FACELESSđźŽ
DEMONđź‘ą
(A Life For A Life)
By Chidimma Christine✍️
EPISODE 40🔥
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🦋SHAINA🦋
Immediately he slumped into his be-d, I dropped my food and quic-kly rushed to him….
I t©uçhed his b©dy to be sure he was fast asleep and off course the sleepy portion got to him.
The plan was to go throu-gh his files and find out what he does everyday…. Nelly said it would go a long way in taming his heart.
I helped him l@yvery well on his be-d and covered him up with the duvet “Sleep ti-ght….” I said.
It would take a least five hours for him to wake up and am certain that before then I must have found everything I nee-d.
I reached for his phone which was on t©p of the cabinet, Dammit, it was locked with a f!nger print and a pas-sword.
I went for his middle f!nger and it matched perfectly…. I went straight to his previous activity.
“Is he a cop or something” I asked going throu-gh his phone….
I sighed as I went to his call history…. Just two numbers…., one was saved while the other wasn’t
I went to his call recorder….but there was nothing there, I guess he doesn’t record his conversation with people.
the next was his text messages…. Most of them were from Siddarth, the only person his number was saved on his face.
“I wonder what they do talk about” I thought going further into his messages
Then my eyes caught with a video…. From the d@tÂŁ on his message, it was sÂŁnt few minutes ago and I guess that was the message he received before he left the kitchen.
I quic-kly opened it and was shock at the sight of what I saw….. It was a video of Chief Kumara Varma killing Mr Shawn, a government minister.
“But why….” I thought, I have known Varma to be a wicked soul… Everyone in Mumbai knows him as a merciless man.
I st©pped the video, it was sÂŁnding goosebu-mps all over my b©dy and I didn’t like that, I went to the text message that was sÂŁnt few minutes after the video c@mÂŁ in.
My eyes was wi-de open like wise my mouth … No doubt he is a corpse and I guess he is trying his best to bring Chief Varma to book, but I doubt if he would make it…. Alot have tried and lost their lives in the process.
Most of his messages were conversation with Siddarth and I really don’t have the time to re-ad them all.
I went to his gallery…. Nothing, it was just empty.
“Why did the deity sÂŁnd a cop to me…. What will I be doing with him”
I stood up to leave but st©pped when I noticed that the cabinet was open, “Am sure am going to find something there” I thought
I dragged it open and saw some files carefully arranged, I glanced at Rocky to be sure he was still asleep.
I picked up the first file and fli-pped it open… Scanning it with my eyes.
I freezed, “How… How did he get those….” I thought, I shifted my gaze to him, he was still enjoying his sleep.
I went further, scanning the rest of the files, turning his cabinet upside down, it was all about Mr Phogat death and he has most of the information that didn’t even appear in news.
I know you must be wondering how I knew him, well he was friends with my mum… My mum use to be a military woman and also a prosecutor that was before my death…. She retired from her both job after my death
Reason…. Well after Mr phogat died, no one wanted to take up his death case, everyone was so afraid to do so because they all knew whom his murderer was.
My mum after a couple of days took up the case, she tried all she could to pin the murderer down but she failed… She failed.
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“Good Morning ma” Nancy said collecting Mrs Blake’s handbag
“Did Lim s£nd the files from yesterday to your email” she asked walking out of the elevator.
“Yes ma’m, He did….”
“Good… Now arrange the files and sÂŁnd them to the court we nee-d to be re-ady”
“I alre-ady did that….. I received a call from the court, the court seating has been scheduled for Saturday morning, five days from today”
“Oh really…. That’s good, am sure Varma would be shivering right how” Mrs Blake giggleled
“Am certain, every evidence points at him…. He won’t escape this one” Nancy said.
Mrs Blake’s phone beeped and she st©pped to answer the call
“Hey… Good Morning plea-se who is this” She asked
“Mum…. Mum… Mum” Shaina screamed in tears
“Princess….” Mrs Blake called alarmed “Where are you princess, you should be in school by now” Mrs Blake said
“Are you surprise…..” Mrs Blake heard a de-ep masculine voice
“Who are you… Why do you have my daughter” She said.
