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The Kiss of Death

The Kiss of Death

Cerita Pendek · Mystery/Thriller
Oleh:  Yam KittyTamat
Bahasa: English
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Sinopsis

Plot Twists

Female Solidarity

Girl Power

Mind-Bending

Pathological

Substitute

Scumbag

Family Emotions

Crime

I give my grandmother a gift she'll never forget on her 60th birthday. My husband and I get into a fight on the highway back to my hometown. He pulls over in the emergency lane and chases me out of the car. He then drives off, leaving me stranded on the highway. He later gets into a major accident on the highway. His car is totaled, and he dies. It's actually not an accident—it's homicide. I'm the murderer.

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Chapter 1

The police officers rang my doorbell at 5:00 am that morning. I yawned and stepped out in my nightgown to answer the door.

"Are you Ivy Lane?"

I nodded. "Yes, that's me."

The officer leading the group was a woman in her 40s, who presented her badge. I glanced at her name, and it was Eleanor Castillo.

"We're from the Everwood Police Department. Your husband, Chester Paget, was involved in a serious car accident last night on the Everwood section of the ring highway. He died at the scene."

From the moment I saw the officers at my door, an uneasy weight had been pressing on my chest. The phrase "died at the scene" dropped like a final anchor, grounding all my swirling emotions in an instant.

This moment was something I had rehearsed in my mind more times than I could count.

"An accident?" Feigning shock, I froze for a moment, murmuring under my breath as I covered my face with both hands.

"No… No, that's impossible…"

When I lowered my hands, my eyes were bloodshot, and a single, perfectly timed tear rolled down my cheek.

"What caused the accident? He was fine last night. How could he just…"

Eleanor observed my reaction closely as she replied, "The preliminary investigation suggests that fatigue driving may have been the cause."

I gripped the doorframe, my voice breaking as I muttered, "That stretch of highway… the service stations are too far apart, and it was right at dusk when visibility was poor.

"Yesterday was my mother-in-law's birthday. He must've been rushing to make it back for dinner. If only we'd left earlier…"

