SUSPICION

Paul locked eyes with his wife and Jessie looks at him dreadfully, they stared at each other for a long time and Paul asks himself again. "Was it you?"

Immediately he got suspicious of his wife, she was already in his bad book anyways. She wipes out an entire family without any remorse, definitely she could do away with a mere maid too without any remorse.

He couldn't wait for everyone to leave so that he can ask her why she did it, why would Jessie kill the maid? And then cover it up?

The police officers soon finished up with their investigation and took the deceased to the mortuary, Jessie reached out to the deceased family, sent her condolences and even compensate them.

The family received the money innocently, not knowing Jessie was the accomplice of the culprit.

Linda retires to bed still having the very devastated look on her face, she turns of the light to sleep but it was as if the deceased was there with her. She hallucinated that the deceased came back and strangled her to death but when she put on the light out of fear, nobody was there. "If this is my punishment for doing that to you, I accept." Linda says as she sobs." Please I am so sorry."

She couldn't sleep alone, her entire room was holding the memories of the late maid. She picks up her pillow and decides to join her parents in their room. She gently opens her door and walks to her parents room when she heard her father talking.

"Why did you kill the maid?" Paul asks.

Immediately Linda wanted to go in and tell her father that her mom was innocent, but she held back, still listening to what they were saying.

"I didn't do it." Jessie replies calmly.

"So who did it? Jessie or Raymond?"

"I don't know, but I am innocent. Why would I want to kill her in the first place?"

"Innocent?" Paul scoffs. "You wiped the entire Smith family without any form of remorse."

Bombshell!!!!!!!! Wipe out the entire Smith family? "My mom did that to those people?" Linda asks herself.

"I did that because they were guilty." Jessie retorts.

"Guilty? You wiped out an entire family because Peter was your ex lover and he left you for someone else, is that enough reason to take the lives of four people? Only God knows where Ella is at the moment."

"Isn't that enough reason to wipe them out?" Jessie smiles. "They got exactly what they deserve."

"I should be the one doing these things, Alex dumped me too. She dumped me for Peter and you used me. You never told me you had something to do with Peter before I married you."

"I didn't use you, I helped you. Your life was a mess then."

"Really?" Paul laughs. "My life is in a bigger ma now than before, you have complete ruined it."

Outside, Linda heard everything, clearly. She asked why God brought her into this family. Why does she have to be the one experiencing all these terrible things.

"Please, i need to sleep."

"You are not sleeping until you tell me why you killed the maid." Paul says a bit loudly. He held his head with his palm, everything was already driving him crazy.

"Stop disturbing yourself and go to bed."

Linda puts two and two together, she now understood why her mom asked her to bully Ella and made her always have the feeling that her father didn't care about them. It was all for her filthy revenge.

She opens the door wide open and her parents were shocked. Jessie sat on the bed in her nightie and Paul still held his head with his palms.

"Mom."

"Come in and close the door." Jessie whispers.

Linda obeys and looks at her mom. "I don't even know what to say."

"Go back to sleep." Paul says as he removes his palms from his head. "You had a long day."

"You want to know why the maid died right?" She asked and looks at her father. "I will tell you."

"What are you talking about? You know why the maid died?"

"Don't you dare utter any statement." Jessie warns.

"Shut it." Paul says sternly and faces his daughter. "Speak up."

"I am lonely, so lonely. You people are making feel like I am alone in this world." Linda says and tears dropped from her eyes. "So I ran into some people doing drugs and I tried it out."

"Linda!!!" Paul calls.

"I am not done yet." She continues. "So I brought some of the drugs home, the maid caught me and tries to collect it from me so I pushed her." Linda exhales. "I did it just to stop her from taking the cigarette but I ended up killing her, only if you people showed me a bit a of parental love. This wouldn't have happened." She continues sobbing.

"Paul held his head again." Everything was driving him nuts. "Go to bed."

"Mom, what kind of human being are you? You killed four People? You even told me to bully Ella, and used my dad too. Do you even love us one bit?" She asks but there was no answer. "I get it." She says stand man's walks out.

"You should be careful where and how you talk." Jessie yells.

Paul still held his head with his palms, his head was banging hard. He managed to get hold of a pain killer and used it quickly.

Everything was now clear to Linda, she understood the reason why her parents acts like cat and rat. But the loneliness and depression grew deeper. This made her become a serious drug addict.