The wedding day finally came for the lovers. Benny has chosen a very lavish place and although, Harriet had told him to keep low, he refused.He said that a wedding is only done once in a lifetime and that they should enjoy the happiness it brings. She could do nothing but watch.He stood before the huge mirror and placed the last button on the shirt then pulled on the suit. This day... He had longed to see it and now that he did, he could not show how happy he was. He was finally going to have someone he calls his own. It made him feel somehow.He smiled at himself, happy at his newly found love. He turned to look at Ace who gave him a blank stare and returned to tapping his phone.Benny shook his head and cleared his throat. Ace looked up at him."What do you think of my appearance?" He asked him.Ace sized him up from head to toe. "Good."Benny arched his brows. "Good? Really? At least you should do better so that you can win my heart." He told him.Ace scoffed. "It is your day. Not
Three days later and Harriet was yet to be sent back. No word of any form. No call for ransome to be paid. Nothing. Aspen sat and watched the void of the house. Her kids had gone to school and she had called Floyd that she could not make it work. Fortunately, he said he understood but she will work extra hours once she was back.She did not even think about it and she accepted. Three days has passed and she has not made a visit to her brother and she has not gotten a call from anyone concerning the lost bride.Aspen was quite frustrated. She tried to reach Benny’s foster parents but they did not pick it. In fact, there was the time when it went successfully. They had told her that Benny was not worth helping and even if he was, they have disowned him already.The file of disownment was laid in front of her on the table. Everything have taken an horrible turn. So horrible she did not think of it.She sighed and stared at her phone. No one stills called her.She should visit Benny. That
A week has passed and Aspen still have not been able to step out of the house. Ace would come to check on her when he came back from work.They still have not heard anything concerning the whereabouts of Harriet. It was as if she disappeared into the air.Anna came once in a while when she is able to slip through work and as for the triplets, there was nothing they could to cheer up their mother.Every word Benny said that day kept replaying in her head and she could not help the betrayal she felt in her heart. At this point she did not know what to even feel.The sound of something or someone falling heavily on the ground and someone crying out with a car zooming off dragged her from the deep thoughts. She rose to her feet, Sheba was the first to walk out.When Aspen walked out, her eyes widened when she saw who was on the floor. It was... Harriet.She rushed towards her in an instant and fell down to her knees that she did not bother about it at all.“Harriet.” She called but Harrie
Aspen’s phone vibrated on the table and she cleaned her hands with the towel. She was busy doing the dishes since she did not go to work. She saw that the caller’s ID was Mrs. Liza.A smile curved on her lips and she picked it. “Hello.” She greeted. Harriet took this time to enter.“Hi, Aspen. How are you doing?” Mrs. Liza replied."Fine and you?" She asked.Harriet reached out to help her with something but Aspen nudged her hand off and glared at her. She covered the speaker of her phone with her hand and whispered to Harriet. "Stop it. You need rest so go and take some rest." She told her. Harriet tried to argue but a glare from Aspen had her shutting up and walking out of the kitchen."Aspen? Aspen? Hello?" Mrs. Liza called out."Hmm, sorry for that. Had to deal with a little distraction." She apologized."Oh, thought the line went off. I was saying that Floyd kept talking to himself in the office. You know he hardly comes but once he comes, everyone gets this weird fear." She said
Harriet walked into the station, her eyes glancing around the place. The phone in her hands vibrated and her heart skipped a beat. She paused and gulped softly. She calmed her nerves and decided not to pick the call. She did not want any distraction at all, what she wanted to do has been haunting her dreams and she needed to get it out.She turned off her phone and walked further. She met with the officer and talked to him. They allowed her to meet him. She placed her phone on the table and waited anxiously for him while playing with her fingers and her heart increased its beating rates.The officer pushed Benny out like he was a piece of empty sack. Benny did not struggled against him like he would have done. He seemed to have accepted his fate that he would not be getting out of there anytime sooner.His eyed dropped to the lady that sat in the visiting room. He lingered in his tracks and turned to go back but the officer stopped him.“Go.” He ordered him with her a dark glare.Benn
Days later, the figure stared at the dead body of the lady before him. He hissed out and picked up her phone. He deleted everything that had to do with him on it and dropped it. She had killed herself out of guilt and he could be implicated.He took out a pen and a piece of paper. He began to write.‘Benedict had threatened to kill me. He told me that despite being free, I was not free. I was scared to death, scared that I would end up like this. Scared that he would come for me and have me killed. My Death must be blamed on him. I died because of him and his threat.’He dropped the pen and placed it properly under the jar then he let out a deep breath before leaving through the back door.He called an ambulance through an unknown contact and the sounds of sirens were soon heard. Everyone gathered as they shook their heads in pity.They carried Harriet’s dead body out, the cops arrived and they put the forbidden tape around her house.They picked the poison she had taken to kill herse
Aspen picked up the call and placed the phone in her right ear as she rose up and tried to put herself together.“Hello, Aspen.” His voice came in and she cleared her throat.“Hi, Ace.” Came her nervous reply. She did not want him to know where she was at least not in Harriet’s house.“I was told.” He said and her eyes narrowed.“Told what?” She asked him, as she tiptoed out of the door. She began to wonder how he must have been told. Benny was her brother and they should not be passing information to him, right?It was quite fishy as she thought of it.“That Harriet is dead.” He completed it.Her eyes twitched and she got into the nearest cab she could find. “I was also informed.” She told him.“Where are you?” He asked her.“On my way home. Just dropped by the station and then went to get some steam off, you know.” She said, her lips tightening at the sides and hoping she did not slip anything.“Ohh. I'm at your house. I will wait.” He replied.“Okay.”She disconnected the call and s
Aspen got down from the cab, she was coming back from work. Floyd has been surprisingly coming to work as often as he could and he has been trying to get all the paper works done for the year's final review. Truthfully, she did not like it but this was a matter of her salary so she had to go to work.Concerning the case of Benny, Benny had told her the last time she went to see him never to come again. He had fought with her initially and she had left without looking back. Her kids kept asking her where Benny was but she could not give them a reply.Just as she walked into the apartment, she saw Ace playing with the kids. He has been doing that often too, coming home early to spend time with her kids.It was as if he knew that the key to her heart was her kids but that was not entirely true. She did not know if he was just doing to make her love him.She cleared her throat and the three of them turned to look at her. Cora as usual does not play with him.Ace smiled while the kids rose