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Chapter 12
Rayna's Point of View
The record finished playing and both Juliette and myself waited patiently for Marshall to approve or disapprove. Thankfully as the song ended a smile appeared on his face.
"Well ladies….I must say I am impressed. Really impressed if I am honest. I didn't think you could pull this off with everything that has been happening. This is a hit, I can feel it." He grinned.
Breathing a sigh of relief I looked at Juliette. However she wasn't paying attention as she studied her phone. I nudged her slightly to gain her attention.
"Huh?" She jumped.
"Are you ok?" I asked.
"Yeah…Yeah I'm fine." She lied.
"Um glad you liked it. I have to go just tell Glenn the arrangements and we can work it out." She announced as she got to her feet.
From the look on Glenn's face I knew he didn't know what was going on either. Before either of us could as her Juliette ran from the room.
"What was that?" Marshall questioned.
"I don't know." I admitted.
After the meeting was over I tried to call Juliette but there was no answer. Her phone kept going to voicemail after that.
"What could possibly have happened between going into the meeting and now?" Glenn complained.
"I don't know but it must have been pretty bad." Bucky answered.
"I think she might have gone home I'm going to go check." I told the pair before leaving.
As I pulled up to Juliette's house I could see her car was indeed there. I was relieved to know she was at least safe. However it didn't take long before I saw Jolene coming to answer the door.
"This doesn't concern you." She snapped as she opened the door.
"Get out of the way." I hissed as I made my way past her.
When I didn't see Juliette in sight I turned my attention back to Jolene.
"Where is she?" I questioned.
Jolene didn't answer she just continued to stare at me.
"Please tell me you haven't done something else to hurt my daughter?" I said.
"First of all she is my daughter you didn't want her remember and secondly I am the one trying to help her. From what I can tell she didn't even bother to tell you what was going on." Jolene said smugly.
"What's that supposed to mean?" I replied.
"Well she came to me didn't she? Left you behind, she wouldn't do that if she considered you trustworthy." Jolene smirked.
"You are nothing but a waste of space and a selfish bitch. You are sponging off your daughter, using her success to feed you addiction and now you are ruining her life." I spat.
Just at that Juliette rounded the corner. It was obvious from her face she was mad at something or someone.
"What are you doing here?" She asked when she saw me.
"I wanted to make sure you were ok after you took of during our meeting." I told her.
"I'm fine." She mumbled.
"Juliette I know you aren't." I sighed.
"She said she is fine so why don't you just go." Jolene chipped in.
"Why don't you just stay out of it?" I snapped back.
"Rayna it's fine….I will call you later can you just give me some space?" Juliette replied.
Hearing her call me Rayna again was like a gut punch but I didn't want to show it and I didn't want to push her to far. Reluctantly I nodded in agreement and left the house.
Juliette's Point of View
I felt bad for asking Rayna to leave but I didn't want her to find out about my current situation. A former sponsor of my mother, a man I had slept with was blackmailing me. He had a sex tape and now wanted 10 million to keep it quiet.
"You did the right thing honey. She wouldn't be any help, you need your mother for this." Jolene smiled.
This was exactly what she wanted, and despite everything I got the feeling she was behind it.
"Shut up." I sighed before walking off to my room.
Rayna's Point of View
It had been a few days since I heard from Juliette. She had promised to call me but she hadn't. I tried calling her and going to her house but every time I didn't she wasn't in. To make things worse Glenn had gone silent to which led me to believe he knew what was going on.
"Mom, Mom you are supposed to be taking us to school!" Daphne complained.
Coming back to reality I got up and grabbed the keys to the car.
"Sorry honey I was just thinking about…." I began to say but Daphne cut me off.
"Juliette I know….." She mumbled.
I felt a twinge of guilt as I watched my two other daughters get into the car. I had really been neglecting their feelings in the whole situation.
As we pulled up at the girl's school my phone began to ring. I waved the girls off before pulling it out. I almost dropped it when I saw Juliette's number appear.
"Where have you been?" I practically yelled down the phone.
"Mom…..S-S-S-S-She's d-d-d-dead." A sobbing Juliette cried.
"Who? Jolene?" I questioned.
Juliette didn't answer she just continued to sob.
"Where are you?" I asked.
More crying.
"Juliette where are you?" I pressed.
"H-H-H-Home." She managed to tell me.
"I will be right there ok?" I assured her.
"Ok." She cried as she ended the call.
Hitting the gas pedal hard I rushed to Juliette's house. As I pulled up I saw a lot of flashing lights, paparazzi and police cars.
"Jolene what the hell did you do." I sighed.
Getting out of the car I was immediately bombarded with press….
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