Chapter Three

*Knocks on the door*

"Rose ,please open up the door .It's me ,your best friend Bridget .Please don't shut the door out on me .Open up bestie ,coz I know you are in there .You don't need to bear the pain all by yourself ,please Rose!"

*Door opens ,and Bridget enters and gives her a tight hug *

"I loved a murderer ,a liar and and a betrayer .All this while ,I stupidly thought I was with the right man .You advised me several times to keep my distance away from him but I never listened .I was blinded by love and I thought I was the most luckiest woman on earth to get such a man by my side .

Yes ,I was lucky because I was about to get married to the man who killed my father brutally without regret .He hated my father ,killed him and still got the guts to call me "love "!

On the day of his funeral ,he clad himself black along with me and sobbed with me .I couldn't see the joy in his eyes at that time because I thought he was feeling my pain .I now know why ,he wanted to attach himself to me ,he wanted information about my dad and planned strategically on how to kill him !"Rose said, taking a shot of whiskey .

"Enough Rose ,you have already drunk enough .Please give me the glass and take some rest !"

"Bridget ,he told me that he wanted to deliver some items to his mum on the night that my dad died .I believed him and hung out with my friends that night .

I got home and saw my father lie down in the pool of blood .He could say nothing because he was already dead .He was shot right directly in the head three consecutive times .I closed his eyes and lied down by his lifeless body waiting for an intervention from above to bring my father back alive but that didn't happen .

I called him to inform him about my father's death .Could you believe it ?

I called my father's murderer to explain to him what had happened !

He hypocritically kept me comforted and kept on motivating me every now and then .

While my whole life was in jeopardy ,I kept on leaning on him .I thought he was my pillar ,my well wisher and my god sent from above .I never knew he was the demon sent by the devil himself !

Ten years ago ,he always helped me out in college after my dad's death when my aunt wasn't having enough time for me .I used to spend nights at his house to prepare for my exams .We studied together ,went out watching movies and playing cards together .

I was only sixteen then ,I wasn't mature enough to know that I was walking with a beast .

After college ,when I studied to be a judge ,I had only one aim and that was to find my father's murderer .I wanted to find him and finally fulfill the promise I made to my father but little did I know that ,it was a waste of my time searching when he was in my own cabin .

When I reopened my father's case ,he was my support, probably because he knew he left no trace of his crime but nothing goes unpunished according to karma ;what goes around comes around !

When I got to where my father and I used to stay ,I found a secret passage in the house which led me to an underground apartment .It was a control room which monitored the movements of everyone in the house .No one knew of its existence except my father .

I sat down ,watched all the images and videos and when the truth was finally right before me ,it broke me into pieces .

It was shattering but I kept it to myself when I got home .

That night ,he looked into my eyes as I looked into his , imagining how stupid I had been for not realizing the truth .

We both looked into our gazes as he pulled out a ring and asked me to be his bride .

I humbly accepted because it was my time to finally play his dirty game .He wanted to go to bed with me that night but I refused by mixing a sedative in his drink to put him to sleep .

I searched his apartment thoroughly and found the gun still stained in blood after all these years with his gloves attached to it hidden secretly inside the safe box in his kitchen .For ten years of being with him ,I never noticed that safe box . But after he proposed to me ,he went straight into his kitchen to bring a bottle of drinks for our celebration .I followed him as he opened his safe box to adjust it properly so that I wouldn't see .

While he was asleep ,I opened the keypad combination of his safe and brought out his secret weapon .

That was how all this scandal happened .I was betrayed in broad daylight by the man I was hopelessly in love with .I could go against the whole world for his sake but look at what he turned me into ,Bridget !

Judging his case only made me realize that this world is a twist of fate !

I need to ask why and when it all happened , Bridget ,because this is how it all started .....!"

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