Lahat ng Kabanata ng Sphinx : Kabanata 1 - Kabanata 10

What led to this situation? Rachael thought as she looked at her father in the driver’s seat. She could see the fear in his eyes and that was something she rarely saw in her father, fear. Mr. McQueen was breathing hard, his grip on the steering wheel tightened as he drove faster. How could my daughter have gotten into this? This is all my fault. If I had come clean she wouldn’t have followed me, he thought as sweat dropped down his face. He moved fast, turning the other cars into a string of blurry images. Mr. McQueen matched the brakes as a woman suddenly appeared a few meters in front of the car, an action that would cost him. Immediately the brakes kicked in he heard a loud noise and felt a heavy object crash into his side of the car. His vision was distorted as the car stumbled and rolled across the road. His body hurt and his mind scrambled with the shattered glass piercing his body. Rachael opened her eyes, blood was all over the place; she was upside down and she wonder

“Good afternoon, Rachael”, Eric says with a radiant smile exposing a clean set of teeth.Eric is 5'10ft tall and chubby. He is dark in complexion and has a black short haircut. "The manager said I should give this to you" Eric hands a file to her. She opens it, she realizes it’s a copy of her C.V. which she submitted when she first came for the job. The word 'FIRED' is stamped on it in red.“What's this? " she is shocked and angry, "What? " she shows Eric, he gasps."Whoa,” the surprise appears on his face, "Fired? This cannot be a coincident”Just about the same time I got offered another job.She leaves her post angrily and walks away. “Rachael, where are you going?” Eric asks, “To find out why I am being fired,” she says as she storms off in anger. She reaches the personnel department where a secretary sits in front of the personnel office.“I want to see them,” Rachael says as she walks towards the door but the secretary stops her.“I am sorry Rachael, but I was told to not let

The background is painted by the evening's dark blue sky. The stars decorate the sky with its glimmer and astronomical secrets. Gabriel can perceive different scents; cigarettes, alcohol, puke, blood and even the pee of the girl that passed by him, crazy heightened senses. He stands at a balcony inside of the club admiring the beauty of human vices caress it’s way into the young party lovers. Rachael meets him, "Hey, Samuel" "Gabriel, woman" "O. Where is Samuel?" "Dead", what an ass, she thinks. "Why are you always like this? " "Like what?" "Cold. I mean I know you have a heart" "What do you want, Rachael? ". Okay, she realizes that starting a conversation with Gabriel isn’t a good idea. "Okay. I will go and find your brother", Gabriel ignores her. Rachael walks away mumbling words of insult. She doesn’t notice that she is close to Samuel until she bumps into him and spills his drink on herself. "Crap, I didn't see you there. Sorry" Samuel says as he helps her to take off her

Rachael runs into a park a few blocks away. As a little girl, she would always come to the park whenever she got sad and her father would always come to get her. He would bring flowers as a gift as he bathe her with compliments to brighten her mood. But now, that is all a memory of the past. A memory she buried in a box but has now been opened. Rachael walks until she sees an empty bench where she sits, “Why me?”. “A story is never good without a damsel,” Samuel says as he appears before her teary eyes. “Go away, leave me alone" she says, still agitated. He sits beside her, “I am sincerely sorry about this Miss McQueen” “Why me? Why my father? Why did my mother lie to me?”. Samuel scratches his head, “I don’t know Rachael. Look, your mother loves you very much. Your parents hid their secrets from you because they wanted a better life for you, a peaceful life. Our lives aren’t peaceful Rachael, I’m just sorry destiny brought you into it" he says. “Samuel, please tell me what’

Gabriel and Mrs McQueen are at Oyster Bay, New York, waiting for the arrival of Rachael and Samuel. “I hope they are alright” Mrs McQueen says as she chews at the tip of her thump. “Don’t worry, Mary. Nothing will happen to her as long as my brother is there, he is someone to be feared”, Gabriel says with confidence. The wind beat against the windshield as the speedometer just goes over 120km/ph. Samuel presses his foot hard against the throttle, he overtakes an Audi on the road. The winds blows against Rachael's hair and it's disruptive blow play with her ear.Rachael glances at him and notice his eyes, their blue glow look captivating. How can such beauty carry darkness of unknown depth? Is it still the same boss she is familiar with? Blood. The image of dismantled corpses highlighted through a wobbly array of lights flashes through her mind. She gets goosebumps as this memory surfaces. “What is it?” Samuel asks in a harsh voice, “N-nothing,” she stammers, “Then look some