The Return of The Runaway Bride
Crystal returned to her home after five years only to get caught up in the murder charges of her supposed husband, Edward Fitzgerald, also the CEO of Fitzgerald Corporation. To her surprise, she was set free the next day, something she didn't expect to happen anytime soon, and, the crime was confessed by the actual criminal, at least so she believed. Embedded within conspiracies, she reaches home to find out her father passed away in an accident and her mother blames Crystal entirely for everything bad in her life. Disappointed and uncertain about the turn out of events, Crystal decides to join hands with Caleb to find answers for her father's death. With each unfolding layer, she discovers a strange truth linking from her past that shatters her piece by piece until she starts to question the validation of every person in her life. Her blooming romance with Caleb has a face-off once every possible evidence of Edward's death, starts pointing towards him. In the face-off between love and trust, both Caleb and Crystal hunt down to a complete different connection between Crystal's strange family tree and Edward's death. Overcoming their trust issues, both Caleb and Crystal work together to hunt down the criminal when an unexpected turn of events take place. Dead walks out of graves and conspiracy unspiral to strangle throats. Innocents are villains and villains have to be killed. But in the tangled web of lies, how to figure out, who is the Joker and who is the king?
23. Game Over Alwack
"Yes ma'am, I am all ears" Crystal replied.
"Once upon a time I happened to have a venture, flourishing, expanding in all directions, everything, like perfectly rich and wide," Cassandra paused to look at Crystal who was absorbing the information.
Crystal nodded.
"Back then I didn't have a good family or friends," Cassandra tried to make light of the events.
"And?" Crystal asked, relating to her situation.
"So like yours my business began to collapse at the hands of the vultures hovering around. These vultures are never from foreign land Crystal," Cassandra said, frowning, " So, Instead of focusing on people, I focused on expansion." She said, a glint forming in her eyes.
"However I was lucky to have good partners, who invested according to my will, but let's say my intent wasn't right," she exhaled a large sigh of relief, "and we collapsed, so much so, my empire was never established again."