Chapter 961 – Beginning with a Daring Encounter

“Well, thanks for trying to cheer me up. I’d rather be cheered up by my wife, so maybe you should go and cheer your daughter up,” Bateman said as he held out his office door for her to leave.

“What does this mean?” Rebekah asked, eyeing him angrily.

“Exactly what you think it means. Whatever we both had between us is over. You can leave,” He said and Rebekah laughed harshly.

“Over? It can’t be over. We can’t ever be over, you hear me? I could ruin you…”

“Go on and ruin me, but do so outside my office. Get out!” Bateman roared at her, shocking her.

Rebekah glared at him for a moment before straightening her shoulder and raising her chin. As she walked out of the office with what little pride she had left, all she could ask herself was if this was the end for her.

She couldn’t add falling out with Bateman to the list of things bothering her right now. She couldn’t even afford to fall out with him.

Perhaps she could go to her other in-law, the chief judge. If the police was coming for her soon as she suspected then she would need all the immunity she can get from him.

Or maybe she should run away and go into hiding until things settled down?

While Rebekah Miller was having a hard time trying to figure out how to get out of the possible mess she had put herself into with the Delgados, Sara was equally having a tough time.

Her day had started on a bad note and had successively progressed from one bad phone call to another.

It had all started with Crystal’s phone call to her, she thought, but then changed her mind.

She wasn’t sure that was where things had begun to go wrong. Maybe it had started from the moment where she reached out to Aaron.

Crystal had called earlier to say she had seen an article about Sara having a son, and wanted to know if it was true.

She should have focused on finding her daughter first before ever reaching out to Aaron. Maybe if she had been a little more patient she wouldn’t have had any need to meet with either Aaron or Harry who was now acting up.

She didn’t exactly care that Harry was mad at her and wanted to cut off. That didn’t mean anything to her. Not when she was pretty sure that Crystal was her biological daughter and she could get what she wanted from Crystal and get rid of the insolent girl without any trouble.

Now she wasn’t so sure she could easily get what she wanted or get rid of the girl without any trouble. Not when everyone was beginning to ask questions.

She had done her best to convince Crystal that it was all a misunderstanding by the press and she had only met with Harry because she was his late mother’s best friend.

And then shortly after her conversation with Crystal she had received a call from the stupid lawyer Amos, telling her that Wilson Peterson was trying to find his late brother’s adopted daughter.

What was wrong with everyone? Why couldn’t they just let things be? She knew that if for any reason Wilson finds Crystal, then she could say goodbye to her hopes of harvesting the girl’s liver and disposing of her.

She needed to act fast and get out of the country before things got any more complicated than it already was.

What if Celsie had already told Aaron and Harry that the other twin had been sold and did not die as she made them believe? What if they believed Celsie?

Sara stopped pacing her room to dial Amos’s line. Immediately he received the call she instructed him to return to the orphanage home and donate a large amount which would shut them up so they wouldn’t disclose the identity of Crystal to anyone else.

After a he had done that, she left to visit the lab where the DNA test was being done. If the result was not out yet, she was just going to pay them to give her a positive result then she would convince Crystal to travel with her while she waited for the real result.

She needed to get Crystal far away from here as soon as possible.

It seemed like luck was on her side as it didn’t take long for her to find someone at the lab who was willing to give her the positive DNA result she wanted for the right amount.

Taking the result she headed straight for Crystal’s apartment. The girl wanted a DNA result to prove they were related, well, she was going to get it, Sara thought as she knocked on Crystal’s door.

Crystal raised a brow when she opened the door and saw Sara standing there, “You don’t give people a call before you visit them?” Crystal asked with a scowl.

Sara gave her a winning smile, “I’m sorry. I was too excited when I saw the result and I had to hurry over to see you,” Sara said as she took out the envelope and held it out to Crystal.

“What result?” Crystal asked as she eyed the envelope which was in Sara’a hand without taking it.

“The DNA result, of course. Do I have to stand out here? Can’t I come in?” Sara asked as she looked down both sides of the hallway.

“The result is out already? I thought that would take a couple of weeks?” Crystal asked as she hesitantly took the result from Sara and stepped aside for Sara to get into the house.

“I paid extra so they would treat it as urgent,” Sara said with a shrug. Now that she thought about it, she wondered why she hadn’t done exactly that when she submitted the samples the previous week.

Sara watched Crystal as she opened the envelope and took out the result with tremblings hands.

A tear dropped from Crystal’s eyes to the result and her lips wobbled as she raised her head to look at Sara.

“So, it’s true? This is not a prank?” Crystal asked, looking devastatingly hopeful.

Sara summoned all the tears she could muster as she nodded eagerly and took a step towards Crystal, “It’s true. You’re my daughter. I’m your mother and I finally found you my dearest,” Sara cried as she embraced Crystal.

Each of them put on their best act as they wept, holding on to each other tightly. Neither of them wanted the other to outcry them.

They both cried for some time until Sara got exhausted and pulled away from Crystal, “I’m sorry it took so long to find you,” Sara said as she brushed away Crystal’s tears from her face.

If her plan was going to work then she needed to be every bit the doting mother for Crystal to love her and want to leave with her.

“It doesn’t matter. All that matters is that you’re here now. Nothing else matters,” Crystal said as she sniffled.

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