Chapter 35

Everything came to a halt when I reached the mansion,the mansion was dead silent,I didn't see it unusual for I knew only Xavier's dad was around but then something shakes me,the gate that I had left closed was now open including the door leading to the house.The security were not around, how..... when the only people given a day off was only the maids and the drivers!

I walk towards the house, afraid, anxious, I don't know why I feel this way, I feel as if I shouldn't be here ,as if the moment I touch the door knob in attempt to open the door, something bad would happen to me, I can sense a big storm coming my way.Maybe it's just my assumptions, but what if it's true that something bad is behind that door and is ready to consume me instantly I make a move.With my sweaty hands, I open the door and step inside, stepping to my doom.

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Lucy sees Rina being dropped off at the mansion and she immediately thinks of a plan to get her completely out of the way.

Should she go and kill her too?No,that would be risky, what should she do?she thought and her eyes widens when she thinks of something ,she heads towards the nearby phone booth and chuckles.She takes out a scarf from her purse and covers her face and wraps it around her mouth,as she dialled a number and spoke through it.

"Mr Montez has just been shot at his mansion,hurry up before the murderer escapes."and she cuts off the call, getting into a cab and speeding off as she released a breath she was holding.She looks at her hands,the memory of her committing both her father's death and Mr Montez's death  clouding her mind ,but all she does is laugh,as the driver looked at her through the front mirror.

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I enter the house and find Mr Montez lying on his back, I was shocked, I thought he had fainted or something,as I head towards him, rolling him over so as to face me, I see the gun beside him,it terrified me, making me tremble in fear, I had never seen a gun this close before ,but what is it doing here?,I then notice the blood that was coming out from his chest making me scream.

He has been shot! I try to shake him, begging him to wake up,as I cried uncontrollably, I pick up the weapon, did he shoot himself,but why? I  take out my phone to call the ambulance,the gun still in my hands but the next thing I know,I'm down on the ground with a cold metal pointed on my neck.

"Don't move or I'll shoot!"I realized it was a man, several other men in black followed surrounding me ,I could see by my peripheral vision and I realized it was the police from the badge they were wearing.Thank heavens!.

"Please help him, please,his shot."I croaked,still in my back .

"He's dead..you killed him."one of the men said as he felt his pulse.What....I didn't do it? I t wasn't me.

"Noo...it wasn't me, I didn't do it, I found him lying there, please believe me."I tried to reason with them,he was dead,dead,his voice ringed on my mind as I tried to stand up but get to be pushed back to the floor by the strong muscular man behind me.

"Then how do you explain the gun in your hand?!"he backed making me flinch as another one took it from me, placing it in a plastic bag.

My dress was covered with blood, I tried pleading with them,proving to them that I was innocent but all I received was a slap and a blow  sending me back to the ground with a thud.

Why is this all happening to me, what did I do?Why can't they believe me, I f only I knew, I could have not accepted to be helped by Mr Montez,maybe, just maybe I could have extended my visit at Xavier's office, everything would be okay if I didn't touch the gun.... everything could be okay if I could have just followed my intuition and didn't enter inside, I feel defeated, destroyed and heartbroken, I want to mourn for his death but also I find myself mourning for my own downfall.What did I do to deserve all this.Entering Xavier's life is starting to come unto me like a curse,it was a cursed love and I'm the one at the losing end.

I cried in silence, for every time I could plead not guilty, they could beat me up,shouting for me to shut up,the agonizing pain was unbearable, I had to keep my silence as they handcuffed me, picking me up roughly from the floor and dragging me out, dragging me to the outside world where everyone leanched me,judged me and called me a murderer,the cameras took numerous photos of me as the police took me to their car, throwing me inside as if I was garbage,as if I was in human.

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"Breaking news: Multimillionaire Mr Montez, father to Xavier Montez is dead."

Whaaat!!

It can't be... I didn't hear it right,my dad, how?Then there she was,being dragged out of the house as she was handcuffed, blood covering her white dress,the dress she had on when she came to me .....and....and she was my dad's murderer! It can't be,as I ran towards the elevator and towards my dad's house.

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They kept me locked inside here, inside this small dark filthy room,the room was covered with the scent of ammonia,it was intoxicating but strangely,the smell didn't bother me,it didn't at all.

I sat at the corner end of the room, bringing my knees towards my chest,as I sobbed, sobbed for being here right now, sobbed for feeling this lonely, sobbed because of the faces of the people as they called me a murderer, sobbed for feeling pathetic about myself and most because of my baby, what kind of life is this that I'm going to give him?My conscience was clean but was afraid of the outcome for the evidence pointed it out to me,me being the murderer,me being the villain.

