I gently jerk my arm from his grip and he folds his arms on his chest.
“It’s nothing, I got hurt in a car crash.” I tell him casually and he looks at me with unbelief.“Jen, what the hell?” He speaks in a worried tone.He tries to take my arm in his grip again so he can get a better look at the wound, but I don’t allow him to.He lets out a sigh.“Tell me what happened then.” He says like a parent, and I fight the urge to laugh.“I was involved in a car crash with Chad a few hours ago.” I say, my voice breaking slightly when I mention my best friend’s name.“Oh, Jen.” Robert says as he tries to pull me in for a hug, but I push him away.“Where is Chad now?” He asks me, avoiding the fact that I just pushed him away from me.“In the hospital.” I say in a small voice.“I should have been the one. I should be the one in the induced coma right now.” I say and I can’t hold back my tears anymore.“Jennifer Davis.” The person says my full name.“What are you doing here?” I ask her as I narrow my eyes at her. It’s Naomi, Chad’s ex that he was engaged to.“I could ask you the same.” She says with a playful shrug.“Enough of the chit chat, we need to talk about Chad.” She says and I study her.Is that really why she’s here to talk? I don’t trust her a bit. I hear the shower stop and I instinctively close the door in Naomi’s face.“Who were you talking you?” Robert asks me as he walks out of the bathroom with a towel only covering his lower body.“Uh..no one.” I say as I pretend to be combing my hair with my fingers. “I’m pretty sure I heard another person talking.” He says as he walks towards the closet to find something to wear.“You know what? I will be right back.” I say as I open the door of the room. He watches me as I leave the room and I do so smoothly.I then close the door shut and I see Naomi sitting on the floor next to the door.“Wh
“Robert, you just took a shower!” I continue my protests, but he doesn’t listen, causing me to laugh.I swear this guy is crazy.After he has removed his clothing, he dances his way into the shower to me, but I keep hiding my naked body from him.The funny thing is that we have had sex before, and he has obviously seen me naked. But I don’t know, this is just different.I won’t say I don’t like this, I am all giddy like a school girl in here, but I have not done this with a single soul before.“What if I want to take another shower with my baby?” He says as he raises one of his eyebrows. He is now completely naked and he walks close to me and wraps his arms around me. The water from the shower continues to wash over our bodies.“Turn around.” He whispers and I chuckle.“Robert...” I say his name in attempt to warn him, but my own warning voice is filled with glee.He holds my shoulders and gently turns
The way he says it causes a light feeling of fear to choke me.“What’s in the box, Robert?” I ask him and he holds his mouth in horror.I decide to investigate and I walk towards the opened box on the bed. The first thing I see are tiny splatters of blood in the box.When I reach it, I look in and I see mutilated human parts, specifically fingers.I count the amount and I realize that there are ten of them. There also happens to be a note right next to them. I reach in and I pick up the note, it has some blood on it.“Jen..” Robert says in unbelief.I have seen worse than this.I unfold the paper and it reads: “I guess the sniper won’t be using his finger to pull any trigger in his life again. Truly Yours, Naomi.”I smile widely, showing my teeth as I realize that Naomi has done her part. She dealt with the sniper, and might I say, in the best way.“This is brilliant.” I say to myself and I ch
My eyes land on the vase on the coffee table nearby in the room and I reach for it quickly, with the intent of smashing it on her head.Not to kill her, but just to render her unconscious until I can figure out what to do about her.When I have the hard glass object in my hand, I lift it up and just as I am about to hit her with it, Robert steps out of the bathroom.“No!” He says loudly and she turns around and sees me with the vase in my hand. I lower the object and I place it on the floor.“Jen, what the hell?” Robert asks as he walks towards us in a towel covering his lower body. His hair is wet and strands of it lays weakly on his forehead.“She was about to call the police!” I argue back and he looks at his sister.“Oh, no. Don’t tell me that you’re in on this too. Robert, she’s a killer!” Gwen says loudly as she stares at her brother in disbelief.Robert scratches behind his neck and says in a low tone,
The door squeaks open and reveals two individuals on the bed.The male on top is thrusting into the female and they have not even noticed that they have a guest.I clear my throat and the guy halts his movements and turns around. When his eyes land on me, a look of panic washes over him and he removes himself from over the female quickly.“Oh my goodness.” The girl says as she covers herself with the bedsheet.The guy takes his boxers from on the bed and wears it quickly.“I’m so sorry, miss. I’m so very sorry.” The girl says to me as she searches around for her clothes.They’re on the floor, but I guess she can’t see it from where she’s sitting on the bed.I walk towards her clothes and I pick it up. They both watch me with fear dancing in their eyes, as if I’m going to harm them in some kind of way.I hand the girl’s clothes to her and she takes it from my hand tentatively. “Who are you two
