181: Chapter 181 – Your father knew my father?

Chapter 181 – Your father knew my father?

"Because I was spying on him. I can't believe that I killed his wife for nothing."2

Kennedy felt terrible and was almost in tears, recalling the actions of his past but Zayla was so shocked at her father's confession, she felt like she was seeing a stranger. 

Her heart was heavy and tears flowed freely from her eyes,

"You killed Robin's mother?"

Kennedy sat on the couch, loosened his tie, removed, and threw it to the side. He looked as if all his energy was drained and he had nothing inside of him. 

Regret filled his chest at his last argument with Ronald before he was cut off from the Jewels.

Since he could not get close enough to lay hands on the diamonds, Zayla became his last option. 

It was easy because Zayla was already in love with Robin but could not get close to him. 

She had to befriend Sabrina since she was loved by Ronald. If not for that, she would never have been allowed into the old mansion to even see Robin. 

Kennedy began to confess everything to his daughter since she was the only one he could trust with this.

"Robin's mother was a very intelligent woman. She was the only one who caught through my actions every time I went close to the diamonds."

"Me and Roland used to be very good friends, he told me a lot of things about how he made it. It was the day he went to buy back the diamonds. I had seen him but he didn't know I was watching him."

"I thought he wouldn't tell me but when I asked him, he was honest and told me everything about it including how it saved his business."

"He also said it was a family treasure passed down but he couldn't allow himself to die poor when he had such a fortune for which reason, he sold some of it."

"Sadly, the memory haunted him for a long time so he decided to buy it back to pass down to his grandchildren. He spent more to buy it back for which reason he could not move the company to the level it is now."

"I tried every means to get it and the day I almost did, Robin's mother saw me. I hated her since then and also realized that for as long as she lived, I would not be able to lay hands on it so I paid someone to poison her coffee slowly. A few months later, she died without a trace of what I…"

"Dad, you are so evil."

Zayla's cold words cut through her father's confession, as a pool of tears fell from her eyes. How would she face Robin after this knowledge, especially when she wasn't pregnant and was not the one who saved his life?

She was already in a deep shit but with this confession, she felt she was a dead woman walking should Robin find out.

"I did it for you."

Kennedy was able to hold back his tears cos if things had succeeded and the diamonds were real, his life and that of his daughter would have indeed been changed by it but Zayla was upset and yelled,

"I didn't want you killing people for me. You've ruined my life. You've ruined my chances with Robin."

"But he doesn't know," her father pointed out. There was no proof.

"What if he finds out? Do you think he would let me live when my father killed his beloved mother?" Zayla raged tearfully. 

Sabrina thought that Zayla met Robin after meeting her but how wrong she was. Her father had already shown her pictures of Robin and she had seen him from a distance a few times. 

She just could not go near him because Robin's father hated hers.

When she became Sabrina's friend, the doors to the Jewels automatically opened to her.

"That is why he doesn't know and you don't have to tell him. Now here is the thing. We have nothing now. The villa was our only hope because of the diamonds and since they are fake, we have to go to Florida to join your mother."

Zayla was shaking her head, hating the idea. "I don't want to leave Robin. I love him."

Kennedy was helpless and also becoming upset, he equally yelled back at her,

"Then you will die because he will never love you. He did not even allow you to come and see me at the police station because all he cares about is his image and the fake baby in your womb. You think he cares about you?"

"How do we survive?" Zayla asked helplessly since they had nothing but Kennedy always had a plan.

"Now this is the last thing you have to do. You have to get some money from Robin. A million or more. Forge a lie or something or tell him to give it as compensation for saving his life."

"Then we can escape before he finds out the truth. There is nothing here for us."

For the first time, Zayla had to agree with her father and sacrifice whatever love she felt for Robin. She was treading on dangerous grounds and knew she had to escape.

"I will try. Let me first tell him that the diamonds are fake."

Kennedy smiled, happy that she agreed. Zayla dialed Robin's number but again, he was not answering his phone. 

"Dad, I will just go to his office." She picked up her handbag and was already at the door.

"Please try, okay? We should have listened to your mother. I wish my old friend had known that he had been duped. He would have found a way to recover the real diamonds but time has passed and it's too late."

"It's alright. I will see you later."

Zayla continuously dialed Robin's number throughout the drive to his office with no response from him and when she got there, Aria said to her,

"Mr. Jewel is not in the office. You can wait here."

Zayla obediently sat at the reception for almost thirty minutes before Robin arrived and she followed him to his office.

"Robin, I gave the diamonds to my father. He said they are fake."

Robin pretended to not know, just so he could get the information he needed.

"It's not possible. My father would not have left it for my savior." 

Indirectly, he was accusing her of lying or someone exchanging them. To prove that she was in the right, Zayla stupidly revealed.

"My father said that your father didn't know he was duped and if he was alive, he would have found a way to recover the real diamonds."

"Your father knew my father?" 

Robin pretended once again to not know, trapping her in his web after getting the information he needed.

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