The Love From Vengeance

Chapter 75

75: THE SOUND OF FEAR

ARIEL’S POV

“Who said the two of you could carry out this nonsense in my kitchen?” Mariam snapped at my mom, and I.

“Your kitchen?” I raised an eyebrow. “You barely even be here. And by the

house.”

“It’s just about a matter of time before I throw you out.”

I chuckled. “Impossible.”

“The both of you can leave now!” She snarled.

way,

this is my

My mother entered the conversation with a calm tone, “I’m sorry miss, but we’re preparing…..

“No one said you can talk!” Mariam barked at her.

“Don’t you dare raise your voice at her!” I gave Mariam a dark look.

She returned the expression. “Just look at this little rat, raising her voice at me like I was her puppet, or something.”

“If you want respect. Then you got to be respectful,” I told her. “Don’t think people are going to be smiling at you when you got that disgusting attitude.”

“Disgusting attitude?” Mariam laughed. “You went ahead to poison yourself, and put the blame on me. Now you’re saying I got a disgusting attitude?”

“You poisoned yourself?” My mom uttered softly, and looked at me. “Ariel, is this true?”

“Come on now mother. Why in the world would I do such a thing? Poisoning myself? Hell no.”

“Oh shut up now. Enough with the lies,” Mariam spat.

“Hey, you need to have some manners,” my mom told Mariam.

Mariam burst into laughter. “You’re telling me to have manners? When your daughter right here has none.”

“I won’t let you insult my daughter like that, do you hear me?!” My mom’s anger was awakened.

“What are you going to do?” Mariam moved closer to my mother. “Your daughter is nothing but a worthless piece of trash,” she said in huhsed tones.

My mom, brimming with rage, surprised Mariam with a tight slap. And as Mariam held her face in shock, she received another slap. Then my mom gave her the third one on a different cheek.

Mariam gaped at my mother who did nothing but glare at her. She couldn’t believe what just happened.

“That is what you get for being disrespectful to my daughter.” My mom picked a knife. “If you try to talk nonsense again, I won’t hesitate to stab you with this.”

15 THE SOUND OF FEAR

“Okay mom, you got to calm down. That’s enough, that’s enough,” I said, lowering the knife she was holding.

After that, we heard a the thunderous sound of a bullet released in the air.

us exchanged fearful glances,

was that?” I aksed, as I could feel myself

released a bullet,”

a stray sound, but my hope vanished when I heard more gunshots, one after another, growing louder and closer. Panic gripped me immediately. I wasn’t going to lie, I

feet, my voice quivering with urgency. “Mom, we need to get to

need to relax. Everything will be fine,” my mom said. And then we

Mariam spoke, and I looked at

I don’t have time for a beef right now,” I told her.

rolled her eyes. “You think

heard more gunshots, and I knew something was definitely not going

mom, we need to hide from this chaos.” I grabbed my mom’s hand, and began to tread

I could hear our footsteps echoing in the mansion. Each step brought us closer to one of the rooms where different books were kept. I used to come

we could hear the cacophony of gunshots intensifying, their

my stomach, fueling a desperate need to find

slammed the door shut behind us, just

for?” My mom questioned me in

like I had

need to open that door right now and let

“But mom..”

buts. Open it,” my mom’s mode was serious, and her

at Mariam, but eventually shifted backwards, opening the door wide for her to come in.

dark room, we could hear the sound of someone slamming the door from downstairs.

moment.

THE CHANG

her hands around her chest. “What’s happening out there? Who would bring violence to

and stay hidden until it’s safe. We have to trust that

we can’t just

we going to do then, huh?” Mariam aksed. Her irritating tone caused me to

her.

around the room, as I was searching for

but I spotted a large wardrobe in the

chance to stay out of sight.”

going to fit into that?” Mariam aksed,

her an irritated look. “If you don’t want to hide in it. That’s your own cup of tea. Maybe you can find somewhere more safe to hide your annoying

me. I exhaled deeply, before treading

the air, mingling with the fear. I even wondered who these

compounded the moment I heard some maids screaming. The gunshots were released downstairs, and it made

her life could be in danger. I quickly burst out of the wardrobe, running

you going to?” My mom asked me, she was sort of

me. Just keep yourself safe,” I answered, leaving the

ARIEL’S POV

sound of gunshots reverberated through the mansion. Panic gripped her as I had

I was filled with terror. But I

screams coming from downstairs, my fear intensified. Each gunshot

below, but I knew I

get her to safety before it was too late. The chaos and terror surrounding me was suffocating, and I could only pray for a

knew I couldn’t let fear consume me. I needed to be strong in this moment, for myself and for Riley,

LUKE’S POV

to ring. At first, I tried to ignore it and focus on the task at hand, but the

caller ID. It was an unknown number, and my mind told me it was that guy who kept on requesting for money.I wanted to ignore the call, but it was

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