I came at the bars and gestured at the police man close by, “Please police, can you give me listening ears. You must give me listening ears, please,” I said.The police man who had been busy gave cold shoulders and sighed.I clamored for his attention and gave a sober look across my face and the burly police man finally tilted backward and gazed upon my sorry face, “What is it, Melissa?” he asked and looked forward to continuing with his job.My eyes lined up with tears as I clenched my jaw. “I need to be released on bail. What offense did I commit to be placed on arrest? I must leave at this minute because of my husband, considering his mental condition…”I had barely said when the police man interjected “…Is it the same husband you failed to take care of. Do I still need to remind you the reason you are here?” His eyes rolled with every inch of anger in him and my heart melted at my recess to doubt if I was going to leave this cell.Unwanted tears tricked down by chins as I dared to
It was late hour and the full moon lit upon my husband after the shine. They were out to kill Brian otherwise I wondered what would inspire them to leave him out in the cold and heat even until dusk.He had been screaming at the top of his voice. I believed he was speaking the language of the heart, letting them know he never intended to murder an innocent maiden; and if only Fanny Luis would understand the secret plot against us at the villa.Even in the custody of the police, right behind bars, I could smell hurts and pain. I could feel the itches of discomfort all over me. I could sniff the bloodsucking emotional trauma my husband was going through. The world was hovering in my eyes right now and I couldn’t comprehend properly. I perceived all wasn’t well with Brian wherever he was right now. I had started gnashing my teeth in pain and misery, begging the police; to at least plead to the Fanny’s to release me on bail. Staying behind bars wouldn’t bring back the dead maiden.I neede
The moment a party of security bundled my husband into his chambers, Fanny summoned the girls and their husbands for some briefing…“I will kill you! I win! I win! Yeah! I will kill you!” my husband yelled at the tops of his voice and kicked on the door with utmost disdain.Fanny’s brow narrowed at our chambers. “You stupid boy! Keep shut! We are having a meeting! Keep shut! Else you will return to the sun!” Fanny yelled at Brian, drifting closer to our chamber as though he was going to summon the guts to barge into our chamber this time around“I win! I will kill you! I win! I win! Yeah! I will kill you!” my husband kept yelling and shook the door this time as though he was replying his father in an exaggerated brash manner.Fanny dimmed his eyes in anger and stared darkly at the band of macho security standing by. His hands fidgeted and he couldn’t stop snorting at the thought of what he might end up doing to Brian for the death of that poor maiden. Through clenched teeth, he cursed
Once upon a time on a crisp November morning, late summer in Rio Hondo, at the Fanny’s mansion, bottles of beer, rum and cigars were seen littered all over the table. And carelessly scattered on the floor were G-string, pants, sleeves and a polka-dotted dress. In the other corner the bed was creaking hugely under the weight of two figures. A sonorous moan blared and hung over them. Like a trumpet, the female voice amplified the most out of the window, while the male voice groaned and grunted at a terribly disturbing way.Opula was bouncing and having her fragile, slender waist astride the legs of Ken, whose mouth was gaping, and hands infinitely stroking and fondling her fragile small breasts.“Y – you are not doing badly today,” Ken stuttered under her weight and squeezed her tapering waist.She shut her eyes and breathed hard. “Yesterday’s sex was horrendous,” she sounded through a moan and clenched her teeth to pound harder. “I am going to give it to you hot!” she managed to say in
Indigenes of Rio Hondo often referred to me as the poorest, ragged girl, but I could barely fight anyone over it or prove them wrong in any pragmatic way because, literally, I was poor.My poor father died when I was six. Mother said he died mysteriously, but whenever she mentioned that I often understood her empathy, after she must have elaborated, he died out of the depression of poverty. With nothing to fall back on, we relocated to our grandpa’s house to perch with him. Not that he was richer, but he was poorer. Daily we clung to the jaw of hunger and wants, since the meager vegetable garden he groomed could barely sprout enough produce, let alone make it to the market.Grandpa died and opened the door of intense lack for us as we looked forward to joining him soon. Inheriting a poorly grooved vegetable garden and a fragile, roofless, thatched, cane house, we waited for the hands of death to pay us homage soon.It didn’t stop us from going to the market anyway. While others sold th
I was heartbroken all day. Ruin and disappointment pervaded my countenance, and while on my way home I wailed bitterly. I thought about what would become of us, especially my mother who was slowly dying of a mysterious ailment. I could barely say what mother was suffering from because we could barely feed her well, let alone afford to take her to the hospital.The previous day we struggled to earn a square meal and I can recall promising mother that today would be better. I wondered if mother perceived the falsity of my promise because of our poverty. She had never believed life could get better for us. She only had consolation in her reverie.After promising to buy good food for her with the proceeds from our vegetables, she only responded in tears and kept staring at the ceiling while she lay in her sick bed.And today being the day I promised her at least two square meals, that billionaire’s mad son ate all my raw vegetables and left us to die of hunger.“What nonsense a billionaire