“If you want to see your daughter alive…. St©p all investigation” he said and the line went off.
“Hello… Hey re-lease my daughter you have no right to hold her” she said but the call alre-ady ended.
“Ma…. Is anything the matter” Nancy asked but Mrs Blake didn’t say a word to her…. She was busy with her phone, dialing the number but it was not connecting.
She gr@bbÂŁd her back and ran out straight to her daughters school.
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“What…..” Mrs Blake screamed staring at the principal.
“This happened and you didn’t even think of informing me…. How dare you” Mrs Blake added.
“Am sorry, it was complicated…. We reported to the police immediately and am sure they are going to find your daughter just call down”
“Calm down….. My only child is missing and you are telling me to calm down”
“Look… I think you should go check your list”
“My list… How? What’s that suppose to mean?”
“Your daughter was at the back of the school van, how come she was the only one abducted…. I think you should check your list…. The kidnapper is someone you know” She said and walked out
That was when it hitted Mrs Blake…. It was Chief Varma that abducted her daughter.
She left the school to the court and filed a court case against him.
Two days pas-sed, no call c@mÂŁ from the kidnappers, Mrs Blake didn’t st©p the investigation despite the warning from her husband and friends.
She didn’t see any reason in st©pping the investigations, she went ahead and prepared for the court seating which wasn’t far ahead.
The D-day for the court seating c@m£ and Shaina’s corpse was found right infront of the court burnt.
Mrs Blake went home heart broken to mourn her late daughter…. The court seating was adjourned till after Shaina’s burial but unfortunately Mrs Blake retired after mourning her daughter and opened a little day care
Mrs Blake didn’t allow anyone investigate her daughters death…. She wanted every one out of her life.
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Tears rush down my eyes…. All these years I have prayed that I shouldn’t come across anything that would remind of my death.
The pain I went throu-gh everything, thinking of how I was burnt alive, I stared at Mr Phogat picture…. If only my mum didn’t take up the investigation…. I would have been alive and healthy.
My eyes caught with a list with a block heading *Previous investigators*….. My mums name was the first on the list, she was actually the first person that investigated Mr Phogat death
I sniffed wiping my face with the back of my hand…. Seeing all these brou-ght back the memories I have tried so ha-rd to forget…. It brou-ght back the hate and resÂŁntment I had for who ever my killer was.
I packed the files back into Rocky’s cabinet, I have heard enough alre-ady… More than I can contain, I took my phone and left the house.
FACELESSđźŽ
DEMONđź‘ą
(A Life For A Life)
By Chidimma Christine✍️
EPISODE 41🔥
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🦋SHAINA🦋
I ran out of the room in tears…. So much for a mission, Remaining me of my death is the height of it all.
I walked all the way to my mum’s day care home…. After I earned my blessed batch by helping my parents overcome my death and adopt another child, I haven’t seen them or visited them…. I felt it was nice to stay completely out of their life.
I stood there, staring at the door with tears in my eyes…. The pains I went throu-gh staying with the kidnappers for just five days c@mÂŁ running into my memory.
I was starved of food…. I even lost my vir-ginity…to one of them…. No not one of them, all of them, they took turn in ra-pping me.
I wept and begged but they feel deaf ears, they continued ma-king it more painful.
The door cracked open and a middle aged woman walked out, that’s Mrs Blake my mum.
She stared at me for a while before coming closer…. Yes, she can see me, I gave her access to that but she can never recognize me as her daughter.
She won’t even recognize me as someone that looks familia, that’s the rule… Whenever you die, you are given a new identity.. . A new look, only your name stays the same…. Other things change.
“Are you okey, young girl” Mrs Blake asked staring at me.
I tried to smile but I couldn’t, my mum has turned into a shadow of herself… I know the kind of woman she use to be… A fierce woman whom is feared by all… She never accepts defect.
