I Am An Illegitimate Child With A Legitimate Reason For Revenge-Chapter 164: Where have you been?

Alexa succeeded in dressing up. Her legs still felt weak and her heart thumped but she could still act like she was okay.

On her way out of the room, she noticed a phone buzzing. It was on vibration so she hadn’t noticed it till now. She traced the vibration to the drawer and saw that it was her phone but the moment she picked it up, the caller cut the call.

"38 missed calls?" She was shocked and all those missed calls were from no one other than Jane. It seemed she had been so worried that she called countless times.

Well of course, it had been three days already.

Alexa redialed the number and as soon as Jane picked, she yelled,

"Where have you been? Are you okay? Did that witch catch you? Why haven’t you been picking up and why is your apartment empty?" She bombed Alexa with questions and Alexa held her head.

She really had her worked up.

"Calm your nerves for a while and hear me out." Alexa said and the moment Jane went silent, she heard her sniff. "Wait, are you crying?"

"You...You don’t know how much I was worried. I really thought Serena took you away and locked you somewhere far away. I was this close to going to the police to report the issue but I decided to be patient." She sniffed again. "Alexa, where are you? Are you okay?"

"First off, thank you for worrying about me. It truly relieves me that you’re alright as well." Alexa said but Jane retorted.

"I’m not alright." She yelled. "I’m worried sick so hurry up and tell me what’s going on and where you are."

"Okay, okay. I am currently living in Raymond Stein’s mansion." Alexa said and sat on the bed. "That night after I left the hospital, I felt so down and a bad headache was ruining my reasoning so I overdosed on my medication and drank myself to stupor."

Jane was so shocked that her mouth fell open from the other side of the line.

"What... what happened that you went so far?" She asked. "Did it have to do with your visit to the station? Did Javen say something bad to you? He didn’t blame you, did he?"

Alexa was silent. That... she forgot about that for a while. Remembering it now, she felt sad.

"He didn’t blame me." She said, pursed her lips and added, "In fact, I didn’t get to speak with him."

"How come?"

"Jane, I got to the cell with the police officer and right there and then, Javen shot himself." She said and suddenly felt goosebumps spread all over her body. The sound of the gun seemed to ring once more in her ear. "He committed suicide, Jane."

Once again, Jane was speechless. How did that happen all of a sudden?

"Are...Are you okay?" She asked but palmed her face. "Well you’ll be okay now but you definitely weren’t after it happened and that’s why you drank so much." She said and sighed. "So you never got to know why he broke into your house?"

"No." Alexa said and looked up at the ceiling. She touched her necklace for a while and added. "I think Serene had a hand in this as well. His death, I mean."

"You think? It’s as clear as day. She’s a devil, I tell you. Now I’m regretting not giving you a little bit of warning before all this went down and dirty." Jane said and sighed. "Anyway, so sorry about that. Now back to the main topic. Why are you in Raymond Stein’s mansion?"

"Oh." Alexa exclaimed.

"Come in, hurry up and tell me. I have a busy schedule, you know."

"Then I’ll tell you later."

"No, tell me now." Jane insisted and Alexa just knew she had to say it now, if not Jane would probably cancel her schedule just to come over and hear the story personally.

"Alright."

"I don’t remember much of it but that day, after drinking myself till I was out, Rachael called him and he came over right away." she explained but Jane’s silence stated that she still wanted to hear more details. "That’s as far as I can tell. He loves Rachael so much that he wouldn’t mind traveling across the world just to get her to feel comfort. It almost feels like he’s her father whereas he’s not. This sort of attraction, I’m beginning to think that it won’t be long before my daughter gets taken from me."

"Hey, don’t say it like that." Jane said. "He loves her because he never got to see his own child. But other than that, did he really come over in the dead of the night to get you two to his mansion?"

"Yes."

"Girl, I can’t believe Rachael is the only reason he went over to your place." Jane said and Alexa closed her eyes in exhaustion. She already knew what Jane was going to say.

"Please don’t start. He doesn’t see me that way."

"Oh? Are you trying to say he doesn’t see you as the exact replica of his dead wife? Or that he doesn’t see you as a woman, which one?"

"Jane, stop this. You’re only going to end up putting unnecessary ideas in my head." She admitted. "I’m content that he lets me stay here, away from Serena’s eyes. I shouldn’t be greedy."

"Then what if he says he wants to make Rachael his real daughter? Would you be willing to marry him?"

This question got Alexa silent. Would she be willing? Or would she hesitate?

"There, you’re probably thinking if you’d be willing or not right? When you should be thinking about how you would convince him against that idea because Rachael was your daughter and you wouldn’t want to share your daughter. And then you would wonder if Rachael would want to have him as a father or not. You’re thinking in the wrong direction."

Alexa was surprised and simply exclaimed,

"Oh."

"You see, you do have some affection towards him." Jane pointed out and that made Alexa realize that she was right.

No, she couldn’t let that happen. She shouldn’t be greedy.

"Jane, I have to go." Alexa said and cut the call without warning. How could she let that happen? How could she let herself fall in love with her patient?