Ciara was woken up when the train stopped. Tired and exhausted, and certain that she wasn’t being followed anymore, she had fallen into a deep restless sleep. As usual, she had dreamt about being mercilessly tormented by the two inmates, and there was no one to rescue her. In fact, this time around, they had taunted her that Aunt Mary had died, and there was no Samuel Fury coming to save her from their torture; as Aunt Mary was dead now, Samuel Fury had abandoned her to their torture.Ciara had wanted to wake up badly, but she could not even though she struggled to. Then they also threatened to rip her stomach open and bring out her baby. Ciara had begged and cried, but they had refused. Again, she had seen the knife in their hands when the train stopped and Ciara was forced to wake up. The passenger sitting close to Ciara, a middle-aged man stared at Ciara weirdly, and she knew at once that she probably had been acting funny as she slept.“Rough sleep?” He asked.Ciara nodded and go
“What is your name, and how did you know my mother?” Ciara asked him.She was more than fortunate and grateful to have run into someone who knew something about her. Being that it had been years since she last came here, Ciara wasn’t sure she would find people she knew, or people that would even know her.“Johnway,” he answered.The name did not ring a bell at all, and for a moment, Ciara almost felt as though the man was making things up. What if he had been sent to get her? Ciara was extremely careful and mindful now, because it would be stupid of her to underestimate the power and influence of Samuel Fury. “I don’t know anyone like that. I do not recognize the name…or the face,” Ciara cautiously said. She made sure she kept her voice at a guarded level. Initially, when he had mentioned her mother, she had let her guard down, relieved that her trouble had finally been eased, but now, they were back up.“Of course, you wouldn’t. You rarely came around after your mother’s illness det
Samuel drove to the main house in a mad rush. His mother’s call had turned his world upside down, and as Samuel raced through the traffic and past other cars, he worried if something terrible hadn’t happened. His mother rarely placed a distress call to him. In fact, she has never placed such a call to him, and she sounded really weak and frantic over the phone. Samuel decided that driving himself to the main house would be better.And hopefully, he would be able to evade the cops. Samuel really did not fancy staying in the main house, because it brought a whole of ugly memories to him; memories that he would want to keep buried for the rest of his life, but his mother had insisted on staying there after she was released and discharged from the hospital. According to her, she had wanted to feel the warmth of a home before dying. Samuel was more than willing and capable to rent her the most luxurious apartment the city could find, but none of that would make his mother feel more at hom
Ruby and Linda busied themselves picking out things for her wedding preparations.“Mum, don’t you think it is a bit early?” Linda asked Ruby sounding unsure. They still had like two more months before the wedding, Samuel was still very much married to Ciara, although she wasn’t sure how that was going, considering what she told him the last time, and things were still pretty tense with the both of them. Linda hadn’t even said this aloud, especially in the presence of her mother for fear of being condemned, but she was very scared and intimidated by Samuel Fury. He made her want to cower and hide away, but she could not bring herself to spitting this out to anyone’s hearing, not especially with how far they have all gone to secure him for her. Anyway, she hadn’t heard from Samuel since the last time.“It is never too early, love. I want you to have the best wedding you can get; something way more grand and special than what that wretch ever had, okay?” Ruby assured Linda.They had inv
Ciara had to wait for Johnway to round off for the night after what he gave her, and it stretched into the night. Johnway had suggested that Ciara go to his house and rest for a while, but Ciara refused. She did not want to risk leaving and not getting the full details, because even the file was not giving her all the answers she needed. Just as she had suspected that something had gone down with her mother, some evidences were popping out.“Here,” Johnway had scribbled down his house address and given it to Ciara. “I have a spacious apartment and some leftover food in my fridge. Why don’t you go over, eat and get some rest, then when I get home, we can talk,” Johnway had directed. “It seems I am going to take longer than necessary here,” he said.Ciara had put the address in her backpack and said, “No, I will wait for you,” she had insisted.Another man had come in a few minutes later, and from their discussion, Ciara got to know that his name was Martin, and he also worked there.“H
Ciara stared at Johnway’s dead body in his pool of blood in utter shock. She could not believe what she was seeing. She bent over slightly to take a look at him and she realized that his throat had been slit. His blood had congealed, and the slit on his throat did not seem fresh at all, which only means that he wasn’t recently attacked. Also, he had already begun to smell; the exact smell Ciara perceived when she stepped into his apartment.So with such retching smell, Ciara’s stomach rumbled again and she threw up, right beside Johnway’s body and blood. Ugh, she was very disgusted now, and everything just seemed to be very irritating. If Johnway is murdered barely twenty-four hours after attempting to help her, then someone knew she was in her hometown. Ciara’s first instinct went to Samuel Fury, but in as much as she knew that he was brutal and ruthless, she did not think he was that heartless to take someone’s life in cold blood. Besides, she already suspected him of something rel
Samuel held his mother’s weak hand tightly, but also tenderly at the same time as the doctor examined her.After what she had told him, his mother had slipped into unconsciousness. Samuel had quickly called his doctor and asked him to come over to the house for a medical examination. With his mother’s condition, there was no way he could comfortably transport her to the hospital, or maybe Samuel’s fear was that she would die before he even reached the hospital. Samuel continued checking her pulse to ensure that she was still breathing every second before the doctor arrived.“Should we take her upstairs to her room?” Samuel had asked immediately the doctor stepped into the main house.“She has been lying here, hasn’t she?” the doctor asked.“Yes, I did not want to lift her up and get something wrong in her system by doing so, so I just left her here to rest while waiting for you,” Samuel explained.“Then I will examine her here first and see what is wrong,” The doctor informed Samuel.
