Still Loving You Nonetheless novel Chapter 1

Chapter 1

In a luxurious villa.

Meredith Leighton tumbled down the stairs from the second floor and her head hit the railings before she finally landed at the bottom of the stairs.

“If anything happens to Yena, I will have your entire family buried next to hers!” A man taunted cruelly.

With her limbs sprawled across the stairs and blood tracing down her forehead, Meredith put her hands over the wound on her forehead as she pleaded, “Joe, you have to believe that I didn’t harm Yena in any way. I really didn’t…”

“Meredith, please stop denying it. There is video evidence of you cheating on Josiah with Yoel Harper in Yena’s phone,” Ysabelle Layne sobbed and went on, “Meredith, how could you kill someone just because you’re afraid of your dirty affairs being exposed? Yena is our best friend!”

“I didn’t,” explained Meredith. The blow to her head was likely a concussion and lead to her feeling disorientated.

However, she mustered up all the energy that she had left in her and crawled toward where Josiah Shelby was standing. Tugging at his trousers, Meredith tried to explain, “Joe, there’s nothing going on between me and Yoel…and I didn’t push Yena down the stairs…”

“You didn’t? Then what is this that I’m seeing?” Josiah hissed as he bent over, grabbing Meredith’s long hair from the back and forcing her to look at Yena’s phone.

In the video, Meredith was seen rolling in the sheets with the servant, Yoel, and as soon as she realized that she was being recorded, Meredith struggled away from Yoel haphazardly. At that moment, Yena turned around and ran. As soon as she reached the stairs, the video turned blur due to an abrupt and violent shake when Meredith and Yena were tugging at each other. Right then, Yena was seen being pushed down the stairs…

With her eyes wide open, Meredith denied, “It wasn’t me…it wasn’t me that pushed her…”

As the video was too blurred, the person involved in the struggle with Yena could not be seen properly aside from a woman’s arm.

However, Meredith remembered that she was drugged and did not even have the strength to get out of the bedroom hence it was impossible for her to be the one that pushed Yena down the stairs.

“Meredith Leighton, I’ve given you what you wanted for the past year and I’ve given you the freedom to do as you please. I didn’t expect you to do such a horrible act behind my back and even harm Yena!”