“Your best friend is Chadwick Simmons, right?” James asks me as he drives through the city. The traffic is very light and also nonexistent today.“Yeah...how do you know that?” I ask him and he snorts.“I am a very well informed man, Jen. I do my research.” He says and he glances at me for a second before returning his eyes to the road.“Chadwick Simmons is practically the best IT person in the world...at least in my personal opinion.” He adds and I smile.“He is known for his skills all over the world, and he is beyond wealthy.” James continues.Well, he’s not wealthy anymore. All our accounts are frozen, and all the money we had on hand were used for his brother that is sick in London.“Yeah, he’s amazing.” I agree with James and he notices that my mood has dropped.A full minute passes between us without anyone talking as James weave through cars on the freeway.“Do you have other plans for the day?” He asks
The restaurant name is “Fingers”, which is a pretty weird name but you know, people like weird things.As I walk towards it, I do a quick google search and I find out that the restaurant is actually a five star restaurant. The reviews are all singing praises and it is known as one of the best places to dine in the whole state.When I lift my head from my phone, I mistakenly hit someone by the shoulder and the man turns towards me angrily.“Watch where you going.” He says and doesn’t even wait for me to apologize, he just simply continues his strides.I place my phone in my pocket as I approach the famous restaurant. It looks elegant but yet also casual at the same time.I take in a deep breath and I let it out when I reach the glass door at the entrance. I am a hundred percent sure that Patrick Sans is in there.His location pings here.Someone exits the place and holds open the door for me to walk in.“Thank yo
The sheer amount of force from his body as he hits me throws me backwards and we both fall.My entire back hits the floor of the bathroom and I yell as pain grabs it. We both struggle and he successfully sits on top of me and straddles me.He tries to hit me in the jaw but I dodge him successfully, making him more angrier.He swings again and this time, his fist lands on my jaw, causing me to gasp sharply.“You took him away from me!” He punches me in the jaw again, but this time, on the other side.“All he wanted you to do was your freaking job!” He yells in my face. Small bits of his saliva lands on my face but right now, the pain distracts me from that.I try and struggle to gain the upper ground and to push him off me, but he is just too heavy.“You picked the wrong guy, Jen Davis. Now I will do what that stupid sniper couldn’t do.” He says as he continues his physical assault.He lands strings of punches on
My eyes widen and I immediately try to open the door of the moving car so I can jump out but all the doors are locked. Adrenaline floods every part of my body, it is like it is all happening so fast and I have no control.“What are you doing? Stop that! Do you want to get yourself killed?” Russell shouts as Usman increases the speed of the car so jumping out would seem more painful to me if I decide to do so.“Stay the hell away from me!” I reply to him aggressively when he tries to reach out to me and he raises his hands in surrender.“Okay, okay,” He says and then he settles back into his seat.“What the hell is going on?” I ask after a full minute of silence. I am much calmer right now, I was acting out of instinct when I realized that the person that was sitting next to the driver was Russell.How is that even possible? Was he not in an induced coma a few days ago? “Are you finished with trying to jump out of a speeding car just to avoid me?” Russell replies to me and I hear Usma
“Natalie is smart, I will give her that. She had all the video evidence cleared before we could get our hands on it,” Taylor explains and I at everything else in the room but her.“May I ask, who are you professionally?” I ask her, and she smiles lopsidedly.“I work with the police department in Russia, I am the police chief,” She informs me and I nod slowly. “As I was saying, Natalie made the investigation a lot more difficult for us. Her skills in covering evidence are impressive, but I believe that she got some inside help,” Taylor continues what she was explaining.“And?” I beckon her to explain more. If Natalie covered up our tracks so well, how does she know that Natalie did it? That she was the one that pulled the trigger and not me.“I know you want to know how I know that she was the one who pulled the trigger, and I am going to explain just that to you,” Taylor tells me.“Okay,” I drag the word as I wait for her to tell me what she knows.“I am Russell’s third wife and it h
What in the world is happening? Why am I even being arrested? Even if this is about Russell Marshall’s investigation, the person they should be arresting is Natalie, I was not the one that shot the man in the head.“This has to be a joke, right?” Chad laughs but when he sees that the military guys are not even smiling, he realizes that this is serious.I gave the piece of document that they handed to me, I read it quickly and it authorizes them to arrest me, but what I don’t see is the charge.“Your hands, please,” One of the military guards says a bit softly and I do as he says. I place my hands behind my head and I hear Chad scoff.“Do you want us to do something?” The guards that we have at the entrance ask me but I disagree by wagging my head. It would only make things worse, from experience, going peacefully with the authorities is always the best thing to do.“I am calling Robert, and then the lawyer. We would get this settled in no time,” Chad tries to comfort me as he makes a
