CHAPTER THIRTY FIVELILYI am screaming at the top of my voice as I barge into the house looking for my mother.“Come out mom. Where are you?”I see her rush down the staircase to meet me. She looks so teary eyed as she appears and moves in to hug me.“My daughter.”I put my hands in front of us to create a wall in order to prevent the hug.“Save it. I am not your daughter and you know it. How could you do this to me?”She breaks down in tears as I continue talking.“All these years you lied to me and for what? So you could play at being a mother? You allowed me suffer all this emotional stress I went through in the hands of your husband while you watched and could not defend me. What sort of a mother is that?”“Lily.” she says to me.The tears I see in her eyes are genuine and I can see that my words sting her. My emotions are not wavering either ways because as much as I her I also know that she had no right to do what she did.I walked into this house with an anger that rivalled th
CHAPTER THIRTY SIXNICKOLASAs I ascend the stairs to my apartment, all I can think of is how the person that could have aided in this investigation is dead and it is all because of me. If he had not reached out he probably would still be alive right now. I can not stop running down possibilities in my head. Who killed him? I already know the answer to this one or rather I have an idea of who it is since I do not still have any valid proof to support my claim but definitely one names keeps on popping in my head. Robert.He definitely has to be behind this, I mean there is no other explanation for this. But then how did he find out about the meeting? How did he know what we were talking about? Does he have somebody following me? No that can not be possible I check my surroundings every single day so the leak definitely did not come from me. It has to be the informant.I do not even have an idea who the guy is or rather was. I can not even think of the next step to take now that this
CHAPTER THIRTY SEVENLILY“Are you ready to talk to me about what happened?” Ingrid asks, as she releases me from her arms. I have been in there for a while now but it certainly did not feel like it. I feel so relaxed right now, compared to how I felt when I walked in.I still feel the anger inside me.“I hate them.” I blurt out.Ingrid looks at me intently and then lets out a sigh.“I can tell you are angry and that is probably how you feel right now. These are people that have raised you your whole life. They looked out for you and provided for you.”“Are you trying to defend them right now.” I snap at her. “After everything they have done… after they stole from you and caused you this much pain?”“No I am not defending them. I am the last person that will do that, especially not after everything they have done. What I am saying is this. Like it or not, they are still people that you care about deeply and sooner or later you are going to have to forgive them.”I take a brief pause a
CHAPTER THIRTY EIGHTNICKOLASI bang on Ingrid’s door one more time. All through the drive here I keep on praying that I am wrong about what I think and the call from Lily was not referring to her but at the back of my mind I know.All through the car drive here I keep on thinking of what could have happened. Everything seems to be happening so fast and it is becoming hard for me to wrap my mind around a lot of things. I have to take things one step at a time, first I have to deal with this.Scot hits on the door as well.“Ingrid!” I shout. “Lily!” “Is anybody home?” Scot yells.We both know they are inside because the security guard confirmed it earlier. He had seen Lily enter earlier but had not seen her leave yet. “I am going to break it down.” I say to Scot.“Is that not a bit too rash? Maybe they are indeed not inside.” He sees the reaction on my face as soon as he says this and he quickly quietens down. I am in no mood to be second guessing things like this and besides if I a
CHAPTER THIRTY NINELILY“No no.” I kept on shouting while I ran.The woods were so dark and I could not see where I was going, all I knew was I had to get away from the creature chasing me.I could hear it coming behind me as I ran and the more I ran the more I felt its claws behind me. It felt like it was about digging into the back of my head when I fell and rolled down the hill. I stood back up but I could not run anymore. Rooted to the spot, I kept on hearing growling coming from the dark woods in front of me. My legs feel like logs of wood as they have been overcome by exhaustion. What do I do now? What can I do? I kept on asking myself this question as I lay down there clutching on to my legs in fear. The terror kept on resonating through my body as I felt the wind blow through my face. I The first thing I saw were its eyes as It shone through the darkness. Red and filled with anger. It bared down at me, It was after me. The creature.I willed myself to get up and keep on r
CHAPTER FOURTYNICKOLAS This is the time to take actionThis is the only thought in my mind as I walk into the building with purpose. No one stops me at first as I walk with authority through the doors of the office building. The security probably think I own the place and none of them dare to stop me even though they have never seen me before.I see the receptionist at the desk, I should probably ask her for directions to the office I am looking for. But then again, if I do that she is definitely going to know I do not belong in the building and it will be way harder to get in. I need to talk to him, this is one of the cards I have been amassing over the past month and it is time to play it. My eyes and that of the receptionists meet briefly as I pause in the hallway of the building thinking of my next course of action. She watches me for a while as I try to make up my mind on whether to take the steps or the elevator. “May I help you with something?” She finally asks, as she look
CHAPTER FOURTY ONELILYI sit in the sitting room still fuming about my mother’s call as the police men come and go in the crime scene.Why the hell did she call me to check up on me like she doesn’t know what I am feeling at the moment because of her husband? She may actually not realize though, but how do you not realize that you have been married to an evil person for over 30 years. It just doesn’t add up. Except you yourself are an evil person.I do not know why I am actually surprised by this thought, after all, she was the one that stole me from the hospital in the first place.This is all too much for me.Looking towards the kitchen I can see that the policemen are covering up Ingid’s body and preparing her for transportation. There she is; the product of my stupidity. I can not stop thinking that perhaps if I had just been quiet, if I had not said anything to Robert about her existence, maybe she would still be here right now.I clean a tear runs down my cheek one more time. I
CHAPTER FOURTY TWONICKOLASWe have been driving for a while now and still no one has said a word. I wonder what is going through her mind right now. She must be feeling devastated.How did the reporters even find out what was going on? There were so many of them when I got there.I should probably ask her but everytime I look at her she is looking out of the window. Her arms are folded and I can definitely see that her anxiety is at an extreme high. She has an angry look on her face though and I can not quite figure it out.“Are you okay?” I finally bring myself to ask.She turns and finally faces me for the first time throughout the whole ride.“I am fine.” she says this so coldly.“You do not look fine.”She lets out a sigh.“Of course I am not fine Nickolas. My mother just died and now those reporters are spinning her out to be a bad person and there is nothing I can do about it. I feel so powerless right now.”She takes a deep breath.“I understand.”“This is all his fault and I