Davina’s Pov:-
I tried to pause and play it again so that I could hear anything that could help, and suddenly I heard music, it was some kind of a song which was playing in the background. The volume was low as if it was playing in the distance, I tried to hear it more carefully and recognised it as one of Bruno Mars’ songs. I don’t know the name of it but I could recognize his voice and since Bella loves him, she would play his songs all the time.
It was playing and suddenly went off, the rumbling sounds around it were making it extremely difficult to hear what’s happening around. As I played it again for the 10th time, I heard someone answering the call, I couldn’t hear his replies nor his voice was that clear but I heard him using a word.
“Surdoue,” he said in an extremely distant voice and his footsteps were getting louder and the recording ended.
I rewind and played again to make sure what I heard was correct, I quickly grabbed a note and pencil, I played the recording and noted the word,
“surdoue”
I quickly tore the page and pulled the Sd card adapter out of the laptop and removed the SD card and pushed it into my pocket while closing the laptop. I folded the paper and quickly placed everything back in the place they were before I came and rushed out of the room.
I made my way back to my room walking as casually as I could. On my way, I saw Olivia and Nadia talking to each other in the living room. They were sitting side by side and were deep in conversation to notice me.
I quietly slipped into my room and closed the door, I turned back and jumped in fear when I saw April sitting in the middle of the bed. I placed my hand over my rapidly beating heart and tried to take a deep breath and control myself.
“When did you wake up?” I asked while walking into my closet and placed the Sd card in the last drawer beside the Mirror. I walked back and saw her yawning with sleepy eyes, I climbed onto the bed and sat beside her.
“Come,” I said while moving back and leaning my back towards the headboard,
She came over to me and laid in my arms. I wrapped my arm around her small frame while stroking her hair and putting her to sleep.
“Davina?” She called,
“Hm?”
“Why don’t we leave this place?” She asked looking at me,
“I don’t want to stay here…” She added while staring at me sadly, I didn’t know what to answer her. Whatever happened earlier flashed in front of my eyes. The way Nadia behaved with her was bugging me. How can someone be so rude to an innocent child, She is a woman and most importantly a mother.
“We should take Arthur with us also…” She said, hearing his name I looked down at her, “We should not leave him here alone,” She added.
“Why so?” I asked,
“He’s good… sometimes bad,” She said, “He cried… when you were unconscious… in his room? I saw him crying,” She said,
Did he cry that day? I tried to remember but I was so disturbed that night and I didn’t notice anything.
“He said… he will say sorry to you!” She said, pulling me out of my thoughts, “Did he?” She asked,
Did he apologize to me? I asked myself trying to remember since it was a terrible night. I couldn’t remember him saying sorry but still, I just nodded my head, “He did apologize,” I replied remembering the way he followed me back to the forest and let me show what I saw.
She smiled, “He’s good,” she mumbled, I kept stroking her hair while thinking about the recording.
Who was that? And what does that word mean? Did he kill Allen?
I sighed as all the questions in my head were making me even more confused about all this. I don’t know how I will find the culprit?