Primo Jones sent Yolanda Taylor back to the apartment, she said she was cold, he gave her the second quilt placed inside the cupboard and took it out to cover her, she was curled up inside the quilt, such a skinny person, from afar, the bed looked as if there was no one there.
Yolanda Taylor on the bed had already fallen asleep, he sat there for a few more minutes until his cell phone vibrated and Primo Jones got up to leave.
It was raining harder and harder outside and Yolanda Taylor was not sleeping well.
She dreamed a lot about the old days, about the day she and Petra were getting ready to leave, and Gwen Fox grabbing Petra away with no expression on her face, saying that he couldn’t stand to see other people’s mothers and children, especially their family.
Then in a flash the guys inside the restroom are talking about her mom getting hit by a car and then Petra’s disfigured body.
Yolanda Taylor woke with a start to the dimness of the room, two quilts weighing her down.
Tears were dripping down her face, and one of her faces was cold and raw from the contact of the chill in the air.
One side of the cell phone is constantly vibrating, the screen flashing light, the incoming call above only a string of numbers, she did not want to pick up, so she watched in a daze that the incoming call slowly stopped.
But not long after it stopped, the phone rang again.
Yolanda Taylor looked at it and blushed.
Only after a long time did she reach for the phone and press the answer button, “This is Yolanda Taylor, who is this?”
“Miss Taylor, it’s been a long time, how are you?”
It was Xenia Davis’ voice.
Yolanda Taylor was not in the mood to bullshit Xenia Davis today, she pursed her lips, “Miss Davis is something wrong? If there’s nothing, I’ll hang up now.”
“Ah, Miss Taylor, take it easy! I’m calling you, of course something’s up! I saw that the video of your mom’s accident back then seems to be everywhere on the internet, so I just wanted to make a call to give you a heads up, have you offended someone? Auntie passed away so many years ago, why is the video still being shown? What’s the difference between this behavior, and digging up someone’s corpse and flogging it, ah?”
Xenia Davis said unpleasant sarcasm, Yolanda Taylor pinched her palm, her nails almost poked through the flesh inside her palm, but she also seemed to feel no pain: “I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
“Do you? Then Miss Taylor wouldn’t you just google ‘Yolanda Taylor’s mom’?”
“I’m hanging up, I hope Miss Davis doesn’t keep bothering me.”
With that said, Yolanda Taylor snuffed out the call.
Xenia Davis’ words, she didn’t believe a word of it before.
But now, she had a premonition in the bottom of her heart.
Yolanda Taylor looked down at her phone, pursed her lips, and then tapped the webpage and searched the words ‘Yolanda Taylor’s mom’.
The search results were almost gone, but she was able to find a few comments, some people were asking for the video, others said it was on the netbook.
Yolanda Taylor pretended to be a passerby and went on the netbook and downloaded the video.
After seeing the video, her whole body shuddered.
It was real, Xenia Davis hadn’t lied to her!
She scrolled down the search results and there was a link to YouTube, clicked on it and it was all discussing what happened back then.
Many people were saying that Gwen Fox had gotten Petra killed on purpose to get revenge for what happened between her and Gwen Fox back then.
Yolanda Taylor’s hands were trembling, at first she only saw Petra’s body, at that time, Petra’s face had been completely made out, she could hardly recognize that it was her mother.
If Petra’s little tail finger hadn’t been chopped off, she wouldn’t have recognized that it was her mother!
So many years had passed, and ever since regaining her memory, she’d always had dreams about Petra’s accident.
But all those nightmares didn’t add up to the impact of a video like this.
Every frame of that video was stabbing her in the heart, stab after stab, and Yolanda Taylor felt so much pain that she couldn’t even move.
The phone fell to the floor and she inclined her head to look at it, tears smashing down her face, hot as if she had been in that fire.
If only she had been burned in that fire, it would have been better than the life and death she was in now.
She couldn’t help but reach around herself, it was the only way Yolanda Taylor felt better.
Inside the dimly lit and silent room, the only sound was her occasional sobbing and the sound of her breathing, which was oppressively heavy.
Yolanda Taylor didn’t know how long she cried, and when she woke up again, it was already after seven in the evening.
Primo Jones had made a call to her just after 3pm, which she hadn’t received, and then he had sent her a WhatsApp asking her when she wanted to announce her wedding and when she wanted to get married.
She froze for a moment and quickly responded by touching her phone and sending Primo Jones a message, “Announce the wedding tomorrow and get married next month.”
Primo Jones quickly got back to her with a good word, and Yolanda Taylor put her phone aside and got up and out of bed, pulling back the curtains and looking out into the rich night air, and couldn’t help but smile coolly.
Yolanda Taylor was stunned when the doorbell rang, and it was only when she heard the second ring that she turned and went downstairs.
The door opened and there was a cool Gwen Fox at the door.
She subconsciously raised her hand to close the door, but he raised his hand to block it.
Gwen Fox was so strong that Yolanda Taylor couldn’t match his and could only watch as he pushed the door open.
She was shaking with anger and looked straight at him through clenched teeth, “Gwen Fox! what more do you want?!”
“It wasn’t me, Dear, I didn’t post that video!”
Yolanda Taylor froze at his words, “Of course I know it wasn’t you!”
“But you killed my mom! It was you! It was you, Gwen Fox! It was your grandfather wasn’t it? Your grandfather sent someone to do it didn’t he?”
As soon as her words fell, Gwen Fox’s face froze, and the hand holding the door panel tightened, so tightly that the bones felt as if they were trying to pierce out of the skin.
He looked at her, and inside his dark eyes was endless pain and struggle, “Dear-”
But Gwen Fox didn’t know what to say, something would happen to Petra, he knew that it must be Lamar Fox who moved behind the scenes.
Although he had let out harsh words at first, he had never really wanted anything to happen to Petra.
He just, wanted her to stay.
“I didn’t want anything to happen to her, I just wanted you to stay.”
He closed his eyes, not daring to look into her hate-filled eyes.
“But you let something happen to her! It was you the Fox family that did it Gwen Fox!!! if you hadn’t taken my mom away, nothing would have happened to my mom! I would have a good life with my mom right now! Who are you to say it’s none of your business? You just weren’t the one who did it!”
She said, word for word.
Gwen Fox looked at her and closed her eyes slightly, “I’ll find out about this.”
“Don’t need to! Just get the hell out of here!”
She yelled and then pushed him out of the room with one hard thrust.