that almost took his life.
And now the scandal,you along with everyone else, pointed fingers at him. He claimed he was responsible for the scandal and eventually Adrian was sued.
How do you feel now, to discover that he knows nothing about it? No wonder he refused to apologise publicly. Can you see it now?” Santiago bellowed.
His parents are guilty as well. He understands that they are trying to protect their daughter but in exchange, they accuse an innocent person and his family of compensation for what he didn't do.
“What did you say, Santiago?” Jimmy demanded. It's not possible. How can it not be Adrian? All fingers pointed at him, it wasn't his own finger alone.
“You suddenly have a problem with your ears?” Santiago snapped at him. It wasn't that Adrian was innocent, but who his findings were pointing to him. He wants them to provide solid evidence before he would announce the name of the bastard who did it.
“Adrian didn't do it. We accused him wrongly and now, my guilty heart stroke within me badly. He'd gone missing since the evening of the day the scandal broke out.
His family is worried about him. And now, I'm more worried about him because I started the accusations. Patrick is not just his friend, but he's half brother, they got into a misunderstanding because of it and all of that.
Only for me to realise that he was innocent. No one knows where he is. His grandfather was worried about him, we all are worried” Aurora explained.
“I should have known that he was innocent from the first day. His silence was enough to vindicate him. His uninterested attitude to self-defend himself was enough to make me see through his silence” Santiago mumbled silently.
Charlotte felt her eyes welled up with tears. This is unfair to Adrian Lester. Why is everyone against a single man, including his family over what he was later found out to be innocent?
There was a long silence that followed. Simon Blake was deep in thought and Jimmy couldn't say a word. All he did was because of that casanova, surnamed Grimard.
And he hadn't been able to tell his family what he saw the last time he visited Ray Grimard in his place. The only thing he knows is that the idiot had truly avoided him and besides saying Hi to each other, there's nothing else between them.
“Are you sure, Santiago?” Simon asked, he can't say something so obvious without proof before them. They aren't kids after all.
“Yes. The finger of my investigation was pointing to someone in this city. But I want to be careful and not jump to a conclusion, thereby making the same mistakes others made.
Until the answers are found, I don't want to see that man-whore Ray Grimard here. Jimmy, you are his friend, I don't want him here, or anywhere around my sister” Santiago seethed.
He got this close to the family and to Aurora, thanks to Jimmy. If he knew what the dude does behind the door, he would long have separated from him.
“Ray is not my friend. We've always been colleagues at work. Besides that, you can't refer to him as my friend” Jimmy rebuffed.
Nancy Blake turned and shifted her gaze on her son. He suddenly was renouncing his friendship with Ray Grimard? What is happening between them both?
“When did Ray Grimard stop being your friend?” Nancy asked, glaring at Jimmy. This son of hers is something else. She looked forward to when he would tie the knot with Magda, he's long overdue.
“We were never friends mom, we just happen to belong to the same battalion” Jimmy rebuffed.
“I know that Jimmy also does his own frolicking around but he's nothing to be compared to that fellow who does threesome, and any woman can take hold of his dick in public.
Such a flirty, filthy fellow is who all of you prefer for Aurora? How can you even conceive the thought of it let alone accommodating it in your hearts?” Santiago bellowed.
“I agree that you've never liked Ray Grimard. But you don't have to say such words about him to defame him before Aurora” Nancy cautioned.
“My husband is right, mother, I saw him myself and some horrible words he was uttering in an excited moment with his women. That fellow surnamed Grimard spends the night with women, and he comes here to appear saintly” Charlotte chipped in.
How can she forget what she saw that day, how this fellow was being treated by two women at a time.
“Both of them are right, I have my own version of the story” Jimmy affirmed. The idiot has exposed himself and let his family know just what kind of person he is.
“Ray Grimard is one of the least problems bothering me right now. What I want to know is, who sponsored that scandal that left Adrian no option than to leave his family?” Aurora stuttered.
Same morning in New Jersey, Patrick Connor couldn't sleep the entire night. He was worried sick about Adrian and he made a decision, no matter what happened, self law must be broken if life is being involved.
He doesn't know what the outcome would be,but he would try. There's no harm in trial after all.
Summoning courage, he called Richard…