A lie in the church 2 episode 12 – 13

🌹A lie in
the
church 2⛪️

( 💝Love and lie 😔)

BY XONA_2018

_Full book INFO_

🙏 Read till the end 🙏

💘 chapter 12💘

We both turned our heads to the direction of the door, Detective Emily and Detective Clooney smiled at us.

“Sorry, should we come back later?”
She asked.

“No, it’s fine.”
I said pulling away.

“Thank you.”
Detective Clooney said as they walked in.

“How are you feeling Mr. Sanchester?”

“Have you found the person behind this?”
Tristan said instead.

“We are still trying our best, we went through the CCTV in your house, it wasn’t that helpful since the person was wearing a mask and covered every part of his body.”

“Seriously, someone took my child and tried to kill us and you have no lead on this monster?”
I almost s¢ræmed.

“We are trying our best. Can you tell us exactly what happened last night, Miss Simpson?”

I nodded and gave them every detail.

“What about Ryan?”
I asked.

“Who is Ryan?” Tristan asked.

“It’s a long story, ” I said to him.

“We are still investigating, Ms. Simpson.”

They promised to keep digging before they left.

I left with them trying to avoid any awkward moment with Tristan.

∆
It’s been three days since the detectives came. I was already discharged from the hospital but Tristan was still at the hospital.

I visited Morris every day, his family came too.

It was Tuesday and I came to see Tristan with Kayden. We’d been here for almost an hour and Kayden was already asleep next to Tristan on the bed.

Detective Emily and Detective James came to visit in the evening.

I hoped they came with good news.

“Sorry but it’s not him, we did our investigation on him and didn’t find anything to convince us he was behind the attacks.”
I buried my face in my palms, who could it be if it wasn’t Ryan?

“We have a lead on someone though, we are still investigating to be sure but we have a feeling is him.”

“Who is it?”
I asked sitting upright.

“Do you know anyone called, Grey Ashton?”

What?

“Do you know anyone named Grey Ashton?”

I was lost for words as I took in her question. What did Grey have to do with this? He didn’t even know about Kayden.

“Miss Simpson?”
Detective Emily snapped her fingers in front of me.

“He is her ex.”
Tristan said before I could open my mouth.

“Hmmm….interesting, are you two in any way fighti….”

“No! We are good friends. Trust me, he is a nice guy.”
I heard Tristan scoff from beside me.

“Grey doesn’t know about Kayden,” I told them.

“Oh really?”
Detective Emily shared an amused look with her partner.

“I don’t even get it, how did Grey get into the picture?”

“We interrogated all your friends and he was the only one that sparks something in us, his alibi didn’t make any sense. We don’t know what he is hiding but I can assure you we have something on him, he’s being detained at the moment.”

“Detained? Grey is in jail?”

“Yes, till we’re done with our investigation. You’ll be shocked to see what we found so far.”
She said her last sentence in a whisper.

“What are you guys talking about? There must be some kind of mistake somewhere.”

“We’ll be leaving now, we’ll explain everything when we wrap up the whole investigation. Have a lovely day.”
She flashed me a smile and left with Detective Clooney.

“Can you believe them? They think Grey tried to kill us.”
I said and laughed humourlessly.

I turned to Tristan and found his eyes closed, I knew he was pretending to be asleep.

I gr0×ned and sank in my seat, why would Grey even want to kill me? Or kidnap Kayden?

“I won’t be surprised if it turns out to be him.”
I heard Tristan’s voice, I turned to look at him but his eyes were still closed.

“He is not the one, I’m sure they’ll let him go once they are done with their investigation.”

He didn’t say anything, he turned his face away from me and moved Kayden closer to him.

I smiled at Kayden’s tiny frame that snuggled closer to Tristan, Tristan moved his head up to create room for Kayden’s small head.

I exhaled and looked down at my plain nails, they interrogated all my friends.
Vina was still mad at me, I expected her to pay me a visit after hearing about the attack but she didn’t.

I reached for my phone and dialled her line, I waited for her to send me to voicemail but she picked the call.

“Vina?”
I sat up in my seat, she didn’t say anything. Maybe she didn’t know she picked the call.

“Vina, are you there?”

“What room are you?”
She asked with an aggravated sigh.

“Room? Are you at the hospital?”

“Why else would I be asking dumbass?”
Okay, she was still mad at me.

“35, second floor. If you…”
She ended the call before I could finish my last sentence.

