When Claire said hi to Tory, to say they were shocked would be an understatement. Tory looked at Claire and smiled

"Hi I'm Tory"

"You're pretty" Claire said making Tory to blush and smile.

"Claire?" Lisa called and Claire turned to the direction of the voice and saw a very pretty lady, a handsome man and  a very gorgeous man. And she blush when he made eye contact with her, causing Gerald to smirk and Patrick saw this. So he wrapped his arms around Claire and glared at his brother

"Don't even think about it Gerald. She's mine" Patrick said and Claire looked at the floor blushing madly

"It's not my fault she finds me attractive" Gerald said trying to make his little brother angry.

"She doesn't!Claire do you" Patrick asked Claire making her to look at him. She blushed and looked away and Patrick eyes widen in shock.

"She finds Gerald attractive" Patrick said sulking in a corner with depressed aura surrounding him

"Ahhh Patrick" Claire said with her arms stretched out to Patrick

"Claire?" Peter said and Claire turned to look at Peter

"Yes" Claire stuttered

"How have you been?" Peter asked looking at Claire with concern

"I'm fine. Thank you for asking Mr Simon" Claire said smiling and Peter smiled

"So you do remember us" Peter said and Claire nodded

"Yeah. Ever since I found out that Patrick was the best friend I had when I was little" Claire stated looking  at Patrick who was being laughed at by Tory. Claire just sweat drop at that.

"That's great to hear" Lisa said smiling

"Claire how is staying at the asylum like?" Gerald asked making Tory and Patrick pay attention to their discussion.

"It was hard and painful. Cold and dark. It only became worse when the man who killed my family was locked up in the opposite cell to mine" Claire said

"What do you mean by the man who killed your family?  Are you saying the man is still alive and not in jail?" Peter asked angrily.

"Yes. It seems the man is mentally Ill  but he's not"

"You too have taken notice as well" Patrick said sitting close to Claire and Claire nodded at what Patrick said

"Yeah. I found out the night he remembered me of the way he killed my parents and abuse me" Claire stated with sad eyes

"Abuse you?  You don't mean.. " Lisa said with widen eyes as tears form in her eyes whilst Gerald, Peter and Tory stare at her with pity.

"Yes. He raped me and I can't seem to forget the way he touched me" Claire said hugging her body as tears fall from her eyes

"It's okay Claire. I'm right here" Patrick said comforting Claire as he hugs her.

"But everything is okay now. I'm getting better thanks to Patrick here. As you can see am talking to you guys" Claire said smiling.

"Dad?" Patrick said making Peter to look at Patrick.

"Yes son"

"Do you know any body that had grudges against the Simon Family?" Patrick asked and Claire raised an eyebrow

"Why are you asking that?" Claire asked

"You know the time I went to the man cell and beat the crap out of him for what he did you?" Patrick asked and Claire nodded "Well when I asked him why he was there, he said he needed to finish a job and that job is to kill the only person of the Simon family, which is you and he said, someone hired him. So dad do you know any one?" Patrick asked again looking at his father who's hand was in his chin. He was thinking on who would have a grudge on Maxwell.

"I don't see why someone would have a grudge on Maxwell and his wife and children. They were the kindest souls I know. So it's impossible for me to know who would have done such a thing" Peter stated

"Hmmm say dad? You and Mr Maxwell are the richest people in the world right?" Patrick asked

"Well yes but we had another person who was not as rich as us. He works under me but the three of us were very close" Peter said

"And when Mr Maxwell died, he immediately rises to the second and you the first?" Patrick said and Peter nodded. While Tory and Claire was confused at what they were saying while Lisa and Gerald already got the gist of what Patrick is saying

"Yes, he.. THAT BASTARD!!" Peter shouted already knowing what Patrick meant.

"So your saying this man is the person who killed the Simons and wants to kill Claire" Lisa said and Patrick nodded.

"Or it could be someone else" Patrick said looking at his father

"What your trying to say now, is that the culprit could also be father" Gerald said and the females looks at Peter and Patrick nodded with a closed eye

"That's impossible. I know my husband, he would never kill someone for money. And Maxwell was his best.. "

"Calm down Lisa" Peter said chuckling holding his wife wrist "It is nothing to be angry about. It is only an assumption and if it were me in Patrick or Gerald shoes I would suspect the same thing" Peter said smiling.

"So are you the one?" Patrick asked

"Patrick!!" Lisa scolded. Peter laughed, amused at his sons and the way they looked at him with such gace. Like he was a criminal. He stood up and looked at his two sons before he spoke

"I don't know if am the culprit or not. But I'll leave the case to the two of you" And with that he walked away from the Parlour. Leaving the rest.

"How could you accuse your father that way?" Lisa asked looking at her sons. Gerald shrug and got up from his sit

"He was Mr Maxwell best friend and so was the other one. So it is possible that one of them did it. Mr Maxwell was the richest man alive. He is or was targeted by everyone. Including his best friends" Gerald said and left the Parlour.

"Come on Claire, let's get some sleep" Patrick said and stood up from his position as well as Claire who stood up as well "Good night ma" Patrick said as they walked out of the Parlour

"Good night" Lisa said looking at her sons and Claire back as they left the Parlour.

"Let's go" Lisa said and Tory nodded and that is how the family called it a night.

      "Did you really have to talk to your father that way?" Claire asked sitting on the bed with her legs to her chest, while Patrick lay down on the bed with his sides. His hand supporting his head.

