"I want you to know that this is becoming risky, so I need you to tell me something," Stacy asked, and Vera turned to look away.
"What did you do?" Stacy asked and kept quiet as she waited for Vera to answer.
"Nothing," Vera answered as she shrugged.
"The tabloids! Have you fucking read the tabloids?" Stacy almost shouted as she looked around for her bag and saw that she had left it by the door after seeing how her office looked like a mess.
She willed herself to get it up, and after she did, she threw the papers before Vera and asked her what exactly was going on.
"The guys you sent to vandalize Steph's car were caught on camera by some snoopy paparazzi. The worst of it all is that they talked to the paps! You really should have known the paps always hide around celebs to get news on them!" Stacy ranted as she got down to Vera's level and angrily pointed at the published articles.
Vera rubbed her eyes and squinted to look at the articles that had her modeling photos everywhere.
A few minutes ago, she thought she had the upper hand. She had been so shocked when she saw a parked car in their neighborhood, and being a person with many sources and paranoid in nature, she had asked someone to look up the registration of the car.
"Maxwell Lee," she had been told, and it had taken forever before she realized it was Steph who had followed her.
Being the schemer that she was, she had waited to strike back at Steph when she thought she had the upper hand.
"I'm doing this because I have a problem with Noah Jackson. He needs to pay for how he treated me years ago. Why are you doing this? That baby you're carrying isn't Ivan's. Is it?"
"It's him," Vera said without looking up.
"Don't fucking play with me, Vera! I'm risking so much for you, so you better let me know the truth. Do you know they can sue us for defamation? The info on these tabloids doesn't look like crap to me. I found an uploaded clip on their website as well. It's your voice for sure," Stacy went on ranting, getting more hysterical with each passing moment.
"Whose side are you on?" Vera asked in a bored voice. "You're not helping me per se, and we're helping each other. Besides, your channel had a few followers after your last court scandal, and I helped bring it up."
"Helped bring it up? Is that what you said? Don't mess with me, Vera, or I'll turn the mics on you and forget you're Kim's daughter!" Stacy warned.
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"Aaagh," Kevin stretched on the bed as he slowly opened his eyes to wake up. He felt Crystal by his side and slowly got down from the bed to start off his day.
A few minutes after coming from the bathroom, he was dressing, and that's when crystal woke up.
"Good morning," she said as she yawned and stretched, and Kevin only turned to look at her and not respond. "Should I prepare breakfast for you?" Crystal asked in a jovial tone, determined to break the high walls Kevin had put up.
"Don't bother. I'll be late for class," Kevin said as he combed his hair and looked at himself in the mirror one last time.
"Fuck. You disgust me!" Crystal shouted, and Kevin stopped combing his hair and turned to look at her with a lot of hostility that made crystal cringe.
His expression then slowly changed, and he started laughing sarcastically,
"I know, you just don't know you disgust me the most," he replied back sarcastically, and crystal gasped in shock.
She felt her heartbeat increase tremendously as Kevin's sentence continued on auto-play in her mind.
Silence and cold treatment. Those are the words that could be used to describe Kevin's treatment of Crystal.
After suspecting she was cheating and warning her to leave his place, he had gone back home to find Crystal as settled as she had been in the morning.
She had stated that she wouldn't leave and throw away her relationship because of Kevin's insecurities, and since Kevin knew he couldn't forcefully throw her out of the house, he had decided to let her be and just show her the relationship was dead anyway.