CHAPTER 83

'She paid me to do it and promised to take me on tour," Emilia Francis cried. 'WHO?" I asked, stepping closer to her, blood boiling and veins popping. The voices in my head were screaming at me to hurt her. 'Aria. Aria Goode." 'WHAT?!!" I couldn't believe my ears to what I heard. Everything seemed to stop around me, like a sudden hit and dead silence. Mom released her and she scrunched against the wall with fear and intimidation. 'I'll explain," she said, wiping her eyes and gathering up herself. 'I'm waiting," I answered with folded arms. I was silently praying to relax the inner demons. 'The following day after you came and gave the DNA samples, Aria Goode stopped by. She gave me a total of one million dollars in cold cash and she said it's all mine if I falsified your DNA test to make it look like the kid isn't yours. I honestly didn't want to do it, but when I saw all that cash....and I've been having financial problems lately, I just couldn't resist. I'm really really sorry Mr. Hollen. I'm really sorry." Tears began to pour from her eyes. 'You're sorry?" I rhetorically asked with a laugh. It was a habit that came on when I tried to control myself, 'You're sorry?" I repeated again. I never repeated myself. 'YOUR ASS COST ME MY SON! MY SON! AND YOU'RE GOING TO SAY YOU'RE SORRY!?" Mom literally pushed her out the way and out of the room when I began throwing things all over the place like a mad man. 'Evan calm down!" mom yelled at me. If mom hadn't been there, that woman would of been the first woman I laid my hands on. One Million Dollars? And a Tour? Did I hear her correctly? ARIA HAD ME MESSED UP!! I got back into my car and called my father. 'I need you to find Jasmine," I said to him. 'How am I supposed to do that?" 'Use your connections, your people, hackers, IT pros, I don't care if you have to use the Russians as well. Just please find her!" 'Yes sir," he answered. I dropped mom off and made my way to Hollen's private airstrip. Jasmine's POV LA was amazing. It was a total change of scenery and atmosphere. I had already settled down at an apartment complex with my son right there with me. All of his items, along with some of mine, were shipped to my new address. Thank you Zenia. I hated travelling with Jevan at such a young stage, but I needed to do what I needed to do. I needed a fresh start and a clean slate and by all means, I was doing just that. __________ It was Thursday and 5:30 pm when Jevan and I were laying in bed. He was being fussy when he was in the crib so I set him down on the bed beside me. I played with his tiny hands and made funny faces at him, just like what I saw Emma doing. He gave me the sweetest smiles and laughter. I love him so much. He is such a sweet baby. A knock came on the door. I had been expecting the manager to come by and drop off my spare set of keys. I lifted Jevan up and placed him back into the crib, hoping he wouldn't get fussy and start crying before I collected the keys. I went towards the door. I looked into the peephole but I only saw the top of the woman's head. 'Short much," I said to myself as I unlocked the door and opened it slightly. The woman pushed the door right in and walked into my apartment. 'Did you missed me?" she asked with a smirk. Aria fricking Goode was in my new apartment. 'What are you doing here? How did you know where I was?" I asked. 'It's a little something called ‘keeping track'," she answered, showing me a picture in her phone with Jevan and I coming home from the supermarket. That was two days ago. I went to the store across the street to get him some baby supplies and some feminine products for myself. 'Get out of my apartment!" I semi shouted. 'Not before I do what I came here to do! Where's the little bastard?" she asked, referring to my son. She had to be crazy. She was in my new apartment, calling my child names as if Evan was here to save her ass this time around. I approached her quickly to smack the hell out of her but quickly stepped back when she pulled out a gun. 'I didn't travel almost three thousand miles just to say hello," she said. She lifted the gun up to my face and snatched the cellphone out my back pocket. My heart began to race and all I was thinking about, was my little bundle of joy in the other room. 'Go get HIM!!" she shouted at me when he began crying like he was sensing the danger we were in. Aria had a gun pointed at me in my apartment and I was all alone with my son. ____________ 'What are you going to do?" I asked her, as I held Jevan very tightly in my arms. She pushed me backwards and my butt hit the surface of a chair. 'Allow me to explain this to you. At least you deserve an explanation, right?" she said with a wide smirk on her lips.