As they headed to the cafe, Phoebe passed by the farmer's market. She told her grandmother that she was going to buy groceries since they were about to introduce a light food menu.

Looking at her small frame made the old woman a little worried. She pictured Phoebe lugging two heavy bags of groceries like bags of heavy rocks.

"Are you sure that you don't need any help? I have a good eye for such things." Grandma Mayfair unbuckled the sit belt but Phoebe quickly rejected her offer to help.

She pushed her back carefully and buckled the seat belt for her again. because she didn't need the company. Coming to the market was a cover up, she already had the vegetables in the magic space.

"It's okay grandmother, you can wait for me, i won't be long." She escaped before the old woman would follow her.

Phoebe wasn't gone for long, it was around ten minutes only and she returned with two bags of groceries, one in each hand. She opened the car trunk and placed the bags in there. During that time Connie and Sylvester swapped the ordinary vegetables for those that were in the magic space.

"That seems to be it." She added the last batch of the fresh lemon grass Sylvester was handing to her.

"Thank you guys." Phoebe shut the trunk and went back into the car.

Phoebe noticed that her grandma was unusually quiet during the rest of the drive to the cafe. She had this deeply disturbed look on her face and Phoebe was bothered by it so inquired carefully.

"Grandma, is something bothering you? A problem shared is a problem half solved. I think there is a saying like that." she scratched the back of her head and winced.

She was not sure if that was the actual saying. Right or wrong, all she wanted to do was help.

"It's Ruth apparently she fainted after I scolded her." Grandma Mayfair sighed softly.

Phoebe rolled her eyes and scoffed. Of course Ruth had fainted, how else was she going to get herself out of trouble if not pull out a move that would send everyone into a worried state?

"There is nothing new about Ruth fainting, she does it all the time when she is in trouble. That card is really getting old she needs to find a new one. Grandma please don't tell me that you are regretting what you said to her. It was the truth and she had to hear it, sister's behavior and her words were really eye opening to me.

She is too entitled and spoiled." Phoebe watched her through the rear view mirror.

She was testing the waters to see whether her grandmother was open to seeing through Ruth's faults. If she defended her blindly like Jennie did then she would adjust her words and attitude accordingly.

The old woman wore a blank expression first and then she sneered.

"I meant everything that I said and i do not regret it one single bit, however your mother thinks that I was a bit too harsh on your sister. She thinks i should have worded my words carefully since Ruth has just returned from the hospital and the doctor told us not to stress her.

Ruth has always been a selfish and entitled person, she has been that way since she was a child. If another child had something nice, she would cry for it and ruin it if she it was not given to her. Your parents and I tried to correct her ways but she wouldn't budge. In the end we just decided to give her everything she desired in order to keep her hands and eyes from wandering.

I always thought that i had to bear with it since she is my grandchild but i will not do it anymore, especially not when it comes to you. I will not allow you to be the thin camel while she lives as a fat horse.

As for the fainting, I know for sure that she is pretending but sadly, your parents are blind to that fact and she uses her health condition to manipulate them. I need to get my hands on her medical records and study them extensively. What kind of person faints every time she is berated slightly?"

Phoebe exhaled loudly on hearing her grandmother's submission. A gap had opened up, two in fact because she could count on Andre as well.

"She was even pretending to be too weak to stand but suddenly found the strength to do so earlier, I can confidently say that Ruth was lying about that as well."

A chuckle came from grandma Mayfair. "It's true what they say, an apple doesn't fall far from the tree. She gets her craftiness from her shameless biological parents. Speaking of parents, its odd that they haven't been found yet, it's like they don't want to be found.

They need to know that their daughter is actually Ruth, Jennie will be heart broken if they want to be in Ruth's life because they are such a bad influence but it can't be helped."

"Maybe they don't want to be found." Phoebe blurted out through pursed lips. She had hoped that they were staying at the house in Magic city but she was wrong.

"What do you mean dear? There is a reason that you are saying that i am sure, tell me whatever is it that you know child. In fact i want to know what those crooks did to you from the horse's mouth and not from your friend Eve, Evie...Evelyn is it."

This wasn't the right time to disclose what the Gabriels had done to her, she planned to do it slowly at the most dramatic moments to make it memorable. Just like the moment at the table when her grandmother exploded. Ruth could not be ruined in private alone, it needed to be public as well.

"Well grandma, don't you think that it's odd that they disappeared without a trace on the same day that Alfie went looking for them, it was almost as if someone had alerted them about it. Also it bothers me that they disappeared just when the cuckoo case blew up, it's too much of a coincidence.

I think they went into hiding because they already knew the truth." Phoebe's words caused her grandmother to gasp loudly.

She raised a hand to cover her mouth as Phoebe's words sank in. "So you suspect that Ruth perhaps told them to disappear? Wait and you also think that they knew that you were not their daughter?"

Phoebe nodded once, her grandmother had proved beyond reasonable doubt that she was an ally. If she was going to get rid of Ruth, she needed her grandmother on board too.

"I can authoritatively tell you grandma that Ruth was never sick. She was dying one day, pale and in need of a transplant. Out of the blue the doctor suddenly realized his mistake just in time for the pressure on the search for the Gabriels to be called off since they were not needed anymore.

I think she planned everything grandma and as for the Gabriels, the way that they pampered her made me suspicious that's why I did a DNA test.

They never once threw me a birthday party until she came around. They would buy her favorite cheese cake and celebrate her birthday using me as an excuse. Ruth used to cut the cake and blow the candles. I believe that they knew for sure she was their daughter but if you don't believe me then wait till you meet them."

Everything that she said made grandma Mayfair more and more suspicious.

"I do believe you but we need evidence for your parents to believe it." She pressed her lips tightly together, thinking about that terrible couple. The Gabriels were going to face her wrath when they meet.