CHAPTER 87

"I didn't do it!!!" Her tiny voice screamed so loud I could hear the windows shatter.

The place became silent.

I saw her.

In the silence, I saw her shrink down, pull away and breathing heavily. She was looking sideways as though afraid something might emerge out of the blue and swallow her alive.

She was obviously petrified and it was beginning to wonder if it was really her who dumped that girl.

"Jittery...isn't it?" I asked and she focused her eyes on me. I squated down to look at her and heaved a sigh.

"I...I...don't....uh...who...was...that?" She asked maintaing her distance with me.

"It'll be you if you don't give me the right answers....."

"Oh...no...." She shivered and staggered to stand up.

"I was in Peru a few days ago on an anniversary with my boyfriend when this was dumped in my bathtub with a note that said leave Adam or die!" I explained to her and she shook her head.

"Why did you do it??" I asked and she continued to shake her head.

"It wasn't me!!!!" She screamed back. She wiped her tears and fetched her phone from her pocket from which she showed me a very similar picture.

"Look....even I receive such a pictures!!" She showed her screen to me and a familiar image displayed on the monitor.

Aaron was really doing a good job with this. He was unbelievable. He needed a reward for this.

My lips curled into a smile and I took the phone from her.

"This is the evidence that I needed! Now you come with me!!" I grabbed her hand to get her out of the bathroom but she tossed my hand away.

"I will not be going anywhere.....you hear me!!" She warned with her finger and I squeezed it.

"Leave me!" She pushed me away and I staggered back. "How on earth was I supposed to know that you were in Peru with your boyfriend???"

"Not so long ago you confessed to having someone spy on me...." I raised my eyebrows.

"Uh..." She stammered.

"And having this picture in your phone proves that you have a hand in all this...who sent it to you?? They were probably telling you that a job well done weren't they??"

"No! You have to believe me....I didn't....even I am getting threats with the same photo attached asking me to confess something...." She said.

"And why would I ask you leave Adam? I don't care about him! I have my own man....." She said defensively and I thought. Lane Min Joon?

Did this girl have no shame hooking up with such an old man??

"Exactly my point. That's what I want to understand. In fact, last time we met you said it wasn't over. And then this happens...."

"Eleanor....please. I just..."

"I think you're in way over your head! I will get you punished for you misconduct!"

"Are you insane? Are you out if your mind.....!! What misconduct!!! It wasn't me....am telling you! I have my private investigator handling the save for me and he hasn't found anything yet. I will prove myself to you just you wait...."

"I think the case is strong from my side. Think if it, do you remember how we met in that salon? Thinking about that, you pulled up a stunt about getting poisoned which backfired and then you said it wasn't over. And now....I get an ugly site in my bathtub of which corresponds to a picture in your phone and you even confess to having sent a spy after me....!!"

"I was lying!! I wanted to scare you!!" She admitted all her sins and I loved just how she was easily scared.

"Case closed if you ask me...." I smiled and immediately called Conan.

"Hello ma'am...." He replied.

"I found the one who dumped the body. Jeannine Lana. She just confessed it to me herself and right now....we are at ---"

My statement trailed off after my phone fell to the ground.

My arms started to freeze and my legs soon followed rendering me powerless.

I fell to the ground and my eyes widened in horror.

"Hello...??" Conan's voice echoed but I was unable to reply. My tongue filled my mouth and I couldn't say any word.

"Eleanor...?? Are you there???" It was now Adam on Conan's phone. "Something's wrong...." Was the last I heard of his voice.

Fortunately, the call wasn't disconnected.

I started to suffocate and gasped for the air that was finding it difficult to go down my trachea.

I felt like a fish that had been thrown out if the water and onto the sand. I was dying.

My peripheral vision caught the face of Jeannine Lana and she was smiling.

It really was her! She was the one that dumped the body and all this time was trying to play coy as a distraction.

"What...what have you done to me???" I fought to get the words out of my mouth and she could see that. She squatted down to face me and grabbed my hair tossing my head to the side so I could see her clearly.

"This does look familiar....doesn't it?" She asked and I groaned in anger. What was she talking about?

"Not so long ago I was the one frightened and you were the one threatening me....now...the tides have changed....." She picked her lips and smashed my head against the hard tiled floor.

I yelped in pain and tears dripped down my face. I saw the crimson liquid flowing out which certainly caused me to get nervous.

This girl was going to kill me!

"Will you kill me?? Like...like you killed her?" I asked and she only smiled. Her hands and lips were moving as though triggered by some needle in acupuncture.

"N-n-o-oh!" She was vibrating like a hot metal. "I did not kill her you hear me!!" She grabbed my hair again and I screamed in pain. My body was weak and seemed to not be getting up from the floor.

I felt paralysed and couldn't feel myself anymore. What happened to me? What did she do to me?

"I don't know what's going on here but I can guess someone who is after you also want me....for some reason...." She sighed. "But anywho... we'll figure that out later...."

"Let me go!!!" I managed to jump up but my body slipped to the other side frustrating me. I was wet with sweat and started getting weird reactions in my body.

"No no...you are not going anywhere...." It was now her turn to give me a spooky smile.

"What...what do you want with me?" I asked trying my level best to get up and run.

"That's right. What would I want with you?" She caressed my face and ran her fingers across the cut on my forehead. A stinging sensation raided my body and I couldn't help but wonder if all this was really true.

What was Jeannine upto? What was she going to do with me?

Now that I found out she was the one that prayed such a prank on me, I was happy to have gotten to the bottom of the matter.

But this, what was all this...what she going to do to me?

"Eleanor....everything will be alright. Okay?" She asked as she got up and locked the door. In that moment, I sweated in my eyes.

I was done for.

"It'll be alright don't worry....Now it is true I did not send that corpse to you. Really. But it is also true that I hate you and would do utmost everything to exact my revenge on you! Just you wait and watch...."

My vision became blurry and my eyesight weaker by the minute. I was able to breathe normally again but I was slipping out of consciousness.

Voices echoed in my ears and I couldn't hear it all clearly. My body only perceived the presence of other bodies around me and I assumed they were goons sent by Jeannine.

I felt as though I was being lifted and the ceiling seemed lower. Where were they taking me to.?

My body was floppy and felt like a puppet's.

"I hope you have sweet dreams Eleanor..."