Authoress POV
At the company, everything and everyone was just settling down. And what’s this? It turns out that there is one person among the crowd who has something hidden about what happened.
Charles POV
I witnessed everything that just happened between Adams and Dave’s mother and I felt so much of the guilt.
I should have told Mr Adams everything instead of hiding it. Maybe the issue wouldn’t have taken such a turn if I did just that.
I stood up from my desk and headed towards Adams’ office. I knocked first.
“Who’s there?” He asked from within.
“It’s Charles sir.” I replied.
“Come in.” He said and I shut the door behind me as I entered.
“I have something I really need to tell you sir.” I said.
“Okay. Sit down.” He said and I sat down.
“It’s about Dave’s mother sir.” I started.
“What about her?” He asked in a slightly annoyed tone.
“Well… The truth is that she wasn’t lying.” I said.
“So you agree with her that I got her pregnant!?” He said.
“I wouldn’t want to put it too direct to you sir but that’s what happened. I had witnessed it all myself…
Flashback…
After Mr Adams rapes her.
“You monster!” She shouted.
Anna runs away in tears. Mr Adams faints at that spot.
Mr Charles had watched everything happen from beside Mr Adams’ car.
Mr Charles picks Mr Adams from the floor and puts him in his car then drives him home. Mr Charles took the house keys from Mr Adams’ pocket and opens the door. He helps Mr Adams unto bed and made sure to remove Mr Adams’ alcohol stinking shirt before covering him with a blanket.
Flashback ends.
Adams POV
“Your body doesn’t work well with alcohol remember? You never remember anything you did when drunk once you wake up from your drunken state.” Charles said.
“Are you crazy?! Why didn’t you tell me this before?! Just look what she did this morning!” I yelled.
“I’m sorry sir. I just thought that it would be better that way.” Charles said.
“I have to do something about this. I can’t have a bastard kid. Whether with me or not.” I said.
“What are you planning on doing sir?” Charles asked.
“Shut up and let me think!” I yelled at him.
“Very sorry sir.” He said.
I continued thinking till I finally came up with something. I opened one of the lockers in my desk and brought out a huge sum of money.
“Take this and give it to her. Tell her to have an abortion done.” I said.
“But sir… ” Charles said.
“Nice buts. Now do as I say!” I cut him off.
“Yes sir.” He nodded and takes the money.
“Good. Now you can leave my presence.” I said and he left.
No way will that child be born. I can’t let it happen.
Authoress POV
Mr Charles drove to Dave’s home and luckily for him, Dave wasn’t home.
Mr Charles told Dave’s mother everything that had happened and also told her about the abortion money. Anna collects the money from him and he leaves their house.
Anna leaves a letter for her son on the table and leaves for the hospital. Some minutes later, Dave returns with the ice cream his mother sent him for. Dave looks all over the house for his mother but all to no avail.
Dave sits on the sofa worrying about his mother. He spots the letter on the table and takes it.
Dave opened it and what he saw shocked him.
Dear Dave,
I wrote this letter to inform you that I am pregnant. Mr Adams had raped me a week ago and Dave… I really can’t find the courage to face you right now.
It’s because of me that Mr Adams treated you as badly as he did. Each time I reject him from coming near me, he’d make you suffer for it.
That’s why I accepted the money for abortion which Mr Adams gave me through Mr Charles. I know that Mr Adams won’t take this baby and I don’t want to live the rest of my life in shame.
By the time you are reading this I’m already in the hospital going through the abortion process.
This operation might end my live, that is why I wrote this letter to you.
So you can know the truth…
I love you Dave.
Yours sincerely,
Mom.
When Dave read this letter, he felt his heart break into a million pieces. Just then a call comes to Dave through his mother’s number.
Unfortunately for Dave it wasn’t. Instead, it was a nurse. The nurse told Dave that his mother is dead and he should come to the address that they will send to him so he can pick up her dead body.
After hearing this the letter Dave held fell from his hands and he falls to his knees.
“Mother!” He yelled and cried till the evening time.
Dave could hardly fall asleep over night. He just sat at a corner on the floor and weeped all night long.
The next morning, Dave wakes up and with cleaning himself up, he stands up and starts walking all the way to the hospital without putting on shoes.
He walked for two long hours without stopping. He lost all feelings in his legs and felt no pain of walking barefooted.
Dave reaches the hospital and asked for his mother’s body. They ask him if there is anyone else in his family but he says no.
The doctor and the nurses didn’t know whether to give Dave the body or not. Dave ignores them and walks to his mother’s. He carries her over one shoulder and walks barefoot back home.
Dave reaches home and starts to did a hole in front of the house they lived. The same house that Mr Adams had given them as a gift. Dave finished digging and he puts his mother’s body in it and starts covering it up.