Revenge Never Knocks

Chapter 21: Betrayal doesn't always come from your Enemies

The following day, Nicole is accompanied by Raymond. Currently, they are on the way to their house to inform Jackson of Vivian's deeds. They enter the house and Jackson is having breakfast.

'Jackson, we need to talk,' Raymond states.

Jackson turns around and sees him with an unknown woman. 'Who is she?' Jackson asks as he finishes breakfast and gets up.

'I will explain, let's talk,' Raymond leads him out of the dining room and into his office.

'What's all this about?' Jackson ponders.

'My name is Nicole Mercer,' she begins, 'Vivian was in my foster care.'

'Why are you here?' Jackson questions, not understanding the motive.

'Don't beat around the bush,' Raymond whispers towards her, 'Get to the point.'

'Vivian killed your mother,' she replies looking down.

'WHAT?' Jackson yells, 'What the hell is this?'

'Please, hear me out.'

'Son, listen to her and she will clear all your doubts,' Raymond says. Jackson hushes with his nose flared and nods at the woman to proceed.

'I was the one with your father, that night at the hotel room. Vivian told me to be there and to record it so she could post it online,' Nicole begins.

Jackson scoffs, 'Is this one of your bullshit acts to try and blame someone else for your shit?' he says towards Raymond.

'Listen to the whole thing,' Raymond whisper-yells.

'She was the one who also paid the man to bust your club,' she adds on. Jackson recalls the words of Bruce Williams, he mentioned a 'female.'

'Why would she do that?' Jackson questions crossing his arms.

'She has a vendetta against your family,' Nicole begins. Raymond told her not to expose his deeds.

'She also killed your mother,' Nicole concludes, 'And paid the cop to rule it an accident.'

Jackson's eyes widen in horror, 'BULLSHIT, she did no such thing,' he kicks the chair, 'You are lying.'

'Jackson, she isn't,' Raymond defends her.

'What proof do you have?' Jackson raises his eyebrow.

'Jackson, think about it, not as her lover or boyfriend. Since she has entered our lives, we have had issues on multiple occasions,' Raymond says.

'It's a coincidence,' Jackson shrugs, 'You want me to believe some woman I met two minutes ago and ignore the woman I have known since weeks.'

'I have proof,' Nicole blurts out. Raymond has threatened her that if she didn't convince Jackson then their relationship would be over.

'I have text messages on my phone, the ones where she told me about certain things. She was the one that called me to England, she told me how she wants revenge. She said, I had to sleep with Raymond in order to get Julia out of the picture,' she says and pulls out her phone to show the messages. Vivian had told her to delete the conversation, but Nicole kept them as leverage.

'Why are you telling me all this?' Jackson asks sceptically.

'Repentance, I want to make up for my mistakes,' she lies. She didn't want to tell him about her and Raymond or about her carrying his child.

'Why are you doing this, be real?' he repeats again.

'I am being real; I feel sorry for you all. If I never did that then your mother wouldn't have left and she wouldn't have killed her,' Nicole fakes a sob.