“I did not murder anyone!” Ciara yelled from behind bars.Her heart was pounding. Her breathing was faster than normal. Ciara feared that she was having anxiety attack, and of course, PTSD. Then there was the worry about her baby, but the cops were more hostile and adamant than Ciara had ever known.“Please!” Ciara called out. There was no way she could tolerate going to prison for the third time in just a couple of months. She did not kill Johnway, and it would truly hurt Ciara to go to jail for something she was completely innocent for.Again.“This is a capital offense, ma’am,” one of the cops told Ciara harshly. “Johnway was a decent hardworking citizen whose life you snuffed out gruesomely.”“I swear, I have no hand in it. You can confirm from the hotel I lodged. I got there barely an hour before the cops arrived, and Johnway has been dead hours before that,” Ciara explained frantically, but the look on his face shows that he was obviously not buying her words.“I suggest you sa
Ciara heard a knock on the door and she went to open it without an iota of fear or dread; all her enemies have been put behind bars.Ciara got discharged from the hospital two days ago, and she was yet to make that call to Samuel Fury that she had wanted to make, because she was still dazed about the revelation.“The world is truly a small place,” Ciara had said to herself, breathlessly.Who would have thought that Samuel’s son would be birthed by the same doctor? Heck, who would have thought that the mysterious man that Ciara had spent that night with was Samuel Fury? Ciara trembled at the thought of telling Samuel that her son was his, because she fully believed the doctor even though she was yet to see Samuel’s left thigh, and that was primarily because they hadn’t been really intimate.Ciara almost passed out when she opened the door and found Samuel Fury standing before her. They stared deeply into each other’s eyes for a couple of minutes without saying anything, and Ciara could
It had been several months now, and Ciara was glad that she hadn’t been found, because deep down, she knew that Samuel Fury would be looking all over the country for her. Her bump was big now, and the doctor she had begun seeing already told her that she would be due any moment from now. Ciara wanted Samuel to find her, desperately for that matter, but she knew that if she let Samuel find her without closing this chapter of her life, she would never be complete.Ciara was free now, and she knew this because she was lucky to be present at a coffee shop when Colt and Ruby’s court verdict was read. She wondered why Linda Luscious wasn’t also in the stand, but Ciara pushed that out of her mind.Her only goal and desire right now, before she had her baby, was to see her mother’s grave.“Coffee, as usual?” The coffee server asked Ciara.He was an elderly man who seemed to have seen better years, Ciara almost felt pity for the man, but then again, he seemed to be doing what he loved.“Yes,
“Mr. and Mrs. Luscious, you are both under arrest,” the cops rounded up Ruby and Colt in their home a few days later.“We did nothing wrong!” Colt tried to play defensive, but it was already over for them.“Martin and Hayes have testified against you, Mr. Luscious,” one of the cops informed Ruby and Colt.“What about our daughter, Linda?” Ruby asked.“Mr. Samuel Fury decided not to charge her, but the both of you must answer for your grievous crimes,” the cop told them.Colt and Ruby hung their heads in shame and sadness as the cops handcuffed them and took them away.A month later, Samuel sat in the courtroom, waiting for the judge to pass her verdict on Colt and Ruby. They looked devastated, but Samuel was not moved. As he sat there, he felt relieved that he would be getting the justice he deserved, as well as Ciara Summers. Jess had tracked Hayes down when he was trying to run away, and had handed him over to the cops. A lot had happened since Ciara walked away and never returned,
“It happened two years ago…” Linda began as her mind drifted back to that day years ago.Linda was involved with a perverted old man. This was all because of how reckless she had been living.“Why don't you show me some love toots?” The old man crossed the line, touching her in ways that were unacceptable.“Stop it...” She did her best to resist the man’s grip and the two engaged in a struggle. Eventually, Linda drove her stiletto heel into his skull. The man plopped to the floor completely lifeless.Linda’s heart pounded as she stared at the lifeless body, “He’s dead.” Linda covered her mouth after realising that she had taken the old man’s life.“Think Linda, now is not the time to panic.” She took a series of deep breaths to calm herself as she wiped off her fingerprints from the heel. “What do I do now?” After a while, Linda called her mother.“Mom...” Her voice was shaky.“What is it?” Her mother asked, a hint of worry was evident in her voice.Linda shared her current predica
