I didn’t understand why my dad was so amused watching us. Or maybe me. If he was upset that I drank without him when he had offered me a lot of times to join him as he watched his favorite baseball team play the game every league, why would he look amused? I can even see him holding his laughter. He did not even fail to let his reactions hidden at times. But I had no time to interrogate him for the answers right now.“Bye, for now, dad, we are going to talk when I get back, okay?” I groaned as I walked away after giving him a kiss on his right cheek.“I will be waiting,” dad replied with a breathy laugh. Then he turned to Marco. “Drive safely, young man. I don’t want to see anyone bleeding when you return,” dad added.“Yes, sir!” Marco res
“Do you mind if we tell your dad we will be home late tonight?” Marco asked all of a sudden.“What? Where are we going? It’s just mid-morning,” I answered wondering.“I don’t want to lead whoever is after me to where you live and your dad,” Marco answered as he drove with speed. I could swear he was way past the limit, but I could not tell him to drive slow or abode with the law. If I remember the people after Marco correctly, they had deadly weapons. I don’t want to take any chances of being shot by a gun.“We will lose them first and change vehicles then when it is safe, I will send you home,” Marco said. “I can no longer be seen near you or around you. As much as possible, I cannot drag you and Ted into the mess I am because
Marco’s POVI did not want Skye to see the brutal death of her dad, but I guess I was too late. She saw what she wasn’t supposed to see and she lost it. She fainted in my arms.“Think! Think!” I knocked my head for what is best done in my situation.My car was parked at a distance and carrying an unconscious full grown woman with her whole weight in my arms might get us both dead before we reached the vehicle to leave this place alive.“I will be right back, Skye. Stay here for a while,” I whispered to Skye despite knowing she wouldn’t have heard whatever I had just said. I will use the element of surprise to avenge Ted’s unnecessary death at the hands of whoever was after me.
Days passed.I personally attended to everything regarding Ted’s cremation. I called for professional cleaners and ordered them to put everything in the same way they were before the incident happened in the Christoffs household. I wanted to present the same house to Skye when she gets better with Ted’s ashes in an Urn placed in the center of the living room with Ted’s smiling picture right next to it.I returned to my rest where Skye was staying at the moment but she was still in her coma state.I felt so sorry that she did not get to mourn her dad like normal people do because the shock overwhelmed her and now she is mentally refusing to wake up.As per Naomi’s professional suggestion, I have sought various medical assist
I had my suspicions.My office is not a place open for anyone to get into, and aside from Gab, my best friend and most trusted man, there was only the company secretary, an old lady, who used to be my dad’s secretary ever since he started the business, Heidi Buscemi. Then there are the cleaners who would come before and after my working hours to tidy up my room while I am not around and the whole floor, according to their tasks. I don’t even know their names or their faces since I haven’t seen them, but I know there are people under my company's payroll to clean the whole building.I had not ruled out Gab to be among the people to have done such betrayal, but I was hoping deep within me he wasn’t. When he came forward, I was too tempted to cut his head the way he had offered. I was still furious when I heard his confessions b
Skye’s POVI felt like I was trapped in a box. I couldn’t move. I couldn’t even breathe. My words were soundless despite the feeling of my sore throat and aching neck from screaming.“Stop! Stop! Stop!”I could see the woman swaying her hands to defend her body from the non-stop stabbing of someone in front of her. The attacker’s back was to my face and all I could see was his movement from behind and the woman’s horrified and extremely pained face. She was looking at me with a plea not to come out from where she told me to hide until help comes to save us.Then, I saw my dad smiling at me while he was tied to a chair. But not too long after a man walked passed by him and after saying some inaud
I tried to gather every bit of strength I had in me to respond to Marco. But I felt like I was tied with invisible ropes so tightly. I couldn’t move. I couldn’t speak. I heard the excitement in Marco’s voice as well as the immense despair and sadness they bore so I tried even harder. Alas, all I managed to do was open my eyes. I did not want to even blink in fear of not being able to open them again. However, all I could see was the white ceiling above the bed I was lying on to. I couldn’t even focus to listen to my surroundings in order to keep my mind awake because I wanted to tell Marco not to be too sad, but before I could do so, I felt Marco’s hand loosen its hold on mine and his presence left my side. I panicked. I wanted to call him to stay by my side, at least hold my hand and let my fears go away. But I could only hear a woman’s voice talking to me. I didn’t even understand what the woman was saying. Another wave of indescribable fear encompassed me horrifyingly. The sounds
“Is this all a dream?” I asked my dad.I looked around. Everything seemed so real.The weather. The surroundings. Not a thing was weird or out of the ordinary. But something was off. I could tell something was different but no matter how hard I tried to point it out, I just couldn’t. So I asked dad. I looked straight into his eyes.“Dad?” I called with indescribable feelings of mixed fear, wonder, and comfort. All at the same time. All like one. I have always known his eyes to be blue, Pure Blue, but now, I can see them as Sky Blue. And they seemed warmer to look at. I got lost in his eyes but his answer woke me up and brought me back from my wandering thoughts.“This is not a dream, Sweetie. This is a part of y