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?
29. The Grave Of Time
"Caleb…" Crystal whispered, "Why do I not understand anything about what has happened over the course of the last five years?"
Crystal was devastated.
My mother isn't the same, my father is dead, my lover is a liar, my sister might as well have lied to me, I have lost my brother to some unknown family feud. Why has all this happened to me? What wrong did I ever do to deserve this? My company…
Little did she realise that she was enveloped in Caleb's hug for good long hours, she had been crying.
Sunrays made their way through the creeks of half closed shade.
"Are you feeling any better?" Caleb asked.
Crystal's head veins were throbbing with all the various pools of mysteries she was unravelling.
"Caleb, what would you do if you were in my position?" Crystal asked, her voice almost a whisper. Her lips were chapped and dry.
"Crystal…" Caleb was worried for her, "Here, have some water."