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

frozen

flickering wildly too, and her legs

been exposed just like that? How did it get exposed?

each other, but they couldn’t figure out

snatched the so-called evidence and flipped

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

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

right!” Michael

in Quinn Town and never spoke to Mr. Alston, then how do you explain the diary? If you people look down on Elie because she’s mentally unwell and don’t want her

man demanding justice. His beady eyes were

of an indignant man demanding justice. His beady eyes were

us whether or not you saw

aggrieved look on her face.

the one with Leo. I’m his Big Eyes. He likes me so much. We made a promise! How could

so pitiful that other

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

“What…”

evidence was irrefutable. Michael and Elyse were

because there’s something wrong with her and she misled us. We’re the victims too!” Fraud was

of the fraudulent contracts. If I get taken to court over this too, I’m

her situation would be

continue my life of glory!

That’s right! I didn’t know it wasn’t true. 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 still be kept

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

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

trying to put on a show for him, the lawyer cleared his throat perfunctorily and said, “If you wish to prove your innocence, why not do it in court? However, let me remind you that Mr. Alston doesn’t like being tricked. If you confess now, he might consider

nodded and

“That’s…”