A Wife for Christmas (completed) ✔️

16.

Zeke POV

It's been a day since Jaycee left and I miss her. I've been with her every day for two weeks and now I have to get through three more until Christmas Day.

I hope her plan works and whoever is trying to hurt her will be revealed before we walk down the aisle on Friday.

I look at my sister who is in a hospital bed.

She turns over in her sleep and whispers. "Dean."

I move toward my sister and I pick up her phone. I find Dean's number in her contact list and I call him.

Dean: Baby, what happened? I haven't heard from you since you went to your Dad's.

Me: This isn't Chloe. I'm her brother, Zeke. Can you tell me why your car went through my house?

Dean: I reported my car stolen last night. I was on a business trip and when I returned home the car was missing and I had a bunch of cops on my lawn when I got out of the cab. Where is Chloe?

Me: She's in the hospital. Did you know she was pregnant?

Dean: I did. Please, don't tell me she lost the baby. He sounded frantic on the line.

Me: No, but she was spot bleeding. We're at the hospital. She's been put on bed rest. You should be here with her.

Dean: Tell her I'm on my way.

He hangs up on me.

I place the phone on the table.

Chloe opens her eyes and she looks at me. "Who did you call?"

I run my hand through my hair. "I called Dean. He needed to know you were in the hospital."

She shakes her head. "I didn't want him to know I'm here. It was his car that drove through Dad's house. What if he's behind everything?"

I pull her into my arms. "Do you remember where he was the night before?"

Chloe covers her mouth. "He was overseas." She frowns. "But, who stole his car and had access to the remote for the car?"

That's what I'd like to know.

I shrug, "That's up to the detective's to find out."

The Detective's enter the room and they approach Chloe and I. "Do you know who would go after you?"

We shake our head.

A detective place his hand on my shoulder. "I'm sorry for what happened to your fiancé. Do you know if anyone was following her before the accident?"

"She never mentioned a thing to me. Did you get any finger prints off the car?"

A detective pulls out a notebook. "No, the only fingerprints on the car was the owner Dean. But, he was out of town during the accident. I have witnesses to collaborate his story."

Dean enters the room and runs straight to Chloe. He pulls her into his arms. "Why didn't you call me?"

She sobs. "I couldn't be the one to tell you if something happened to baby. But, your car coming through my father's place scared me. Did you have your security camera on?"

Dean nods. "Yes, I never turn them off." He pulls out his iPad and types some stuff into it. He clicks on a button that say secret camera.

A girl that looks like Jaycee is standing in front of the camera. She flips off the camera before it goes blurry.

Jaycee never left my sight. How is she at that house? There's got to be another explanation.

Chloe looks at me. "That's Jaycee Lance. But, she's dead. I thought you said she never left your sight?"

I run a hand through my hair. "She didn't. Jaycee, wouldn't put anyone's life in danger." I look at the detective. "Except, yours and the ambulance driver when she gave you chloroform. But, that knocked you out until she escaped."

Chloe gasps. "She's alive."

Damn I forgot she was in the room.

I move over to the bed and put my arm around my sister. "Yes, we had to stage a death just on case whoever did this was watching."

Chloe looks at me. "What if they were watching from the house? I saw something before I passed out. I thought it was impossible."

I hold my sister. "What was it?"

She rubs the back of her neck. "I thought I saw double of Jaycee just before the car crashed into the house. What I really saw was twins. But, where did the twin go while Jaycee was on the ground?"

Mr Lance enters the room and he looks at me. "You were the last one to see my Jaycee alive. Please, tell me you had to stage her death while she took off. If she's really dead I'm going to kill Casey."

I frown. "Who is Casey?"

Mr Lance rubs the back of his head. "She is Jaycee's twins. She was in a psychiatric ward for the last three years and I got a phone call the night of the limo accident saying that she escaped. No-one has found my daughter and I thought she might be trying to take her twins identity again."

I hope the twin doesn't succeed in taking my fiancé's identity.

Mr Lance shows a picture of Casey to us.

She looks exactly like Jaycee except she's paler than my fiancé.

My phone starts to ring and Jaycee's name flashes on the screen.

She didn't take her phone with her. She told me it was stolen.

"Jaycee's calling."

The detective says. "Answer it."

Me: Hello

Someone screams.

Then I hear someone yell. "I'm going to kill you."

The line goes dead.

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Who saw that coming? Jaycee has an evil twin out there. ;-0