When I advanced to the villa, I noticed my feet couldn’t carry me further. The splendor that hung across the mansion overwhelmed me so much that I deemed myself not worthy of being anywhere around it; not even its flowers and ornamental trees, which looked healthier than me.I quickly distinguished myself from smearing the expensive environment by my poverty countenance.Suddenly, I came to a halt once I caught sight of a uniformed band of security men, all well-suited with strong facial features, who asked me a thousand questions with their hostile faces and hefty chests.My entire body vibrated as I folded my arms in anticipation of what they intended to do. Now they surged close to me.One of them stared at me from head to toe, and must have perceived the wretchedness that encompassed around me; I perceived they were bored with seeing the scraggly faces of the poor hounding the villa all in the name of seeking the billionaire’s help.Noticing one of the security prancing towards my
Fanny shook his head in the affirmative and became all smiles. His eyes sparkled.“You are welcome to my humble family, my adorable sister-in-law,” Kate intoned, with a lop-sided grin.Kate was the second-eldest daughter of Fanny’s. She was chubby, short and with pink cheeks that often smiled. Her hair was auburn. She kept smiling and shaking her head just like every other person except Eva. Her nostrils flared, “Who is she? And who is her family in Rio Hondo?” Eva asked, gritted her teeth, shot her go-to-hell stare at me and walked around me as though I was some laboratory specimen.Among the girls, it was Eva who cherished Brian most. She wanted the best for Brian and wished her family could give Brian a better wife than she saw. Although she rarely showed it, the love Eva had for Brian was rare, and she could sacrifice her life for him if there was need for it.“No, no, Eva”, Opula, the eldest, protested with her hand, gesturing at Eva. She protested yet further, “You don’t have t
The moment a party of security bundled my husband into his chambers, Fanny summoned the girls and their husbands for some briefing…“I will kill you! I win! I win! Yeah! I will kill you!” my husband yelled at the tops of his voice and kicked on the door with utmost disdain.Fanny’s brow narrowed at our chambers. “You stupid boy! Keep shut! We are having a meeting! Keep shut! Else you will return to the sun!” Fanny yelled at Brian, drifting closer to our chamber as though he was going to summon the guts to barge into our chamber this time around“I win! I will kill you! I win! I win! Yeah! I will kill you!” my husband kept yelling and shook the door this time as though he was replying his father in an exaggerated brash manner.Fanny dimmed his eyes in anger and stared darkly at the band of macho security standing by. His hands fidgeted and he couldn’t stop snorting at the thought of what he might end up doing to Brian for the death of that poor maiden. Through clenched teeth, he cursed
It was late hour and the full moon lit upon my husband after the shine. They were out to kill Brian otherwise I wondered what would inspire them to leave him out in the cold and heat even until dusk.He had been screaming at the top of his voice. I believed he was speaking the language of the heart, letting them know he never intended to murder an innocent maiden; and if only Fanny Luis would understand the secret plot against us at the villa.Even in the custody of the police, right behind bars, I could smell hurts and pain. I could feel the itches of discomfort all over me. I could sniff the bloodsucking emotional trauma my husband was going through. The world was hovering in my eyes right now and I couldn’t comprehend properly. I perceived all wasn’t well with Brian wherever he was right now. I had started gnashing my teeth in pain and misery, begging the police; to at least plead to the Fanny’s to release me on bail. Staying behind bars wouldn’t bring back the dead maiden.I neede
I came at the bars and gestured at the police man close by, “Please police, can you give me listening ears. You must give me listening ears, please,” I said.The police man who had been busy gave cold shoulders and sighed.I clamored for his attention and gave a sober look across my face and the burly police man finally tilted backward and gazed upon my sorry face, “What is it, Melissa?” he asked and looked forward to continuing with his job.My eyes lined up with tears as I clenched my jaw. “I need to be released on bail. What offense did I commit to be placed on arrest? I must leave at this minute because of my husband, considering his mental condition…”I had barely said when the police man interjected “…Is it the same husband you failed to take care of. Do I still need to remind you the reason you are here?” His eyes rolled with every inch of anger in him and my heart melted at my recess to doubt if I was going to leave this cell.Unwanted tears tricked down by chins as I dared to