“Vixen is coming?”
Tristan asked not sounding happy, I was sure Adrian told him about Vina.

“Yeah, and I will advise you not to call her that when she gets here.”

“She hates me.”
He said and turned to look at me.

“Does she have any reason not to?” I mumbled staring at the door.
I had a feeling he heard me, there was an awkward silence in the room.

“If you never had Kayden would you ever want to see me again?”
He asked in a tone that carried pain and sadness.

The door opened before I could answer his question. I wasn’t sure of my answer anyway, all thanks to Vina for showing up at the right time.

“Vina.”
I stood up with a big smile to welcome her but she glared at me and walked to the bed.

“Hi, Vina.”
She pretended not to hear him.

She stopped at the foot of the bed and stared at Kayden for a long second.
I gave her a broad smile when she faced me, she had a straight look on her small face.

“How could you hide such an adorable angel from me? I wasn’t even there when he came into the world or his first birthday or the second birthday. I didn’t get to see your baby bump or hear his first cry, that’s so unfair Chloe.”
Her voice raised at the end.

“I understand why you did it and I don’t blame you but seriously I thought somewhere in there you had an itty-bitty trust for me. I’m so angry I missed all those moments…..wait, does he have a Godmother?”

“No, not yet.”

“Good, if he already did then forget about me inviting you to my wedding or my baby shower, did you have a baby shower?”

“No, it was just me.”
I said with a sad smile.

I never wanted to have my first baby that way, there was so much Vina and me had planned to do for our first baby.

“I’m not comfortable with this conversation.”
Tristan said from behind us.

“Why? Because is all your fault?”
She grimaced.

“Vina, it’s fine. I want to put all that behind me.”
I said taking her hand.

“Sure it wasn’t the way I wanted it but I’m glad I had him.”
She smiled at me and pulled me for a hug.

“He is waking up.”
We both pulled away and looked at Kayden. He looked lost as he stared at Tristan.

“Hey, little man.”
Tristan brushed his hair back, Kayden smiled and searched the room with his eyes till they landed on me.

I reached to take him but Vina beat me to it.

“Oh my God, he is so cute.”
She squealed.

“You look nothing like your father, you took everything from your momma.”
Vina whispered loud enough for Tristan to hear, I chuckled as I saw Tristan’s reaction.

His tiny mouth w¡dened in a yawn, I picked my bag and gave Vina his bottle of milk.

He s×¢ked the nip immediately she put it in his mouth.

“Awwww, ” she smiled at him.

“I have an idea, how about we betroth my daughter to….”

“No.”
Tristan and I answered in unison.

“Well, that was harsh. I just think they’ll make a great couple.”

“How are you sure your first child will be a girl?”

“You never know,” she shrugged

The door opened and Adrian walked in with Olive Garden’s takeout in one hand.

“Vixen?”
He smiled at Vina.

“Fancy meeting you here.”

“I wish I could say the same for you.”
She said taking my seat.

“Hey, feeling better?”
He asked Tristan as they did their signature handshake.

He walked to where Vina was sitting and squatted in front of her.

“Hey, buddy.”
He touched his cheek and looked up at Vina.

“What?”
She asked with a scowl.

“Let’s have our own baby.”
He said and winked at her.

“Yuck.”
She gagged.

I laughed softly as I watched them, I was already sh¡pping both of them.

Someone touched my hand, I looked down at my hand and saw Tristan intertwining our hands.

“I’m sorry, sorry for ruining everything for you. I really missed you.”
He said softly with sad eyes.

I smiled at him and gave his hand a light squeeze.

“I missed you too, some parts of you.”
I whispered.

It was the truth, Kayden reminded me so much of him and there was no denying I missed our time together, both good and bad.

We both took a glance at Kayden who was too busy s×¢king from his bottle to care about Adrian and Vina arguing.

∆
Tristan was being discharged today, he wasn’t fully healed yet but he was better.

I was staying at Sanchester’s Mansion till the whole investigation was over and the person was behind bars for good.

Eduardo helped Tristan to his room while I remained in the living room, Nora took Kayden away to take selfies on her snap chat.

My phone rang almost making me drop it, it was an unknown number.

“Hello.”

“Chloe, it’s Detective Emily.”
My heart stopped beating.

“Hi, do you have the person?”

“Yes, could you come over to the station? I have something to show you.”

“Sure.”

“Great, I will be waiting.”

