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She stood staring at her mobile phone, at the multimedia text message that was now there on. the screen. She’d not really wanted to open it, but that picture had come through first and blinked on the screen briefly when she used her finger to slide the notification bar down the
screen.
Chloe Silverton had sent her a picture of a sonogram. She sighed as she stared at it for a full minute before opening it to read whatever was attached to it. “I’m having Damien’s baby, I’m 10 weeks along. Stay away from him, this will see us get married.”
Ten weeks along! She thought as she stood there looking at that picture, Gregory had announced that Damien and his being with Chloe was a one–off drunken accident. Here was the actual proof that, that statement was a lie. Though she already knew this, she now had
irrefutable proof of it.
She was standing there looking at that sonogram doing the math in her brain. She couldn’t seem to not do it. Ten weeks, that would put the conception back in the middle of October… Damien had been away on a business trip, overseas in China if she recalled correctly.
Chloe had announced to all of them that her grandfather had surprised her with a trip to Greece for her birthday. Her birthday had fallen right in that week when Damien had been away. It couldn’t be just a coincidence anymore. It was all a lie she now knew.
Damien may
have left two days before Chloe announced her so–called birthday surprise, and that girl had come back before Damien had as well. She’d only been gone four days, whereas Damein had been gone for seven. She’d not thought anything of it at the time, Gregory had been the one to tell her he was sending his son on a business trip.
Only now seeing this picture, and with all the knowledge she had, it was clear to her that it had been orchestrated, so Damien could spend time with Chloe for her birthday. She stood there and wondered just how many other vacations those two had been on together.
How many times they’d sat around and laughed at her, for being so blind as to not see it. She was so very naive, it seemed, to always be in the dark about what they were doing behind her
back.
A hand touched her arm, and she moved her eyes to the person as a voice spoke her name gently “Harm?” it was Garrett, and she’d not even seen or heard him come into her apartment,
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consumed by her own thoughts as she thought things through.
She sighed a little on the heavy side “It’s not my concern.” She murmured and went to delete.
the message.
“Wait. What is that?” he asked, and she let him take her phone and look at it, read it, and saw
him frown, as he understood himself what it meant.
“Don’t delete that.” He murmured “That is evidence against him and his one–off cheating,” she
watched him pull his phone out and take a picture of it.
“I’d honestly like to forget about it, Garrett, it just shows how very blind I was to everything. I’m going to block her number. I don’t need nor want to see this, or be harassed by her. I don’t even understand why she sent it to me. She got him already.”
“No, she didn’t, they supposedly sent her away, remember.”
She took her phone back and blocked the number. She was done with them all.
“Do you think she is really pregnant or is just trying to weasel her way back?” Garrett asked.
“I don’t know…but 10 weeks ago, they were both overseas, he supposedly in China on a
business trip and her in Greece for her birthday. The dates over lap. I’m guessing there was no
business trip at all, so it’s completely possible.”
“Sorry Harm.” He sighed.
“Why now? I don’t understand why she would do this, send it to me?” she was frowning.
He sat her down on her couch, “The press release which states she’s nothing to him, likely
ticked her off. Today there was a new release as planned.” He showed her the article and she
read it all.
She saw the links to all the voice recordings, and just knew that all the horrid things he’d said
about her were real. She’d not wanted to believe it deep down, but now here it was; all laid out
in black and white. “I hate him.” She murmured softly as she read the horrible things he said
about her.
He had been out there telling everyone she was a slut, and she knew why, because he’d seen
her with Garrett. Even though he had been cheating on her for god only knew how long, he’d
not liked that she had paid him back in the same manner. Couldn’t it seem handle it.
She’d been disgusted by him yesterday, and now today, she felt hatred towards him. She’d
known he’d slandered her, but not to this extent. Only heard the basics of what it was from
Garrett last Thursday. But hadn’t wanted to listen to the recording he had of it.
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She’d also not wanted any of this to go public, but now she wanted those around him, to see
just what sort of person he truly was; a cruel, mean and heartless man. Three years together
and none of it mattered to him.
“I wish I’d never met him.” She muttered.
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“Harm?” She could hear the worry and concern in Garrett’s voice.
“It’s fine…I’m fine Garrett. I’m tougher than I look, and I will move on and show him I’m a better person than he is. I’ve not once responded to anything that is going on out there in the media. Never said a bad or malicious word about him or Chloe, for that matter. I’m also not going to
either.” she shook her head “I will not stoop to their level of cruelty. It’s not who I am.”
“I will.” Garrett stated “I’m enjoying putting that boy in his place.”
She looked at him and just knew he was going to continue on with the mission he’d given himself. It was out of her hands, and had always been “I want nothing to do with it.” she told
him.
