Chapter 79: Exposed
Camilla was shivering and the noise from the glass shattering on the floor made the bodyguard to glance at Camilla and he suddenly went ashen but quickly he recovered his composure and said “I’ll clean the mess ma’am”
But Eduardo already observed something was odd. He saw the bodyguard’s quick surprise before it vanished away. Something isn’t right.
The bodyguard quickly bent down to clean the pieces of the broken glasses to cover the confusion in the air. Isn’t this Camilla?
What is she doing in City B? It’s been over two years now he left City A and before he left, she was already sent to jail for murder and theft.
How did she leave the prison and end up in City B? Or was he mistaken, if he was, was she also mistaken? The surprise that followed her sight that landed on him was enough to show that she recognised him at once.
But there’s only one thing he has to do and it’s not an alternative, it is the only option he has, to conceal his new identity. No one must know what he’s been hiding all these while.
“Stop it you bastard!” Camilla yelled and at this time surprise developed into panic and the resultant of it was anger and fury.
“Is anything the matter Camilla?” Eduardo asked, looking from Camilla’s frosty stare at the bodyguard to the bodyguard himself.
The bodyguard raised himself with a look that portrayed that he was lost at Camilla’s sudden stare. As he stood confused, he was thinking fast in his mind she’s really the same Camilla Dickson he used to know.
He must pretend to be naive if he wants to survive now. His life is hanging only by a thread. This is trouble.
“You are not dead!” Camilla blurted and turned to glared at her brother “how did you know him?” She asked, her eyes gone red already.
“You know him? This is Jordan Blank, the bodyguard I was going to assign to you. Do you know him, have you guys met?” Eduardo asked, developing interest in wanting to know the answer.
The look on his sister’s face was something he had never seen. She looked furious and would tear the fellow in pieces any moment.
“This fellow is dead! At least I suppose he was dead and he used to be Ambrose Kelvin and not Jordan Blank like you said” Camilla declared.
Eduardo squinted. What is going on? He doesn’t believe in that falsehood called ghost. It’s only in a fairytale otherwise he would conclude that Jordan is a ghost.
“I’m sorry miss, but are you not mistaken? Do you take me to be someone else because I don’t know a thing about what you just said” Jordan Blank said, looking totally lost.
That statement infuriated Camilla and before anyone could say heck, she lashed him a deafening slap. “Yes Ambrose Kelvin, I am mistaken and I needed to be sure that I was mistaken.
If I made a mistake in shooting you back then, am I also mistaken with your voice, you son of a beach?” She bellowed.
Eduardo was surprised when Camilla slapped Jordan. But when she made mention of shooting him, it aroused his interest.
“What exactly are you saying? You shot him in the past? When you were in City A?” Eduardo asked, simultaneously pressing two kinds of buttons under his desk.
One was to summon Luke and the other the securities. At this point, they must be very careful. Eduardo was staring at Camilla intently and could see how furious she had become.
Was this a mix up or something? Jordan Blank had started working with the company before he went to rescue Camilla. Had she met him before going to nail or Jordan relocated there around those periods and secured a job with them?
“I’m sorry ma’am but I take an exception to that. I can’t possibly be shot dead at another place and at the same time I am existing here. How can that be possible?” Ambrose Kelvin denied being the one Camilla was talking about.
“Dare you to lie before me Ambrose Kelvin? You have the effrontery to lie before me with such bold yet innocent stares? You are a demon and now I know you were the mastermind behind my brother and mother’s kidnapping.
It’s you, that fact cannot be mistaken. You threatened me and ordered me to shoot you and now everyone thought you were dead whereas you found your way here. You may pretend from the depths of hell but not before me” Camilla yelled.
Luke walked in and at the same time two of the securities walked in as well. When Ambrose Kelvin saw those that entered, he knew something more complicated was about to happen.
“Excuse me but you are defaming me and I won’t allow that to happen. I don’t know you but you claim to have met and even shot me. I will not accept myself to be defamed” Ambrose Kelvin feigned annoyance.