Ciara waited patiently for Rudge to show up in the location that he sent to her. She was not agitated. She was not afraid. She just wanted to be fully and completely free. When it would happen, she would no longer live her life in bondage, or under the mercy of anyone, but she would know what happened that exact day, and she would be completely free, because Ciara knew that she did not kill that man. Ciara was not even capable of murder, and what happened with Lori’s baby had been a huge mistake. Ciara hadn’t thought of it before now, but she was certain now that Linda and her parents framed her and caused her to spend time in prison for a crime that she did not commit. She wouldn’t be surprised, because several times, aside from the incident that happened on Linda’s twentieth birthday party, there had been other cases that Linda had lied on Ciara, and Ciara had taken the fall for Linda’s recklessness.The only problem was that Ciara did not know exactly what happened.Once Rudge tel
Ciara was still shaken from the whole episode that happened at the cabin. She had been dazed for hours now, unable to react at all. Martin had meant to kill her. He would have driven the sharp knife into her stomach, and then, he would have killed not just her, but also her baby. Martin hadn’t called her to confess a thing to her. Instead, he had tricked her into coming just so that he could avenge the death of Lori and their baby.Suddenly, instinctively, abruptly, Ciara got out of her shock. She looked around frantically; she was back at the penthouse. Ciara jumped up as though the couch she sat on had caught fire.“How did I get back here?!” Ciara asked no one in particular, because she was alone in the living room. “Samuel?” She called out, but no response.She continued to turn around frantically until Jess arrived from the kitchen, carrying a glass of warm water.“Who are you and how did you get in here?” Ciara asked Jess as though she was about to launch an attack on her.“Don
“Miss Luscious, this is not a risk I would advise you to take,” the doctor said to Linda.It was still morning, and Linda had left the house without her parent’s knowledge, but she knew that she had to do what needed to be done. Linda was still angry with her parents, especially with everything that was unfolding, and it was beginning to dawn on Linda the severity of the situation.“I have to do something,” Linda had said to herself the night before, “Because I cannot go down with my patients, because I wasn’t even there when they did most of what they did.”Linda had begun to make escape plans. For days now, she had been starving, although she usually sneaked into the kitchen, but it was usually almost futile, because she only met crumbs of canned food. Linda could not make coffee to save her life, because she had helps around the house for those things, but now that they were all gone, Linda could not recall the last time she had a proper meal.“I am too young to go down with my par
Ciara entered the cabin, and she was met with an eerie silence that threw her off balance. At first, she thought Martin had tricked her into coming to the cabin, because it looked and felt oddly deserted. “Hello?” Ciara called out calmly, not wanting to be too loud so that Samuel who was outside would not get the wrong signal.It was late and quiet, which meant that any noise at all was liable to travel far. “Is anyone home?” Ciara asked, but she remained rooted in her spot.She could not bring herself to even check the other parts of the cabin to be sure that it was completely empty, because somehow, even though Ciara could not explain it, there was something dreadfully dangerous about the cabin. It did not feel like the cabin that hosted her some weeks ago.“Is anyone home?” Ciara called out again, but she was met with absolute silence.Then her shoulders dropped in disappointment; Martin had tricked her into coming here. When would this ever end? Why did it always feel like Ciara
Jess slipped into the car beside Samuel, replacing Ciara, and Samuel jumped in fright.“Jeez, you scared me!” Samuel said after he was able to catch his breath.“What is the fear for? You have been in worse situations, Samuel Fury, so why are you jumpy?” Jess asked and looked at Samuel, and she became more shocked when she saw that Samuel was visibly shaking and sweating. “Damn, Samuel, are you about to faint?” Jess could not help but ask.Jess looked at Samuel, seeing him vulnerable and scared to his bones for the very first time since she had known him, and it dawned on her that Samuel was this way, because Theresa went to the cabin on her own, in danger. There was no other logical explanation to why Samuel was acting as though he was being faced with death.“Oh, I see,” Jess said with a grin.Samuel looked at her, confused. “When you grin like that, you are being mischievous, and now is honestly not the time for that,” Samuel said, angry and irritated. “Don’t you read the room? Did