By Malice Through Agony

Extremely Short Chapter...

Lorena walked into Missy's hospital room, she was staring out the window. She had no makeup and her hair wasn't as curly as it always was, a blanket was over her and her eyes looked lifeless.

"Ms. Bradford?" she asked. "How you doing? I'm Lorena Williams, the detective assigned to your case."

Missy turned her gaze over to the detective. She sat upright and fixed her hair. "Hi. I'm sorry i'm such a mess they won't let me take a shower...apparently i'm still under suicide watch."

Lorena nodded. "Do you feel like talking about what happened the other night?"

"Have you spoken to Lucas?"

"Yeah."

"And he's alright?"

"Most likely."

"When will I be able to see him?"

Lorena looked at Missy and sat down on the chair next to her. "I don't think that will be possible...at the moment."

"Why?"

"Ms. Bradford I don't mean to sound disrespectful, but Mr. Friar doesn't want to see you or...continue any kind of contact."

"So why did he send me these?" she pointed towards the bouquet of white calla lilies.

Lorena looked at the flowers then to Missy. "He sent you those?"

"Yeah, they're my favorite."

Lorena unfolded the note and read it:

I'm sorry babe whatever happened last night was a HUGE misunderstanding.

I Will Always Love You,

-Lucas

"Mr. Bradford...can you tell me what happened at the hotel?"

"Didn't Lucas tell you?" Missy asked.

"Yeah, but i'd like to get the story in your own words."

Lucas roamed his boss's office as he yelled at him. "I'm going to have to tell you the impact an instant like this can have on the company. Even the width of indelicacy."

"Indelicacy?" Lucas as he balled his fists. "There is no indelicacy. This is just a fantasy from a very sick girl."

"She might reciprocate us with a sexual harassment lawsuit."

"If anything I was the one who was sexually harassed." he ran a hand through his tousled hair. "I can't believe this is happening to me."

"Look, Lucas...I believe you. And I'll defend you all the way. But if we find out something was going on-"

"That's not going to happen because nothing is happen."

"And I believe you. But meanwhile i'm going to put Stefan Tranter on Ben's account."

"No!" Lucas said as he put his hands in his pockets. "i'm not going to lose my client over this."

"Lucas you need to take sometime off, you've been working hard. Work is what got you in this mess afterwards. Just focus on your child and Riley."

Riley. Her name ran through his head. He can't focus on Riley, it would just lead to anger and devastation. He loves her and always will, but now he doesn't want to think about her. "I can't-"

"Lucas." Lisa called out, last week Lisa got sick from the stomach virus Patrick had, and now she's back at work. "Detective William's is here to see you."

Lucas got up from his seat and lead to her to his office. They sat down and he waited for what she was going to say.

"I talked to Ms. Bradford, earlier today and she said you sent her flowers."

"Flowers. I didn't send her anything."

She handed him the note she took when Missy wasn't looking. "Then what's this?"

"My assistant has access to all my personal accounts, she must've hacked it when she temped for me."

Lorena didn't buy any words of the words he was saying, she's been working for years on cases like this and the men are always caught in their lies. A man like Lucas, can easily win every girl if he wanted to, sooner or later she was going to catch him doing something wrong. Instead of telling all of him that she just nodded. "This is Missy's diary." Lorena said as she brought a hard covered book into sight. "It's a rather explicit diary...where she explains all of your sexual encounters together."

Lucas took the book from her hands and began to read.

He stripped me to the bones and kissed me with passion.

I can feel his hands on me and in me.

He enters hard and fast, moans fill the room.

This never happened. He never had sex with her and never wanted to. Lucas slammed the book shut and took in deep breaths, "This..." he pointed to the book. "this never happened."

Lorena received the book in her hands with force. "According to this diary, you are quite the accomplisher in bed-"

"Okay, Ms. William's you seem smart. You can't possibly believe this."

"That doesn't matter...what matters is that she believes this."

"Is there anything I can do...to protect myself and my family?" Lucas asked.

"You can file a restraining order."

"Let's do that."

"That won't be necessary."

"Why not?"

"Because her sister came over from Sacramento to take her back over there."

He finally smiled. "About time."

This is by far one of my least favorite chapters. =(

I decided to take a small break from the story, so I can TRY to make a new story. The pause will be fairly short and I will continue next week. I hope you guys don't mind.

I'm still brainstorming some ideas of how I want this story to end or IF there should be a sequel to this.

I know I said this story was going to be at least 12 chapters, but I THINK it MIGHT go up to fourteen chapters.

Will Rucas get their happy ending or will I change my mind and make them get a divorce? Please let me know if you guys have any ideas for a next story, I will DEFINITELY take it under consideration.

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