Clammy rays of light shine through the glassy window of Mr Gordon’s room. He walk gently to the window and part the curtain sideways. There, he stands in front of the mammoth window of his room, gazing at the compound from up there.A light sigh escape his red plump heart shape mouth and he moves his hands to his waist. Caressing the side of his waist with his thumb through the plain black shirt he's putting on.Then, Melanie walks into the room, closing the door behind her.She trace her steps to his back and stop right behind him, exhaling through her mouth before speaking up.“You ask me to meet you here, sir… Alfred.” She says to him as soon as she finds the right way to announce her presence.“Mel…” He turns, facing her with his mouth watering face, his eyes flicker under the damp ray. There is a dribble of sweat on his forehead.“Do you think I'm pushing things too far?” He asks. There's a worried frown on his face. Worrying that he might endanger her life, by sending her to ha
Melanie glance at her room door, peeking out from her hidden place to know when Archie will be out of her room.She hides quietly behind the rail, with her eyes wide open. Watching out for the little boy to exit her room.Just then, there comes the sound of the opening door. She heaves a sigh of relief when she sees Archie working out of the room, grinning widely. She scoffs dumbly at him, and without making a sound she steps out of her hiding.“Oh, Lord! Thank you.” She puffs out air, does a cross sign then proceeds to walk back to her room.“I’m tired of them.”She stares into space, “Everyone of the Gordos.” She groans, dragging her feet towards her bed.She takes her to sit at the edge of her bed and picks up her phone when her eyes imprecisely land on the poor phone, beside the nightstand lamp.She decides to check her social media handle since she doesn't have anything to do at the moment. Logging into her insta account, notification starts flooding her phone which makes her wan
Walking inside the store, Melanie glances around, eyes searching for Hannah.When she's tired of searching, she decides to check if she's attending to someone in the dressing room.She strides toward the section that leads to the section and she beholds a guy there, standing with a lady in uniform, his hands intertwined behind his back.“Ehm, excuse me, please is Hannah here?” Melanie asks, if she's going to pick anything here, then she needs the help of Hannah. The last time that she came, she seemed to know what suited her body perfectly.“She no longer works here.” She hears the voice of a young lady, not taking a glimpse of her.“Okay.” She says shortly, turning around to leave the section when she hears the familiar voice stopping her from walking away.“Why are you looking for her?” The voice asks, his voice is so calm and soft.Melanie turns around to have a glimpse of the person that is talking to her.“Andy Reid?” She gasps, seeing the face of the man she was chatting with ea
Melanie looks from one lady to another. Her face beams with a beautiful smile.“Please come in!” She opens the door wider for them to enter.She closes the gate behind them, “Please follow me.” She says gently, leading the way to the living room, as the ladies trail quietly behind her. Only the sounds of their shoes hitting the ground could be heard.Melanie stands in the middle of the circled settee. She stretches out her hand forward, “Have your seat, please.” she invited them to sit when she sees that no one is making a move to sit down.They nod, as they sink onto the couches.Melanie kneads her palms together, feeling nervous around them “So, what are those?” She slightly raises her brows and the ladies smile sweetly at her.“These are the dresses Mr Gordon mandated us to deliver to you, ma'am.” The same lady that spoke at the door early, utter. Melanie nods shyly and stands up to take the boxes.“I will have to take these inside. You…”“Elena!” The lady smiles at her name.“So,
The car pulls to a halt inside a large garage that is filled with cars of different brands. The driver sways off his seatbelt, pulls out the key from the ignition and steps down from the car.He walks over to the passenger side and opens the car door for Melanie while holding onto the handle.He stretches out his palm to her and helps her down without her tripping on her heel.“Thank you!” Melanie smiled, and she halted as soon as she stepped down from the car. She tucks a strand of hair behind her ear as she waits keenly for the driver to lock the car so he can take the lead.Not like she knows where they're heading anyways.“This way please.” The driver says, walking towards the front door of the drop-dead gorgeous house that's likely to fit thousands of people.Walking behind the driver, Melanie roams her gaze around the house and she loves what she's seeing.There is a pool at the right angle of the building, the blue water calls out to her and she wonders if they all love water l
Melanie drags her feet outside the house. She absent-mindedly bows to the maids that escort her outside and they stare at her in shock.Looking around for the driver that brought her early, she couldn't see him anywhere and she let out an audible sigh.Melanie clutches tight at her purse as she makes her way to the parking lot. There, she meets him.She meets her boss leaning on the car with his eyes closed. He looked stressed and Melanie felt water drop from her eyes.The look on his tired face shows that he needs someone to rely on.Melanie moves closer to him, she stretches out her hand and touches his hair. The movement of her hand on his hair wakes him up. He stares at her, wondering why she's crying.He releases his back from the car and stands straight in front of her.“Are you okay?” He asks in concern.Melanie shakes her head negatively. “I’m not fine,” She pants, throwing herself at him. “I’m not okay,” she mumbles, sniffing his sweet smell.Mr Gordon seems startled by her a
