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CHAPTER THIRTY FOUR
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************* We were just halfway through supper when we were suddenly struck by a scream that rented all the air and shattered the meal. The words spoken, of course, were almost inaudible; yet the tone was unmistakably clear-an expression of despair and anguish, full of dread, and very quickly sending a chill through my spine. "Who's that?" I asked Jacob quickly, with eyes wide open in curiosity and concern, my head turning toward him with expectation to know who could be crying. I waited, leaning over the table on my elbows, with my fingers tightly entwined, for Jacob to complete his response while the argument persisted and became more raucous, stubborn as a mule, my anxiety feeding upon it. While Jacob's eyes flicked almost afraidly towards the window, he breathed, as "I don't know, madam," he said, "Maybe it's that stranger.” Suddenly, I remembered that the odd man was still in the compound, and an ill-restrained smile crept over my face. A shock from the stranger seemed funn
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****************An interrogation-like calm would accompany the oft-pondered reply from Jacob: "Should we beat him, Ma?" The sound of it was neither warm nor cold but rather mellow and more comforting than the summer breeze, yet it carried a hint of curiosity. "Shouldn't we?" I pondered, taking a deep breath, wanting to calm my heart, looking at the weighable options. Tension in the air: to weigh the pros and cons, to picture everything possible. "No, no, no, let's not beat him," was how I responded, almost in a whisper. I shook my head slightly, almost imperceptibly, with an authority that felt almost palpable. "So he wouldn't die, then we won't take laws into our own hands," I rushed in saying-willing my thought to somehow construct an explanation. Piling before him were my confused thoughts and equally conflicting feelings, all seeming to pour with such urgent importance. Jacob considered what I said while nodding thoughtfully, not removing his eyes from mine. His mask-like calm
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"I miss you so much, darling," I whispered, hardly audible. "I feel like kissing you right now," I added, my tone having an odd quality, verging on confession. Anticipation clung in the stillness all around us, the kind of omen that suggested it was hammering within every nerve of my being. I could almost visualize Arrow just beside me, his lips a hair's breadth from mine, his breath humid against my skin. In that comforting low voice, Arrow said, "Please take a seat on the bed," his words echoing over the phone. Even so, his voice sheltered me somewhere where a warm summer breeze often walks by, couraging sensations, making me feel secure about that moment wrapped around his arms. His voice was the balm for my aching soul, granting comfort and certainty despite all odds of distance. Despite the fact that you were clung to a nurturing embrace, still conjuring up that memory of an enormous love- cuddling arms. Going to sleep with him, eyelids heavy and body almost melting into what fe
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*************The body bruises and they speak of an action that he must have suffered at some time in the past. All the pains and sufferings have been engraved, in a sort of visual manner, on his very body. My heart ached for him, as this very sadness welled up in me, as if I had a deep well overflowing with sorrow. Let him go, please, let go of him, I was saying, as my heart broke with every word, and my eyes were welling with tears of sorrow and pity. Almost teary, my vision blurred; I watched the man's battered body, his spirit apparently crushed by the brutality meted out to him.But Jacob's face betrayed nothing; his eyes were cold, telling me he was unmoved by the man's suffering; it was indifferent, the kind of look that bore a mask of the emotionally scarred.No, ma, forget that he was pulling your hair; forget that this man slapped you; forget that he walked into your kitchen and ate your food?" The words came slashing through me like cold water that seemed to return me to t
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********** He seemed to feast like one who had a taste for death and had come to the end of all good food. With closed eyes and a face wreathed upward, he savored every chomp, every scent, and the very essence of the food. Slowly but surely-really almost in the fashion of a gentle caress-every morsel found its way to his throat, onwards to his belly, almost as if it were a seduction act. Much thanks, my dearest. The voice was so soft, and the words seemed so genuine that I can almost believe he meant it. Like a gentle stream, the words came from him, flowing endlessly, unabated, as if choking would kill their flow. Who are you? I spoke without delay, my tone firm yet coaxing, attempting to extract the truth gently without pushing him away. You will talk, or we will call the cops, Jacob issued with a threat, his very deep voice sounding authoritative and intimidating, daring the man to contradict the threats. The words hung in the air with an unmistakable weight, like Jacob was tell