Yes, we certainly need to talk. I put Jake down from my arms and he protests that he wants to tell me secretly. James, Natalie, and Cara watch my exchange with him with smiles on their faces.“Okay, what is it?” I ask him as he gets close to my ear.“I love you,” He whispers in my ear and I can not help but smile. Some people say having kids is a nightmare, and the truth is that it is at times, but most of the time, it is the greatest joy anyone could have.“Mommy heats you right back,” I reply to him in a whisper, and he giggles before he runs onto James.I stand upright and I bid James and Jake goodbye as I join Natalie and Cara in the living room.“We have a serious hiccup in our plans,” Cara begins when we have all sat down on the couch.“I know,” I reply to her, and Natalie chuckles but I can hear the worry in her voice.“Of course you do, it is all over the news,” She tells me and I stay quiet, not knowing exactly what to say.“So what are doing?” Cara asks no one in particular
“What do you mean that he’s alive?” I ask Robert as he stands to his feet, he looks worried but that is in no way compared to how I feel right now. Gosh, does Natalie know this? I need more information.“Which news channel did you learn that from?” I fire another question at Robert, not giving him the chance to answer the first. “Here, take a look, it is all over social media, and all the big news broadcasters are airing it,” Robert says as he hands his phone to me. The last time I held it was when I found out that he was partially cheating on me.I can not say that he was actually cheating because he did not sleep with Amanda, but he did receive nudes from her and whatnot. In my book, that is cheating, but I am just going to call it partially cheating in light of what Robert and Amanda explained to me.But that is not the issue at hand right now, we have a huge freaking problem. I need to get dressed and let Natalie and Cara know what has happened.I take the phone from Robert and I
Some might say that we are moving a bit too fast, but I have known Robert for close to a year now. Still, it seems like such a limited amount of time to decide to spend your entire life with someone, but why wait any longer?Robert and I have had our fair share of storms and problems, but we have weathered everyone one of them, plus we have a great support system. Chad, James, Carlos, and Jake are sure to be there for us if we happen to begin to feel the storms of life raging again, and of course, we will.The amount of crazy that I have been through individually is insane, my entire life has been far from normal and I am starting to stop wanting normal. Besides, normal is a bit overrated. Marrying someone you have known for only almost a year is not very expected, or should I say, normal? But that is the thing, I am not normal and do not even want to be anymore.“Well?” Robert asks me as I drag my body off the unmade bed. He suggested that we should get married next week after I ment
I can not believe that this just happened, Robert proposed to me! This is amazing and I feel so good, but I also feel like this is too good and I don’t deserve it. But I am just going to sum that up as insecurity trying to present itself in the form of me not being worth it enough to get proposed to.After I said yes, I think Jake was more excited than everyone else. Chad and the others came out soon after and I have a strong feeling that they somehow knew that Robert was going to propose. Robert placed a very expensive ring on my finger and he rose from his kneeling, I placed Jake in the chair where I was sitting and Robert and I embraced. We then shared a kiss and everyone joined Jake as he clapped. As soon as the applause died, the rain ceased gradually and the sun began to shine through the dark clouds. It seemed too perfect that I literally had to pinch myself two times to make sure that I was not dreaming. Good thing I was not, because I would have been so mad at myself.We e
It is usually sunny here, but today is different, and besides, it is a Saturday. I think the weather chose the best time to be like this, I don’t have to drive Jake to school and I get to spend the entire day with him.Yesterday was so eventful, I had to explain all that happened to me in Russia to Robert, James, Carlos, and Chad about three times before they finally could grasp it all. I also had the responsibility of explaining why I have suddenly decided to trust and forgive someone that caused me so much trauma, Cara was quiet when I took my time to make them all understand that I have finally decided to bury the hatchet concerning what she did.I am not going to pretend like I don’t feel a stab of emotional pain when I look at her, but I am going to try my best to move on. I am currently sitting on the porch alone while listening to the beating of the rain on the ground and roof, it is very soothing and I have never felt so relaxed in my life. Everybody else is in the house and
I open the door of the house and I walk in as Cara follows behind me slowly and tentatively. We are out of Russia and in Cyprus, though only Cara came along. Natalie took a later flight because she wanted to come with Susan, her grandmother.It took us a couple of hours to fly from Russia to Cyprus, especially because I did not have my passport on me. Cara had to pull some strings and call in some favors at airport security, and to my pleasant surprise, it all worked out smoothly.“Are you sure that they would want to see me?” I hear Cara’s voice as we walk further into the house. Everything looks pretty much the same, but I don’t see anyone here. “Where is everyone?” I say to myself in a low tone as I continue to explore the house.Suddenly I hear heavy footsteps and I look toward the source, someone is walking down the stairs. As soon as the person's eyes meet mine, they stop in their tracks.“Whoa, am I tripping, or am I seeing Jen Davis?” Chad asks me and he continues his descent