Luke walked in and listened to Jordan Blank’s words. He didn’t know what had happened or was happening. He came closer to see Camilla’s enraged stares at Jordan.
The securities also stood, not knowing what to say or do next. What was wrong was that Jordan Blank seemed to be talking to the lady who appeared to be the sister to the two brothers.
“No matter how hard you try to pretend, Ambrose Kelvin, you cannot be smarter than me. You will pay for what you did to me, you can’t escape it.( Turning to Eduardo) I went to jail for a case of murder. I was ordered to shoot him to save Sara mum and Jared.
This is the fellow who I was jailed for murdering. But since he claimed to be Jordan Blank and not Ambrose Kelvin, let’s google about Ambrose Kelvin.
Or better still, make a call to City A and ask about the burial place of Ambrose Kelvin, his wife and family should be located and then let’s see if I was wrong,”Camilla declared.
She stares at Ambrose Kelvin with a Killing intent. He was living free and even got a job in her family’s cooperation wgime she was locked up for murdering him.
He would pay for Every single thing she went through. He must confess to his crimes and name his accomplice in the terrible act. There was no escape route for him.
Luke nodded. He seemed to understand everything now. Camilla found Jordan Blank to have a great semblance with someone she had shot and had died in City A.
She was getting muddleheaded about it all. Jordan had been working with them long before Camilla was saved from prison. She might be hallucinating or felt shocked to find someone with so much semblance to a dead man.
“Are you sure of your claim Camilla?” Luke asked, walking over and placing his hand across her shoulders.This text is property of Nô/velD/rama.Org.
Camilla became infuriated with Luke’s question. He was doubting her and therefore asked her if she was sure of her claim. Was she making a claim or she’s exposing the imposter.
She flinged his hand off her shoulders and turned to stare at him angrily “you don’t believe me brother? Fine. I don’t need you to believe me.
I will call dad and tell him about it. But this imposter here will not get away with what he’s done. But first investigate what I said”Camilla snapped at him.
“Jordan Blank, I’m afraid you can’t leave. (To the securities present) strip him of Every company’s belongings” Eduardo decided and that way, the securities led Jordan Blank away.
He stared at Camilla briefly before walking out. Immediately the door was shut, he instructed Luke to henceforth wiretap Jordan’s discussion with anyone or on the phone.
Luke nodded and walked out. It must be effected immediately. Camilla once said she had shot someone and that was one of the reasons she was jailed.
But she did it as the only alternative to save her family back then. So he partially believed her, just wanting to get evidence to bail the imposter if he was indeed an imposter.
He asked Camilla the date when the whole scenario happened. He would investigate if anyone by the name Jordan Blank came into the country a few days after the date Camilla would give him.
“Calm down sister. We would bring you justice. I knew the hell you went through and I won’t spare him if he indeed was the one who made you go to prison…” Eduardo pacified her.
As this was going on in the Anderson cooperation, Rodrigo Campbell was stepping out of his helicopter. He looked around and sighed.
“Camilla, my love” he whispered and Camilla squinted. She heard Rodrigo’s voice in her head. A long time has passed but she hasn’t ceased to hear him calling her in her subconscious mind.
Does she need to see a psychologist? This is not proper. She has been thinking about him so often that she can’t stop hearing his voice in her head.
Meanwhile, Rodrigo got into his latest SUV and his chauffeur drove him. He already employed a good number of staff who were going to attend to him.
He came with only a few of his men, especially bodyguards and Joel, his right hand man.
His Villa was identical in furnishings and design like his Mansion in City A. His chauffeur drove into the vast compound that is decorated with different flowers from the gate to the entire compound.
Rose flowers were everywhere in the compound and the smell of freshness filled the air. Rodrigo cannot dispute the fact that he admired his new house more than the one he had in City A.
There was a swimming pool at the extreme corner of the house and a bar where he could have a mini party with friends, that’s if he finds himself a worthy friend.