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KALMIA’S POVAs I stood in the doorway, paralyzed, the words the man had spoken hung in the atmosphere, almost like a challenge. "Yes, a lady," he had said, speaking in a low growl that shook me to the core. I took pity on the man, whose unutterable sadness clouded his eyes, and the lines etched in despair on his face."It's okay," I said in a gentle manner, reaching out to let him go. "You can go." The man nodded, briefly locking eyes with mine before he turned and walked away into the night.As I watched him walk away, relief washed over me, quickly followed by guilt. I shook my head, forcing the emotions to recede. "We'll talk some more online," I said gently as I turned and entered the house.My hands flew to a pen; fingers curling around it instinctively, I recorded some questions I wanted to throw Arrow's way when he came back. The scratchy noise of the pen over paper gently calmed my chaotic thoughts.Just when I'm finding my flow, the phone blares loudly. For a second, my hear
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While scanning a large group of people and searching the crowd for the person she intended to meet i.e. Jemima, her friend, I felt that my heart raced and eyes rolled out the sound of my blue blood out of respect as it was in the waving arm. The strangest part is that even as I made a move towards her I asked myself whether it was not a mistake and whether I would not regret it very soon. I pressed through and arrived at her side, scanning her face the entire way and as my eyes got to her smilingly radiant face. But as they always say, hindsight is 20/20 and something told me that as a near long-term friend she was just putting on a show to cover up her true feelings. There was that thing in her masquerade eyes, a subtle hint of woe, a distant call for help that made me wonder if everything was okay. "Kalmia, thank you for honoring my invitation," Jemima said, her voice joyful, yet icy. I detected a tinge of strangeness, a lack of warmth, in the way she spoke. "Thank you, Jemima,"
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************* Slumping into the seat of the car, my mind wandered as I began to ingest those same swirling images of the day that formed an ever-tightening vortex threatening to engulf me. It was as if my senses were overloading - a confused jumble of thoughts. Words from the church member who had been talking to me just a moment before were little more than a hum, the kind of barely meaningful background noise you just can't quite tune in. Then there was a question of consuming his mind: the question of Dawn, my daughter, and the details given to me by Samuel. I felt like I was drowning in an ocean of uncertainty, unable to sort through this mass of emotional confusion. I was still digging into these haunting thoughts when I heard faint knocking from the car door. It was a very soft, hesitating type of knocking, yet it jolted me back to reality. I heard Daisy's voice calling for me in a meek, tentative voice. "Mama, mama," she whispered, almost inaudibly. I wiped the tear streaked
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KALMIA’S POV Cold air spouted out of the rooming house. As Arrow and I stepped out of the building, I looked up upon him with a smile. "I'm glad we're in this together," I said in a mask of whispered tones. Arrow smiled back, his eyes crinkling into the corners of his face. "Me too," he replied. "We'll get through this, Kalmia. Together.” Later in the day, or rather a few hours after that, we were escorted to a safe house on the outskirts, a small building without any distinguishable traits that would catch a passer-by's attention. The official introduced the security detail assigned to us, a crack team of agents working to protect us twenty-four-seven. As we made our way and began settling inside the safe house, the unease kept hovering upstairs. There was, indeed, an inscrutable potentiality of freedom in confining oneself to a little room with complete strangers. But I had to accept it for now. Arrow seemed to have sensed my unease and wrapped his arm about me, pulling me clos
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KALMIA’S POV Another big breath was drawn, as if in an attempt to calm this furious storm of emotions stirring in me. The pain of betrayal was still fresh in my mind; yet I needed to think beyond it and outside for those few hesitant souls and a few things that meant anything to me. My gaze rested on the little baby and an overwhelming love and gratitude-for-the-pain-filled-the-heart.-Having-everything, she was the only reason for me, and I had to keep her safe by all means. My mind began questioning the motive of my sister-The thought of what could have driven her into such desperation kept gnawing at me: did she have her own battles to fight and her own miseries, or was it just jealousy and spite? I would never know now, and maybe it does not matter anymore, for what matters is that I have been wronged and I need to find some way to make it right. I knew it was going to be a hard thing to do; it would require all the courage I had within me to rise above it, but I knew I wanted t
