Gianna quietly tip toed into the house. Shushing the guards up when they tried to greet her. She made her way upstairs with a mischievous smile plastered on her face. She wanted to give her husband a surprise. Her father had just died recently and so she had been away for sometimes. After a month of not seeing him, she missed him so much that she took an unplanned flight and arrived here unannounced. But then, the maids were trying to stop her from climbing the stairs. They blocked her way but of course, Gianna persisted.
"Ma'am, you can't go in" One of them spoke, nervously spreading her arms out to block Gianna's way.
Gianna frowned and wondered what was going on. Why were they behaving like this?
She pushed the maid to the side and hastily climbed the stairs, arriving in front of a door. She stretched out her hands to turn the knob but suddenly heard voices and stopped.
"Don't be mad okay?"
"You haven't dealt with her yet?" Gianna froze when she recognized this voice. She wondered what her best friend could be doing in her husband's room. A bad premonition consumed her and she leaned closer to the door so she could hear whatever was being said clearly.
"Relax, babe. We haven't fully acquired the company yet. We still need her signature on some of the papers"
"And after that?" The lady asked.
"We can kill her. Just like her father, she has to disappear once she's useless"
Gianna clutched her chest when she heard this, her eyes went wide in shock and glistened with tears. She blinked, shook her head and listened again thinking that maybe what she just heard was her imagination, maybe she was just hallucinating. Yes, that should be it because Henry, her husband who loved and doted on her so much would never say any of this.
Killing her dad to acquire the company? That's ridiculous. The company will belong to him anyway. She was the only child of her father and only heir to his wealth, company and properties. Since she didn't know anything about business and didn't wish to learn, it was only natural that her husband takes over so why would he need to kill her father?
But as she continued to listen to the conversation going on behind the door, her expression started to turn uglier and uglier with every sentence that was spoken.
"So how did you kill him? That man never gave me face anyway. I wish he rots in hell"
"C'mon babe, I didn't kill him. My men did and of course it was brutal. They made sure to pull out his tongue first to stop him from blabbering nonsense and then..."
"Don't give me the details. It sounds so cruel and its enough to know he died a terrible death. About Gianna... " The woman rolled her eyes "How can there be someone as dumb as she is? Is she still fawning over you even when you didn't attend the burial ceremony?"
By now Gianna felt like her life was just turned upside down. Hearing the way her father died made her heart clench. Feeling an overwhelming pain consume her at once. She couldn't contain her fury and directly kicked the door open with a loud bang.
The people inside the room, cuddled in each others arms were quite startled. Mira noticed they were naked under the sheets as well as they had jut finished a love making sesssion.
"What are you doing here?" Henry threw her a cold look. Quickly putting on his boxers. He came out of the sheets and approached her with an intimidating look. He wasn't one bit sorry or apologetic that' she had to see this. Instead, he smirked and asked "Did you hear everything just now?"
Gianna just stood looking like she as in a daze. The tears silently pouring from her eyes "W-why... Why did you do it?" She asked in a shaky voice, her body trembled and her fists remained clenched by her side. Her fingers were digging into her palms, drawing blood but she didn't care. She wondered how she could live with this man for one year and not see his true colours. Was she really that daft? Or did she just ignore the signs because she was love struck by him? A lovestruck fool.
Her eyes moved to the girl who used to be her best friend until few minutes ago.
"Klara... Why?"
She asked thesame question again and broke down in tears. She really couldn't understand it. If they wanted her father's empire, it could've been easily theirs without needing to kill anyone so why?
"Are you really asking that right now?" Klara come forward with a mocking look, wrapped in only a towel, she hooked her arm with Henry's and gave Gianna a haughty look "Its obvious enough, I just want you to suffer. Shame you didn't realize that sooner" Klara chuckled, hugging Henry, they kissed passionately in front of her. Gianna couldn't contain herself any longer when she saw this scene. She lunged forward and pushed Klara to the bed then using her manicured artificial nails, she used her fingers to furiously scratch Klara's face "You bitch, go die!"
The smell of blood and screams filled the air before Henry could pull Gianna off his mistress, Klara's face had already been disfigured. Bloody nail marks covered Klara's face making her look like a demon from a horror movie as she screamed in pain holding her face.
Henry's face darkened dangerously when he took in the sight. He threw a glare filled with venom at Gianna who was still seething in rage and breathing heavily. His eyes had a malicious glint in it as he approached Gianna and gave her a slap on the face. He didn't stop there, he grabbed her hair and smashed her face in the wall. Mira screamed struggling to get away from his grasp but he was obviously stronger than she was.
" Don't you like to scratch other peoples faces? How about you scratch yours" Henry was full of rage. He took her hands and forcefully made huge nail cuts on her face. He grabbed her neck and pushed her towards the open window "Who do you think you are? How dare you do that to her you worthless piece of trash!"
"Henry" Gianna called out as he continued to choke her. His eyes was filled with murdering intent and Gianna knew, she just knew that today, she was going to die. She was going to be killed in his hands. She came back to surprise him but she ended up being the one surprised instead. A cruel surprise. She looked into his eyes one more time, his eyes that were usually filed with affection for her was gone. She saw hatred in them now. Malice even. Maybe because of what she did to Klara? Henry was burning with intense rage that was enough to set anyone on fire.
" If there's a way to pay you back, I'll pay ten folds Henry " She said internally as she slowly closed her eyes in surrender and let him choke her to death. As she stopped struggling and released herself, Henry saw she was too close to the window and wanted to pull her back. After all it wasn't time to kill her yet. But as he made that action, his legs collided with something and his grip on her loosened. He watched in shock as she slowly fell off the window. His hands outstretched but there was nothing he could do. He couldn't stop her from falling. Henry cursed furiously as she remembered the documents he was suppose to get her to sign. Without those document, he couldn't claim ownership of the company. He gritted his teeth as he heard a sound and knew that she had landed on the ground probably with her bones broken badly and... Dead.
As Gianna fell, she saw her whole life play in front of her like a movie. The first time she saw him, how she was so smitten and insisted she was going to marry him even when her father disagreed. She tried all possible means to threaten and persuade him until he finally gave his consent. Then the day of her wedding. She was really very happy that day but what followed was the news of her father's death. She closed her eyes and thought. If there was a second chance, if only there was something as a second life, she would make sure not to make the mistake of loving that monster ever again. It was the root of this mess. She caused all of this. She would make sure she paid him back in ten folds for all that he has done but sadly, a second life does not exist or does it?
She felt her body fall on something solid and then an overwhelming pain that didn't last long as everything around her went dark. She was dead. Gianna walker... Dead!