“That is fine, Wyatt’s already responded this morning.” Let’s go and have breakfast and then go and get your things from your apartment. The press is going to be all over this, wanting your thoughts on the matter.” He stood, “Racheal Greenbay is the only one we’ll respond to as well. It’s her exclusive, and I’ll tell her what you just told me.” then he sighed as they headed out the door “Though this picture… I want to release it as proof of how long he’s been cheating on you, that it was not just a one–off thing.”
“I don’t know.” She sighed.
“It doesn’t have your name on it, but at the top it has Chloe’s as the sender, everyone will know
it is Chloe Silverton with that statement below it. Who she sent it to is anyone’s guess.”
She looked right at him and just knew though he was posing this in a way that implied he
wanted her to agree to it, he was going to do it regardless; this was just a heads–up was all.
“You’re going to anyway right!” she stated.
“Yes, I want this boy shamed and broken, like what he and his family were trying to do to you.
Let them have a taste of their own medicine, so to speak.”
She thought about that, how they’d treated her, knowing now that Gregory himself had helped to get Damien time away with Chloe, all the things that Laurel had said to her, wanted from
her, “I’m done caring to be honest.” She finally spoke as they walked down the stairs. “Post it,
let’s see him talk his way out of this one.” she shrugged.
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He smiled at her and nodded “I will do that.”
“No, wait, you know what, the press wants a response from me right.” and at his nod she
stated “Let’s let that photo you have be my response to it. I have nothing to say about today’s
matter, other than: Clearly, I didn’t know Damien was ruthless and cold–hearted.”
“Will you tell Rachael that if I call her,” Garrett asked.
“Yes.” She nodded “Why should I care at all what happens to him or his family, after what
they’ve done to me, tried to get me to be a part of.”
Harmony ate minimal breakfast even though Garrett tried to encourage her to eat more, and she knew why. But she just shook her head, wasn’t actually hungry at all.
He got up, and they headed off to his office after she was done. It was large, just like his office in the city, and just as nicely furnished. Wyatt, Ryan and Dallas were all there in the office as
well.
She watched as Wyatt made a phone call, as he put it on loudspeaker for her and everyone in
the room to hear. As he informed Rachael that she, Harmony, was right there in the room to
hear the call.
She greeted her simply and gave Rachael the response she’d stated to Garrett upstairs and then Garrett spoke himself. “Rachael, Harmony has received a text message from Chloe Silverton this morning, I’m going to send it over to you now. I think you’ll find it very interesting, and it is Harmony’s response to the Blackwell’s stating that Damien was only unfaithful once,
which is now clearly a lie.”
“Interesting, send it over.” Rachael stated.
She watched Garrett do so, and Harmony heard the woman laugh softly, “Oh, now that is interesting to me. Let’s see him get out of this one. Miss Preston, you received this directly to
your phone?”
“Yes, this morning,” Harmony answered.
“How did you feel about it?” Racheal asked her right away “and may I use your words?”
“Yes, you can. To be honest, I was completely shocked. But thinking back on it now, I recall Damien was away on a business trip and Chloe, she went overseas for her birthday. I guess Damien gave her a birthday present.” There was no anger in her words. “I can only hope, Rachael, that their child is raised to have better manners than they do, and understands
respect and common curtesy for others.”
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She heard Rachael chuckle “Well said. Is there anything else you’d like to impart?”
She thought about that for a full minute, and no one interrupted her thoughts. She finally spoke “Yes, only that I hope the Blackwell’s will leave me alone. I do not want them to try and convince me to take their son back. Like they did on Christmas Eve, when I had to speak with them because they wouldn’t leave me alone.
“I am not at all interested in having anything to do with the Blackwell’s or their son for that
matter. I have actually moved on, and now after seeing him and his family’s true colours, I
have no residual feelings for any of them. Damien obliterated them himself, with all his lies
and deceit, which I now know his own parents tried to cover up. I see now none of them can
be trusted, not even Gregory or Laurel.” She sighed a little heavily because it was the truth.” But I wish Damien and Chloe the best of luck, I’m sure they’ll be happy.”
“Thank you,
Miss Preston, for your candour and speaking with me. I will give you justice. Wyatt, Garrett, let me know if anything else comes up please.”
“Oh, there is one more thing, Rachael, it’s yours if you want it…” he smiled at Harmony ”
Harmony and I will attending the Winslette Hotel for New Year’s Eve, together. Come and take
a picture of us, as a happy couple.”
“If you’re saying what I think you are, I want that exclusive.”
“It is, and it’s yours,” he stated.
“Then keep me informed and keep that to yourself please.” And she clicked the line closed.
Harmony was staring at him now, “Garrett?” she asked, a little confused.
“That is the day I will officially announce us to the world. Mother already knows you and I will
be going together. I told her I would be taking you as a little payback to Damien, so it’s fine.”
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