“What other task do you talk of, my wife?” Frank asked, paced up and down the bedroom, still nursing his libido.“I told you how my father rebuked me when I demanded two million dollars for your upkeep. He boasted about Brian and Melissa and how they would champion over the wealth of the Fanny’s by the time he regains his sanity…” she paused and got hold of some documents on the table, “Now bring your ass here and read this.” She pointed into the documents, “This is the contract marriage agreement papers between them and this clause says that either Brian or Melissa would automatically assume as heir to the Fanny Group should Melissa bear him at least a child in the window period of the contract marriage.” She grinned and frowned at Frank, “Did you get that?”Frank interjected arrogantly, “I know all of that wife, you don’t need to remind me what I know already. But that doesn’t satisfy my hot libido, I am sex-starved. For six months now you have denied me this body. You demanded I ca
“If I would ever survive this marriage, please some should let me know,” I said in my head while I face a panel of police officers sent by the billionaire, Fanny Luis to query me over carelessness of taking care of his son.This was a case of murder but perpetrated by a mentally deranged man; I saw no case there, perhaps no case with Brian but me.Their hostile faces scanned my teary face and I was dumbfounded to utter a reply to their question. My thought still beamed on the scene at the mansion before the party of policemen bundled me to the station for questioning.Before I left for the station, my husband was bound hands and feet, left in the scorching sun of summer and whipped like a stubborn cattle. The last sight of him was blood gushing through his nostrils and blisters all over his naked body. I could recall how I screamed at the tops of my voice, yelling madly at the security from the car of the police, who were driving me to the station at the time.That was happening to Br
Like a lioness, I flinched for action, taking caution and care as I advanced towards our chambers. The servant was clamoring and gasping for life. Now I have become nervous. Salsa scuttled right behind me, hooting her breath in fear and burning the back of my neck with her warm breath and combing around for my husband.The scream of the servant had startled everyone and soon, darting eyes peeped through their windows to wonder what the problem was. But no one wanted to risk coming out of their chambers to verify with me because certainly in the mansion, presently it was only my husband that courted trouble and ruin; the attack on Opula, the stigmatization on Brian seemed to have doubled so much that our chambers were declared out of ban.The stigmatization was becoming alarming and annoying that everyone stared at me as though I was a beast. If my husband were to strangle me to death, no one would run to my rescue. I was that ill-fated…Brian had stopped ranting and kicking against th
Outside, she writhed in pain, wriggled her body and shouted at the tops of her loins as the security bound her and flogged her naked body before casting her into the street…“It could have been me. Yes. It could have been me,” I spoke within myself, shedding tears for Ella as I peeped through the window, observing as she dared to cover her breasts on the streets as onlookers paused to take a glimpse of her nude and mock her. Indeed, she was lost about where to turn…This was jungle justice, and I was pained that such an adverse judgment was given to her.“She deserves worse than that,” a voice sounded somewhere behind me and I flinched to see it was Salsa. Her lips pouted in unforgiveness and vengeance. I saw it all spelled on her face.“Do you have a hand in that?” I asked and returned my gaze on Ella who was being touched and poked in the ass by those lustful, dirty men on the street.“Are you still asking if I have a hand in that? Of course, I do,” Salsa revealed, mumbling quietly
All the servants stood coldly, staring with uncertainty in their eyes and fear on their shoulders. No one knew who was going to fall victim. The diamond pearl was worth forty-five million dollars, according to Opula who had been ranting over the worth of the piece.Fanny Luis, the billionaire, stood aside with his thunderous face held out as he waited for results; this was indeed a serious issue and anyone that fell victim was going to be dealt with dastardly.Just like Opula, Fanny paced up and down, his flute of wine handy, waiting for the security to proffer results. More than every other thing, I was more particularly interested in my husband’s safety than the missing diamond. He was still ranting at the tops of his lungs at the time and I wished he could avoid the security and vice versa. I didn’t want anyone to hurt him in any way.I only suspected Brian could launch an attack on any of the security who could possibly kick the hell out of his ass. I wished they could allow me to
Under the command of her hoarse, shrill voice, all the servants came out in a single file and gave a long face as Opula barked and paraded with the security. At the time, she had gone crimson and berserk, so the servants dared not to consent to her troubles.Her chant had woken up everyone, including the billionaire himself, Fanny Luis, who was busy gulping down flutes of beer at the bar and writhing in pain over the disappearance of the diamond pearl; it hurt Fanny so much because he could remember gifting his daughters a pearl of diamond after his granny advised him to start doing such because women were priceless even more than pearls of diamond.At the time, I was busy in my chamber singing Brian’s song and cuddling him to slumber after Opula’s chant startled him from sleep. It wasn’t too long when I heard a bang on my door.I flinched like a kitten from fire. It was actually for me or did I hear wrongly? The bang came yet again, and it was as if the intruder would daze me a slap