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CHAPTER THIRTY NINE
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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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As soon as the woman's gaze clashed with mine, needle-sharp and inquisitive, she put the question that made my heart skip. "What do you mean madam? Do you have anyone who fits the description?" Her tone had a slight implication of curiosity, through the eyes were very eager to know the truth. That gave me a shiver. I stood frozen for a short time, trying to decipher the implications of her question. Jemima stood there in that attitude, hands on her waist, scrutinizing me with an intensity that turned me into a specimen under a microscope. I swear I felt her glare pin me down, as if she too waited for the answer. I inhaled a deep breath, forcing my mind to arrange itself whilst mumbling through an answer. "Y-yeah," I stammered, barely above a whisper. "She was my younger sister with this description...but we lost her into the cold hands of death years back." The relentless eyes of the woman never left mine, while the question that followed fettered me even deeper. "Are you sure she
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Frozen with shock, one hand clung to the phone as though it were a lifeline. The words echoed in his mind. "No, doctor," I pleaded, my voice cracking with anguish, "It was a mistake. My wife is not dead." The rush of my words felt like an attempted incantation to solidify their value. The response was ever so cold, blunt as a hammer. "Sir, we are using her phone to call you," the lady said, and I could hear grim dreadfulness weighing in on her voice; "please come earlier, so she won't be given out to schools to be used as practicals." What water her words had in them slapped me hard, sending ripples of shock into horror. She yelled that death was nothing to her, just an everyday thing, almost to the pitch of shrieking. At that moment, it dawned on me that this person, this stranger on the other end of the line, absolutely could not care less about the gravity of what she was saying. My wife, the love of my life, was to her nothing more than a specimen for experimental dissection.
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In a worried tone, she asked, "What happened, Mr. Arrow?" stepping towards me. Her eyes seemed to survey the whole scene. I inhaled deeply, forcing myself to regain some self-control; for deep inside, my blood was boiling."This...maniac has summoned me,"I said, pointing my finger with an air of accusation at the shaking man in indignation. Instead of treating me with the respect and care I deserved, this man was spouting rubbish. His wounds cut deep into my soul. I could feel my anger boiling over at the rekindled memory of his insults, and I fought to keep my feelings under control. "Calm down, Mr. Arrow. Explain it to us," another man said from the crowd in a gentle and soothing tone while stepping toward us. "You're still angry," he stated. At that moment, the doctor arrived through steamrolling the crowd with forbidding, autocratic expression etched all over him. "What in heaven's name is going on here!" he said firmly and in a commanding tone. How--oooohhh, I felt relief at h
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ARROW’S POV "Yes, doctor," I said, and enthused was I to enter the room. Such calm soothing: the drone of air conditioning, a soft hiss of papers across the desk awaiting great news. "As I sat, Dr. Smith glanced up, his eyes sparkling and warm, inviting me to sit down before his desk. "Lovely news for you, Mr.-Arrow," he said, the rapt smile radiating with enthusiasm, as I settled into the chair. My heart racing with anticipation, and I fought to calm my breathing as I waited for the doctor to go on. "Oh, I cant wait to hear this, doctor; what is it?" My voice was charged with excitement; my heart raced as I waited. Enthusiasm was evident in my voice, and my heart was racing in expectation. "Your wife is responding so well," Dr. Smith said, full of beautiful optimism as he leaned comfortably back on his chair. The words reached my ears like music-the music of hope. A huge burden lifted from my shoulders as I could finally release the breath I had been holding. The heavines
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I woke with a jerk, body raising with tremendous force as I came to the stark realization that it was already morning-the next day-a new day; a day with a fresh batch of worries, new tides of anxiety washing over me like a cold dark wave. An unwelcome slant of sunlight flashed through the window, hitting me hard, forcing me to squint, while the dull throbbing ache crashed down upon my head like a sledgehammer. "Kalmia! Jemima!" I screamed, my voice a loud urgent sound bouncing off the walls, but not a breath seemed to be heard-just that awful, wrenching silence that tore through empty walls as if I were shouting into a vacuum. And memories snapped into view; how they were at the hospital the night before? My heart sank, my stomach twisted with worry, a knife turning in my gut. Stood up, forcing it with all my will, the body weary, the muscles stiff from tiredness, the grittiness in my eyes from sleeplessness. It was like crawling out from the depth of a dark, bottomless pit. I mad
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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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VISHA’S POV About halfway through scaling the fence and reaching the top of the pole with my hands, I strained to boost myself up when I heard behind me the crunch of gravel footsteps. That sudden noise sent a bolt of dread surging through me, and I froze, fretting beneath the pumped rush of my heart. It left my mind blank with a complete psychological paralysis that made it difficult for me to think or even move. "I arrest you," he declared, his voice reverberating through the night, sounding almost like a funeral bell. This revitalized my stupor like splashes of cold water. Officer's words put in the air the formality of that situation. "Come down," they commanded him, sounding strenuous and authoritative in tone. There was that swell of reluctance, the unwillingness of my body to listen, but I knew I had no choice. I began easing myself down and letting the hands slip from the fence as I fell to the ground. Every footfall driving into the ground became deafeningly loud like som