"Ms. Lane, we'll need your cooperation. Please come with us—"
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Karina Coronel
Karina Coronel
Me gustó, buen plot twist
2025-06-20 05:56:36
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Angela
Angela
This wasn’t her grandmother. It was her mother in law.
2025-04-14 08:09:40
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Cris Land
Cris Land
That was quite a ride.
2025-03-19 18:33:53
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RMg7055
RMg7055
Nice........
2025-03-16 06:20:30
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Heather W
Heather W
this right here is the feel good story you're looking for
2025-02-18 17:12:33
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18 Bab
Chapter 1
The police officers rang my doorbell at 5:00 am that morning. I yawned and stepped out in my nightgown to answer the door."Are you Ivy Lane?"I nodded. "Yes, that's me."The officer leading the group was a woman in her 40s, who presented her badge. I glanced at her name, and it was Eleanor Castillo."We're from the Everwood Police Department. Your husband, Chester Paget, was involved in a serious car accident last night on the Everwood section of the ring highway. He died at the scene."From the moment I saw the officers at my door, an uneasy weight had been pressing on my chest. The phrase "died at the scene" dropped like a final anchor, grounding all my swirling emotions in an instant.This moment was something I had rehearsed in my mind more times than I could count."An accident?" Feigning shock, I froze for a moment, murmuring under my breath as I covered my face with both hands."No… No, that's impossible…"When I lowered my hands, my eyes were bloodshot, and a single,
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Chapter 2
Eleanor gestured inside with a slight nod. "You should go and change your clothes."Wiping away my tears, I went to my room and changed into a black dress with a black jacket over it. There are plenty of black clothes in my wardrobe, and black seemed to match the tone of my life over the past few years.When I came out, Eleanor was leading several officers as they examined and photographed my home. Meanwhile, I glanced around blankly, looking dazed and grief-stricken.She pointed to the long row of medicine bottles on top of the dresser. "Whose medication is this?""The ones on the left are mine. The ones on the right belong to my husband."She leaned in to take a closer look. "Carbamazepine… Do you have bipolar disorder?""Something like that," I replied weakly."How long has it been?""Three years. My mother-in-law's sister is a doctor. Every two or three months, my husband would take me to see her. The medical records are in the drawer below."She pulled out a thick stack o
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Chapter 3
"From now on, you are the prime suspect in Chester Paget's murder!" Eleanor said as she leaned on the table with both arms, her sharp gaze drilling into me."The lab results are out. We found sleeping pills in his bloodstream! Aren't these Diazepams yours? Tell me, why did you murder your husband?"I froze for a moment before abruptly standing, my emotions spiraling out of control as I shouted, "That's impossible! This bottle contains Carbamazepine!"I have bipolar disorder—why would there be Diazepam in my house?"Anyone with basic knowledge would know that Diazepam was used to treat depression and insomnia, but it was contraindicated for bipolar patients. Using it could worsen symptoms and lead to severe adverse effects!I reached out to grab the bottle, but Eleanor was faster. She snatched it back before I could touch it. My hand grasped at the air, and I slammed the table in frustration."You can't just frame me like this! You can check everything—my phone, my computer—they'r
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Chapter 4
Eleanor placed some documents on the table and poured me a glass of warm water. She then began saying, "Ivy, I have a few questions to ask you. Don't worry, just answer honestly."The weather was chilly, so I wrapped my hands around the cup. The warmth gradually revived my icy fingers."What was your relationship with your husband like?" she asked."He treated me well, but…"I covered my face with my hands, and my eyes welled up with tears again. As his image came to mind, tears streamed through my fingers, and I sobbed uncontrollably."It was all my fault. I could never meet his expectations. He always said no other wife would be as incompetent as me. I feel like such a failure…"He said a woman should be capable of both hosting in the living room and cooking in the kitchen, but no matter how hard I tried, my cooking never satisfied him. I could barely earn a few thousand a month and was no help to his business…" I stammered.Those were his exact words.Chester was an expert a
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Chapter 5
"It's all my fault. If I hadn't left that unlabeled bottle there, he wouldn't have grabbed the wrong one and accidentally taken the sleeping pills…"If I hadn't delayed him with my makeup… If I hadn't lost control of my emotions and argued with him on the road—if I hadn't let him kick me out of the car—maybe this wouldn't have happened…" I said between sobs.The police must have reviewed the dashcam footage repeatedly after the accident, so what I said was nothing but the truth.I pleaded with Eleanor through my tears, "Ms. Castillo, you must find out who switched my medication and who caused my husband's death!"Eleanor scribbled a few notes in her notebook, sighed, and offered me a few comforting words before asking, "What was your relationship like with your mother-in-law?"I froze for a moment, and I wiped my tears with the back of my hand."My mother-in-law treated me very well. When my parents passed away in an accident six years ago, they left me nothing but a large compen
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Chapter 6
I lowered my gaze to my hands. On the ring finger of my left hand was a simple band, a ring that had cost me nearly my life to hold onto.My hands were clean but neither slender nor soft.Chester often complained that my cooking lacked variety and flavor, so I spent almost every evening after work in the kitchen. The constant exposure to grease and dishwashing detergent had ruined the skin on my hands long ago.I raised my head, and tears again welled up in my eyes. I asked, "Ms. Castillo, can I see Chester?"Eleanor hesitated for a moment before nodding."The accident was very severe. Mr. Paget's body had to be stitched back together. You should mentally prepare yourself…"She led me to the forensic room, where the air was thick with the acrid tang of disinfectant, the metallic tang of blood, and a nauseating undercurrent of decay that made my stomach churn.On the autopsy table lay Chester, covered in a white sheet. His form was barely recognizable as human. A blood-stained ha
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Chapter 7
Florence had rushed over from her hometown as soon as she got the news. She stormed into the room, pulled back the white sheet covering Chester's face, and gasped.His facial injuries were not as severe as expected; the bloodstains had been cleaned, and his features were still recognizable.She took one look at him before collapsing onto the floor, wailing loudly. "My son! My poor son! You died so horribly!"Noticing me nearby, she suddenly scrambled to her feet and lunged at me as her face twisted with rage. "Ivy Lane! You wretched woman! It's all your fault! You killed my son!"Eleanor and the forensic examiner immediately rushed forward to restrain her.Unable to reach me, Florence flailed her arms in the air, pointing a trembling finger at me as she cried out, "My son would never take sleeping pills while driving! She must have drugged Chester!"I lifted my head and showed them my carefully prepared expression—a mix of grief and shock, as well as trembling pairs of lips."Mo
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Chapter 8
Florence turned to look at Chester's lifeless body. The sight seemed to knock the breath out of her, and she collapsed into another fit of wrenching sobs."Why couldn't it have been Ivy who died? She deserves it, just like her parents did… My poor son…"I looked at Florence, then at Marigold Collins, and murmured tremblingly, "How could this happen? Mom, didn't you say Mari was Chester's cousin, and she's just staying temporarily at our family home…"Marigold, the woman who had come with Florence, shrank into the corner, avoiding my gaze. She looked helpless as her eyes darted between me and Chester's body on the autopsy table.Holding the child in her arms tightly, she let tears stream silently down her face.For a moment, I stood frozen before finally snapping. I stormed out of the forensic room, ran into a nearby office, and grabbed a water cup from a desk.I hurled it against the wall with a loud crash. I even let out a raw, piercing scream as I swept everything off the desk
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Chapter 9
Florence's eyes were swollen and bloodshot, a clear sign that Chester's death had hit her hard.The moment she stepped through the door, she started yelling, "Ivy Lane, I'll have you know right now that even if you killed my son, you'll never get a single cent from the Paget family!"My son's assets and this house will never belong to you, and I'll make sure you end up in prison!"How ridiculous. What assets did she think Chester could possibly have left?I had already discreetly investigated this through a friend at the bank. Since our marriage, Chester's income had been steadily transferred into accounts under Florence's name and her company.Even my premarital savings had been tricked out of me under the guise of "helping with financial turnover". Meanwhile, Florence's wedding gift for me had gone toward renovating the house Chester had bought before our marriage.In short, if I had sought a divorce while he was alive, I wouldn't have been entitled to his income or property—an
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Chapter 10
Florence froze, and her face turned ashen in an instant."No, you're lying!" she snapped."Am I? Then why don't you take him for a paternity test? Let's see if Marigold dares to go through with it!"A few days later, I received an email from an unknown person in a rarely used email account. Attached to it was a photo of a paternity test report.The results clearly stated, "No direct genetic relationship exists between the two submitted samples."It was Florence who had sent in her own hair sample for comparison with Daniel's.I immediately cleared my inbox, permanently deleted the email, and closed the account. I also erased my browsing history out of habit.The bottle of Carbamazepine I'd purchased earlier sat on the coffee table in the living room. Each day, I would take a few pills and flush them down the toilet to match the prescribed dosage.I did suffer from mild bipolar disorder. It was a result of the emotional trauma from my parents' accident and the relentless psychol
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