LOGIN“Congratulations, Miss Renata Castell, you are two weeks pregnant,” the doctor beamed with a smile as she handed the paper over to me.She stared at her blankly, but received the paper, refusing to believe that she was pregnant and she knew who had the baby.“Th… thank you.” Renata stuttered, finally glancing at the paper in her hand.She left the hospital with mixed feelings. She pondered on some questions which bothered her.How was she pregnant this whole time and she didn’t realize it?It had to take a lady from the store to notice it, because if she had not mentioned it, she wouldn’t have taken the pregnancy test.Renata headed straight home with the thoughts about her pregnancy all over the place. She knew she had only one option, which was to abort the baby.She was never going to birth a child for man who cleaned up the murder of her parents so that his ex-wife and son would live a normal life while she struggled with inferiority complex, debts and mental breakdowns which ofte
When all the chaos had died down, and Renata had convinced Nina’s parents to sign the death certificate of their daughter, the funeral was done swiftly because it was believed that Nina was a young woman who had only just started experiencing life.At her funeral, Constanza and Santiago didn’t pay a visit, but she later heard from the cemetery guard that they came to place flowers at her tomb.The only person that honoured Nina was Domingo. And on that day, he had seen hershe made a drastic move and that was moving back to New York with Liam.That morning, she woke up tired with a headache that threatened to split through her head. She headed to the living room which had an open plan kitchen. She opened the fridge and grabbed a bottle of water which she drowned in seconds.“Ahhh… this doesn’t help,” she shook her head as she stared at the empty bottle in her hand.She tossed the empty can of water into the recycling bag and headed upstairs where she heard Liam crying.“Hey little on
Beep! Beep!!Beep!!!The alarm clock chimed non-stop in the early hours of Friday morning, making Renata toss in her bed.“Oh shut up!” She groaned tiredly, knocking down the alarm from the bedside table.She tried to go back to sleep, but it was mission impossible, the alarm had just ruined her morning sleep for the third time in the week.“Oh God!” She yawned with her hand hovering over her mouth and her eyes still closed.Just as she was about to yank off the duvet covering her body, her phone began to vibrate.She couldn’t help but wonder who might be calling her very early. She reached out tiredly under the second pillow for her phone.“Hello?” She slid the answer button still yawing.“Mrs. Serrano, could you please come to the hospital? It is urgent,” the person on the other end of the phone said.“The hospital?”“Why?” She ran her hands through her disheveled hair, still feeling sleepy.“It is Miss Nina, she is in a very critical condition.” The person said.“Nina?” Her eyes
Tears welled up in her eyes, her shaky hands covered her ears as she stared at the screen of her laptop with a mixture of rage and disgust.The more she cried, the moans from the video drummed against her eardrums making her shake like a lone leaf in winter.“Oh, my God!” She fell to the floor, holding her chest as the tears caught in her throat.She had seen her world shatter before, but this only brought fresh betrayal upon her. Never would she have imagined that Constanza would have been wrapped intimately in Domingo’s strong arms.She really didn’t want to care about how he fucked her, but it was almost inevitable not to watch. He fucked Constanza really well and that made her rage with jealousy.Had he been cheating on her with Constanza all this time?Since the day she announced to them that the case of 2010 had been reopened, she had always tried to see reasons why Domingo shouldn’t be punished alongside Constanza and Santiago, she couldn’t tell why she felt so much attraction
A week passed by slowly. Renata switched hotels almost every day because of the anonymous threat letters, calls, and texts she received from time to time.This was all because she had requested that the case of 2010, involving the death of her parents be reopened.The court hearing had been slated for next month, and she couldn’t wait any longer for the day to come. She couldn’t deny the unsettling feeling rooted deep in her heart.Every night, she woke up with her nightgown and bedsheets drenched in sweat. Her breath laboured every time she woke up startled by the recurring nightmares.She couldn’t make out anything out of those nightmares even when they were just the same every time and this made her scared each time she found herself drifting to sleep.The gory images of that night flashed through her mind as she stood before the wash hand basin in the bathroom. “Stop!” She screamed, burying her face in her hands.“Stop… stop, please,” she whispered, breaking down in tears.In tho
It was 9:10 in the morning and none of them was at the location she had sent out to them. Didn’t they get the message? She sat in the backseat of the cab, her eyes darting around when a car drove past or cornered the shopping mall.Her phone was in her hands but it was still switched off. She wasn’t ready to put it back, all she had to do was wait for an extra hour to make sure she didn’t leave before they arrived.She nodded to the country music which played on the radio, but right now she had given up on any of them showing up.“It’s 10:15 ma’am. Do you still want to wait?” The driver asked looking at the road ahead.Renata let out a deep sigh. She sat up from her reclined position.“I doubt if they will show up. Let’s leave,” she said.The car began to move, they were about to drive out of the gates of the estate when a car drove past them, but she recognized the car almost immediately.“Stop the car,” she turned to look at the car that drove past.“I think someone might have show







