MARKWaking up and facing a day without purpose just felt meaningless to me. All thanks to Alexa, my diet had been going well so far, but today, I just didn’t feel like having anything.All appetite had been gone since yesterday.I was confused and restless, and since Vector left, it had become worse. Being alone made my thoughts run wild and kept me up at night. There were so many things I could have done differently to avoid this situation, but now, I was right where I should never be in the first place.There was a knock on my bedroom door, and I knew that it was my housekeeper even before I went to open the door.“What is it?” I asked her impatiently.I already said I didn’t want to be disturbed, so I could not understand why she was coming back to my room again today.“Sir, it is almost time for lunch and you haven’t had anything to eat since yesterday,” she said calmly and worriedly.She was a middle-aged woman who was excellent at her job. Ivy could never have picked the right
IVY“Did you hear what I just said?” She asked me when I stopped but said nothing.I didn’t turn around to loot at her either, so she couldn’t exactly tell my mood. One of the quickest and easiest ways she could get me was looking at my face or staring into my eyes.“We have to keep your name away from scandal, or Mark will have every reason to pull out of the wedding. It is a hard time getting him to commit to you and marry you once and for all as it is now, especially with the silly stunt you pulled the last time,” she added in her most scolding voice.The same voice I was used to hearing my entire life when she wanted me to do this her way.She had always ensured that I saw reasons why I should, which I always did see at the end of the day, and in all fairness, she wasn’t wrong. Since the day she came to me about getting hooked up with Mark Ronaldo, I willingly agreed to it, because I also wanted to be married to a man who was wealthy and influential, and I had been playing by the
IVY“What for?” I asked her defensively.“What do you mean what for? If you hadn’t gone to his apartment, I doubt they would be here right now,” she complained in disappointment. “Did the cops find you there?” She asked after a second passed between us in silence.“Yes, they did,” I answered plainly.“Gosh, Ivy, have you not learnt anything from me at all?” She began to scold me again. “Now you have put yourself out there!” She added angrily.“I didn’t tell them anything even though they had a lot of questions to ask me,” I muttered.Now I wished I had actually answered them, at least, to make her feel more terrible about the situation. It just wasn’t fair that she still didn’t care about Oscar even after knowing that he had been murdered.“Are you sure?” She asked me worriedly.“Yes, I am,” I answered, rolling my eyeballs.“Now I don’t even know if I should take your word for it or not. When it came to Oscar, you just kept lying and sneaking around!” She said disgustedly. “If you had
IVYI couldn’t help it even when I tried to walk away. Her words cut deep into my heart and aroused every anger inside of me.She sounded so raw and unsympathetic and it made me sick to my stomach and engulfed in rage. How could she sound like that even when she could clearly see that I had been crying? How could she be so unsympathetic? How could she be so discriminative even in death?I wouldn’t have cared if she referred to someone else. Heck, I would even join her and say nasty things, but not when it came to Oscar, and I couldn’t stand it.I turned around and looked at her, my eyes red with anguish.“Why would you say that, mum?” I asked her angrily.She obviously wasn’t moved by my anger. The look in her eyes told me that she meant every single word that she said and she wasn’t sorry about it.“Because it’s the truth,” she shrugged nonchalantly and said. “Would you rather have me lie to you?” She asked.I walked closer to her and faced her squarely.It was the first time I would
IVY “A man was found dead, gruesomely murdered in his apartment. His name is…”“That part of town has always been termed as a safe neighborhood, but tragedy has made residents feel unsafe when a young man has been murdered in cold blood. The cops are still trying to find out what happened, as no one saw anyone go in or come out of his apartment. His apartment number is…”“Barely twenty-four hours after he was released from cell, his life was ruthlessly snatched away from him, and this was after spending nights in jail after an attempted attack on Miss Alexa Silver…”“The cops are assuring residents that full investigation will be carried out and henceforth, security will be made available for their safety and comfort…”“This is a sad day for everyone in Paris…”“Regardless of what crime he might have committed, he is still a citizen of the state and doesn’t deserve what happened to him, especially if he has been released…”“Whoever killed him must have had it perfectly timed; fresh o
MARKI kept my head bowed for some minutes, just trying to think of the next thing to do. Vector was right.I never wanted to be found in this situation, but apparently, it seemed that I would need an ally since I already involved Vector. Allegations of being paid to threaten a woman’s peace was one thing, and something that I could easily get out of, but a murder was a completely different case.And sometimes, money and influence might not help.It was even worse, more complicated and dangerous when the person who was murdered had my name in his mouth before he died. Everyone already heard what he accused me of, and if they found out that I visited him at his house, no one would believe that I already found him dead, especially as I ran off without alerting the cops.This was really a dicey situation, and never in my wildest imaginations did I think that I was going to be in this situation.All because of Alexa.Wouldn’t it be better if Vector knew about my recent obsession with Ale