Episode 45
After Sean had called him to meet them at Chloe's house, He doesn't know who that is, but he was given direction, he surely needs to be fill in what has happened since he was away. He got to the door porch of the house and knocked on the door.
“Coming!“ A lady's voice said from the house, and a few seconds later, the door opened.
“Sandra!“ He gasped!
“Uncle Ben! It's been ages!“ Sandra said before stepping aside for him to come in.
“What are you doing here?“ She asked.
“I'm sorry but after my parents mysteriously died, it was only Paul and Emily who came to my rescue!“
“I…I didn't mean to abandon you, I'm sorry…”
“Yeah, Yeah yeah, you don't mean to” she said nodding her head.
“I perfectly understand you!“ She added.
“You are mad at me?“
“Of course, I am! You think I will forgive you with just a mere apology?“
“I…I…”
She laughed “You need to see your face, I'm not mad at you, I'm happy to see you instead! Come here!“ She said as she hugged him.
He used to be her parent very good friend, but after they died she hasn't seen him and Paul told her they flee to different locations even though he and Emily never told her who killed his parents and the reason they flee, but she just assumed it was the serial killer who was killing people then that was responsible for their death and the rest of their friends had to flee away from Wales to a more peaceful place.
“Come here, I just finished preparing dinner!“ She said after the hug.
“Is Kyle here?“
“Who is Kyle?“
“Oh, you haven't met him then, what about Sean and Chloe?“ He asked instead.
“Nah they ain't here, they just left a few minutes ago to Sarah Palin whose mum is an interior decor house.“
“Oh, I know her.“
“She is pretty popular here!“
“Yep! Cos she is good at what she does!“ he said
“She designs my house!“ She said,
“So tell me when have you been here?“ She asked referring to Wales
“Not too long ago!“ With the way she speaks, he knew Paul didn't tell her what exactly happened to her parents
“Well I came back here a few months ago!“
“Cool!“ he said
“Dinner is served!“ She said after she had scooped a reasoning amount of the meal quantity on the plate.
“Thank you!“ he mumbled.
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Decker drives speedily on the highway till they get to the far end of Wales' City he swerved the car to the road that leads to woods after sometime they found a little cottage at the far end. He stopped the car and they all alighted from it as they all tiptoed to the cottage with a little torch on their hand. The surrounding is dead ass silent.
Decker kicked the door open and Sheriff Trina entered immediately with his gun up in the air, she faced a different direction in search of him. Cassie and Decker followed suit. Decker and Sheriff Trina went up to the rooms in search of him leaving Cassie at the living room
She looked around the room carefully, everything there was well arranged and neatly kept. It wasn't a big and exotic cottage, but it was a small and neat one.
She walked around as she looked at the stuff there. “Gbaa!“ She bumped into something and she instinctively looked up at it.
She gasped and wanted to strike. “Shh!“ he said with his hand on his lips.
“Calm down!“ He cooed at her, but she wasn't having it. How dare he tell her to calm down when he killed her boyfriend!
“Go to hell!“ She yelled and struck him with rope-plants that had weaved themselves together when he was watching.
“Fuck!“ He groaned.
“Do you hear that?“ Sheriff asked Decker.
“Of course, I can!“
“Cassie!“ They both said and ran back to the living room
“How dare you tell me to calm down after you killed him?“ She yelled and used the rope plant to hit him.
“I didn't kill him!“
“Then who did? Huh?“
“The poison did, not me!“
“Who has a stupid poison flowing in the Xylem and pholem of their rope-plant?“
“It wasn't my intention for him to be poisoned!“
“Then what was your intention? To poison me! To poison me, 'cos it was meant to hit me instead of him, it was meant to poison me instead of him! You really wanted to kill me so bad!
“No that is not true!“
“I know what the truth is. The truth is you never wanted me, and I was just a mistake to you, what else you could do? You ran away after you attempted to kill me when I was still living my life in mum's womb, and you found out I was saved.
You plan your own death, you make everyone believe you are dead just so that no one will be able pin me on you, and you wouldn't be taking the responsibility of me. And that wasn't enough, when you knew that I'm back and stronger than you, you came back to kill me!“
Sheriff Trina eyes glistened in tears seeing the scene in front of her. Decker looked at her and he felt broken.
“You came back to kill me! Because somehow I was in your way from accomplishing your evil plan, you derive joy in killing people, you killed my friend and killed my boyfriend! Except it wasn't him you wanted to get rid of. You hated me that much huh?“
“That wasn't all true, I know that I've been a bad father, but those narrations aren't all true!“ He shook his head disagreeing to what she was saying
“That's bullshit!“ Decker said and pulled the trigger, he had promised not to miss whenever he finds him, he can't stand seeing Trina and Cassie sad and broken.
But Carter was fast enough to dodge the bullet and sent a rope plant to his way, he had the cure to the poison, if it did poison him.
Decker nimbly ducks away and sends another bullet his way and Carter shoots out a rope plant to him again, he jumps it and runs to him, dodge all the rope plant and give him an uppercut.
He groaned, he should have killed him the day he almost did in the hospital ward, why does he interfere when he is about making peace with his daughter. He groaned and a plant branch shot out from the wall of the cottage where Decker was standing, he swiftly tried dodging it but it caught his hand, the one one that his gun is.
“Bang!“ The firearm was reported across the room. Sheriff Trina shot at the branch and it went back in, releasing his hand.
He can't fight his ex-wife, he is still trying to make things right with them.
Cassie shot out a rope plant at him and it wrapped his torso tightly, cutting through his skin gently as he tried releasing himself from the grip Of the rope.
And in a minute he was drawn back away from the gripped with an unseen force.
“Fuck! Renetha!“ He grunted…
TBC…