TINA'S POV Karen stepped out of the elevator hastily. “Are you coming from Jay's office?” “Urhm yeah sort of,” I said and hoped she didn't ask further. “Oh, about work? Is your boss stressing you out a lot these days?” she asked, glancing past my head towards Jay's office. “Not really. Well, where are you going? Don't tell me you are going to see Jay. We agreed you'd stay away from him to make him miss you.”“Not that…the news.”“The news, yeah. That man was the man that kidnapped you back then.“Yes. You remember him alright. He turned himself in.”“Oh c'mon. How could I have forgotten the man that tried to hurt my best friend. But Jay just left now.”“Jay? You call him Jay now?” Oh shoot. “I mean chairman Jay but what does it matter? He was your man and it's not bad to call him Jay when it's just us right.”“Anyways, where did he head off to. I need to speak with him.”“I don't know. He just stormed off.” Like I wasn't even talking to him about something important. “I need to
KAREN'S POV“What! Kill her? How can you say that?”I looked at my best friend, shocked. Understandable, anyone in my shoes would have hated Jessica, but killing her?“Calm down, calm down. Listen, Karen, I'm not saying you should kill her.”“That is what you just said now.”“Just the foetus. It isn't even a foetus yet. Just the embryo. Don't you want to keep your man?”“I do but…”“If you don't want to, then leave it. I don't want to be the bad misleading one here forcing her friend to get her hands dirty and kill some poppy seed. Well, I will be going back to work now. Just to add something, I have a feeling he isn't even interested in her pregnancy and she is using it to pin him down and get him away from you. Right now Jay needs you. He is feeling helpless but imagine how he'd feel if he learns Jessica isn't pregnant for him anymore. But whatever. You shouldn't soil your hands.”As I watched Tina leave, it made me realise the hidden answer to the question I have been pondering on.
KAREN'S POV “Where are we going?” I asked as I reluctantly put on the seatbelt. “To somewhere quiet.”“Isn't your office quiet?” I was going to ask but stopped. His office might be quiet but Mrs Connie won't be. As he drove off a lot of things occupied my mind. Yet all my head remembered was the time we almost made out in this car. And shamelessly my genitalia aroused.You are so shameless Karen. In one day, in a space of hours, I had agreed to kill a child and now I was getting horny for my ex boyfriend whom I just learnt had gotten another woman pregnant. “It's my secret house. Only my grandfather and Hugo know about it,” Jay's voice brought me back. I leaned up in my seat and saw we were in the compound of a bungalow. Should I be thanking you for bringing me here after getting a woman pregnant? He led me inside and we walked into the room I presumed to be the sitting room but with no fancy cushions. The inside of the house didn't look as uninhabited and dusty as I though
KAREN'S POVTwo queens cannot rule a kingdom ...didn’t mean one queen has to kill the other to rule the kingdom. For reasons I believed was to torture me, these words had refused to leave my head ever since then and as the day grew closer and closer, the more I questioned a lot of things. I questioned what was I becoming. Sleeping hadn't been coming easily for me since I began harboring the idea of getting rid of Jessica's unborn child. Tina had gotten the meds ready and all that was left was for me to fix a meeting. Now I had Jessica across from me and all that was left was watching her gnarl her teeth in pain until her foetus was gone. Now that I was finally going to do it, I was developing good feet. Before I arrived at this restaurant, I had sent a text to Tina to pause until I convinced myself why it was necessary I do it.“Surprised you wanted to have dinner with me,” Jessica remarked, smirking. “You even chose an expensive place, “ she added, glancing around.I could liter
KAREN'S POV I opened my eyes to a white acoustic unfamiliar ceiling tile. Took me seconds to process that I was lying on a hospital bed. For a split moment, I tried to rewind back but only earned myself a numbing pain from the needle stuck in my arm.A drip was connected to my body and seemed to have completely drained but no nurses were around to relieve me of the pin. My mouth parted to call for assistance but croaky sounds came out instead. I tried getting up and I wound up in pain. “ouch!”The seething pain traveled through me as I tried to raise my body. I had to pause for a few seconds before I tried again. Clenching my teeth, I finally managed to get myself to sit up on the bed. Blue curtains surrounded me. The first time Dad was admitted into the hospital, he was admitted into a place like this. Guessing from the curtains demarcation, I expected other patients to be next to me. The sound of what I imagined to be a stainless food flask confirmed my suspicions as it struc
TINA’S POV When Karen texted me to abort the mission, I was beyond pissed. She made me visit an abortion hospital and all of a sudden she wanted to form a saint and she would end up seeing me as the bad friend that almost made her commit murder. I decided to conclude it was just the guilt again. I knew she would regret her decision but I didn't have the time to wait for her to regret her decision. My plan was already in place and I wasn't calling it off. Jay belonged to me and I wasn't going to stop until I made him mine. I had already set the plan in place. It started an hour ago. I snuck out of the office to fully immerse myself in the wonderful thing that was about to happen. I wanted to imagine it and feel it whilst it happened even if I wouldn't be witnessing it. I checked my phone for a possible new message. None had entered yet. I checked my time. It had already been two hours since Karen and Jessica must have arrived at the restaurant. If they ordered twenty mi
TINA'S POV Right before me. As if I wasn't there. My throat tightened as if a big hard lump had clogged around it. I forced a swallow and quietly stepped out of the curtain. Stepping out I saw Jessica watching from adjacent the ward. She must have seen what happened too. I ignored her and started towards the reception. Impulsively my thumb pressed against my index finger. Karen seemed to be doubting me. I had to figure out what she was thinking. Knowing Karen, it was only a matter of time before she confided in me. But this time I wasn't sure how much longer I would have to wait. Good thing I now had one less thing to worry about. With her pregnancy deceit out in the open, Jessica was no threat to me anymore. In all of this, it was Jay that upset me more. How could he treat me like that after knowing what I could do to his company with just one click? All this while I thought he would come to his senses and choose the right path but he seemed he had chosen to prov
TINA'S POV “There's nothing to tell her. There's nothing between me and you. No matter what happens, I will never love you.”Actually, I was curious. What happens to a nonpregnant woman that takes Misoprostol mixed with an antidepressant? With Jessica about to be cancelled out of the race, I only had Karen to deal with now. That was what I thought. Until this moment. Jay's words broke me.I felt my entire body go numb and then something twisted around my chest. My hands felt like jelly, my eyes peppered. Like I had been stung by a bee. All these while I knew he didn't love me. I knew. All I wanted was to slowly make him warm up to me, for him to give me just one chance. Maybe I deserved some harsh words. Yet when those words went through my ears, it stung harder than anything. I turned away, ashamed and flustered.He knew what would happen if I released the recording. Even if he was right or wrong, he knew what would happen. Heck he knew people would slam him and his company wou