JACKIEI walked to the labor house in search of Saint, but I was surprised by what I saw.Most of the young lads were not just being idle, they were also sniffing hard drugs. I stood there, my mouth agape in shock, and I couldn’t believe what I was seeing.“What the fuck is going on here?” I barked at them.They jerked in shock, and began to scurry into hiding.“Come here!” I beckoned to one of them who was too afraid to run away like the others.He walked towards me shakily. He had already quickly dropped the wrap of hard drug he was sniffing along with the others, and it was obvious that he was scared to his bones. It made me wonder why he was doing it in the first place.“Good…hello…Miss Jackie,” he stuttered through a greeting.His eyes were becoming red, and his brows twitched; the effect of the drug that he was taking.I rarely ever came here. As a matter of fact, I didn’t even remember if I had ever really come here or not. Saint and I weren’t always cool, and since this was hi
MIAI couldn’t stop thinking about those pictures and files. There had to be an explanation to it, but unfortunately, Keith was unwilling to give me that explanation.“He is hiding something,” I said to myself as I walked from one side of the room to another. “Something is going on that I am not aware of,” I added.Since he bought me from the sex house at such an outrageous amount of money, I had been wondering why. He was a stranger that I hadn’t set my eyes on, and even though the only reason men buy women from the sex house was for them to become their sex slave, so far, that hadn’t happened.Now, it dawned on me that I wasn’t a stranger to Keith.He knew me before he bought me from the sex house. How did he even know that I was going to be there at that time? Thinking about it now, I realized that it was pre-planned. Everything was planned, and I was the naive fool in all of it.He knew my mum and stepdad as well. He had everything about them documented, so what was happening that
KEITH Reminiscing on the past brought back all the rage that I had buried deep inside. My veins tightened with venom and bitterness, and I wished that I could get a hold of the bastard, Edward Zachary, and make him pay for everything.To think that he was roaming the earth freely even made it worse.I didn’t do anything to make him rot behind bars years ago, and even now that I had the power to snuff life out of him, I didn’t.When I heard that he was getting married, I had been enraged. After giving false narrative about my mum’s death and tarnishing her name even in death, he had had the audacity to move on to another woman. Then I had made plans to make his life a living hell. However, I had gone to the wedding reception venue, and my intentions had changed completely when I set eyes on his stepdaughter, my stepsister, Mia Atwoods, and once again, I hadn’t done what I was supposed to do.“One day, Edward Zachary, you will pay for your sins just the way I made Von Quavo pay for his
KEITH “Yes.”That singular word had set my dad free from what they didn’t know that he had committed. “We will take her to the morgue and keep her there until you are ready for a funeral. Please, accept our condolence on the loss of your wife,” the head cop had said.“Thank you,” my dad had responded.Then as we sat still in the living room, they went back upstairs with the paramedics they came with, wrapped my mum’s cold body in a bag and took her out. In my eyes, they walked slowly, and my eyes had followed them out, knowing that in that bag was my mum’s body, gruesomely murdered.And more than that, knowing that it will be the last time I would ever see her, hear her voice, or get served her tasteless chicken soup. The tears had gathered in my throat, but right now, it wouldn’t come out. It was lodged there, and it choked me.My dad had gotten up, walked to the door to ensure that they were gone before he sucked his teeth and locked the door.“Fucking bastards,” he had muttered.
KEITH Again, I didn’t have the chance to mourn. I stood there contemplating on whether to hide in the bathroom or go out to the living room.But when I thought about my dad’s threat and the venom and danger in his eyes, I knew that I couldn’t stay back in the bathroom. Slowly, gently, I went out.“I called since,” my dad was saying to the cops when I walked into the living room.“Is that your son?” The cop asked when he saw me, ignoring my dad’s statement.I was shaking. As much as I tried to act as my dad would have wanted it, I couldn’t help it. When he asked the question, my dad turned to look at me, and I saw the fire in his eyes.He was enraged and disappointed with me.“Yes, he is,” my dad answered, turning to the cop. “If y’all had gotten here in time, the shit wouldn’t have gotten him so badly, and now, he is all shaken up,” my dad complained, twisting the situation.“Where is the emergency?” The cop asked, ignoring my dad’s statement again.Indeed, they really didn’t give a
KEITH “Hello, hello…” Edward had called, pretending to stutter and fret over the phone.I just sat there and watched him with heartbreaking awe.“This is Edward Zachary, from house number 5, on Ball Street…there’s been an accident. Yes, yes, an accident…”Then he ended the call, turned to me, and smiled.“See, that was easy-peasy, wasn’t it?” He had asked me.I swallowed hard and nodded. Then he ground his teeth in annoyance and his jaw tightened with rage.“What did I say about speaking up when I ask a bloody question?” He asked me furiously.We were still seated at the dining table. He was sitting on my mum’s spot, and I, the same chair I had sat on before he stormed in and created chaos. It was as though things were normal, only that my dad was now sitting in her position, while her body laid in the room, rotting away. “Yes, easy,” I said, forcing the words out.The image still kept coming to my head and messing with me. How I was able to pretend through it all and sit still, I c