CHAPTER 41: DIARY ENTRIES

Logan massaged his throbbing temples as he looked at the several boxes in the basement storage room.

It's been a day since he listened to Alice's side of the story.

From what she said, he could see why Alice's reaction had always been strong whenever Briar was concerned. But her accusations didn't make sense.

He loved his wife so much that was not a lie. However, he couldn't say that Briar had any part in killing her. Since when did secret crushes cause death to a person?

If she was stressed due to that matter, he believed that there must be more to the story that Alice didn't know.

Ever since learning about Briar's past and how she met with Selena, he had always had this inkling that he didn't know Selena as much as he thought he did.

That was why on the same day Briar was admitted and Alice confessed what truly happened, he sent his secretary Chris Jenkins to look into what Selena had been up to even before Briar joined the family.

He just couldn't start from ten years ago. There was a reason why Selena traveled to Briar's home village and why she sought medical help back then. As long as he found that truth, then everything else would fall into place.

What he was looking at right now, however, happened to be something that he didn't even know existed in the house until he overheard one of the maids asking the butler if they should go and clean the storage room.

Apparently, it was a room that Briar was in charge of and cleaned after three months. Now that she was connected to the machine, still unconscious from the fall, there was no one to clean the place.

When he heard that, he became curious about what kind of content was stored there and why Briar needed to clean the place by herself when there were so many maids to do the job.

As a result, he ended up in this place only to find boxes, so many of them piled up that he wasn't sure when he would be able to go through them and if he could find anything useful.

However, thinking about the diary issue, Logan sucked his teeth, getting determined to rummage through every box until he finds something that was useful.

After massaging his temples and sorting his thoughts, he started dealing with the boxes.

Uncle Marcus, seeing his master busy, decided to give a hand as well. He didn't dare call maids over. He was sure whatever was hiding in this room wasn't something for other people to see.

Logan and Uncle Marcus worked on the boxes, looking through each box and sorting the contents.

Most of the boxes had magazines, old textbooks, newspapers and working books for the kids and Briar herself.

Logan didn't know how long it took to look through the boxes, but when he was getting tired, he came across a suspicious box.

The box had another box inside of it. It looked different from the other boxes, so he concentrated on it a bit more and he was glad that he did.

After opening the other box, a tied pile of diaries welcomed him. Seeing the diaries, a mysterious glint flashed through his eyes.

'Could these be Briar's diaries?'

If they were, he was certain that he would get all the answers that he needed.

He picked the diaries and held them in his hands. Uncle Marcus, seeing that the master had gotten what he wanted, started to rearrange the boxes without asking much.

Logan left the basement with the diaries in hand, his heart thumping as he didn't know what to expect from these diaries at all.

Logan went straight to his study and locked the door before sitting behind his desk, ready to read and go through the diaries.

He just hoped that Briar wouldn't disappoint her.

But what was he reading?

Why was he looking at familiar handwriting and what were the contents he was reading?

[It's another day to be miserable. I really feel itchy when I hear these kids constantly calling me for this and that. Don't they have thein any to bother? That's why I brought her here. Can't they let me live in peace?]

Logan's mind froze after reading that log. However, he didn't stop as there were simply too many ridiculous logs for him to read.

[Why are they all pretending as if I am the bad guy? Haha, they dare call me a bad mother, but when had they seen him being a good father? Only Briar, that stupid village girl, deserves to be called good. She loves them with all her heart. Could it be that she has feelings for him? Tsk, tsk.]

Bang!

Logan felt as if his heart had been shot at.

Looking at the date of the log entry, it was around the first year that Briar just arrived. If that was the case, it meant that Selena had been aware of Briar's feelings for him. But why did she keep her?

He just couldn't get it. Unfortunately, his crow mouth cursed him as several logs later, he found the answer that he was looking for.

[If only this village girl was courageous enough. Didn't I give her so many chances? If it were others, they would have climbed his bed by now. Only if she did, would I have an excuse of .... Anyway, there is still time.]

Before he could make sense of what she wanted to achieve by pushing another woman to his bed which was unexpected of a woman who loved him as much as he loved her, another log made his head dizzy.

[Damn! Damn! Damn! I am running out of time. How could I be pregnant? I haven't slept with Logan for a while now. He would kill me! I need to do something!]

What is this? Where am I? What is going on?

These were the questions spinning inside his head as he read that log.

Checking the timestamp, it was the year when Tiana was conceived. Did this mean that ...?

"Oh, my head!" he groaned in anguish as he clasped his head in his hands, unwilling to accept what he had just read.

There was no way his Selena would do this to him. Maybe he was just hallucinating.

'I will read more!' He convinced himself as his hands shook, flipping to the next pages.

[I did it! I no longer need to worry about the baby. It will be Logan's anyway when it's due.]

[Damn! I can't believe that I nearly got found out by that village girl. How can I get rid of her? I can't again. If I do, who will take care of the kids without causing trouble?]

At this stage, Logan's head was swollen, and his veins were popping out as it dawned on him that he was cheated on. His Selena, the perfect woman he could ever ask for, made him wear a green hat and let him raise another man's child.

He wasn't a fool. He could tell already that Tiana wasn't his daughter at all. If Selena could do this to him with Tiana, were the two children even his?

Logan still continued to read the diaries. No matter what, he needed to unveil all the mysteries and get to the bottom of it.

The following entries were as shocking as the previous ones and in all of them, Logan learnt the cold truth. Selena never loved her. He was the fool who thought otherwise.