The Betrayal Within

Chapter Thirty-Five

Song of the Chapter: Help Me by Deuce

Recap (Francisco’s POV):

“We're just going to find the evidence and leave,” I said. The bar was closed, but I managed to open the back door where they had all the alcohol.

“This is alcohol heaven,” Adam said. He started to drink sips of any alcohol he can find. He gets drunk too quickly.

“Buzz,” he said, laughing. “I'm a bee!”

“Shh!” I said. Where's the package?

Adam fell to the ground, then I did.

Everything became black.

The point of views will switch throughout the entire chapter.

Paulene's POV

Tick tock. Time is running out.

I've been here for three days straight and my mind is going crazy.

I couldn't show it.

Secrets are starting to come out; Jasmine found out one of mines because of Alex.

Man, I need to have a plan so I can kill him.

But he could kill Adam or Francisco.

I'm okay with that.

Jasmine.

He wouldn't kill Jasmine. He probably wants her to hate all of us. That can't happen.

“Paul, why don't--”

“Only Jasmine calls me by that nickname,” I said to Alex, who believes he could get along with me easily.

Sure, I didn't tell Jasmine about Francisco a long time ago, but I was doing it because--

Of jealousy.

I'm not jealous of her.

You're jealous that Francisco is taking her away from you.

“How did you get here?” Jasmine asked. “You told me you were in England.”

“I was, but there's more to it.”

Three days ago…

“Okay, I'll be going through paperwork at my hotel,” I told one of the associates from the precinct.

There were two reasons why I was in England without Jasmine, my partner.

The commissioner told me to go undercover to England to help the UK agency for a few days with a drug lord and his crew.

The second reason is Alex.

I've been watching him since he was enrolled in my class a couple of months ago. How did he pick Lakefield out of all the colleges in Pennsylvania? And in my specific class?

It's a computer science class; there were thirteen professors and half of them had the same times to teach.

This guy is on to something.

I checked his information before I left and saw that he's going to England the same time that I had to leave.

Either he's a stalker, or he wants something from me.

If Jasmine went with me, she would've blow all of this out of proportion. She knew that Alex still liked her, but not like the petty love stage.