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could fight against that. There was no proof that Trent and Olivia‘s phones had been modified in any way.
Trent Goodman and Olivia Smith were charged and arrested. In a matter of months, Trent had to sell his company and of course, Robinson bought it despite the fact that he was the last person Trent would ever consider selling it to, but Trent was desperate, so he couldn‘t turn out the offer. Robinson then became the biggest and most renowned film and record producer in the United States. Trent abhorred Emadorians and he was deeply hurt that now an Emadorian owned his company, the company he‘d worked so hard on for so many years. He was locked up, poorer than a rat, and crying like a child.
Meanwhile, Olivia‘s six, ten, and twelve-year-old kids were visiting her in jail. Olivia‘s husband and the kids‘ father had taken them. They were wondering why their mother would do something that they found so stupid and so not worth going to jail for.
They knew nothing about Emadorians and the psychological and physical damage they could do to a human being when they wanted to. Still, now Olivia and Trent knew that they should not have done what they did. They thought that the police would not take their crime seriously. They didn‘t even think it was a crime.
Octavia, Olivia‘s older daughter asked, “Why did you do this, Mom?”
“I did it because my victim brought my self-esteem to an all-time low and I wanted to make him pay.”
“I understand that when you have a high self-esteem, only your loved ones can bring you down. You take it according to who it comes from.”
“You don‘t understand, Octavia. There‘s a new species of…people called Emadorians and they treat us humans like puppets.”
“I‘m going to do my research on them, Mom, but please, don‘t do stupid things because of them. A child always needs his or her mother, and right now, we can‘t count on you because you‘re in jail! Who‘s going to take care of us now?”
Olivia shed two thick tears.
“Come on, Olivia. Don‘t make your mother feel like that. I will take care of you,” said Alex, Olivia‘s husband.
“Yes, I know, but who‘s going to be our mother now?” Octavia insisted.
They left the prison and as they went to the car, Alex said, “Come on, Octavia, don‘t be like this.”
“Don‘t be mad at Octavia, Dad,” said Seth, Octavia‘s younger brother. “I‘m sure that she doesn‘t mean to make Mom feel guilty. She just wants to make Mom realize that what she did was wrong, that she would‘ve gotten back at that Emadorian without having to commit a crime.”
“You are all right. It‘s just that you shouldn‘t question your mother‘s actions,” Alex said. “We‘re your parents, and if one of us has failed, our conscience will tell us so. We don‘t need you to judge us. Remember you should honor your father and your mother.”
“I apologize, Dad,” Seth said, but then thought, but I still agree with Octavia one hundred percent.
The next day, nothing was the same for this family without Olivia. Now, Alex was the one who had to send the kids off to school, do the chores, and go grocery shopping, as Olivia would do every day before going to work for Trent at one o‘clock every afternoon from Monday to Friday. Alex was on his way to the store to get some groceries, and all of a sudden, he had to pass by this violent neighborhood because the road that he would usually take was closed.