Chapter 1

In a luxurious villa.

Meredith Leighton tumbled down the stairs from the second floor and her head hit the railings before she finally landed at the bottom of the stairs.

“If anything happens to Yena, I will have your entire family buried next to hers!” A man taunted cruelly.

With her limbs sprawled across the stairs and blood tracing down her forehead, Meredith put her hands over the wound on her forehead as she pleaded, “Joe, you have to believe that I didn’t harm Yena in any way. I really didn’t…”

“Meredith, please stop denying it. There is video evidence of you cheating on Josiah with Yoel Harper in Yena’s phone,” Ysabelle Layne sobbed and went on, “Meredith, how could you kill someone just because you’re afraid of your dirty affairs being exposed? Yena is our best friend!”

“I didn’t,” explained Meredith. The blow to her head was likely a concussion and lead to her feeling disorientated.

However, she mustered up all the energy that she had left in her and crawled toward where Josiah Shelby was standing. Tugging at his trousers, Meredith tried to explain, “Joe, there’s nothing going on between me and Yoel…and I didn’t push Yena down the stairs…”

that I’m seeing?” Josiah hissed as he bent over, grabbing Meredith’s long hair from the

soon as she realized that she was being recorded, Meredith struggled away from Yoel haphazardly. At that moment, Yena turned around and ran. As

her eyes wide open, Meredith denied, “It wasn’t me…it wasn’t

too blurred, the person involved in the struggle with Yena could

the strength to get out of the bedroom hence it was impossible for her to be

freedom to do as you please. I didn’t expect you to do such a

looked at Josiah and tried to explain again. “Joe,

you a lesson so that you know your mistakes,” Josiah bellowed as he threw Meredith to the floor heartlessly and

feelings of disappointment and resentment

kind and gentle as her

known, he would have never agreed to marry

silently as she was all crouched down on the floor and said, “Lock her up in the basement

for seeking justice for our Yena,” sobbed Miss Leah as she thanked Josiah. She then

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