Sweetie its time for breakfast come downstairs and your dads

about to leave come say good bye to him " Amelia said from

outside the door "I'm coming mummy" Ria yelled from inside

the bathroom. Brianna Donovan , turned twenty yesterday and

it was one hell of a party ,Chris , her father hosted it , she got a

lot of gifts from both her parents and every other person who

attended the party , she even got a car from from her father , if

there was anything Christian Donovan knew how to do best ,

then that would definitely be spoiling his overly pampered

daughter Brianna as she was an only child. Adding to the many

privileges Ria had, she was also the heiress to the Donovan

Empire which Christian was presently running. " Ria!!!" Amelia

yelled making ria almost drop the hair dryer she was planning

to use to dry her hair "I'm coming!!!" Ria screamed running

downstairs immediately with her hair still wet. "Brianna your

dad just left,he kept waiting for you but you were just delaying"

Amelia said already annoyed "I'm sorry mummy I was getting

dressed I'll see him as soon as he gets back or better still id just

give him a call" Ria said as she headed back upstairs "where are

you going I told you its time for breakfast " Amelia said

stopping ria "I'm going back to my room , I'm not properly

dressed,my hair is wet,look I'm a mess "she said pointing her

hair "just tell someone to bring my food upstairs "you have to

be fast we have cleaning to do" Amelia said sternly as she

headed to the living room "what? Clean up? Its not even

Saturday " ria complained as she stumped her way upstairs . if

there was something to be noticed about Ria 's parents it was

that when it came to handling her they both did in different

ways, because while Christian would pamper Ria to no end and

give into her every demand , Amelia was the exact opposite she

always kicked against him spoiling their daughter despite them

being super rich and having everything they wanted and more at their beck and call Amelia still didn't think it was okay for ria

to be over pampered and never have to even break a sweat for

anything she wanted as she would already get before she even

thought of it, so Amelia handled Ria in her own way.

After hours of endless cleanup Amelia was resting on the couch

extremely exhausted from all the hard work she just did "mum

I'm going out" Ria said as she quickly grabbed her keys from the

side stand and headed to the door " I told you we had cleaning

to do and you didn't show up" Amelia said coldly as she didn't

even turn to look at Ria , if Ria was not already used to her

mothers behaviour she would have definitely peed her pants

because of the way she just spoke . Amelia was a very nice and

sweet woman and would only show this side of her when she

was pissed or angry at someone. "oh actually mum I just had a

slight headache so I just thought I just pass" Ria lied "and

you're going out?don't you have a headache" Amelia asked

sarcastically " look Brianna you have to stop this nonchalant

attitude of yours and put your self to some use" Amelia said

angrily as she glared at Ria causing her to chuckle which

angered Amelia the more " look mom we have more than 50

maids in this house to do anything you asked them to without

the slightest complaint but you still decide to work your butt

off , oh mummy you're not that young for this kind of strenuos

work you know, you leave the hale and hearty maids to do

what they are paid for" Ria said giving a tired expression as she

pulled her sunshades up to her head " if I'm not mistaken

you're also hale and hearty " Amelia snapped almost loosing

her patience " Mummy I'm 20 I'll soon get my own house

soon ,so if I were you I'd rather be spending all my time with

me rather than quarreling me over some stupid house chores"

Ria rolled her eyes putting down her sunshades to her eyes

" learn how to do some things your self first before thinking of moving out" Amelia hissed as she left the living room "I'm

going to get my drivers license , love you" Ria yelled laughing as

she left the house.

Chris's car was parked outside the company , he was on his

chair getting ready to leave when he heard a loud bang on the

secretarys door after which her loud scream followed , before

he could even get up to see whats wrong , he saw the door

knob twist "you… how did you get in here" he stammered it

was as if all the blood in his body was being drawn out by some

invisible force , but how did he get here? He made sure to run

he was always running for so many years now but it didn't

matter how fast or how long he kept running because his doom

was always going to catch up with him no matter what

"scared?" the person before him asked with a maniac look on

his face but he was too numb to even say a word " look Chris

there is no running this time and I mean it " the person said

again " you have till tomorrow " he said and left the office. God

knew all chris wanted to do was just die and finally vanish away

from the surface of the earth but he couldn't he had Amelia

and Ria to protect , especially now that a grave mistake rom his

past had come back to have his way. He immediately rushed

home , he was going to keep running until he couldn't any

longer because he had more than just himself to actually look

after now."Amelia!!! "he yelled immediately he got into the

house "what! Why are you yelling?" Amelia ran from the

kitchen frightened "where's ria?" Chris asked panting "what

the hell Chris is that why you're making such a fuss " Amelia

asked confused " ANSWER ME" he yelled " she went out to get

her drivers licence ,says she has an appointment " Amelia said

nonchalantly, rolling her eyes " good now come we're leaving"