Archie gets home, feeling hungry as he walks inside the house. The stillness of the house is what welcomes him and he sighs in realisation.His babysitter has gone to the supposed dinner date with his Uncle and his father is not yet back home.“What’s he still doing at the office, by this time?” Archie sneered. He peeks up the stairs to see if he'll catch the reflection of his father, but he's sure his father is not back home.“Goodness, God! I'm so tired and hungry.” He groans, tossing his backpack on the couch and rushing to the kitchen to prepare something for himself before his father gets back. He enters the kitchen and goes straight to the freezer to check what he can cook.“Eh, what're all these anyways?” He laughed at himself when he couldn't tell what the stuff in the freezer was used for.“The heck! I'll just prepare a cup of milk and have it with pizza.” He chuckles as he closes back the freezer.“Aunt is trying. Oh, my God!” He shakes his head and walks away from the free
Mr Gordon drives inside the garage. He pulls out the key from the ignition and steps down from the car.“Don’t get down yet, wait for me to open the door for you.” He warns.“Welcome back home, Dear friend.” Mr Gordon grins as he walks over to the passenger side of the car and opens the door for Melanie.“It’s nice to be back to the mansion of trouble. How nice to be back here again.” She smiles, tapping Mr Gordon's grip on her hand.“What trouble are you talking about? Did we trouble you in any way?” He asks, not believing he has been troubling her all along.“Ahh, Ahh! At all, you didn't trouble me. I'm just saying, you know.” Melanie laughs weirdly and they both walk inside the living room, hand in hand.They halt in their tracks seeing Archie in the living room with his gaze fixed on their intertwined hands. They both pull out their hands which makes Archie roll his eyes at them.“You know I don't have any problems with that,” He scoffs letting his earphones slide down to his neck
TWO WEEKS LATERMelanie got discharged from the hospital a week earlier, she has been told by Alfred everything that happened that night and what happened after.She cried bitterly after hearing that her only friend, Kayla lost her life in the fight.Today, she choose to spend her day with her friend and let her know how much she misses her.The car pulls to a halt at the front gate of the police cemetery. Melanie opens the door before Alfred could get the door for her. She adjusts her sunglasses and steps down from the car.She walks over to the back seat and fetches a box. Alfred walks over to her and takes the box from her, guarding her to where Kayla’s body was lying to rest.Getting there, Melanie bursts into tears as she sees the burial stone of her dear friend. She goes on her knees, wailing profusely as she caresses the name on the burial stone with her thumb.“My dear Kayla, is this you?” she grips her chest as more tears roll down her cheeks.“Idiot?!” she sniffs, wiping her
A MONTH LATERMelanie’s eyes flutter open, slowly adjusting to the bright light of the hospital room. Her sights are groggy and disoriented, trying to make sense of where she is and what had happened. Her body feels heavy and weak, her limbs moving slowly and with difficulty. As her senses return, she becomes aware of the beeping machines around her, the scent of antiseptic in the air, and the bustling activity of the medical machines around her.She turns her head sideways to see Alfred, sitting on a chair beside her bed with his back to the wall. He seemed to be asleep.Melanie smiles, seeing how cute he looks even when he's asleep.“Alfred?” she calls out to him, her voice so low that she could not hear her own voice.Since she finds it hard to talk, she presses a button beside her bed which makes a loud noise.Alfred jerks up and rushed up to her, he seems shocked to see her staring at him with a smile on her face.“Melanie? You're awake?” Alfred gasps, he goes on his knees and w
“March?!” Kayla laughs wildly, she grabs hold of the pillar and pulls herself up. She staggered and chuckles lightly. She rests her palm on the wall to steady herself.March stands there, watching Kayla like she's in a movie. She doesn't understand why Kayla's laughing so hard, even though she just got shot in her thigh.“You…?” Kayla burst into a pearl of laughter, tears roll down the break of her eyes and she hastily wipes them off. “What is the meaning of this, detective?” she looks everywhere for her gun, but it is too dark that she couldn't see where she had dropped it.March scoff, she find it insulting to be called that title after all she's been doing.“Detective? Yes!” March grin, “Currently? Nope!” she beams as if what she's saying makes any sense to her, she tilts her head and puffs out air.“I got fired!” she whines, rubbing the bottom of the gun on her head. “After all the excellent work that I did, it only took one scheme from my colleagues to get me fired!” she scoffed
