HOT DEAL FULL OF SECRETS: Chapter 31 – 40

Chapter 40

By : Kebby NG Media Services

(PRESENT TIME)

CADE POV

The last thing I heard of Racheal was that she died.

I never tried to know why or to find out how she died because I was still being tormented by what I did and I was also not staying in the island during that period

When dad had told to me to leave for a while, I took the easiest path and I left to further my studies in the states.

But seeing that birth mark on Emily, it has got me thinking.

What If both my parents had lied, what If she hadn’t died, I must try to get some answers and I have to do that by talking to the one person who started this whole mess.

I went in search of my mom and I found her in her room, feeling relaxed and listening to an old song.

Walking to the music player, I turned off the song and finally noticed me in her room.

“What brings you here my dear?”she asked

“Have come to get some answers from you?”I said as I gave her a look

“What! Apart from being a rich tycoon , have you also taken up the job of a detective who interrogates people”she asked

“If you are trying to be funny, well you are not funny at all”I said

“Well stop wasting my time and tell me why you are her, I doubt you are here to get some comfort from your mother”she said

“I only want to know the truth and i hope that you will tell me the truth”i said

“I doubt if I will be of help”she said

” How did Racheal die?”I asked and she sat up, surprised by my question

“Why do you ask?”

“Just answer me mom!”I said

“Well she-sh- she died due to some sickness”she said

“What sort of sickness mom?”

“I- I- I don’t remember, what’s with this question “she asked

“Just answer me!”I yelled at her and she looked sort of nervous.

“What really happen to Racheal?”I asked

“She fell off a cliff”my dad answered as he walked into the room

“What? But how?”I asked

“She was sick for a period of time and when she woke up, she started acting crazy, she wanted to leave and when we got distracted, she left the house, we sent the guards after her and they returned to tell us that she fell off a cliff”my father replied

Just knowing the tragic way Racheal had died, made me feel so sad and guilty.

“You couldn’t find her body right?”I asked

“We couldn’t and so we didn’t have a proper burial for her”he answered

“This is all my fault”I muttered softly

“Why is it your fault, she went crazy and ran away on her own and she fell off the cliff, that darn family should have never come into our lives,because of them ,I had to go through a lot” my mom said

“Please dad tell me the exact place that she fell ” I asked pretending not to hear what my mother say

“It at the hill before we get to the town”my father replied and I turned to leave

“What? Don’t tell me you will go there, to do what exactly! To say your last wishes, well it’s too late to do that, Ten years late be precise, you took the chance to run away while we stayed back and cleared the mess you made “She yelled behind me

Feeling so very angry I turned to her and she shrank back

“The mess I made! Did you just say that I caused it ?”I asked and when she didn’t reply I continued

“Have you ever wondered why I never came to you for comfort its because I know how cruel and heartless you are”

“Stop talking to your mom in that manner Cade!”

“You started all of it ten years ago, you used you me just to get back at dad and at Stacey”

“What are you saying?”my mom asked

“I heard it all that night, I heard what you said to Stacey but I kept shut about it, just to protect you, just because you are my mom but now that I look at you, I regret protecting you than protecting Racheal, you don’t even regret what you did!”I yelled at her

“What are you saying, can some one explain to me”My father asked but I wasn’t listening to him

“You manipulated me mom, you told me bunch of lies, made me believe that father and Stacey were lovers, you even shed tears just to make it look real, you knew that I would do any thing for you and so you turned me against father and Stacey and her mom,you planned it so perfectly that I had to be the one who did the dirty job and believe me when I say that I hate myself for it”

“For years have had to live knowing that I ruined an innocent girl life, you have no idea how I hate you and despise myself” when I finished she was already crying, feeling suffocated, I left the room and head out of the house.

I got to my car and was about to drive off when I saw Emily waving at me to wait.

Not wanting to talk to her, I drove off and went to the cliff where Racheal had died.

I feel so guilty right now, I should have been with her, I should have stayed here to protect her, yet I took the coward’s way out and now I regret it so much.

“Am sorry Racheal, am so sorry, I should have been here for you, yet I left wanting to forget you but karma always catch up, I never for once forgot you, have been living in pieces and have never been happy”I said as the tears fell off my face.

“You will never be happy!”some one said behind me and I turned to see that it was crazy Lucy

“You will never be happy! Not after what you did to that poor child”she said

“Do you know what happen ten years ago?”I asked

“I know more than you think!” She asked laughing hysterically

“I know what happened at the resort ten years ago, I know for a fact that you are nothing but a rapist and I also know that that child didn’t die”she said looking at the cliff

“What do you mean”I asked as I went to her before she run away.

“She didn’t die! She is alive and she is closer than you think but she is unaware and if she remembers, there will be death, there will surely be more deaths, I don’t want to die! I want to live! I want to live”she kept on muttering and before I could stop her

She bit me and as soon as I let her go she ran off .

I was still holding my hand when she I heard her call my name.

“That child didn’t die, she didn’t die, you have to find her and make things right before it’s too late”She said looking serious, she didn’t look like a looney and i was surprised at first but then she laughed and began to run off.

I drove back to the house still thinking about what crazy Lucy said to me.

She didn’t look crazy to me when she was telling me about the child, she looked normal.

Could she be right? Did Racheal really not die?

‘you have the answers in your hands, she is living with you’ my conscience said to me.

No,I won’t let my mind drift to that path, Emily is Emily and Racheal is racheal.

They have the same birth mark but they are not the same.

Life wouldn’t play that sort of trick on me, life wouldn’t be cruel as to send her to me again.

I got back to the mansion only to see two maid holding a photo album.

“Why did you take it?”

“She will be angry!”

“You shouldn’t have touched Mrs Emily stuff”the maid kept on saying

“What are you talking about? What’s my wife stuff that you touched?”I asked and they both look at me in fright

“We didn’t mean to, we saw the old workers album in her room and we took it thinking some one dropped it there by mistake, we didn’t know that she was the one who took it herself”one of them answered

“Don’t worry, I will give it to her and as explain,you can both leave”I said and they began to leave.

I held the album in my hand, wondering why Emily would have it in her possession.

Just then a picture fell and I picked it up and was surprised to see a picture of Emily parents,dressed in chef uniform