Chapter 134 - Answers!

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"Then why didn't you come to me?" Michelle asked. She wanted to cry badly for not coming to her. Esther went silent when she heard those words. Esther felt like a lump was stuck in her throat. This was the question she avoided the most from this woman. But she couldn't avoid it anymore. Taking a deep breath she started. 

"I am scared. I am scared that you would hate me. I don't have the guts to face you. Every day, I used to think of calling you, talking to you, and vomiting all my complaints to you. But I didn't have enough guts. My hands used to itch to call you, message you and talk to you. But I held it back," Esther said as a single tear rolled from her eye. 

"Do you know Esther? Our business sells antiques. When someone accused us of selling fake things, everyone in the school bullied me. But you came like a knight in the shining armor to save the damsel in distress. You bullied back the people who bullied me. You stood by my side. You told your family to help our family. Soon the truth came out. 

"That moment, I swore that our friendship would last for an eternity. But marrying Arthur disappointed me a lot. I tried to persuade you not to marry him. Even though I didn't like you marrying him, I became your bridesmaid just to fulfill our childhood promise. I saw you suffering alone. Whenever you came to me to complain, I was there for you. But when I went through surgery and didn't know it. It irked my nerves. I wanted to strangle him to death but because you loved him I left it. He doesn't even know that I am your friend. 

"But when you decide to divorce him, I am the happiest person. But soon I heard you got injured because of him. I couldn't take it anymore. So… I sold the weak points of Garcia to his opponents. Which increased the crises. At that moment, your brother started buying the shares. He could get hands on Garcia's shares till sixty percent. But the remaining forty percent were hard to get. I still thought it's good but god surprised me that Vritra groups brought the remaining forty percent. Even Arthur sold his shares giving him no right to enter the company in any way. 

"After he was jailed and escaped. Again he was tortured by you, even though torture is not much enough. It's still fine. When all these things happened, There was only one thought in my mind that was 'being beside you and hugging you'. But it didn't happen. I waited for your call every day. I wanted to call you too, but I was scared that you might still be angry with me. Until I summoned the courage to come to you. Did you ever think of being in my shoes? Have you thought of my hurt?" Michelle asked in her nasal voice. Esther knew she was on the verge of crying. She hugged her and said, "I am sorry. It's all because of me," 

"You know how to turn turntables in the single line," Michelle complained. 

"That's because I know my friend well," Esther said proudly as she left her friend's embrace. 

"Sigh… stop flattering. There shouldn't be next time," Michelle said. 

"Okay!" Esther said. 

"Tonight… let's kick that idiot out and go on the hunt for street food," Esther said. 

"Okay!" Michelle gave a thumbs up. Little did they not know Nicholas was listening to their conversation from the start as a thief. He noted many points from their conversation and decided to inform his brother. But when he was about to leave he heard Michelle continuing. He kept his ear back on the door and started listening like a thief again. 

"As for the family, they are scared because they couldn't take care of you when you got hurt. They were guilty. They don't want that to happen again. They didn't help you or said anything in the business to stop you from feeling embarrassed. See now, you took lots' hits from me. They are afraid that if they get involved they couldn't control but handle all the things for you which may displease you. They are not disappointed with you. They are disappointed in themselves. As you said, they are loving Reggie too much and couldn't talk about him with you looking at your eyes, because they are guilty. They couldn't protect him well like Vritra. This was the first thing they failed to do. Henry said that Reggie was dead because he doesn't want you to feel guilty. If you get to know he is taken away by someone and they fail to snatch him back. And Cyrus Vritra is from Atlantis. Not anyone can enter that country. You can't blame them for not being able to get him back. Atlantis is a place that has no rules and regulations. It was ruled by a certain kingdom. Many times the United International Organization tried to make that country part of it but they failed. And even the people in that country are hard to deal with."  Michelle said. 

[A/N:  United international organization is similar to the UNO organization in the present world. I changed the name a bit because I don't want it to clash with the real organization.] 

Esther got answers for many things. She felt light after hearing her friend's words. Michelle knows her better than anyone. 

"And I know you are disappointed with your family. But they are also disappointed by themselves," Michelle said. 

"Brother is punished by a grandfather for a month. He has to get the demonic training that's in the royal family," Esther said. 

"Why?" Michelle asked. Esther recounted the situation that happened on that day one by one without missing anything.  Michelle couldn't stop laughing when she heard everything. Few tears formed in her eyes too. Michelle's stomach started hurting from laughing uncontrollably. 

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Author's Notes: 

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