Chapter 980 – Beginning with a Daring Encounter

From the corners of Crystal’s eyes she spied the smile on Sara’s face and she smiled. It seemed like there was a lot more to the case than she had been told. This was all very interesting.

After her phone call with Celsie, Evelyn paced around her bedroom contemplating if she should give Lawrence a call or not to ask him if he knew anything about what had happened between Benne and Kimberly.

She hoped not. She really hoped he wasn’t in any way involved in it and that it had all been an honest misunderstanding on Kimberly’s end.

Now that she knew Kimberly was the lady in question, she couldn’t bring herself to reach out to her.

She feared that it might not be a coincidence. How could it be when Lawrence had visited the Moore family recently?

Was Benne aware of this? Had he made the connection between Lawrence and Kimberly? Was that the reason Harry suggested she let things go as Benne had said?

Perhaps it was best if she left things the way they were since Benne was willing to.

She glanced at her phone when it began to ring and she quickly picked it up when she saw it was a call from her father-in-law.

“Lawrence…”

“Is Desmond there with you?” Lawrence asked before she could speak.

“No, he’s not here. I’m alone. I was just contemplating whether or not I should call you,” Evelyn said and Desmond who had been about to walk into the bedroom to ask her to come down for dinner, paused at the door when he heard she was on the phone.

It was something about her tone that actually made him stop to listen to her.

“What did you want to call me for?” He asked, wanting to stall a bit before telling her why he had called.

“I wanted to find out if you know anything about Benne and Kimberly Moore?” She asked, not wanting to give him the details in case he wasn’t involved.

Desmond frowned, wondering what business Benne had with his father’s goddaughter.

Lawrence cleared his throat, “That’s the reason I called…”

“Please tell me you are not involved, Lawrence,” Evelyn pleaded knowing that this was all going to come back right to her.

Lawrence? She was talking to his father? What was going on? Desmond mused.

Lawrence winced, “You asked me to do something…”

“For God’s sake Lawrence! I asked you to find a way to convince him about getting married and starting a family, not ask your goddaughter to accuse him of being the father of her baby! What were you thinking?” Evelyn asked as she lowered herself to the bed weakly.

“It was supposed to be a harmless prank,” Lawrence said and Evelyn frowned.

“How can something like that be a harmless prank? Do you have any idea how worried he was? I was upset he chose not to pursue it and punish the lady involved, but now that I know who she is and how it all happened, I’m relieved. Benne doesn’t know you are involved, right? It’s best if he doesn’t know and we can all just pretend this didn’t happen,” Evelyn said and Lawrence sighed.

“He’s aware of it all. Celsie is aware too. And she threatened to report it to the whole family if I don’t do so myself. That’s why I called,” Lawrence said and Evelyn massaged her temple.

Celsie was aware? Was that why she had so willingly told her about Kimberly? Evelyn mused.

“We can’t let Desmond know about this. He would be furious if he got to know you were involved in this. I will talk to Celsie and plead with her to keep it to herself and…” she stopped talking when the door opened and Desmond stood there looking at her.

Evelyn immediately hung up the call as she rose and forced a smile, “Des…”

“Are you married to me or to my father?” Desmond asked before she could say anything and her smile faltered.

“What sort of question is that? I’m married to you of course,” she said with a frown.

“So can you explain what I just overheard right now?” Desmond asked in a flat voice.

“That was your dad…”

“I know that much,” Desmond said, and Evelyn sighed.

“The whole stuff with Benne was a prank and your father was behind it,” Evelyn said and Desmond nodded.

“I see. And what was your role in it?” He asked, and she frowned.

“What do you mean my role in it? I had no idea about this until now! I’m only just hearing of it,” Evelyn said defensively.

“If that is the case why were you talking about keeping it away from Benne and me?” Desmond asked and Evelyn shook her head.

“What good could come from it? Everyone is going to be angry and overreact. This is a family issue and we…”

“Am I expected to believe that you do not have a role to play this? Just a while ago you were overreacting and talking about punishing the girl behind this, and now that you know you have a hand in it you no longer want everyone to be angry and overreact? Isn’t that hypocritical of you?” Desmond asked, trying to control his fast rising temper.

“I don’t have a hand in it. I never asked your father to do that. I only asked him to try to convince Benne to change his mind about getting married and that was before I spoke with Celsie,” Evelyn explained weakly.

“I told you to let Benne be and not meddle in his business. I clearly said if he says he doesn’t want to get married, leave him alone to make up his mind when he is ready! Why did you have to involve my father in his business?” Desmond asked as his voice rose angrily, surprising Evelyn who had never seen him that mad.

“Des…”

“You never listen, do you? You prefer to do as you please because you think you know what is best for everyone, don’t you? Now that you know you have a hand in it your tune has changed.” Desmond cut in harshly.

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