"Mam your order," the guy said.
She got shocked when she saw another delivery man at the gate.
"Ash, did you order two times?" She asked in a louder voice from the main gate.
"Nope, why?" Ash came to Marleen while responding.
"Someone else delivered this box of pizza right before this guy," Marleen said in a very suspicious way while looking at the box and then the delivery boy.
"Huh!" Ash was confused.
"Mam, I have more deliveries to do. May you please pay me fast." The guy interrupted awkwardly.
"Oh yeah, we are sorry I will pay you now. " Ash said normally.
She paid the guy and closed the door while Marleen was still staring at the pizza box in her hands suspiciously.
"He was David," Marleen murmured.
"What? are you gone mad?" Ash heard her and respond seeing Marleen weirdly.
"I thought the same that I have gone mad when I thought of him as David. But no, I was right." She said while keeping her eyes on the box in her hands.
Sebastian was also witnessing all these through the footage on the other side of his laptop.
"Who was that, earlier?" He thought to himself.
Back to them, Ash was going insane hearing all those from Marleen's mouth about David being alive.
"Oh gosh... Marleen can you please -" Ash was about to complain but then Marleen suddenly opened that pizza box in her hands.
"Ohh... My God!" Ash startled.
"HOLY CRAP!" Marleen unlooses the box and drops it off.
"Ugh-, what is t-this" Ash disgusted.
"w-who's hand is th-this" Marleen trembled.
...silence entered there and they both got shut, both were very surprised at this...
Marleen then broke the silence and said after a few minutes "I... it was David. He delivered this."
Ash gasped "What-, are you serious? "
Marleen nodded as yes and completed with a very determined look "Yes, he is alive. He's playing games with us. He's planning something disastrous we have to be careful."
"BUT HE IS DEAD, MARLEEN. WE SAW HIM DEAD WITH OUR OWN EYES. HOW CAN YOU-," Ash's eyes soon got filled with tears. "How can this... Why would he do this... "
Marleen calmed her down "Look, Ash doesn't worry. Alright? I will find it out soon. "
She nodded and wiped her tears "I am with you. "
Marleen smiled and pat her shoulders then said "But you have to keep it a secret from Vivan and Taylor. Promise? "
Ash didn't reply to this but got insane hearing her words "What. why? "
"Just do what I'm saying for now. " She completed "And..., " She looked down at the floor where the hand was laying severed. "Send this to the forensic lab and gather all the reports then show them to me. " She ordered and headed inside her room.
On the other side of the footage, Sebestian was observing everything from the start, the delivery guy, the severed hand, Marleen's words and all.
"David!? wasn't he dead- I, myself confirmed everything about him being dead then how on the earth he's alive now. " He got terrible.
Then, a while after he smirked, thinking about something in his mind "Then the game going to be so much fun. David." he thought to himself.
...back to Marleen...
She was inside her room thinking about what just happened and about David's existence but then Ash knocked on the gate of her room. "Marleen" she was holding the real box of pizza having the slices "Hey, let's eat first"
Marleen smiled at her innocent face "Hmm " she nodded decently.
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...Day passed...
A week went like this. Marleen and Ash were living in that apartment, nothing odd had happened in these past days... Sebestian, as usual checks the camera every day and keeps his eyes on each activity of Marleen... Marleen's all the attention was on David's case.
She was now in her room scrolling through her laptop on her bed. Ash entered "Hey, I got the reports from the forensic lab" Marleen shuts her laptop off and asks her to sit beside her on the bed. Ash sat "Well, got nothing much but... " She avoids eye contact with her.
"But? " Marleen questioned.
She continued "But the DNA of that hand matches with your dad-"
Marleen was horrified "M-Mathew," she thought to herself.
"Marleen... " Ash put her hands on Marleen's shoulder "Are you alright?" She concerned.
Marleen was so strained, that her forehead got all wet with the sweat. She wiped it and said "You sure? let me see myself" she took the reports in her hands and started checking with her own eyes and got the same result that Ash told her.
Only one name moved ahead in her mind and that was Mathew her stepbrother.
"Only Mathew's DNA can be matched with dad... It was only a male hand that was clear with the appearance, does it means that David harmed him? Or something else he is planning to do... " She thought to herself.
"I got to know a Lil about James White too." Ash stood up from her bed "Wait, let me bring the documents," She went to bring the documents and left the room.
...on the other side...
Cabie was on the way to meet someone, she was dialling a number and Taylor along with Vivan was following her from behind like a spy.