Chris said impatiently heading to the door adding an even more

confused look to Amelias already troubled face "okay you're

gonna have to explain why you acting so weird CHRISTIAN" she stood still hands folded under her breast as she emphasized on

the Christian stretching it " look I promise I'm gonna explain

everything now you just have to come with me please " he said

with a [pained expression and at last she followed he grabbed

her hand as they both scurried towards the door because Chris

was almost running he opened the door and just as they were

about to step outside someone was standing right in front of

them , someone Chris was very familiar with because of the

terrified look on his face but someone Amelia knew? Definitely

not she had never seen that face before at least that was what

she thought , he was dressed in all black from his head to his

toes, he had his hoodie draped over his head which covered

almost half of his face making it very hard for anyone to be able

to recognize him even if they knew him very well , but with the

look on her husbands face he seemed to have very well

recognized him even with the stated facts at a certain point

she even started to think she knew this mysterious man

because she knew almost everyone her husband knew and it

was very obvious that her husband knew this man very well ,

although something seemed really off with this man had a

certain discomforting aura emitting from him she couldn't even

tear her gaze off him because of how disturbing he looked "Mr

Donovan " he said in an excruciatingly slow and creepy way his

voice had to be the deepest form of bass she had ever heard in

all her 42 years of living the only time she ever heard this type

of voice was at church or the orchestra she usually goes where

male singers sang but that was not how they actually spoke

because they were actually forcing it which usually made their

throats sore for a few days but this man just spoke that way

without any stress or maybe she was exaggerating she wasn't

sure she turned to look at he husband as she had felt him

stiffen , he looked like he had seen a ghost his mouth was

literally hung open as trickles of sweat could be seen forming

on his forehead she had never seen her husband like this since

she met him he was always so reserved and never showed too much emotions no matter what he was facing but here he was

in front of this man like an 8 year old about to pee his pants ,

"who are you " Amelia stuttered after gathering lot of courage

she tried her best not to sound her gaze but lady suck was not

on her side as no matter the effort she put in she still sounded

very scared but he didn't even spare her a glance slowly he

took off his hoodie his full attention on Chris now " I told you

not to attempt running but knowing typical you I knew you still

would you're such a coward who only knows how to run away

from his problems never even stopping for a bit to even see if

maybe there's anything he can do, even just a little bit" he said

bending a bit to be on chris level as he gestured using his hands

to emphasize on a little bit " but that's all over now no more

running Chris you've unfortunately come to the end of the line

" he added, this was unacceptable to Amelia er husband was

anything but a coward he was a strong man and she knew it her

gaze at the man sharpened as she looked at him with eyes full

of hate as he said all those things about her husband which

were obviously all lies. She had enough "Chis who is this man

" she asked nudging her husband as she threw him a

meaningful glare " and what do we have here" the man said

turning to her , finally he was noticing her she shot him a death

glare and if looks could kill this man would have been in the

deepest depths of hell in less than a second . her just chuckled

at her expression " I'm guessing she's your wife right ,

Annabelle? No Akeelah? Or wait Annie ? oh oh sorry Amy right?"

he said laughing as he gazed at Amelia intensely " Chris why

does he know my name" she asked as she clung on to her

husbands arm with confusion written all over her face " shh

love its okay he's not gonna hurt you "Chris said gaining his

composure as he patted her back in a soothing manner

"Jeremy you can take me please don't hurt her she knows

nothing about this right? You know it" chris said to man with

pleading eyes " what are you talking about Chris , take you to

where" she cried shaking him " No Donovan that was not the deal you broke the deal countless times and now I'm mad and

I'm no longer going to overlook your actions and you know I

always go overboard when I'm mad , it was just simple for you

to come with me and nobody gets hurt but you chose the hard

way and I hand it you man you are very smart because you

have played me continuosly for years, but you didn't expect to

get away with all of that right? And come to think you're of no

use to me so I might as well just get rid of you and I promise I

would have spared your life but if I do the moment I walk out of

here she's calling the police and not like they can find me but I

don't wanna go hiding you know it's not convenient for me but

I promise you one thing I'll make it quick" he said with a smirk

what was he even talking about nothing made sense to her she

just continued crying as her husband held her close to him

" don't be afraid , I'm here" Chris said as he flashed her an

agonizing smile and before she knew it she heard a deafening

bang and it was like the whole world stopped and nobody was

moving her husbands grip on her slowly loosening up as she

saw him crashing slowly to the ground with a bullet right

through his head blood splattered everywhere her Chris on the

floor and slowly all their memories came rushing in like a

broken record with a small smile in his face in all of them this

definitely wasn't real her heart broke into a million pieces , he

was her everything "NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!" she screamed and

wailed endlessly crashing down on her knees holding her

beloved in her arms "WHYYYYYY!!!!" she yelled at the man

looking at him with blood shot eyes "oops I said it was gonna

be quick" he said and flashed a quick smile and just like that

she was also gone and just like he said it was so quick she just

felt a sharp pain and then it went all black.