"You and I both know that what me and Gerald said was the truth. Even father say its okay for us to suspect him. So don't worry about him getting hurt" Patrick said

"I suppose" Claire said

"Come on Claire. Let's get some sleep" Patrick said and turned the other way. Claire looked at him and lay on the bed facing Patrick. She looked at him wandering if he's asleep and Patrick was also wandering the same thing. Claire stretched her arms wanting to touch Patrick and at the same time, Patrick turned to look at Claire. Patrick looked at Claire palm which was close to his face and looked at Claire face and saw that she was blushing. She was drawing her hands back but she was stopped when Patrick held her hand and kissed it (AN:Kinky) making Claire
blush and Patrick to smirk. He placed Claire palms on his face and rub his cheek on it and Claire blushed at this and rubbed his face with her thumb. Patrick smiled and move closer to Claire face and her eyes widen knowing what he's about to do. So she closed her eyes and brace herself for it. But it never came, she opened her eyes and saw Patrick looking at her and then he pecked her on the lips making Claire to blush and face the other way. Patrick just chuckled at Claire behaviour

'How can she still blush when I've kissed her more than once?' Patrick thought smiling. He moved closer to Claire and put his arm on Claire waist

"Patrick what are you doing?" Claire stuttered as she felt Patrick chest on her back

"Let me stay like this" Patrick pleaded burying his face in Claire shoulder. Claire blushed at this and said a quiet 'good night' but Patrick heard it and said his good night and then they fell asleep.

          The Next Day

"Thank God you got here fast" Samuel said looking at Patrick and Claire who stood at his front.

"Yeah yeah" Patrick said with a yawn. Samuel turned towards the main gate and opened it and Claire and Samuel stepped in and Claire turned to look at Patrick who stood there with a tires expression on his face

"See you later Patrick" Claire said and Patrick nodded and he frown.

"No goodbye kiss?" Patrick asked pouting and Claire just shook her head and walked closer to Patrick and got on her toes and pecked Patrick on his cheek making heart form in Patrick eyes. He hugged Claire rubbing his Cheeks against hers

"Love you so much" Patrick said rubbing his cheek against Claire's and Samuel just rolled his eyes and dragged Claire away from Patrick and he locked the gates

"No Claire!!" Patrick shouted dramatically while stretching his arm through the bars of the gate while Anime tears fall from his eyes. Claire stared at Patrick as she was being dragged and as they were about to enter into the Asylum, she said that she loves Patrick and Patrick grinned at her before she went inside. Patrick looked at where Claire was for a sec, before he smiled and starts moving to his house. He walked with his hands behind his head. 

  "Come on Claire, let's take you to your cell" Samuel said

"No" Claire said

"No, what do you mean no?"

"I mean, I want to see that man" Claire said with determination

"What?"

"Take me to see him" Claire demanded and Samuel just shook his head

"Claire, why do you want to do this?"

"Because I want to see how far I've gone. I want to see if I'm normal again. When you left me with Simons, at first I thought that I would be scared and attack someone but I didn't. I know that maybe it would be because of Patrick but I just wanna be able to do this on my own. Patrick won't always be by my side" Claire stated looking into Samuel eyes and Samuel looked back and saw determination in Claire eyes. Samuel sighed in defeat

"Fine" Samuel said and Claire smiled and nodded "Let's go" Samuel said and Claire followed him.

Claire sighed as she and Samuel stood outside the door of the patient who killed Claire's family. Claire sighed once more and nodded to Patrick to open the door and he did. It seemed as if time slowed down as the door opened. And when it did open, Claire saw that the man heads was facing her direction and when she saw that eye, everything came back to her but she stood her ground, chanting 'Don't be scared. They are with me' in her thoughts. She sighed and opened her eyes and looked at the man without fear but there was still some little once there.

"So the little girl finally had the courage to come see me" the man said chuckling, looking at Claire who was stepping into the room followed by Samuel closely "What do you want?" the man asked more seriously and Claire flinched at the voice

"I just want to speak with you" Claire stuttered making the man chuckle

"You're still afraid of me, aren't you?"

"I'm not" Claire stuttered

"You are" the man stated simply

"I'm not" Claire said

"YOU ARE. LOOK AT YOURSELF YOU'RE SHAKING. AND SWEATING. PATHETIC" The man shouted and truth be told, everything the man Said was truth but Claire wouldn't want to make this man see her as a scared little girl of back then. So, she stood her ground and look up to the man with an expressionless face.

"Are you done?" Claire asked and the man with Samuel eyes widen at Claire's voice. She sounded so emotionless and unafraid. The man chuckled and looked up the ceiling

"What makes you so sure I will answer your questions?"

"I'm not sure. I know you will"  Claire said glaring at the man. The mam looked at Claire and looked into her eyes and saw fear but it wasn't as before when she was little or when he first came here and talked to her. He sighed and looked up the Ceiling. Claire seeing that the man didn't say or do anything, decided to ask the man questions. But as she was about to speak, he saw that the man was crying. And both Samuel and Claire eyes widen at this. They were so shocked that they couldn't even speak. 

"I'm sorry" the man said crying he's heart out "I'm so sorry" the man said again while Claire and Samuel had one though in mind 'The hell?'

Hey guys, I know I said that this novel will end with four to five chapters but I think not. I wanted to end this novel very quickly and I thought that it wouldn't be interesting at end but I thought 'who give a FUCK about it'. So that's why is said I would end it in four to five chapters but now, due to a very good person who inspired me, the novel would be longer than the chapters I said. So please be Patient and read it to the end.
   And I wanna say shout out to me baby and the person who inspired me, @tusmikx. Your the best baby 👧 girl. More love ❤️.

LucyCherry 🍒 out ✌