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CHAPTER FIVE
'Shields and Clarey' was located at downtown Riverside. It was upstairs of the Mel's, the popular hangout place for local teenagers. Mostly the high school students went there to eat and meet up. It only serves non-alcoholic drink.
I smiled at that. We were there almost everyday for the duration of the time we dated. It was our place, since he worked there as a waiter up til he went away. It's been a while since I went into Mel's. I never went to Mel's after my break up with Darien anymore because that place reminds me of him. It made sense that he would rent a place for work right above Mel's.
I'd bet anything he also goes to Mel's for food everyday. As I went up, I realize there are only two doors up stairs. The door on the left had a sighn that said 'Shields and Clarey', along with 202 by the side. The other simplt had '201' on it. I knocked on the 202. A voice came in from inside that said, "come on in"
I took a deep breath and opened the door. There was a small waiting area on the right along with desk. Sitting there was a young woman that looked no older than twenty. She was obvious Asian Descentdent, with long black hair and purple eyes.
She looks at me and smiled, "Hi, I'm Rei. This is the office of Shields and Clarey. What can I do for you"
"I have an appointment. I called earlier today. The man on the phone asked me to come in." I said.
Rei nodded, "I See. Please hold on a few minutes. Let me tell Mr. Clarey you are here. May I ask what your name is"
"Serena Diamond." I replied.
Rei got up and went to the door leading into an inner office. Rei knocked on the door then opened it, "Ken, A miss Serena Diamond is here to see you"
"Oh yes. Please let her in." ken's low voice said.
Rei turned around," Go ahead Miss Diamond." I smiled and went into the room. I didn't see the point of correcting her about the wrong use of 'Miss'.
Sitting behind a desk on the left was a man about late 20s, with dark brown hair and brown eyes. He smiled at me,
"Mrs. Diamond, please take a seat." I went over to sit on the chair in front of his desk. "I'm Kenneth Clarey, you may call me Ken." Ken introduced himself. "I see. I heard about you from Lita, and please call me Serena" I said.
Ken nodded with understanding. "I see"
"So Serena, what is it that I can help you with?" Ken asked.
"I want you to catch my husband in action with his secretary, who is also his mistress." I said.
"May I ask how did you come up with the conclusion he might be cheating"
"That's because we have a fake marriage. I was forced to marry him by my parents. The night of the wedding I made a agreement with him. I allowed him to have woman outside of the marriage, since I knew I would never be a real wife to him." I said. Ken nodded a few times as I explained.
"Then why have you decided to catch him in the action, as you said. Because since you already have an agreement, even is we catch him, it would be your words against his, since there's no written agreement, as I presume"
"That's true. There's no written agreement. However, he was only allowed to a relationship as long as he is discreet about it. It's come to my attention that he's no long discreet about it, that means he had broken our agreement"
"I see. What do u wish to do with the information we are going to gather for you"
"I will divorce him. Too the public, we are a happily married couple. Both of our family are rich, so no divorce has ever taken place. However, he had publicly disgraced both our family by coming out to public with his mistress"
"That makes sense. Do you known who this other woman is"
"Yes. Her name is Beryl Esmeroodo. She has Red hair and Green eyes. She's my husband, Seiya Diamonds' secretary. His office is Crescent & Diamonds, the building on Fifth Avenue. She lived in Rich Hill Drive area, a house bought by my husband, I believe." As I was saying this, Ken was writing it all down on a pad that he picked up from his desk.
"Do you know some of the place they have been to"
"The Country Club, Emma's, and a few restaurants around town. That's pretty much all I known." Emma was the upper scale type of Bar that the rich went to for a few drink. "That's ok. Those information would be helpful as it is." Ken said. He reached for a form on his desk and handing it to me. "Here's a form about confidential and what we can do and can't do. Along with that are the costs. Please look at it. Fill it up and we can start this 'search' for you." I took it and start to look at it.
As I went on to fill out the form, Ken talked on, "As you might know, my partner, Darien Shields is the one that does the work outside the office. I'm the legal consultant. I work with in the office. I have an Law Degree from Harvard. I concentrated in Divorce, however, I do all typed of legal consulting if it's needed"
I hand over the filled out form. "Thank you. However, I already have a lawyer. It's the family Lawyer for the Crescent side. It's Alan Nephrite. If I do divorce my husband, he would be representing. However, I would like for you to be present my case as well. I do believe that's possible." Ken looked over the form as I talked. "Yes. That's possible it would simply be collaboration between two lawyers. It might be the best choice as he already known you very well. The way you have filled out the form is fine."
"Now I have to explain the fees. We start at a minimum of 500 dollars. it cover the consulting and legal stuff, that's basically the cost of hiring me. For my partner's cost, it's a little more complicated. It's 300 dollars to start hiring him to do the search. As the case take more time, it will cost more. As you must understand, you are not the only case we take in. I'm not saying you aren't important. Every one of our clients is important. You are no less or no more important than anyone else. We take a week to try to gather as much information as we can. After the one week. You would come back into meet up with my partner and me. We will discuss the information we have gotten and from there you can decide to look more into it or simply end it there. That information we gathered would be confidential. They would be legal only when used in court. Unfortunately it will have to go to court, unless the lawyers representing you and your husband's lawyer would be able to reach an agreement on the side. Do you understand all that i just talked about"
"Yes I understand everything"
"Do you have anymore questions"
"No, those information are good enough"
"Great, then we can start the 'search' tomorrow. you can make an appointment with Rei for in a week's time." Ken said
"Thank you for coming in." "No. it should be thank you for taking my case." I stood up and left the office "Bye for now.
"Bye Serena"
I quickly make an appointment for next week and left.
On the way home I passed through the trail leading to the pond, which is a exclusive spot, I decided to go in.
it's been a long time since I came here, I thought to myself. The spot was also Darien and My spot. We used to go there all the time to be alone. It was quite and exclusive. As I headed in, I remembered one time when Darien surprised me there...
Until Next Chapter.
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