Read Story: SEASON 1 EPISODE 12
You killed himâ. Raymond heard someone whisper at the door as he was about to leave the toilet.
He looked up.
It was Ryan.
Ryan shivered. âWhy did you hit him so much when he was begging you to stop?â.
Raymond glared at him. âGet out of the wayâ.
Tears filled Ryanâs eyes. âArnold trusted you so much. How could you kill him?â.
âGet out of the way! I need to drop his bodyâ.
âWhy wonât I get out of the way? So that you will kill me the way you killed him?â. He stepped out of the way and glared at Raymond as he walked past him.
He was going to make sure that Raymond is locked behind bars.
âI was the one that put the companyâs sample thereâ. Clara muttered.
Everyone looked up at her.
Mirabel fumed at her. âWhy are you taking the blame?â.
âHow do you know that I am taking the blame when you were not there when someone had slipped the sample in?â. Clara met her eyes.
I was surprised at Clara.
She was taking the blame for me because she knew that Mirabel had done it.
But all the same, I was not going to allow it. âClara, you didnât put the sample in my stuffâ.
âI didâ. She snatched the sack letter from me. âthis should be mineâ. She walked out.
I followed her. âClara, give the sack letter back to me!!!â.
She stopped and turned. âMy elder brother died in prison because he was condemned. Just few months after his death, they found the real killer. Since then, I had told myself that if anyone is condemned wrongly, I will take the blameâ.
âHow did you know that I didnât do it?â.
âMirabel overheard when I and Diana were gossipping about how you and Raymond were gradually falling in love. I saw the look on her face that day. Like the tiger that she isâ.
âWhere will you go?â.
âMy boyfriend has plans of flying abroad, so donât worry about meâ. She patted me on my shoulder and walked into her office.
Mirabel rushed out breathlessly.
She was sobbing uncontrollably.
I wondered what was making her cry like that.
Diana rushed out. âHow can Mirabel loose both siblings in just a year?â.
I gasped and turned to her. âBoth siblings? What are you talking about?â.
âArnold Alexander is deadâ.
Tears filled Raymondâs eyes.
It was the first time that I had seen Raymond cry.
I placed a comforting arm around him.
âArnold should have left the case for me! Why was he so forward?â.
We sat at the bus station and remained in that position as I watched him grieve.
Raymond met his motherâs eyes. âI am not marrying Swantaâ.
Swanta panicked. âRaymond?â
Mrs Maxson cleared her throat. âDo you have anyone in mind?â.
âYeah, Rosa Harrison. She is the one I love. If you canât allow us, just forget about marriageâ.
âAll over my dead body!â. She fired at him. âThat promiscuous irresponsible bitch?â.
âThe âpromiscuous irresponsible bitchâ is still a virgin. Stop judging people by what you see instead of what you know about them!!!â.
âThe son of a righteous judge has to marry a righteous ladyâ. Joel Maxson said sternly.
âRosa is the nicest girl that I have ever seenâ.
Tears filled Swantaâs eyes. âYou gold-diggerâŠâ.
Raymond glared at her. âI knew you had a true colour. You sound just like Mirabelâ.
Joel Maxson rose to his feet. âSwanta or whatever you call yourself, leave my house and never come back hereâ.
Mrs Maxson fumed. âIf you can call your supposed husband-to-be a gold digger, that means you were part of the bastards that called my husband a golddiggerâ.
Swanta sobbed uncontrollably. âI am sorry. I have never gossiped that way all my life! I swearâ.
âI said leave this place!!!â. Joel Maxson fired at her.
Mirabel was carrying all her things out of her office when i walked into the company.
I rushed to her. âWhat do you think you are doing?â.
Tears filled her eyes. âKilling my brother and sister is too much. Since we have a dumb detective like Raymond, I dâ rather deal with it lawlesslyâ.
âYou canât stain your hands! You are the only daughter your father has left!â.
âI donât care!!!â.
âSo you think your resigning from Sparkles will change anything?â.
âIt will change a lot of things! leave the way!!!â.
I watched Diana weep as she ate her meal at the cafeteria.
I joined her at the table.
She made eyes at me and looked away.
âYou miss Clara a lotâ.
âJoshua Gilbert is goneâ. She whispered.
âJoshua Gilbert? Who is Joshua Gilbert?â.
âArnold Andersonâ.
âWhat do you mean?â.
âHe had composed the song, âtwinkle, twinkle Little Star and âmy motherâ for Ann Taylor and Jane Taylor. Gretta was Ann Taylor, Clara was Jane Taylor, while I was Sarah Haleâ.
âWas Ann Taylor not Jane Taylorâs mother?â.
âYes. Because Gretta and Clara were so close and told each other everything, we had named them that wayâ.
ââŠbut Clara had told me that you and Gretta were closer friendsâ.
âShe was only pulling your legs. Those days, the two friends would tell each other everything and keep me in the dark because they felt that I was too shallow and lousy. Those days, we would sit in a circle and Joshua Gilbert will play a violin. I was always the first to step out and sing, âMary had a little lamb, then, Ann Taylor, who was Gretta, would sing, âWho sat and watched my infant headâ, and Jane Taylor, who was Clara would sing, Twinkle, twinkle, little starâ.
Raymond had told me that the last song that Arnold had sang before he died was twinkle twinkle Little Star.
Where was Clara?
I looked up at Diana. âWhat is Claraâs shoe size?â.
âShoe size? She is size forty one. You want to get a shoe for her?â.
Raymond drove to Claraâs apartment.
Diana had given us her home address.
It was behind Nathanâs building.
Immediately we parked at the front of her house, she stepped out, holding a plate of food she had covered with another plate.
She walked to Nathanâs building and knocked.
Nathan opened the door and kissed her.
It said it all.
Clara, who was Grettaâs best friend had been the woman that Nathan had been sleeping with all along.
I remembered that day that the killer had sneaked into my office and how she had appeared.
It said it all.
They were in it together.
Nathan, Clara and Steve Austin.
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