Chapter 27

It was 3am and I had still not yet fallen asleep because my mind was just flooded with thousands of questions that needed answers, but I knew that I was not going to get those answers. I sat up from the bed looking outside on the balcony, I looked at the full moon that brightened up the room, I wondered what Maynard was doing and which country he was in because all I knew was that he had gone abroad I wasn't told which country he was going to. I got off from the bed and I walked outside onto the balcony. The breeze was cool and comfortable I sat down on one of the small couches that were on the balcony. I looked up at the bright stars and bright moon.

The night sky to me which was a vast, endless, and unknown universe beyond the human eye. A whole new world. A universe that is waiting to be discovered. Looking up into the night sky, made me feel welcomed by countless stars, constellations, and the moon. For me, the starry night sky is a time of comfort and peace. Away from the city, I am greeted by a sight I usually do not get to view quite often. The serenity and quietness of the nearby trees swaying in the gentle breeze, and the sound of crickets in the night.

These precious moments that I get to steal away from everything and everyone gives me a moment to think and feel like I'm in a whole new world with new species. The night sky grants me time to reflect on my life; yet, a time to set dreams for the future. It made me remember the time I went camping with my parents in a quiet forest that was really peaceful. We stayed there for the whole weekend and we spent the weekend nights looking up at the sky, naming stars and telling each other campfire stories. I was the one that came up with the scariest story about a man who lived in the woods and he would kidnap campers, cook them and eat them. What made my parents scared is that I was able to describe how the man killed and ate those campers.

My parents kept on telling me how I scared the life out of them, they were even afraid of going out to pee in the middle of the night. I smiled to myself, all this reminded me of how happy we were as as a family. Many people envied us, not because of the money we had but because of how we treated each other and how we lived our lives. But I guess all that turned out to be a lie, they made me believe that we were a perfect family but turns out we were the most fake family that had ever existed.

My life had really changed in just a blink of an eye, I wanted to accept things the way they are but I just couldn't, I wanted my parents to pay for what they had done to me, for stealing the future that I had always dreamed of. For shattering my hopes and dreams just so that they could become filthy rich, can a person be even more greedy than they are, I hope not.

As I continued seating there lokking up at the sky and rembering the old times my phone rang. I sighed feeling annoyed, I wondered who had the balls to call me at such an hour, isn't everybody supposed to be asleep at 3am,jesus I wondered who it was. I got off from the chair and I went back into the bedroom and I took my phone, I had placed it under the pillow. I looked at the caller ID and I didn't seem to recognize it, and it was a foreign number. I don't remember being friends with a foreigner. I answered the call. "Hello?" I said in a low voice.

"Hello." from how the voice sounded I could tell that it was that asshole Maynard, yep he is the only one who has the balls to call me at such a late hour.

"Maynard?" I asked. "What did I tell you about calling me buy my name?" He asked.

"Sorry... Hubby." I said, I can't believe I have to call an asshole like him hubby.

"Good girl, I wanted to tell you that I'll be coming back tomorrow." He said.

"What, so soon?" I asked. Damn why can't he be gone for ten years, if not ten at least five or six years because I don't want him anywhere near me, I just want him to magically disappear.

"Why does it sound like you don't want me to come back?" He asked and his tone sounded dark and scary. But of course I did not want him to come back but there was no way I was going to tell him because I still remember what he had told me had done to that woman and her parents for harming his twin brother, so no the last thing I wanted was to piss him off.

"No, that's not the case, I was just stunned you know I thought that you were going to be gone for a while so that I can be able to prepare myself properly." I said.

"What do you need to prepare yourself for?" He asked me.

"You know, that thing we are going to do when you come back, I'm not yet mentally prepared for it." I said.

"Ohh that. There is no need to prepare yourself, you just have to do what I tell you okay." He said.

"Okay." I said and I hung up the phone. 'Wait why did I do that... Oh my gosh he is going to cook me alive.' I mentally slapped myself. I guess I should just start looking for my own coffin because this guy would probably kill me.

As I was pacing around the room trying to calm myself, my phone rang and it was Maynard, I just hoped and prayed that he was not angry at me. I answered the call. "you sure are gutsy." He said. He didn't even give me a chance to say hello or even apologise.

"What are you talking about!?" I asked.

"I'm talking about you hanging up on me."He said.

"What I did? I thought that you were the one that had done it... Are you sure that it was me?" I asked him trying to act clueless. But I knew that he was not going to fall for it.

"Yes I am 100% sure that it was your doing. And trust me I'm going to make you regret doing it Emma." He said. Yep I knew that he was going to say that, but I just hoped that he wouldn't say it.

"Maynard...i mean hubby, I'm sure that you are mistaken, I did not hang up on you, you did." I said.

"Do Iook stupid to you. Even the dumbest person on earth would have that you were the one that hung up on me." He said.

"Anyway, I have to go, I'll see you tomorrow at noon okay. You still have today mentally prepare yourself for what's to come." He said.

"Okay bye." I said and he hung up.

"What an asshole." I said to myself and then I went to bed.

The next day I was woken up by my phone ringing for the millionth time. I checked the caller ID and it was my mom, wow I wondered what this evil with wanted. I checked the time and it was 12pm but my body was feeling heavy. I answered the call.

"Yes Eloise." I said. To me parents were dead and I didn't know this people.

"My goodness Emma how can you call me you own mother by my name?" She asked.

"Sorry, my parents are dead I'm not the one you are looking for Eloise." I said.

"Emma dear what has gotten into you? I am your mother." She said.

"Sorry Eloise, I am not your daughter. If your daughter is lost then I won't mind helping you to look for her because I have a very kind heart, so please tell me what your daughter looks like and her age,i will tell my husband to help you look for her." I said. I really wanted nothing nothing to do with her or her husband.

"Emma dear it is me your mother, you are my daughter." She said and I heard some shuffling on the other side.

"What do you want Eloise?" I asked her.

"Emma... We are short on money." She said, I sat up from my bed quickly. Short on money, but didn't Maynard just transfare the money to their bank account yesterday. I took a deep breath.

"How much do you need?" I asked trying to stay calm calm.

"It's not much it's just 800 billion US dollars." She said.

"Alright I will see what I can do." I said hanging up the call. 800 billion US dollars? What did this people do with all the money that Maynard had given them. This people are so greedy.