True Fated Marriage (Grace and Heinz)
Chapter 2002

After leaving the room, Gary went down the corridor until he reached the end. He stood there as he scanned his surroundings. He had booked the whole ship, so he had access to every room. Thus, he opened the door at the end of the corridor and entered the room.

Switching on his phone, he called Yandrea.

Before he spoke, he heard Yandrea's laughter.

Irritated, he shot, "Could you not laugh?"

"Alright, alright." With that, Yandrea turned serious as he said, "So I assume you went through my email."

"Yes." Gary said, "In short, Janice used Lowell's phone to call Celeste on the day I went to Boston?"

"That's right," Yandrea said. "It was before the second call, and it was much longer too."

"What did they say in that call?" Gary asked, "I want to know what she said to Celeste."

"I'm afraid only they can answer you. I don't have any recordings of the call, so I don't know what they had spoken about over the phone." Yandrea explained, "You can't expect me to do the impossible, can you?"

"Not even this?" A hint of sarcasm was in Gary's tone. "Then why the smug attitude earlier?"

"How could you be so unreasonable?" Yandrea defended himself. "I was so kind to help you. Yet you're acting so mean now."

"If you were as kind as you say you are, you would have come to me with a recording of the conversation. My mind is in a mess, not knowing what they said," said Gary.

"Did Celeste not say anything?" asked Yandrea.

"If she did, I wouldn't be this upset. In fact, she has been calm all this while." Gary expressed his worries, "My gut tells me Celeste must already know about Janice and me, including the fact that she's pregnant. But the problem is she never showed any strong emotions or confronted me. That's why I am worried."

"Are you afraid that she will leave you?" Yandrea queried.

"What nonsense is this?" Gary lowered his voice, "I'm doomed."

"Well, you do the thinking for yourself. You were the one who promised Janice." Yandrea reminded him, "To be her boyfriend in two months."

Gary sneered, "In her dreams."

"Am I hearing this right? Are you going to break your promise?" Yandrea laughed.

"Why can't I?" Gary copied Yandrea's tone and asked, "Are you trying to defend her?"

"Not really," Yandrea said. "I don't like women like Janice. I'll be happy to see her in trouble."

"From your tone, it sounds like the exact opposite." Gary said in disgust, "You better be clear about one thing. You are Lowell and my friends, not Janice's."

"Of course! I know what I'm doing." Yandrea chuckled, "But you're the one who agreed to be her boyfriend. Janice has already told all her immediate friends that you're her boyfriend now. She even posted pictures of you and her on her social media. You guys look way too intimate by the way, not to mention that great big smile on your face. I wonder, maybe you'd fallen for her before."

Gary frowned the second he heard Yandrea saying this.

He recalled the time when Celeste saw a photo like this and had been very sad about it.

D*mn it!

Why did Yandrea have to bring that up? And how dare Janice post such a photo to her social media to make it look as if there was something between them!

Gritting his teeth, Gary announced, "I'm going to hack into Janice's computer and delete everything. I will not let Celeste see any of this."

"I doubt you'll succeed. I'm sure Janice knows how good you are at computers and must have it backed up already," Yandrea pointed out.

"So, have you found out how she got pregnant?" Gary was starting to lose his patience.

"What? Didn't she get pregnant when

you guys lost control after making out? Didn't the DNA test already prove that it's your child? As to how it happened, I haven't found any evidence yet. But you two did spend a night together after getting drunk. You losing control in that situation isn't strange. Plus, you did have a change of opinion about her. Even I wouldn't believe there's nothing between you."

"Yandrea!" warned Gary.

"Ouch, my ears!" Yandrea laughed. "You're scaring me by raising your voice."

"Get lost." Gary fumed as he lost all of his patience.

"Hey, calm down. Can't you recall anything from that night?" Yandrea asked, half-jokingly.

Gary could tell that Yandrea was suspecting that he and Janice had gotten carried away that night.

But only God knew he remembered nothing of that night.

All he knew was that he had been so drunk that he blacked out.

It would take a miracle to be able to sleep with Janice in that state.

"I have no recollections of that night. I don't know how it could've happened." His tone was more graye than ever "I don't remember how ended up in the same bed in her. I was already so drunk. I couldn't betieve I could get hard in that situation."

"How would I know if you don't know either? Anyway, the test is solid proof that you did do the deed with her."

Gary cursed, feeling sick from his words.

"If Celeste replaces out, she will break up with me," he said gloomily.

"Well, from the few meetings I had with her, she is soft on the outside but strong within. So I can't be sure how she would react to this," Yandrea analyzed.

"Continue investigating," Gary said, "Find out how she got pregnant."

"I'm afraid it will put you on the spot." Yandrea came clean. "What if you did sleep with her? Are you going to kill yourself? Look on the bright side. Things aren't too bad if the baby is yours."

Gary fell silent.

Little did he know that Celeste was standing behind the door. She had overheard everything- Color had drained from her beautiful face.