But she did accepted defect when I died, it certain she hasn’t overcomed my death yet.
“Come in…. You must be hungry” she said dragging me into the house.
“I made hamburger and fresh strawberry drink…. Its my daughters favorite” she said dropping the food before me.
Yeah… She is right, that’s my favorite snacks.
“Come on eat….” she said sitting close to me. I began to eat, I didn’t even finish my pasta and all these walking took out the little I was able to consume.
“Had a quarrel with your parents….” she asked staring at me.
“Why do you think so…..” I asked and she smiled, coldly, I know my mums smile.
“I used to have a daughter…. Shaina is her name….. Whenever I have a fight, she leaves home and comes back after a couple of hours”
“Used to…..?”
“Yeah. Used to, she is died…. She died out of my carelessness, As an Amy and a prosecutor, I protected others but couldn’t protect my own child…. I failed to protect my own”
“You know, when she was alive, I ha-rd ly had time for her… It was all about my job, I woke up very early, and leave for work even before she wakes up and I come back very late when she must have gone to be-d”
“She complained terrible about it but I never saw it as a big deal….. My husband lost his job few years into our marriage so I bec@mÂŁ the bre-adwinner…. Shaina was three then…… I abandoned my responsibility to my husband…. He did the whole house chores and took care of Shaina while I work and work”
“Then I thought I was doing the right thing but after my daughter died, I realized I don’t even have a single memory of her…. The little life she lived, I wasn’t there, I was busy with work…. I was always working…. Even at weekend I was still working, I never had time for my family…. Not a single time for my daughter”
“She spent most of her life with her father, Even during her death….. When she was abducted I was given an option to forget about the investigation and save my daughter”
“I stupidly choose my job…. I thought was going to happen but something did happen…. I neglected all the advice, my husbands warning everything I neglected it and went ahead with the investigation….. I thought my daughter was going to be found alive but I was wrong….. I was wrong, very wrong”
“After she died, that was when I realized that family matters…. Everyone left, no one visted even those I protected…. It was really terrible for me, I resigned”
“I resigned so my daughter would see how sorry I was, I resigned as a punishment for not protecting my own family”
“I opened this day care…. With the money I made and here am I” she said wiping away the tears in her eyes.
“And your husband…. Did he finally get a job” I aaked.
“Yeah…. He did, we adopted a daughter a year after Shaina’s death… She was named Elsa…… My husband got a job and left together with Elsa” she said
Tears rush down my eyes…. Dad left mum, unbelievable…. “Why would he?” I thought in tears
“He said he wasn’t re-ady to forgive me… I let go of him, I deserve it…. Everything he did to me…. I deserve him” Mrs Blake said in tears.
I was dumbfounded…. I didn’t know what to say or do….. Mum was heartbroken.
“Should I tell her that am her daughter… Should I tell her that am Shaina her daughter”
No… I can’t, she must laugh it off and think am ma-king jokes with the story she told me
My phone beeped…it was Nelly calling, I guess she wants to know how the searching went.
I rejected her call, I really want to spend more time with mum but Nelly kept calling.
“Go home…. Your parents must be looking for you, its almost dawn” Mrs Blake said parking the dishes.
“Its fine…. I can help you wash the plates…” I said…. She glanced at me and smiled.
“The kitchen is that way….” she said pointing at the door… I headed towards it carrying the plates.
I hurriedly washed them… Nelly won’t st©p calling, I c@mÂŁ out and meet Mrs Blake slee-ping at the couch, I wanted to wake her but on a second thought I decided to let her sleep.
She had a very rou-gh day and she nee-ds sleep more than anything…. I sighted a duvet hanged at the wall and reached for it.
I used it to cover her b©dy increase if it suddenly becomes cold at night.
I headed towards the door to leave but st©pped, I wrote a note and left it on t©p of the table before her…. Am sure she is going to see it once she wakes up.
I left the house and went straight to the angels convent….
To Be Continued…….