Eerie silent take over the room as they stare at Kayla in shock. “What the fuck are you doing here?” Harley gasp, her hold on Granny Vera tighten, piercing her nails into her rough skin.The old woman’s whimpers which make Kayla bite her lips in anger.“Huh, what do you mean by that? you held my friend and her family hostage, it's natural that I should be here to take them, don't you agree with me?” Kayla replies with a shrug, her aim on the trigger tightening as she gives Mia a dark stare from the corner of her eyes.Mia runs her hands through her hair. “Shit, you caused this. Why the hell did you let your little cousin get involved?” She stumps her foot on the floor, sending Harley a death glare. She grabs Melanie from the floor, her palms curling around Melanie's neck and presses her neck until her fingers leave an imprint on her skin. She spits on Melanie’s face and pushes her to the wall.Melanie whimper as soon as her head collided with the wall. She groans in pain and quickly c
“Miss Officer, I think Mom is in danger.” Archie cries out, he hugs Kayla tightly, ruining her shirt with his tears.Kayla put her hand on his back, rubbing her hand on his back, trying to calm him down. “Hey, I don't know how you get to know about this but that's why we’re here, we are here for her and we will do everything to get her out of there.” Kayla exhales heavily, she releases Archie from the brief hug and stares deep into his eyes.“What’s going on, do you know what happened to her?” Archie whispered, his brown eyes staring deep into Kayla’s forest green eyes, searching for an answer from her eyes.“Um, I kind of know what happened and I think I could sort everything out if you quietly stay here and wait here for us.” Kayla clears her throat, she takes a few steps backwards but Archie grabs her hand and she arches her brows. “What? Don't you want to stay here?” she asks, wondering why he's holding her hand when he ought to hop into the car.“I can't stay here, I want to go
Alfred cries bitterly while listening to the confession Mia and Harley were making, through the bug. Kayla smirked and tighten her grip on the steering wheel. None of them could believe that their closest person was the one behind everything.“Who would think my cousin could do such a thing!” Kayla laughs in amusement. Right now all she's feeling is rage.“Kayla, I trusted her with everything. I've loved and adored her all these years and I never for once had the thought that she might be behind her death. She always talked about Selena with a smile on her face.” Alfred sobs quietly, clutching tight at his phone in his hand.“Mia too?! I never thought someone that I took as my sister would plant my death because of a mere fortune, why?” he ask no one in particular. “If she should have sat me down and narrated everything to me, I would have told my uncle to forget about giving me anything, I've had enough, I don't need any of my father's properties, I should have told them to take eve
Melanie's p.o.v“Hello, my dear, Melanie!” a cheerful, yet deadly voice says my name by the door, followed by a pair of legs walking in.I glance at the door and the sight before me left my mouth hanging open in shock.I feel a sickening chill run through my body and blood draining from my system as I drop to my knees from the shock of what I'm seeing. “You!” I scream in terror as I watch Harley enter the room with my baby, Skye in her grips.“What are you doing here with my child, Harley?” I yell, I try breaking free and run up to save my child from these demons, but again, I couldn't break free from the rope that tied me down to the iron chair.“Relax baby girl, nothing is going to happen to your family, only if you do what we want,” Harley smirks down at me and I feel the urge to punch her in the face.Terror is visible on my baby's face, she's afraid of the scene before her and fears they might do something to her if I let her remain in their possession. The tears on her face call
Melanie woke up to the sound of a heavy booth thumping on the floor, she groans and opens her eyes only to meet with blurry faces in the room. She tries moving her hands but she feels her hands have been tied to her back.“Ahh,” she groans. Shaking her head to steady her vision but it seems impossible.“Guess someone is finally awake after being asleep for over an hour.” A voice chuckles beside her which makes her almost jump from her seat.Melanie twirl her face to where the voice is coming from, she could swear she has heard that voice before but she doesn't remember where.“Who… Who are you?” She grumbles and then a bucket of chill water was poured on her head from the back, the water dripping down from her head to her toes.Melanie shiver as her vision become clear and her eyes met with the clear face of the lady in front of her. “Mia Gordon!” she gasps in shock, moving back a little on her seat which makes the iron chair make an awful noise.“Yes,” Mia chuckle standing up from th
It has been a while since Melanie left the house to get groceries at the nearby store. Archie who has been waiting outside for her return gets tired of waiting and decides to go look for her at the store.He walks into the living room to see Granny Vera pacing to and fro in the living room. Archie moves his gaze to the couch to see Skye sleeping soundly on the couch. He carefully walks up to Granny Vera in an attempt to not wake the girl up from sleep.“Granny Vera, didn't you say the store is just a stone's throw from here?” he ask the poor woman who has been worried sick about her daughter, who has went to get groceries exactly an hour ago.“Yes, the store is just a few blocks away from here and she ought to have gotten back by now.” She replies, her voice breaks due to how cold she feels.“Oh,” Archie sighs for the nth time. “Have you tried calling her? I call her here and she's not picking up,” he complains, showing his phone to the woman.“I tried calling, but her line was not r