Chapter Eighty Five - Numb
Hailey's POV
After consuming my first bottle of wine, I started feeling drowsy with my last conscious thoughts, being about Adian and feeling torn between my loyalties to him and to my family.
Who can I trust now? Adian's father chose to take him away, quickly, before I could even select an outfit to wear. Basil, knew they were taking him away without telling me. Are they all involved in destroying me, to get my inheritance?
My mother lost her life and my father is missing because of the Knights. I thought Adian could help me. but with his mother and his ex fiancé in the picture, it might be difficult to get close to him.
I will find out where Adian is and meet him without his family being around. I need to know that I can trust him.
Surrendering myself into a deep sleep, the dreams started again and this time, I welcome it, Inspite of the fears and tears that come with it.
DREAMS - FLASHBACK
"Come on sweetheart, daddy's car is outside, let's go surprise him with the good news" the mother says as she unbuckles the seatbelt that held the little girl, strapped, in the backseat of the car.
"Mommy am I still going to be daddy's Hailey bear?" the little girl asked the happy excited woman, who was helping her out of the car.
With the little girl standing in front of her mother, the mother leaned down and kissed her on her head.
"It doesn't matter how many baby bears daddy has, you will always be his Hailey bear" she said, holding the little girl's hand and walks towards the front door.
The mother stops and frowns looking at the cars in the driveway.
"What is it mommy?" the little girl asks, sensing a difference in her mother's confused expression.
Looking at the driveway, then back at the little girl, with a small smile.
"It's nothing sweetheart. " Aunty Amelia is here but she didn't say that she was coming over. Let's go meet them, but don't say anything to aunty Amelia about the good news okay?" the mother told the little girl, who nods happily.
"Okay mommy" the little girl agrees as the mother opens the front door, allowing the little girl to walk in first, closing the door behind her.
The little girl skips excitingly into the house, going into the living room.
"Daddy's not here mommy" the little girl says to her mother, disappointment evident in her voice and her pout.
The mother frowns staring at the clothes scattered on the floor. She turns to her daughter, with tears shimmering in her eyes.
"Stay here, don't move, I'll be right back" the mother tells the little girl, as the mother walks out of the living room, heading towards the stairway.
Unknown to the mother, the little girl follows quietly behind her, excited to see her daddy.
The mother quickly runs up the stairs, leaving the little girl to follow her, at a much slower pace.
The little girl, paused halfway up the stairs as she heard her mother scream.
"DAVID! DAVID!" the mother screams, "HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME? HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO YOUR DAUGHTER? HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO OUR FAMILY?" the mother continues to scream.
The little girl stood midway up the stairs, suddenly afraid after she hears her mother screams.
"GET OUT, GET OUT OF MY HOUSE YOU SLUT!" the mother shouts.
As the little girl, looks up the stair, a naked woman runs out unto the landing, dragging a sheet behind her as she struggles to wrap the sheet around her.
The mother follows the woman unto the landing at the top of the stairs.
"YOU DIRTY WHORE!" The mother shouts, and the little girl girl, gasps as she sees her mother slap the woman on one side of her cheek, then another slap on the other cheek then another slap. The woman stood stunned as the little girl's mother kept slapping her, then the mother started pulling the sheet away from the woman, who started screaming.
"Okay, I'm going, let me go" the woman cried out to the girl's mother, who got hold of the sheet and left the woman, standing naked on the top of the stairs once again.
"GET OUT," the girl's mother shouts again, with tears streaming down her face.
"Mommy, mommy!" the little girl cried, looking up the stairs at her mother and the naked woman.
Both women, turned their attention unto the little girl, now crying on the stairs,
The mother turned to walk down the stairs towards the little girl,
"It's okay sweet..." the mother started saying as she starts to walk down towards her little girl, when suddenly the naked woman, shoved the mother, who came tumbling down the stairs, passing the little girl, who stood horrified, as her mother rolled past her.
"Mommy, mommy" the little girl woke up screaming. "The naked lady pushed mommy"
END OF DREAM
Waking up in cold sweat, shivering, but there were no more tears. The tears had dried up, the fear has disappeared
Numb, there is not other word to explain how I felt. right now. I was frozen inside and my hot blood have now started to run cold.
AMELIA KNIGHTS KILLED MY MOTHER AND THE GOOD NEWS THAT MY MOTHER WAS GOING TO SHARE THAT DAY!
I look at the hotel's alarm clock and see that it's only three thirty in the morning, but I was restless. I couldn't go back to sleep and I couldn't stay in this room. I have to go out, I have to go outside and breathe.
I got up and showered changing into a light blue jeans and a white t-shirt that I bought last evening, completed with my Adidas sneakers, ready to do battle with the world.
I called the front desk and a man with a husky voice, greeted me sleepily.
"Good morning" I faked a bright response.