Lizzie and Slate were still seated in the kitchen when the doorbell rang.

“I’ll answer it”, Slate said, since he had relieved Mrs. Hale of her duties for sometime.

“Slaate!”, a high and screechy voice welcomed him as he opened the door. It was Ella.

“I missed you so much Slate”, she continued then proceeded to kiss him. Slate dragged her off him and said, “Never put your slimy hands on me again”

“But Slate, I thought we were okay. I thought you were going to marry me”, she continued, still screeching.

“Look Ella, spare me, okay? Just go, hmm? Go!”, Slate said, obviously at the end of his tether.

Ella looked at him sadly then went out but not without saying, “I promise you, you’ll regret what you just did”

Lizzie came towards Slate and said, “Wow, I’m so proud of you, you obviously like my friend and not that t***”.

“I don’t like Ella, I love her, and I’d do anything for her”, he replied, distracted. Then he continued, “I’m going to call my mom up, I need to speak with Callie”

**Gisele’s place of captivity**

Gisele was sitting, embracing her knees to her chest. Her throat was parched and very dry; she had not had anything to eat or drink for the past twenty four hours. Her hands tied behind her back were also sore and getting numb.

Apparently, this set of kidnappers did not understand the lesson of the well-being of the victim under Kidnapping 101.

She was frightened when the rusted door open with a bang. Instinctively, she shifted into her cage and tried to make herself smaller.

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well, what or rather who do we have here”, Gisele heard someone saying in an ironical

she was blindfolded, she relied on her hearing only and the voice

mighty but look at you now, cowering with fear. Hahaha!”,

thought you had Slate’s affection but it was nothing but

think of who it was. Then she remembered

“Ella?”, she asked, incredulous.

me. None of you thought me so intelligent to plan something like this, right? Well you were wrong. I used Edith to spy on you guys and you didn’t even take notice of her. She told me you were going out, so I seized the perfect opportunity to call my

stay mum. She had to ask, “Why would you do this to

met. Slate was giving you

“And it paid off,

Gisele said,

no. I’m not, he did. And he declared his love for me. Listen”, Ella replied then removed something from her

tapped on the

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don’t like Ella”, a voice that was unmistakably Slate’s said. Gisele felt a

“I love her”.

**Slate’s house**

is not signaling on your tracking device?”, Lizzie asked,

his influence to get them one of the best detectives and also, refused to be excluded from all their

to track Gisele through her iPhone but the device couldn’t detect it, showing that maybe it

Slate looked defeated. All of a sudden, they heard a

Slate asked

“They were not as smart as we thought. This is the location

smiled for the first time since Gisele

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