The Reclaimed Rose (Annalise and Steven)

Madeline said, "I'm still not hungry."

Sasha nodded in agreement. "Right. We'll just skip a meal or two if we're short on money."

Madeline's head bobbed once. "I'll look out for him after work. You can leave through the basement parking lot if he's waiting by the door. If he isn't, we'll leave through the main entrance." "Thank you!" Sasha threw her arms around Madeline gratefully. "You're the best. I love you!"

Madeline chuckled as she said, "Don't mention it."

They chatted some more before their supervisor came over to urge them to return to their workstations. Only then did the two women let each other go.

Before starting work, Sasha leaned close to Madeline and whispered, "We'll talk after we get off work."

The latter nodded imperceptibly, "Got it."

Upon getting home, Jessica sat in the living room and fell into deep thought. Steven seemed to always have to bear the brunt of whatever favor she asked of him, including speaking up for her.

If that were the case, she would have to resort to other methods.noveldrama

Jessica couldn't stand seeing Annalise do better than her. She went on Instagram and found Casper's profile. She clicked on their conversation and found that he had left her a torrent of messages, none of which she replied to. She reckoned he would be apprehensive if she told him the real reason she was texting him. As such, she replied to his messages courteously.

Casper couldn't help but feel elated

when he saw that Jessica had replied to his messages. Could he have misunderstood her all this while? Perhaps she was still in love with him, after all, and she had

simply forgotten to respond to his

texts.

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He immediately replied to her, still grinning from ear to ear.

As their conversation grew warmer, Jessica figured it was time to strike. She laid bare her purpose and typed, "If I remember correctly, you recorded yourself sleeping with Annalise, right?" She had told Zane about this, but at the time, he said he didn't mind.

However, that was only because no one else knew about the incident. If she posted the video of Annalise and Casper on the Internet, would Zane still be willing to overlook the matter? Jessica doubted it. She knew men too well to understand what set them off.

Meanwhile, Casper's delight vanished when he read Jessica's text. He had convinced himself that she only texted him because she still loved him, but he couldn't be in denial any longer.

He did not give her an immediate confirmation. Instead, he asked, "Why?"

Jessica replied without hesitation, "Could you send me the video?"

"Tell me what you plan to do with it, and I'll consider it," was all Casper wrote. He had more or less figured out what Jessica wanted to do with the video, but he refused to believe it. She had been nothing short of angelic when they were together. How could she stoop so low and do something so terrible?

Jessica couldn't care less if Casper

thought she was wicked. "It's simple. Annalise has been getting on my nerves lately, so I've decided to put your sextape up on the internet. Once the world sees what a trollop she is for fooling around white she was still married to Steven, they would ostracize her."

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Annalise's reputation online would be dragged through the mud. Zane would be so disappointed in her that he would wash his hands of her. When that happened, the merchandise sales for Annalise's comics would drop and never surpass Jessica's again.

Just thinking about how the drama would unfold filled Jessica with an inexplicable thrill.