7 Finding the truth

As Clara and Darien walked side by side holding hands, Darien asked, "Clara, what are your wishes in the future?"

"Wishes?" Clara thought about it.

"To live together with our child, going to the beach together, and to look at sunset together." Clara listed her three wishes.

"What are your wishes?" Clara asked.

"To love you more and more in the future." Darien smiled.

"That's lame." Clara laughed.

"Clara, thank you for having my child." Darien felt the bump and was so happy.

"I wish our child can be happy." Clara leaned against Darien's chest.

"He will. We will live together." Darien kissed Clara.

"Clara, I love you." Darien kissed Clara again.

"I love you too." Clara embraced Darien.

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"Clara, don't leave me! Don't leave me!" Juliette wiped away his tears and held his hand.

As Juliette watched Darien fell asleep again, she quietly left the room.

One of the maid saw Juliette and she signalled her to go to the kitchen.

"I noticed you went to Darien's room. Is he asleep?" Juliette nodded.

"I forgot to introduce myself, my name is Lily and you can call me Miss. Lily." Juliette nodded again.

"Miss. Lily. Can you tell me about Clara?"

"Well... Ms. Clara will be around your age if she is still alive. She was very smart, kind, and gentle. She loved Darien very much. When she was pregnant with Timothy, she was very protective. I only heard this as a rumor but people said it was Ada's fault for purposely drowning Clara. But I don't think that's true. It was something worse I believe. I know this because Clara was very good at swimming. You should ask the officer who was in charge of the case. I don't know if he is still working. I have his information. Here you go. I hid this for a long time. I didn't want Darien to go berserk again." Juliette took the information and thanked Miss. Lily.

"I will find him and try to talk to him." Miss. Lily grabbed Juliette's hand and said, "Thank you so much. I really hope you can find out what happened. Darien was very desperate to find the answer but he never did. His mother didn't allow him to see Clara's dead body but she only kept their child. I really wanted someone dependable to be able to solve this case." Juliette nodded.

"Don't worry." Juliette smiled as she left the kitchen.

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"Mr. CEO, good morning. I am not sure if this suits your taste. But I made the breakfast." Juliette was proud of her cooking skills.

"I am sure it will taste great." Darien took a sip of the soup and ate an eggroll.

"It tastes just like Clara's. She always made these eggrolls because she knew I loved them." Darien ate a few more.

"Mommy, the eggrolls taste awesome! You are the best." Watching Timothy eating the eggrolls made Juliette smile.

"Eat more then. I can always make more." She smiled.

"Juliette, thank you for staying beside me last night." Juliette shook her head.

"No problem. Are you feeling better?" Darien nodded lightly.

"That's good. Do you have any plans today?" Juliette asked.

"I'm going to the headquarters in a few minutes. I already told your manager that you will work for me so you can stay here with Timothy. If you need to go anywhere, ask Peter to take you guys out. He used to be serving Clara." Darien quickly got ready and Juliette got his bags and other stuff ready too.

"Thank you." Juliette said.

"Call me Darien. Mr. CEO sounds too formal." Juliette nodded and waved him goodbye.

Timothy pulled on Juliette's shirt, "Mommy, is daddy going to work again?"

"Yes he is." Juliette said as she touched Timothy's hair.

"Timothy, I need to talk to Peter for a while. Can you go upstairs and get your backpack? We are going out for a while. Okay?" Timothy nodded and quickly went upstairs.

"Peter, thank you for waiting for me." Peter replied, "It's my job to serve you guys."

"Peter, do you anything that happened to Clara?" Peter thought about it for a while.

"There is something I was suspicious about. I don't think Clara is dead... there must be someone who was behind it." Peter said.

"You can tell me anything. I want to help Darien." Peter nodded.

"Clara was a good lady. She was kind and helpful to everyone around her. But she also had enemies, Darien's mother and Ada, the girl his mom wanted him to marry but didn't. I have a feeling they were involved. I was afraid so i didn't say anything."

"Thank you for telling me. Anything will be helpful." Juliette replied.

"Oh right, can you take me somewhere. I would like to meet with him." Peter nodded.

"Miss. Juliette. I understand why Darien wanted to be with you. You are too similar to Clara."

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As they drove to the address written in the notebook, Juliette asked Peter to watch over Timothy.

"Timothy, I'll be back." Juliette waved at them.

Juliette rang the doorbell. A man, middle aged stood outside. His face was shocked.

"Clara...."