I called Vina and told her to pick me up.

“You really don’t think that maniac should know about this?’

“He is still recovering, I will tell him when I get back.”

“Do you think Grey it’s behind everything?”
I asked her not taking my eyes off the road since she was eating and driving.

“Yeah.”
She said without giving it a thought.

“Vina, he is our friend.”

“I know but ever since you got back from Cuba he’s been acting weird.”

“How?”

“I don’t know, he just seems off. He doesn’t even like talking about Gabriella, he gets mad every time I ask about her.”

“True,” I agreed.

The rest of the ride was quiet, I took a deep breath as we walked into the building.

Detective Emily took us into her office.

Detective Emily took us into her office.

“She is my best friend.”
I told her when I saw the way she was staring at Vina.

“I know, she was one of those we interrogated.”

“So, who is it?”
I asked leaning on the table.

She dropped three photos in front of us. We both leaned closer not believing our eyes, actually, I was more shocked than Vina.

“Told you.”
Vina whispered.

“Grey?”
I stared at the picture of him removing his mask, in the second picture he was getting out of the car with a gun, the last picture he was walking into the woods.

“We got those pictures this morning, we’ve been searching every street camera. He drove all the way to another City to discard his weapon and change his clothes, he also dumped the car somewhere.”

I was still speechless, I was trying to analyze everything.

“It seems Mr. Ashton has been following you around or should I say stalking you.”

My jaw dropped as I picked the pictures.

Pictures of me knocking on Mrs. Porter’s door, pictures of me playing with Kayden, a red X was on Kayden and a picture of me speaking to Tristan outside the Diner, there was another red X on Tristan.

The one with Kayden was taken when he was one.

“He has known about Kayden for a long time, he’s been following me,” I said looking up at her in disbelief.
I always felt watched but I thought it was just me being paranoid.

“He already pleaded guilty to all the charges.”

I tried to stop my tears but failed, Vina took my hand.

“Can I talk to him?”

“Are you sure you wanna do that?”
Vina whispered and I nodded.

“Sure but you only have five minutes.”

I followed her to the visiting section, I took a seat and waited for Grey.

A cop dragged him to the room, the look on his face was stoic. He took the seat in front of me and looked me in the eyes.

“Why?” I asked him.
He smiled and snickered.

“To end it all, I was sick of waiting for you, Chloe. I thought after everything that bastard did to you, you’d come back to me but no, you were carrying his baby which ruined all my chances with you.”

“How did you find out about Kayden?”

“I was curious about why you always return late from work and why you were avoiding me, I decided to follow you one day and I saw it, I saw the bastard…”
I slapped him across the face, thank God the cop outside didn’t hear it.

“He is not a bastard, he is my son!” I exclaimed.
He sneered shaking his head.

“He is going to end up like his father, a psychopath!”
He spat.

I clenched my fists, I badly wanted to break his nose and smash his face on the table.

“You’ll never be happy with him, Chloe. I wanted to do you a favour by getting rid of them. I waited for you Chlo, Gabby was just an excuse, I have no feelings for her. It’s always been you, I love you, Chloe. I can’t sit by the corner and watch you create a family with him. I wanted to end it all; if I can’t have you no one will.”

“I hope you rot in jail!”
I stood up.

“He will only hurt you, Chloe, he doesn’t deserve you!!!”
He s¢ræmed after me.

I ran into Vina’s arms immediately I got outside.

“How did it go?”

“I don’t wanna talk about it.”

We spoke to the Detectives before leaving, Vina decided to stop at the Diner.

We ordered the usuals and took the booth at the back.

“He was still in love with you, it was the perfect opportunity for him to win you back after what happened with Tristan but…”

“He wanted to kill Kayden? Who would want to kill an innocent baby?”

“Grey.”
Vina answered even if she knew it was a rhetorical question.

“I guess he couldn’t stand the thought of you two getting back together.”
She picked the strawberry at the top of her cup and took a bite.

There was something on my mind, I wasn’t sure about telling Vina. Everyone knew about Kayden already, they also needed to know about his twin.

I thought I would never bring it up but they had to know. I still regret my decision and I couldn’t go back and change it.

“Kayden is a twin, he has a sister.”
I said quickly not looking at her.

She stopped drawing her drink from the straw and spat everything on me.

“You gave birth to twins?!”

Tbc…

Tell me how you enjoyed this chapter..
Massive comments and shares to encourage me..