GAIA I stepped out onto the marble pavement, my heart thudding loudly in my chest with my jittery hand holding the umbrella over my head. I remembered that my father had come to meet me a few weeks before, saying that I didn't have a lot of time left. Of course, I didn't listen to him and I'd even forgotten that I'd seen him because of how busy he was. Even if I wasn't busy, I doubted that I would have wanted to see him or speak to him either way. My father was dying and I didn't know how to feel about that.The fact that I didn't exactly have an award-winning relationship with him just made things worse. I didn't want to be anywhere close to him or my mother. Being back in this house after all these years made my feet cold. Despite the rain, I could still feel it numbing up because of how my brain had been trained to react when I was in this house. The first thing I noticed was that the house was quiet, and I wasn't seeing maids and guards moving around the house. The house wa
GAIA“Why didn't you ask for help from your friends? Surely, someone was willing to help out?”She scoffed and at first, it sounded like she was coughing but I could see the way her lips turned up in a bitter smirk. “Those hypocrites? They all ran away from us when things went south. Some of them even came here to harass your father and I about the money we were owing them and your father got arrested on multiple occasions because of it. We could get any help.”“Is that why you had to let all the servants go?”She nodded. My mother was raised in money so she wasn't brought up to know how to do my house chores. She was disowned though, for marrying my father who was broke at the time. I wasn't even surprised to hear this. It was obvious those people were here for the money and as soon as things went bad, they showed their real colors. But it was a very unfair thing to do. Some of them had been family friends for years and they had been long time friends of my father. Or so he thoug
GAIAWe sat outside on one of those benches that people usually sat on when their loved one was in the hospital when they had not heard a single piece of good news, and they were on the verge of giving up. As I clutched the bottle of water in my hand and sat in silence beside him, I looked at the passing cars and suddenly felt sleepy. “I tried to help-”“I know, my mother told me. She told me everything you did. I should thank you but I don't think the words would come out of my mouth.”He nodded. “That’s fine.”There was honestly nothing to say to him. Just because he was innocent in that case didn't mean we were suddenly friends and I would suddenly forgive him for everything.At the end of the day, it still didn't change what he did, and nothing ever will, so we were still back to square one. I stood up and held my bag in my hand. “I need to go check on my parents.”He held me back just like I knew he would and stood up. “Gaia, I don't know if you have the time but I need t
GAIAIt took a whole lot for me to get back on my feet. The publicity the case gained shook my business in good ways and bad. First off, it gave us more market and I could see that if things went well enough, we just might be making even more profit this year. We got more investors from places we had never heard of before. Now, the bad news was that it was going to go down in history that my company had once been involved in a scandal like this. That wasn't exactly the kind of reputation I wanted but right now, there was nothing I could do about it. I was happy about the height that my company has attained in the past month since the case was settled. I'd asked my lawyers to keep me in the loop about what happened with Jacob and the rest. They deserved to stay in jail and rot for the rest of their lives and I will make sure that happens. They won't get away from trying to do this to me. Now that things were back to normal for me, I was still trying to get the one thing that I wan
GAIAI opened the door and entered his room, the light from the candles illuminating his dark room. Bella turned on the lights and we began to sing happy birthday to him. He was fully awake now, a small smile on his face even though it was very obvious that he was confused about what was going on. Bella and I finished singing that song and dropped the cake on his lap to make a wish. ”Blow out your candles and make a wish!”As he closed his eyes and put his hands together, I watched my little baby that I'd given birth to a few years back as he was already such a grown boy. My Juan was six already and it didn't feel real. It was like time was taking him away from me and I wanted him back. “Happy birthday, my lovely boy. I'm so proud to be your mother and I love you so much, you have no idea. You're the best thing I've ever done and I hope your days are filled with laughter and you never have to cry. I love you, Juan.”I pulled him in for a hug and I didn't even know that there were
GAIAIt wasn't easy tracking down the maid that was in the hospital ward with me that day. It had been so long ago and I doubted she still worked with Javon. Thankfully, I had Evan who used to be his master of staff. “Evan, do you remember the day my baby died?”Obviously shocked about where this conversation was coming from, he turned around and looked at me with wide eyes. “Yes ma'am. I remember.” “Do you remember seeing any maid in the hospital with me that day?”He came down from the ladder he had used to hang Juan's picture on my wall. “A maid? You mean from the old house?”I nodded. “No, I don't. Why do you ask?”I showed him a seat and sat opposite him. “There was a maid there and I'm very sure she worked at the house. She smelled so familiar.”He was silent for a moment. “Okay, then. I can help you check for her. Did you see her face?”I thought back to that day. I was very out of it so I might have actually seen her but didn't remember. But I could still remember seei
THIRD PERSON POVShe didn't know what to do. It was just afternoon and she was in the kitchen. It wasn't even in her bedroom where she could easily hide the body and clean up the blood then stuff the soiled clothes in her closet. The fact that she had stabbed her in the neck wasn't good at all because the blood was going everywhere and she was panicking. What should she do before someone comes downstairs? Meanwhile, Darren rushed up the stairs, his heart beating loudly in his chest. He couldn't believe what he had just seen, his mouth couldn't talk about it but he had to say something. He couldn't just let her go free like that. She had killed someone because her plan was about to be exposed. He'd found it suspicious too when the maid came and told Rowena about the tea cause knew that Eli didn't drink tea. When he got to the door, he knocked twice before it was opened. “Darren, are you okay?” He didn't answer so Rowena had to call for Eli. “Eli, I think something is wrong wit
GAIAJavon was already at the restaurant when I got there. He was sitting at the far end corner of the room with a glass of water in his hand while he stared out of the window. He looked lost in thought and I thought he'd even notice my presence as I stood at the door but he didn't. What was he thinking about? He looked at me then, giving me a small smile as I started to approach him. This reminded me of the rare occasions that he took me out on dates. Everything was same, asides the smile. “Hey.”He greeted as I sat. I nodded and dropped my bag in the floor beside me..“Hey.”The waiter came immediately as I sat. He took Javon's order first and then turned to me. “Water is just fine. The sauce in the spaghetti, does it have an atom of fish in it? Or any seafood infact?”The waiter nodded.“There's a side of prawns that served with it.”“He's allergic to seafood.”The waiter's eyes widened. “My apologies for not asking about your allergies. I'll tell the chef to take note of th