I was sore all over
When I reached home, it was almost nine pm. I grabbed my phone and shoved it into my pocket.
“Welcome back sir” the young valet said.
“Thank you” I told him and handed him the keys to park the car in the garage.
“Uh.. sir?”
I turned to look at him.
“There was a man here, he said he was the security that you hired…”
My heart starting pounding in my chest.
“He had black hair and he wore a black leather jacket, I spoke with him”
The valet shook his head.
“No sir, he had brown hair and he was wearing a grey suit”
I pulled my phone from my pocket and turned it on, I had left in the car while I went to the hospital to stop the bleeding. There were multiple missed calls from the security company.
I ran inside, my mum and dad were in the living room watching TV.
“Christian, you’re back” I heard my mum say but I was already up the stairs.
I ran to Jenna’s room, it was empty.
I went to Kylee’s room, it was empty.
I ran to my bedroom, it was empty and in the centrer of my bed, there was a note.
My blood froze in my veins and I felt sick instantly. Was it a note from Josef?
What I felt was utter devastation, but I willed myself to take the note.
‘Myove’
I accept, I totally submit to the feelings I have been trying to suppress. For the three years, my heart has been beating to your tunes, my honeypot has been watering for you, it is watering as I write this and I am wet for you.
I’m giving my heart to you right now and I’m saying that once you read this, fine me. You don’t need to say anything, just stare at me and I’ll know. We will bury ourselves in pleasures of the night.
To you, for you, with you… Christian’
There was a bright red stain at the bottom, the paper had been kissed and sprayed with perfume.
It wasn’t what I was expecting. The note was a waste of time. I didn’t care about who wrote it or why they wrote it, I tore it into shreds and dropped the pieces of paper on the table.
I left my bedroom.
“Jenna!” I called as I stood in the hallway.
Kylee appeared in the stairs. Her eyes were wide and she looked spooked.
“Why are you yelling?” She asked me.
Seeing Kylee was a good sign, I rushed to where she was standing.
“Where is Jenna?”
“I don’t know, she went to see the security guard…”
“When was that?”
“Like three or four hours ago… It might have been five. I was working with the helps, cooking and cleaning is good therapy… What, why are you staring at me as if you’ve just seen a ghost”
“That man wasn’t the security guard” I said, I didn’t wait to see her facial expression, I couldn’t waste any more time. I ran downstairs and called Jenna’s number.
It rang and stopped, without anyone answering it.
“Do you think it’s Josef?” Kylee asked. She was standing outside with me and she was trembling.
I did not know who it would have been.
“Check the security cameras Kylee, please… Find something”
She ran inside and I went towards the woods. I didn’t know why but I was being pulled inside by an unseen force. It was like it was calling to me. From the distance, I spotted something.
I didn’t know what it was but as I ran towards it, I made up the shape of a white car. I stopped dead in my tracks as my flashlight pointed to two figures laying in a pool of blood, one of them I recognized, the other was fat and already bloating.
There was a gun on the floor, I checked the car and found the ID of the fat man. I dropped everything I found on the hood, nothing was of help, nothing.
The men were dead, there was no way to get information from them. My mind was filled with thoughts that were negative and sickening.
“Oh my god, it’s them”
Kylee’s voice held disgust. She was pointing a flash light at them.
“That’s the man that posed as a security guard, they were shot with an automatic gun. That one in the chest, this one in the head and stomach”
“No, no, Christian you don’t understand, these are the men that I saw with Elisa this morning ”
***
I felt the cold hands of death reaching out to me. There was a soft frantic knock on the door, it was desperate but gentle.
I lifted my head from my father’s shoulder.
“Jenna…” Christian called.
I stood up fast my chair knocked over.
“He’s for me” I whispered.
I turned to my father, his glass was filled with orange juice, it refilled itself. Time and time again, he chose to relive this memory.
“It’s safe here Jenn, it’s quiet. Rest”
“Jenna, I’m not leaving without you” Christian called from outside.
“He needs me” I whispered.
“So do I” my father replied.
I walked to the door and opened it, I saw nothing but Christian, heard nothing but Christian, felt nothing but Christian.
“I choose him, I’ll choose him over anything” I told my father and jumped into Christian’s open arms.
***
“She’s coming around” Josef said to himself. “I thought I lost you for a minute. You scared the shit out of me” the voice was in my ear and it was too loud, it arched my head.
I turned away and my entire body screamed with pain. A pain so intense my eyes shot open. I was in a room, a hospital room. Josef was sitting beside me, it took a second to register that the thing stroking my head was his hand.
“You stopped breathing and your pulse was weak..” he whispered.
His hand left my hair and came down to my lips.
“I’m sorry I hurt you, I almost killed you__” he stopped talking immediately the doctor walked in.
I recognized the doctor, and with the look that crossed his eyes, he recognised me too.