SILENCE

‘Stop whining like a little girl.’ Ben said as the blood continued to spill from where the finger had been

‘Please cover it up, he might die from excessive bleeding.’ Larna begged

Fernando and Ben looked at each other before they both laughed

‘This is just the beginning and the little finger is not what is going to kill him.’

The two men left the room as Elisha continued to groan in pain.

‘Baby I am really sorry.’

‘Larna it isn’t your fault, I guess we all played a role in all this but I am just glad that I have you back before I can finally die.’

‘Please don’t say that, none of us is dying today.’ She said her own words not even convincing her

‘Baby the mistake we have been making is not accepting what is, don’t you think it is high time we accepted that maybe this is how our ending was meant to be?’

‘Elisha I refuse to go down without a fight, I refuse to give them the last laugh.’ She said strongly

‘These monsters hurt me years back, punished me for something that I didn’t even do and now they have come into our lives to destroy what I built with my sweat and my blood?’ she asked

‘Baby look at where we are, there is nothing we can do about it.’

‘They killed my babies, they caused me to have my leg amputated. They enjoyed as our relationship fell apart, they came dressed as angels and destroyed us; if I have to die today I swear a part of them is dying too.’ She said

Just then the door opened and Ben walked in.

‘How could you?’ Elisha asked

‘Well my man let me enlighten you, you see we have been working on this plan our entire lives. Trust me don’t take this personal but it had to be done one way or the other.’

‘I trusted you, I opened my home to you,’

‘Boo-hoo! That is what you get for not digging into people’s backgrounds.’

‘Let me see, you are always going to be in Fernando’s back. He will never treat you as an equal and I bet by the time all this is over he will take you down as well.’ She told him

‘Oh shut up!’

‘He never got over his brother’s death and he has only been using you to fill that void.’ She added

‘What do you know about Fernando?’

Larna chuckled through the pain

‘Tell me something, were you always like this before Ferbian died?’

‘Of course we weren’t but that doesn’t mean that he didn’t love me.’

‘Yeah right.’ She said spitting in his face as he was close

‘Whatever you say won’t make me change my mind, the both of you are going to die!’

‘You think I care about staying alive? What will I live for if I survive?’ she asked catching him by surprise

‘Yes Ben I don’t want to live anymore, I want to be united with my babies and my father.’

He slapped her hard across the face

‘Physical pain doesn’t hurt me, and I will remember to greet Ferbian whilst in hell and will tell him about how his brother misses him. I bet he can’t even remember you in death!’

‘Shut up!’ he screamed

She knew it was working now she had to continue talking

‘So where did you come from? I bet your mother didn’t even want you. Are you some sort of bastard child? For a lack of a better term?’

He moved to the table and grabbed a knife.

‘Go ahead and do it you fool!’

He moved behind her, pulling her by the hair; he placed it on her neck

‘I never cared much about this your wife, in fact I wanted her dead the minute I saw her so this will be my pleasure.’ He said

He slowly started cutting through aiming for the throat but stopped when the door opened

‘What’s going on here?’ Fernando asked

‘You don’t do anything to her, she is mine!’ he screamed

Larna looked at the both of them as blood started running down her neck but she put up a strong face.

‘Let me tell you a little story.’ Fernando said looking at Elisha

‘I am sure you have the dots figured out but I want you to hear it from me.’

He paused

‘My little brother Ferbian was a good man, he loved Sasha with everything in him but somewhere along the way; her monstrous father came on board and destroyed everything I ever loved.’

‘Mr. Chishala is dead, why didn’t you stop immediately after his death?’ Elisha asked

‘I couldn’t have, his entire generation had to go. You know what they say about generational curses? Yes I didn’t want that upon his children and grandchildren.’

‘But you kidnapped his daughter, you killed her spirit and everything she ever believed in. she had no relationship whatsoever with her parents, her only family was us.’

‘That was the mistake that she made, you see after what we did to her; we expected her to go into some sort of depression that would bring her to her death but no. she fought through it all and made something out of her life.’

He turned to look at Larna

‘You see we never had a normal life afterwards so what right did she have? Come on she was working from home; a job she loved with a wonderful family whilst we were still mourning over Ferbian’s death.’

‘So it wasn’t even about Ferbian anymore right?’ Larna asked with a weak smile

‘No it wasn’t, I fell in love with you Larna. I loved how you carried yourself, I loved how you tendered to the kids and that made me want you even more.’

‘You are sick and need serious help, that is not love; that is an obsession!’

‘Call it whatever you want but you will be mine in one way or the other!’

‘I will be dead first before you can make me yours.’ She said

‘Then say hello to death sweetheart.’ He said pointing a gun to her head