Chapter 73
Jackson stared at Emily’s text from seated inside his car from the location he was supposed to meet up with, just a few seconds he dropped the call with Blair asking to see him in the location. Weird. But he decided not to think too much about it, instead he got down from the car and headed inside. Immediately he saw Blair smiling and waving at him, beckoning him towards her. She had a weird nervous glint in her eyes that he decided to ignore for the reason that she always seemed to have that weirdness ingrained in her mannerisms.
“Hey sweetie” she got up to hug him, her raspberry scent filling his nose completely, hesitant at first but he returned her hug. Why couldn’t he concentrate? He kept checking his phone, expecting another text from Emily but instead he sent a text back.
“What’s wrong?”
Why did he feel something was off? There was Blair smiling weirdly at him and being overly affectionate even though they promised to be affectionate with each other in public, and there was Emily suddenly canceling on him when she was in fact the one that asked to see him, it wouldn’t matter much if he wasn’t in fact craving to see her too.
“What would you like?” Blair broke his through his thoughts and he focused his attention back on her, and he shrugged leafing through the menu
“Coffee perhaps?” she asked again, this time not meeting his eyes and he shrugged yet again.
“Sure” he said and she signaled for the waiter and ordering their coffees. That almost never happens, she mostly left everything to him. When they went out together, she never had to lift a finger, why was she suddenly being in charge, something was definitely off.
“Are you okay?” he asked her now, but she couldn’t look into his eyes. Her eyes seemed to everywhere except his face but she nodded.
“Just a little tired, it’s probably the hormones” she said and Jackson nodded but still he was wary.
“What’s going on with you right now” she asked him “The company?”
“Nothing serious, the company is growing and Hatton has been a success well thanks to Ethan but I’ll never tell him that. I honestly joined the company, just to spite him but I guess I’ll have to start something else now”
“Like what?” Blair asked curiously. Jackson was about to respond when their coffees arrived ad placed before them, he was just about to pick his when suddenly Blair dropped her phone on the floor in what seemed to be an accident, and she looked at him with one hand placed over her yet belly that still seemed flat.
“Can you help me” she asked and Jackson nodded, dropping his coffee back to the table and bending over to pick up her phone.
“Thank you” she smiled sweetly, taking it from him. She picked up her coffee to drink now and urging him to do the same but just as he was about to pick the cup back up, he felt someone knock it out of his fingers, the glass shattering and the coffee spilling over the pristine marble floor. When he looked up, it was Emily and he stared at her in shock.
“Emily ” he called in surprise but unable to fully understand what was going on “What are you doing ”
“She laced your coffee” Emily said immediately and Blair’s eyes widened in shock and she protested immediately
“What the hell! No I didn’t”NôvelDrama.Org owns this text.
Emily scoffed “You silly silly girl” then she grabbed Blair’s bag and dumping all the contents on the floor and leafing through them to reveal a little bag containing a white powdery substance and Blair’s eyes grew wide.
“How did you that’s not mine. I don’t know how that got in there, you have to believe me Jackson”she pleaded with a fake buttery voice and to Emily, she sounded almost believable if she hadn’t heard everything she planned with Jesse from where she sat.
“What’s going on?” Jackson spoke this time, the confusion evident on his face as he looked from Emily to Blair. Even though the reason for the oddity was slowly revealing itself, he still found it hard to believe. Emily had been here all these while? Was that why she canceled, so she could expose Blair? Was Blair actually going to poison if Emily hadn’t intervened? The questions rang in and out of his head but yet he couldn’t fathom a reasonable response to them.
“She was going to stage your kidnap with her greasy boyfriend Jesse for a three hundred million dollar ransom” she said and Blair gasped in shock. Then Emily whipped out her phone and placed it on the table before them, a voice recording playing out and Jesse’s voice rang out, telling Blair to lace Jackson’s coffee.
“Blair is this true? You were going to drug me? That’s why you asked to meet? That has been your plan all these while, are you even pregnant?”
“Yes I am but it’s not what it looks like, I can explain” Blair pleaded but Emily grabbed her phone from the table just before Blair could take hold of it.
“You can explain it to the police” Emily smirked, just as she was about to dial 911 Blair sprang up from the table and pushing Emily from the way, still grabbing her phone in the process. Emily in turn, collided with an incoming waiting carrying a tray of food and she slipped, falling facedown against the edge of a table and she winced in pain at the impact, a protective hand grabbing her stomach as she felt the consciousness leave her.
My baby