ATHENA

"Are you sure about this?" Alex asks me as we step into the apartment.

"Yes. I need this." I whisper.

My heart is boiling, and anger is threatening to spill over since this morning.

After the surprise party last night, we went clubbing and it was so fun although I didn't take any alcohol. I don't know why, but I've just been avoiding it lately.

It was this morning when I was getting ready to drop Rayen off when Alex dropped the bomb.

My aunty had my parents killed. As in, my mother's sister. Does that even make sense? How can someone be so wicked?

He'll, I knew she was heartless when she took all my inheritance and blocked me from her life. She tried to return after I got married to Alex, but I refused to see her. But this, this is something I can't wrap my head around.

Mum was so good to her. So I need answers!

Alex opens the door, and I halt my steps.

The first scent that hits my nose is a stench of blood mixed with sweat and something unpleasant. I take a step forward into the living room, which is chaotic.

The living room has messed up chairs. Pillows have been cut, and feathers are all over. Glass is shattered, and in the middle of it, is Aunt Glenda.

eye is closing. Her neck is hanging

open the fridge,


tightly, my knuckles whitening, and then I

Perfect.

pour the water in, and

to speak but is

"Noah," Alex warns.

do what

an edge I haven't heard in a while. Like he knows this

word as I keep filling the bucket. Each splash feels like

died? Was the water this cold, or were they murdered then thrown in

full, I lift it with both hands. The water

saying a word, I walk back into the room and stop right in front of her. Her head

raise the bucket and dump the entire

head snaps up, her eyes wide and blinking


like a second skin, makeup running down her face in rivers of

shaking in the chair,

way to meet, but murderers can't be choosers,

stepping

you just yet. We first need to catch up." I remove the tape roughly from her lips, making

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