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Ch. 77 - A CASE TO BE REOPENED
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A Marriage Deal To Remember Ch. 83 - ANOTHER TROUBLE
JENSYNThe alarm cut through the still morning air harshly. I reluctantly slapped it off before another shrill came. I then rolled off the bed onto the floor. A quick glance at the time and it read 6:15 am. That was enough time for me to do some early morning exercise before going to work.Yesterday’s turns of events at the office could have made me decide not to work again, but I was doing it for passion, not for fun. Susanne made sure I worked from the time I got to work till 6 o'clock. She gave me tons of files to edit, knowing they were not in my designation. I did them because I was the one who said I would do anything to avoid being sacked.Today, there was enough time to make up for yesterday’s disaster.The shower hissed when I turned it on. Steam curled around me in no time. I made sure I scrubbed those parts of my body that had ached from leaning too close to the computer. And when I was done, I looked a little like someone that screamed ‘competent’ rather than a disheveled
A Marriage Deal To Remember Ch. 82 - MY FATHER IS THE SUSPECT
LINDENAndrea's mother died in St. Ives Hospital, it was thirty minutes after she left my place. The drive to the hospital felt like I was stepping into a world I swore I wouldn't ever enter. I ignored the honking of cars and the blur of passers-by. Monroe's words sat in my head like a broken tape: "Some things are better left buried, Linden”.It should actually be buried but something told me I needed to find out the truth. For Andrea.I had read the autopsy result three times since leaving Monroe in Hudson. Every line clawed at me. The fact that alcohol was found in her blood was weird. According to the result, it was higher than I ever remembered her drinking. There were bruises on her wrists too, inconsistent cuts here and there. And the fact that her seatbelt was off: she always wore a seatbelt. Always.These things didn't matter to me because I gave them no importance. She didn't want me to have Andrea and she would go to any length to have me as her lover. All that mattered wa
A Marriage Deal To Remember Ch. 81 - A DAY OUT LATE
JENSYNRiver's apartment was closer to my workplace. When I knocked and he let me in, the room smelt faintly of coffee and fried potatoes. The warmness in his place could make one forget you had been running on adrenaline for the past one and half hours. My chest still heaved from rushing to get Andrea to the hospital and past the dread that shows I was late for work.The names I got weren't sent on text to River. I wanted to have him see it and also talk about what his next line of action would be. I had already written the names down on paper and when I was seated round his small table with chairs that had wheels, I slid the folded sheet across the table.“Those are the names.” I murmured, my voice was swallowed by the hum of the song he was playing. Although it was fairly distant, somewhere in his room sat the music player. River glanced down at the paper, then back at me. “Wow, this was faster than I imagined.”“There should be no prevarication,” I leaned back, clutching my bag t
A Marriage Deal To Remember Ch. 80 - THIS IS ALL I NEED
JENSYNIt was today.I mean today was the day I should take Andrea to meet the dentist for an appointment and hell, I also have work!Well, technically, my aim wasn't entirely to get her to the dentist. I wanted to do what River called, “the only way”. This was it. This was my only chance before Andrea gets another appointment, and unfortunately, it's once every two months.My eyes trailed over my phone and I gasped. It was past nine o'clock. Work started twenty minutes ago and this was my third day at work, yet I was defaulting.I should’ve been on the laptop by now, typing whatever Susanne must have prepared for me, pretending I’d been there all morning. Instead, I was pacing between the counter and the sink, tapping my nail against the mug and trying to get Andrea to hurry up. “Come on, Andrea,” I called up, forcing enthusiasm into my voice. “We’ve got the dentist in half an hour. I have work to go to.”Her answer floated down through the stairwell, muffled. “I'm coming, I just ha
A Marriage Deal To Remember Ch. 79 - A BAD FIRST DAY
JENSYNIt was my first day at work. I didn’t really feel anything except the fact that I was working where I had always wanted to work. It was a dream come true. I was living that dream my father said were not meant for girls. Maybe he meant writing was not meant for me in particular. He was nice to other kids, not to me though.By nine o’clock, I was settled into a small office with three desks squeezed into a rectangle barely bigger than a walk-in closet. There were two large window frames which compensated for the small size of the working space. It was well ventilated. The air smelt of paper and lemon cleaner. The morning sun spilled in through the neatly cleaned, high windows.The two coworkers that I had, Marcy and Jonah, made sure I was comfortable in my space. Marcy, a petite woman with chestnut curls and a warm smile, insisted on helping me arrange my belongings in my space. Jonah, the man who was tall and lanky, with glasses pinched on his nose, occupied the desk opposite mi
A Marriage Deal To Remember Ch. 78 - THE ONLY WAY
JENSYNI hadn't been in this gym in a long time. I figured it was the best place to meet River without anyone seeing us together and thinking we were in some kind of relationship. The same smell of disinfectant and iron rose in the air. It was empty and I found River immediately. He waited near the rack of dumbbells with a baseball cap pulled low over his face. His shirt clung to his body which showed he just finished working out. He smiled when I reached his side. We hugged briefly before he led me to the gym's cafeteria which was oddly empty too. We didn't waste time on pleasantries. River pressed a folded sheet into my palm and urged me to check it. I unfolded it, my pulse tightening with whatever I might read inside. It was the details of Andrea's birth—St. Gregory’s Maternity, the name of the hospital; August 9th, the day she was born. It was different from the one I snapped. Beneath is the mother's name which reads: Willow Rawlings.My breath caught in my throat.River immedi
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