Captivation: Want Nothing But You

Alice never would have expected Jack to lose his temper so suddenly.

With wide eyes and a pale face, she turned to Caroline and said, "Mom, how could Dad…"

Caroline sprung to her feet and pulled Alice closer to her.She said gently to her daughter, "Rachel humiliated him.He was already in a bad mood when he got home and you continuously asking questions only made him worse.I don't blame him for losing his temper."

"But… But I don't want to kowtow to that bitch Elisa's tomb.I don't see why I should."

For a moment, Caroline's eyes darkened dangerously.

But she quickly took a deep breath, calmed herself down and said in a level voice, "Alice, listen to me carefully.We have to do it."

"Mom?" Alice said in confusion.

"Why are you still afraid of a woman who's been dead for 24 years already?" Caroline said.

"We're going to sweep the tomb anyway, but no one has to know whether we kowtowed or not.We can just go through the motions to keep the peace.Right now, the most important thing is getting you back to the Sullivan Group as soon as possible.Otherwise when Rachel has already hooked up with Victor, it might already be too late to put our plan into action."

Alice listened carefully to Caroline.When she'd finished explaining her reasoning, Alice pursed her lips, hesitated, then nodded.

The following day, Jack, Caroline and Alice all set out to the cemetery in the suburbs where Elisa was buried.Once the fancy BMW had eased to a stop in the parking lot, Alice opened her door and got out.

She was followed closely by Caroline, with whom she linked arms.She looked around the cemetery with a faint hint of disgust on her face.

This was the first time she'd been here since Elisa had died.

Coming here wasn't her idea of how she wanted to spend her day, but if she wanted to get back in with the Sullivan Group, she was just going to have to swallow her pride and deal with it.

She glanced at Caroline out of the corner of her eye and then said in surprise, "Mom, why are you so pale?"

Caroline reached up with her free hand and touched her face.She forced a smile.

"Am I really?"

Caroline had been feeling uncomfortable from the moment they'd entered the cemetery.

It was like someone had run their icy fingers down her spine, causing her to break out in a cold sweat and filling her with a feeling of dread.

Every time she'd blinked, she'd seen Elisa's face behind her eyelids.

Elisa had been dead for the past 24 years, but Caroline was still haunted by her.

Alice narrowed her eyes and looked at Caroline suspiciously.

Caroline looked away, refusing to meet her gaze, "Alright, let's go find Elisa's tomb."

"Okay," Alice answered.

It took the three of them a long while to find Elisa's tomb.

Jack wasn't much help in searching for it either; he hadn't been to visit the cemetery for quite some time.

When they did eventually find it, it was exactly how they remembered it to be.

At the head of the tomb was rectangular, marble headstone with the words, "Here Lies Elisa Bennet" engraved on it.

corner of the headstone showed her smiling charmingly down at them, her gentle eyes almost seeming

been

photo had captured that aspect of her

the most even

was the daughter of

who else comes

muttered when she noticed the bouquet of lilies

daughter.She had thought they'd arrive here

clean, well kept, and the lilies had obviously been left here not too long ago.She turned her puzzled gaze to Jack, only

"Mr.and Mrs.Jenkins, you're here."

suddenly appeared near

black suit, looking neat and presentable.He'd just so happened to

from me.Lilies

over them, down to their empty

They'd brought nothing.

Alice frowned.

you doing here?"

ensuring that the three of you keep your promise," Andy said

here for you lot for quite a while now.Miss Bennet asked me to take a

Alice's eyes widened.

were never going to kowtow to Elisa's

to come to the cemetery, sweep the

Rachel to

plan wasn't going to

while later, Rachel's phone alerted her to

cleaned the dirt off her hands–she'd been busy weeding, and unlocked

to find Rachel

to her seriously, offering her many

warned

could become dangerous and detrimental to

safety of the baby was the most important

slacking off?" a

slipped her phone into her pocket and

bright sun shining directly into her

the blinding light, it was to see the new housekeeper of the

to be the

the more timid of the two, and had kept silent during the dispute between

her hands on her hips and glanced down at the lawn where Rachel had

you

I asked you to do was weed.Why has it taken you so long to pull

just lowered her eyes and said nothing.She was too

her up early that morning and sent her to weed

now, and she'd still had nothing to eat.It was also very hot

and had sapped any

apparent noncommittal attitude made

"What's wrong with you?"

Olivia demanded.

slowly raised her head to look up at Olivia.She could see arrogance and

uncomfortable.She also

up and squared her shoulders, trying to