There were trees of different fruits at a distance and he glanced briefly at the environs of the house as the chauffeur drove and parked in front of the house for Rodrigo to step out.
His bodyguards came forward and held the door for him to step out. As he stepped out of the car, several bodyguards, just recruited, came forward and stood in two rows.
The few bodyguards who came along with him all came out dressed in black suits and dark glasses. They glanced at the new bodyguards and they immediately bowed.
Rodrigo glanced at them one after the other as they bowed. They were twenty in numbers and each row was ten each.
He sighed quietly. He was here to find his love and his kids. Camilla is in that city and he had relocated there because of her. He would do all he can to be with Camilla again.
To apologise to her and tell her how much he regretted every single thing he said and did. He just needed a chance to right his wrongs.
He simply walked through the pathway they made and as he approached the door, it opened on its own.
It wasn’t two hours and Eduardo got the news of Ambrose Kelvin. He got the pictures of when he was a security official at the Campbell’s group and cooperation.
He was said to be dead but was not found yet. His corpse was still in the lookout and anyone who might have a knowledge of its whereabouts would be rewarded.
The fury in Eduardo rose to its peak. How can this fellow escape and changed his identity and relocated to work as a security in City B while his sister was jailed for a murder she didn’t really commit?
Without another word, he called the police to arrest the imposter. He should be taken to prison until he confesses to his crimes.
Thank goodness he invited Camilla over. Otherwise he could murder her if he discovered she was the same Camilla he plotted against before fleeing City A.
Immediately he sent for his wife and daughter to be placed under house arrest. Until Jordan Blank’s or rather Ambrose Kelvin’s issue was resolved, they were never to see the sun of the day.
When Ambrose Kelvin discovered his secret had become open, he tried to feign amnesia. He said he doesn’t remember a thing about his past.
Perhaps he might be the person but he didn’t know how his past was. He should be given some time to recall his past life and then decisions can then be taken.
In no time, Camilla’s parents heard about it. They had known Jordan Blank who invariably is Ambrose Kelvin and sometimes he comes to the Anderson Mansion.
Steve Anderson was furious. He had cheated them by pretending to be someone else. He was the reason his daughter became an ex convict. He would see that he experienced a prison life exactly as his daughter did.
When the words of Ambrose Kelvin were brought to Steve’s knowledge, he frowned and said in as much he did not remember his past life, he should be transferred to a psychiatric hospital and given medicines like those who really lost their mind.
Or be examined by an expert to know if he truly was suffering from amnesia. And if it was confirmed that he is fine, he would never be out of that prison for the rest of his miserable life.
That scared Ambrose Kelvin the more. He really was going to lose his mind if he was taken to be a psychiatric patient and if examined, his pretence will be blown open.
What would he do now? There’s only one option left to save himself from being completely ruined and his family from suffering the punishment of his sins.
He has to chose that option, which is the only way of survival:
In City A, the rift between Jared and his girlfriend Mirabel was drifting them far apart. Jared loved Mirabel very much but his relationship with her was going to cause a misunderstanding between himself and Camilla.
He cherished his sister so much and he wouldn’t want to hurt her. But he loves Mirabel all the same. He was just confused.
Striking a balance means he has to see that both women in his life don’t get unhappy with him. He needed time to think and sort out things.
He and Camilla had returned to their usual cordial relationship, thanks to Eduardo. But then, will she be happy with Mirabel?
As for Mirabel, he talked to her on the phone but asked her to give him some time. He said he was muddle headed and needed all the time he could to sort things out.
After Rodrigo visited him and he humiliated her, he didn’t see him again. He knew his tricky way of getting information from him.
He had said the other day that Camilla had twins. That’s what he wants to know about; he used his misunderstanding with Mirabel as an excuse to come to find him.
Whatever happens, he cares so much about Camilla and wouldn’t want anything to come between them. But then, something happened that left Jared between the rock and a hard place: