HOW YOU LIKE THAT | JENLISA

Chapter 75

Jennie

I flipped the pages in the journal looking for more entries, but there was nothing.

Blank pages.

That was strange.

The journal was left at an unsatisfying ending. It was kind of like reading a thriller novel and getting the most unsatisfying cliff-hanger ending, only that this was reality. This had been someone's life.

I joined Bambam and Lisa in the gaming room upstairs that evening. Lucas was with us too, but he was busy playing the Pac-Man arcade game. Some of these arcade games were vintage, straight-up. Why go to the malls to play these games when you can bring the whole arcade room home?

The family came from old money. They never had to worry about anything and the evil siblings had shown how ungrateful they were to what Grace had bestowed upon them.

"What's wrong with your fingers?" Bambam asked me, while inspecting them.

"It's nothing."

"The tabloids are talking shit about you." He told me, while joining me on the leather seats.

"Tell me about it. I was a nobody until a few months ago. Now everyone knows my name for a completely different reason."

"Have you read the news?"

I shook my head. "I don't want to."

Bambam didn't take the hint and started telling me about the lies that the newspapers and broadcast were saying, "They are calling you a gold-digger, a nobody who married into the Manoban family for money."

"Oh please, no one would be interested in being part of a psychotic family, regardless of how much money they have."

"Ouch." Bambam chuckled. "They know that you never went to Harvard. They also know that you forged the documents. I'm sure Nichkhun had something to do with this. That would explain why the media circus is tearing you out like a bunch of vultures."

I was so tired of this.

I was so tired of constantly living in fear and knowing there was no way out unless Lisa regained her memories. I wanted a normal life. That's the only thing I hoped and longed for, and getting to that dream meant making a sacrifice on the way. There was a likely chance of a divorce, but I'd get the freedom and the Manoban empire would have their original heir.

Bambam followed my gaze, "When mom was alive, we used to travel a lot. I don't remember a lot since I was too little, but we have the pictures to prove it. Lisa enjoyed playing in the arcades and sometimes she would become this annoying kid who wanted to buy the arcades and take them home."

I laughed, "And she got what she wanted, didn't she?"

"She was mom's favourite, so they ended up buying the gaming machines for her."