My Sugar And Your Spice

“Leo!” Elyse cried out once more as her face turned ghostly pale. She couldn’t resign herself to this.

All she got in reply was a dial tone.

He ended the call!

“What happened?” Michael quickly asked when he noticed Elyse standing there motionlessly with a strange expression on her face.

The phone slipped out of Elyse’s hand and clattered on the floor. Elyse looked defeated.

“What on earth is going on? Hurry up and tell me!” Michael urged when he realized that things weren’t going the way he had hoped.

Just then, there was a knock on the door.

Michael eyed Elyse for a moment before rushing over to get the door.

A stranger was standing outside.

Michael scrutinized the man with his beady eyes and asked, “Who are you? Did you come to the wrong address?”

“I’m Mr. Alston’s lawyer. I’m here to see Michael and Elyse Clayton,” the man answered. “You must be Michael Clayton.”

“L-Lawyer?” Michael instinctively took a step back when he heard that this man was a lawyer.

The lawyer walked into the house and saw a clueless Ellen and an ashen-faced Elyse.

He nodded and said, “I suppose Mr. Alston has told you why I’m here, Miss Clayton.”

He deftly opened up his briefcase and took out a stack of paper.

“This is the evidence of your attempts to trick Mr. Alston. The truth is that Miss Ellen Clayton and Mr. Alston never had any contact before. You misled him on purpose to make him think that Ellen Clayton was Big Eyes. In the eyes of the law, this counts as fraud.”

“What?”

out of his

frozen as he

too, and her

that? How did

Michael stared at each other, but they couldn’t figure out

Elyse snatched the so-called evidence and

investigation report which clearly stated that Ellen never stopped foot inside Leo’s room during his time at the hospital. She never even said a single

sister kept a diary which contains a clear record of every single detail of their interactions! Leo confirmed the contents of

That’s right!” Michael backed

you explain the diary? If you people look down on Elie because she’s

looked every bit the part of an indignant man demanding justice. His beady

of an indignant man demanding

or not you saw Leo.” Elyse shoved Ellen

with an aggrieved look on her face. Her eyes were reddened as tears pooled in

Eyes. He likes me so much. We made a promise! How could he…” Ellen’s tears

so pitiful that other

simply smirked when he saw this. He took out another set of documents. “This is the report from the mental hospital which confirms that Miss Ellen Clayton has a paranoid disorder. She took the interactions she saw between Mr. Alston and someone else and made them her own. She created a wonderful fairytale in her head with herself as the subject, and she recorded everything in her diary. Also, our investigations have proven that although Miss Ellen Clayton never spoke to Mr. Alston, she was constantly hiding in the dark and spying on him. We have found a witness who has given a

“What…”

evidence was irrefutable. Michael and Elyse

the victims too!” Fraud was a crime that

serious trouble because of the fraudulent contracts. If

her situation would be unsalvageable if

to continue my life of glory! I can’t let

Her diary was so detailed. I really thought… Thank goodness you brought the evidence that proved it was all a lie, or else, we’d

hand before continuing, “Mr. Lawyer, please talk to Mr. Alston and tell him that we were tricked too, so that’s why… Here, how’s this? I’ll take Elie to him and make her apologize in person, so let’s… put a stop to the lawsuit against

anything if we knew the contents of the diary weren’t true.” Elyse cupped her hands and stared apologetically at the lawyer. Her act looked

in court? However, let me remind you that Mr. Alston doesn’t like being tricked. If you confess

nodded and

“That’s…”