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"It can't be her, it's not her,she isn't capable of doing such an offense."he muttered to himself as he took out his phone, dialling a number he always knew by heart.

"How's her case?"he asks as he knits his brows.

"She has a strong case brother,all evidence points at her, I don't think that there's any chance she will get out of this.

"Then make everything ready,I'm going to stand for her,I'm going to be her lawyer."

"Really bro,wow,she means a lot to you then, welcome back,the court room missed you Mr lawyer."

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"You would need a lawyer ma'am, don't worry the government will give you one."

"No need,I'll be her lawyer."I looked through the grills as the man cladded in an expensive black suit matched in,her lawyer.

"Martin??"he knitted her brows in confusion,Martin indeed it was,her savior,it turns out that the person who you least expect turns out to be the one,the one to save you or maybe,the one you have been looking for all while.

"Yes princess,you will get through this."he said as he looked at her with adoration.Martin was once a lawyer before he took over his father's company after his death.Promisibg his father that he will make it prosper, even if it meant leaving his career.

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I went to visit her, to look into her eyes, for me to hear it from her that she didn't do it.It really hurt losing my dad,my mentor and moreso my best friend.

I rather me dumped or hurt over and over again....than lose my best friend.He was my best friend.

I take a seat in the room, only a small light from the bulb above me illuminating the room.The door is suddenly opened,as she is brought in, I notice she is still in the dress she was wearing,her hair all messed up and stuck in her skin from the sweat,her eyes were red and as she saw me, she rushed to hug me taking me surprise. I wanted to hug her back but I couldn't bring myself to, as I close my eyes,all I see is my dad's murderer although I still can't believe it, cause I know it,she can't do it even how much she hated me.She could not.

But people do change, what if she changed all along? What is her angel self turned to be a devil, what if she isn't the angel I know, the woman I fell in love with.

"Thank God you are here Xavier,you are going to help me out right,you are going to take me out from here right?"

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I don't know what came over me when I saw him there, he had come for me, I knew he'd come,he wouldn't leave me because he knew that I can't do it, I can't bring myself to kill, how could I?? I loved his dad,he was also like a father to me.

But he was silent all the time, maybe he had done nothing to say, I understand he is grieving,he just lost a big part of his life.The silence was broke when he talk, when he looked me dead straight in my eye and asked me;

"Did you do it?"

He didn't believe me,all this while,he didn't,he had come to judge me,he had come to find it from me if I was the murderer.

"You don't believe me."I whispered softly,a silent tear escaping me as I wiped it off sniffing.

"What do you want me to believe Rina, when everything points directly to you, everything Rina, I no longer know what to believe, he's dead now,my dad is dead and he can never come back."

"But I wasn't the one, believe me Xavier."

"My heart believes you but my mind,is trying hard to, to believe it wasn't you."those were the last words I heard from him, the last time we talked to each other.

Court proceedings...

"Miss, how do you please?"the other lawyer asked me, looking at me as if I was the most despicable thing in the
world.

"Not guilty."I say with confidence,as I look through the court house my eyes coming into contact with Xavier's  but he immediately looks away and by he's side, there she was,Lucy as she looked at me and smirked.What the...

"Ooh so you plead innocent here,then explain the  finger prints found on the gun you used!!"he roared as he smacked the bench in front of me making me flinch.

"Objection my honor!!"Martin stood up giving me an are-you okay look,as I nodded my head slightly.

"Overruled,miss, do answer the question."the judge spoke as I swallow the bile rising in my throat.

"The gun was placed beside him when I found him, I just touched the gun, I wasn't the one who pulled the trigger."I spoke in confidence.

"Then how is it that only your prints were found on the gun???"
"I don't know."I whispered as I had nothing else to say, what could I have said?

"Miss,where were you at exactly  10:00am  yesterday." Martin asked me in an authoritative voice.

"I had gone to Xavier's office by then,and I left there at I think 11."

"Exactly,she was at Mr Xavier's office exactly the time of the murder, how could it be her when she wasn't there?How can it be her when she wasn't even near the house at the time of the murder.And yes.... about the fingerprint on the gun, what if the murderer had worn gloves or wiped off the gun after using it and disposing it beside the body,my client finding it and accidentally picking it up.What if her only mistake was picking the gun up."he said as he took back his seat, people beginning to talk.

"Order!! order in the court house,the proceedings will continue tomorrow."the judge said as he hit the pad.