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KALMIA’S POV "Aha, indeed, I will say it because I was the one who put your so-called planned career into action after it brought you down," she spat, maliciously. Visha's eyes flashed with defiance and she sneered at me. The fury surged, and my hands clenched into tight fists. But Visha wasn't done yet. "I framed everything up," she continued in a rising level of triumph tracing her voice. "I turned Jemima against you and shouted toward me, throwing her eyes like the evil beacon on top. It was like getting hit in the gut; breath taken out. "No, oooo," I screamed, throat raw and voice trembling with emotion. "Nothing could separate the things about it. Then out into the air came the loudest cry I made. Tears were rolling down in continuance because each stroke of the event hit down hard at that instant. I couldn't bear the sharpness of pain and betrayal. I couldn't take the sound of another angry word flown in my direction again, as Visha had cut me too deep. I felt as if I was losi
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KALMIA’S POV Her words seemed to slice through the air like a knife, and her voice dripped with venom voicing all her discontent. "I never liked you, Kalmia," she said, looking at me with flashing eyes of fury and disdain. There was this sensation of hurt, surprise mixed with confusion as I furrowed my brows to understand the depth of her emotions. "What do you mean?" I queried in a whipser, scanning her countenance for signs of weakness. The bitterness on that face twisted into a smile that shone malignant hues in her eyes. "So you said I hurt you, and I'm apologizing now, this?" My voice had incredulity and frustration laced into it. How could she even think that I would accept that as compensation for all the damage she had done? Memories of past confrontations and betrayals rushed into my consciousness, replete with a sudden surge of fury and spite against her. Visha was a semblance of what one could have guessed-trapped deeply in her emotions, longing and thirsting for an uni
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KALMIA’S POV I wait outside the cell, anxiously glancing at Mr. Isah with a pleading face while panting in anticipation, tinged with a bit of nervousness. "I'm looking forward to seeing my lost sister, Visha," I say, voice almost inaudible, spilling from my mouth like a confession. Mr. Isah inclined his head in deep understanding; his very look was sympathetic, and turned to lead me through the station, his long strides chewing up the distance into nothingness. Strong cold fluorescent light above the hub flickered and hummed, casting a glaring light on those forms. A heavy, cloying scent of disinfectant hovered in the stagnant air, mixed with a cursed faint tang of despair. My footsteps echoed down the walls as I walked with Mr. Isah into the depths of the station. When we arrived at the cell, Mr. Isah grasped the handle and pushed it open in a slow creak before stepping inside, leaving a dim light casting long shadows across the little room. "Visha", I called, my voice so sweet, l
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MR ISAH’S POV I sat at the station in the dark. The soft fluorescent light above cast an eerie glow on the empty chairs and faded floor. Anticipation held my heart in its place, echoing like the drumbeat in my chest throughout my entire being. "Just wai for me, sir," I mumbled to myself with eyes turned toward the phone, where a text from Kalmia said: "I'm on my way", flashing on the screen like a light at the end of a tunnel. "Okay then," I said to myself, slumping back in the chair, a wave of relief washing through my being with the straightening of my spine on the worn-out issue. Time moved forward, and in this losing dusky space, each second was a drag for eternity. I checked my watch what would seem like a million times but felt like the hundredth. My eyes scanned the entire empty station that was growing more impatient with each passing second. The silence clamped down hard, occasionally punctuated with the creaks in the old building and traffic buzzing outside. I shifted in
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MR ISAH’S POV Between walls of thickest warm air, bound by oppressive scents of sweat mingled with fear, I could hardly draw breath, and every breath that I drew seemed to carry some foreign weight crushing into my chest. Visha sat all hunched over in the wooden bench; shoulders barely perceptibly shook; her eyes looked down, refusing to meet mine, locked in mute insubordination to the unasked questions between us. A stubborn silence, thick and impenetrable, stretched between us and with every passing moment added that still very coiled tension within me. "Visha, I'm not answering any of your questions," she finally whispered, so softly it was hard to hear, like a thin thread in an oppressive hush. Although soft, the words smote me with the force of a corporeal blow, burning up the sparks of fury that had been at hand ever so low. "Then okay," I replied in said low, almost dangerous tone, "you are going to do that pen now." It was just a matter-of-fact statement, in the air of an
