302\u2013A Weird Act\u00a0<\/p>\n
Madeline:\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cReally? Then ask her where she was,\u201d Lady Eugenia quickly recovered and posed another question, making Baxter hit his forehead.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not going to ask her where she goes and what she does. I trust her. She must have gone out for some needs, or maybe for the children,\u201d Baxter explained, looking upset that he had worked the entire day only to\u00a0<\/p>\n
return to this mess.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cNo, it\u2019s okay, Baxter. I will respond. She\u2019s your mother, and I respect her a lot,\u201d I spoke in a soft and gentle tone, watching Lady Eugenia\u2019s face turn harsh as she clenched her fist at my words and my tone.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m serious, Lady Eugenia. I don\u2019t mind you questioning me. You\u2019re just like my mother. I know if you\u2019re asking these questions, it\u2019s because you\u2019re worried for me. You\u2019re worried I might make a wrong decision,\u201d I continued, speaking gently, and noticed Baxter narrowing his eyes at me.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Somewhere along the line, we both knew each other very well.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAnyway, I went out to take the kids for ice cream. They had been insisting on it,\u201d I started to explain when Lady Eugenia shoved her palm forward from a distance.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cNo, where is the file then, huh?\u201d she screamed.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I looked at Baxter and then back at her.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know what file. Was it with you? If you had it, it must be in your room somewhere,\u201d I said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She placed her hands on her waist, shaking her head while maintaining eye contact with me.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is not in my bedroom. Your wife took it. I saw it,\u201d she screamed, and Baxter turned to give her a puzzled\u00a0<\/p>\n
look.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean, I saw her take it with her, but I called after her. She did not stop,\u201d she added.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I kept my calm, wearing only a sad look on my face.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYou know what? I\u2019ll find it for you. Don\u2019t worry,\u201d I said, then stepped toward her room.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She followed me closely.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cFine, go ahead. You\u2019re not going to find it here,\u201d she hissed.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I entered the room and began looking for the file. The drawers, the cupboards, the usual places.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cSee,\u201d Lady Eugenia hissed. \u201cThere is no file because she took it. Now she\u2019s just pretending to be helpful while looking for it,\u201d she continued, talking nonstop.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I ran my hand behind the closet and pulled out a file.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIs this the file you\u2019re talking about?\u201d I asked.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Everyone went silent, not even a breath was heard.\u00a0<\/p>\n
174\u00a0<\/p>\n
302\u2013A Weird Act\u00a0<\/p>\n
+25 BONUS\u00a0<\/p>\n
Lady Eugenia stared at the file, her face turning pale.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHow? How is this possible? It has to be a duplicate,\u201d she muttered, reaching for the file and snatching it out of my hands.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean, I don\u2019t know what the file looks like, so maybe\u2013I don\u2019t know,\u201d I said, pretending to be clueless again.\u00a0<\/p>\n
However, Baxter stepped forward and took the file from his mother, checking it carefully. Once he was certain it was the original, he shut it and faced her.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy was the file tucked behind the closet, Mother?\u201d he asked, waving the file slightly. \u201cWhy was it there?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAre you doubting your mother? You think I hid it there?\u201d she cried, tears forming in her eyes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Honestly, she was not wrong. She was not the one who had hidden the file. Yuvonne had.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I shared a glance with Yuvonne, who had followed the entire situation in silence, never mentioning her involvement or the role she played in helping me.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cMother, this is the file. This is the real file you have been accusing my wife of stealing. Do you have any idea what you were doing? Why? What is this hatred for? Why would you lie about something like this?\u201d Baxter demanded.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Lady Eugenia covered her mouth as tears rolled down her cheeks, finally realizing how badly she had fallen into her own trap.\u00a0<\/p>\n
As Baxter demanded answers from his mother, she started to cry and buried her face in her hands.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I was grateful to Yuvonne. If she had not helped me, if she had not taken the bag from me when I returned, I would have been in serious trouble.\u00a0<\/p>\n
When I entered the cabin and heard the two of them speaking, I honestly thought Yuvonne might have tricked me again, until I was about to leave and saw her gesture to me.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She made a hand motion, telling me to go around and ask about Byron.\u00a0<\/p>\n
So all I did was head toward the motel. Strangely enough, I did not run into Baxter.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He had been heading the same way, but I guessed he must have left before me and taken the woods while I stayed on the clear road.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I went to the motel and asked the lady standing near the vending machine about Alpha Byron, and she told me the exact same things Yuvonne had told me.\u00a0<\/p>\n
So when I returned, Yuvonne already knew I had come back with the information.\u00a0<\/p>\n
As Baxter almost raised his voice at his mother for ruining everyone\u2019s peace, a loud screech followed by a thud from the rooftop of the cabin struck us.\u00a0<\/p>\n
We all gasped and immediately lowered our bodies. However, Baxter and I rushed to our children\u2019s bedroom without checking what was going on first.\u00a0<\/p>\n
We reached the bedroom and saw our kids hiding under the bed. The noise that followed was the strangest\u00a0<\/p>\n
2\/4\u00a0<\/p>\n
302\u2013A Weld Act\u00a0<\/p>\n
and most frightening sound I had ever heard.\u00a0<\/p>\n
+25 BONUS\u00a0<\/p>\n
3\/4\u00a0<\/p>\n
302\u2013A Weird Act\u00a0 Madeline:\u00a0 \u201cReally? Then ask her where she was,\u201d Lady Eugenia quickly recovered and posed another question, making […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-no-daddy-novel-by-novelnozi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19671,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19503\/revisions\/19671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}