Chapter 198 Internal conflicts 3
A week later, Rose was discharged.NôvelDrama.Org: text © owner.
She went home and found that Lester was still on his business trip.
After inquiring a bit, Rose found that Lester was indeed away on a business trip. He had just left one day later after he had had his revenge.
Knowing that she had been tricked, Rose knew she could not trust anyone at home.
She had tried to talk to Lydia many times, but everything she was trying to say had fallen on deaf ears.
Lydia was being Lydia.
One day, Rose took Lydia out to a resort on the outskirts and introduced her to Romeo.
Lydia only frowned at Romeo. She did not want a no-named father.
She wanted to be the princess of the Aprice family.
Both Rose and Romeo felt helpless seeing their daughter like that.
After spending an entire afternoon, they finally managed to convince her that Lester was not her biological father and was going against her. He had even kidnapped her.
Lydia refused to believe them and unwittingly revealed that he had even given her more properties when she had visited his office a few weeks back.
That stunned Rose and Romeo. Lydia had not read the documents and had just assumed that she was getting properties.
Rose did not know where to bang her head.
It was a no-brainer that Lester had probably transferred all the property back to himself.
Tired of their nagging, Lydia promised to be careful.
That was the best they could do.
Besides, Rose could not leave Lester or do anything overtly since their son was yet to come back. Most of that bitch Anne’s property was still under Liliana’s name. Only by using their son could they get all of that.
Even the house they were staying in belonged to Liliana. After getting discharged, Rose worried that Liliana might come and ask them to evacuate anytime.
Finally, after two weeks, Romeo had managed to find a specific poison that was in powder form and could be inhaled orally. He also brought an antidote for Rose.
It was an extremely slow poison and would be effective if ingested daily for a few months. It would be deadly if ingested daily for half a year.
The best part about that was it was not easily traceable in normal blood tests.
When Lester came back, Rose made quite a show about being duped at the hospital and losing a kidney.
Lester also, very kindly, offered to call the cops and identify the culprits, but Rose remembered very few details, so she asked to forget it.
In the end, Lester asked the butler to cook nutritious food for Rose and even booked an appointment with a nutritionist to better nurture her body.
If Romeo had not seen him in the hospital, Rose would have never found out that Lester was the one who was behind everything.
Lester, unaware that Rose already knew of his schemes, continued to act as usual.
Their internal conflicts kept on growing with each party playing their part. Both of them had their agenda and goals.
They all waited for their son to come back and get the property back from Liliana, and ultimately pull the rug from beneath the other.
All their pawns were in place and they were waiting for the ultimate checkmate.
In the meantime, both of them were strengthening their safety net for the worst-case scenario.
Lester had bought a property and secured a large sum of money overseas.
Rose and Romeo had done the same. Taking advantage of Lester’s acts, exaggerating Lydia’s usual spending habits, she amassed money to buy a few properties for Lydia.
Even if everything goes against them, Lydia would have a house to live in and some rent coming in each month to manage her expenditures.
Liliana knew what they were doing, but on account of Romeo and Rose’s love for their daughter, she turned a blind eye to it.