Read Story: SEASON 1 EPISODE 8
She laughed immediately she saw him. âYes, I am the killer. I killed my sisterâ. She made eyes at him and drove off.
He walked into the house before Grettaâs ex- husband allowed him in. âNathan Edwards?â.
The man nodded. âI hope your visiting me does not concern Gretta?â.
âWhy not?â. Raymond daringly helped himself to a cushion.
Nathan sat at the other cushion. âI thought you found the killer?â.
There was humour in Raymondâs eyes as he looked at him. âWhat killer are you talking about?â.
âOne Rosa like thatâ.
âRosa is not even a suspect. By the way, what was Mirabel doing here?â.
âMirabel is my best friend. She is the only one that understands my painâ.
âWhat pain is that?â.
âMy sonâ.
âGretta started blaming herself at the beginning for killing her son, then all of a sudden, she started blaming you. Why?â.
âThe idiot was just looking for someone to blameâ.
Raymond looked around the house.
There were paintings around the wall.
Paintings of a woman crying over a bloody dead child. âWhy do you torture yourself with paintings like this?â
âIt comforts meâ. He closed his eyes as if meditating.
Raymond walked into his room.
Nathan rushed after him. âWhat do you think you are doing?â.
Raymond rolled his eyes. âStop panicking, you are not even one of the suspects on my mindâ.
He noticed a lot of female shoes in his shoe rack. âAre those shoes for Gretta?â.
âEr? Er yesâ. Nathan stuttered.
Raymond moved towards the shoe rack and picked one of them. He examined the shoe size.
Size forty one.
He was going to confirm the size of Grettaâs shoe from Arnold.
âYou and Gretta should have married again since you still loved each other this muchâ.
Nathan shrugged and nodded.
Raymond could see it in his eyes.
Nathan didnât love his wife.
He was hiding something.
He sighed deeply and moved out of the room. âI will be backâ.
âAnytime you are coming to my house again, make sure you inform me. Donât just barge in like a spoilt bratâ. Nathan retorted.
Raymond shrugged and walked out.
âGrettaâs shoe size was 39â. Arnold told him when he had called to confirm.
Raymond dropped the call and thought to himself deeply.
Gretta was not the owner of those shoes.
Neither was Mirabel.
Mirabel had a very small leg.
Size 37.
If it was neither of them, then Nathan had been cheating with someone even before Gretta had divorced him.
Could that link to Grettaâs sorrow before she died?
âI knew that you were a fake detective the moment you didnât even notice that the last two pages of Grettaâs secret book was missingâ. Mirabel said as she approached Sophiaâs coffee shop and joined him at his table.
Raymond gasped at her. âWhat are you talking about?â.
âThe last two pages of Grettaâs life was missingâ.
âHow did you know that?â.
âHave you critically examined that secret book?â.
She scoffed. âDonât tell me that you were thinking that the killer didnât know about her secret book?. Have you forgotten the adage that says, if you want to know the killer, think like a killer. If for instance, I have the intention of killing my sister, I will observe her for months. No one will observe Gretta for months and not know about the secret bookâ.
âWhat were you doing in Nathanâs house yesterday?â.
She chuckled. âAre you really jealous right now?â.
Sophia approached their table and frowned slightly at Mirabel. âWhat do you want? What flavour of coffee do you want? Milk? Sugar? Bland?â.
Mirabel smirked. âI didnât come for your coffee. I came to talk to my boyfriendâ.
âYour boyfriend or your ex-boyfriend?â. Sophia cried out.
Raymond frowned slightly and sipped his coffee. âWomen in their thirties donât do thisâ.
Sophia angrily walked back to the counter.
âThat low standard girl trying to compete with me for a manâ Mirabel pulled his coffee closer and sipped from it, trying to aggravate Sophia more.
Raymond looked closely at her. âYou dodged a question three minutes, twenty seconds agoâ.
âWhat question is that?â. She shoved his coffee back to him.
He smiled. âYou know what i am talking aboutâ.
She rolled her eyes. âNathan was cheating on Gretta before she died. Not just that, he has an idea about the killer but it seems like he is being threatened, that is why he is trying to push the blame on Rosaâ.
Raymond nodded thoughtfully. âSo you got close to him so that he can finally learn to trust you and give you information?â.
She nodded.
He sipped his coffee. âYou are playing a tough game you knowâ.
âIf my sister died, why canât I die?â.
He nearly choked on his drink by that statement she said. âAre you kidding me right now?â.
She glared at him. âTo all the idiots that believe that I killed my sister, you, Rosa, Arnold and many more that I donât even know, you will be shocked that i will find the killer before you all doâ. She walked away.
After eating pancake and tea which I had made for my family as dinner, I walked into my room to relax.
Someone knocked on my door.
It was my sister.
She walked in and sat on my bed.
Tears filled her eyes as she looked at me. âI appreciate the sacrifices, but Ryan is suffering so much. He had grown so lean in the last few days. Please help sis, I donât want Ryan to suffer because of meâ.
I held her hand in mine. âSis,that is your job, not mineâ.
âWhat job?â.
âBeing there for Ryan is your jobâ.
âNo. He wouldnât be happy. There is a huge impact it makes in you when the one you love is there with youâ.
âWhat if Ryan doesnât love me? Look here sis, true love doesnât happen so fast. It grows. Love grows. How can Ryanâs two weeks ago likeness be love all of a sudden?â.
âHe has liked you for so longâ.
âNo. Love grows from knowing each other. Till now, he doesnât even know me. Ryan is a spoilt brat and because of this, he is still very immature and doesnât even know what he wants. You know him more than I doâ.
ââŠbut he thinks about you all the timeâ.
âThe excitement of that moment will fade very soonâ.
âYou havenât even loved before. How did you get the idea about love?â.
âLove is in me already, sis. I donât have to fall in love to know love. When love comes, I will know how to deal with it because love is already in meâ.
It was a Saturday morning.
Raymond called Rosa over to his own apartment since she wouldnât be going to work because it was weekend.
He had made Spaghetti and fries before she arrived.
She excitedly sat to eat when she arrived.
She tasted the food. âHmmm. You tried a littleâ.
He gasped at her. âThis food that tastes this good is, âYou tried a little?â.
âYou didnât add enough salt to the fries and you had put too much oil in the fries tooâ.
He made eyes at her. âSo in your mind now, you are a food critic?â.
She nodded. âI am your food critic. The spaghetti is nice though. You didnât allow the vegetables to overdoneâ.
âJust eat and stop frustrating my lifeâ.
She chuckled.
He cleared his throat. âActually, Ryan wanted me to talk to you aboutâŠâ.
âWe already sorted things out. So by the way, why is your apartment so dark?â. She looked around.
He chuckled. âThe house of a detective is usually like this because they deal with people with dark mindsâ.
She burst into laughter. âYou always have a response for everythingâŠâ.
âYes, even though I know you diverted from the discussion about Ryanâ.
âI just donât want to talk about Ryanâ.
â⊠because of your sister?â.
âNo. I just feel like he is only infatuatedâ.
âHow do you differentiate between infatuation and love?â.
âInfatuation happens faster than love, it is more unnecessarily emotional, more unrealistic, like you are reacting more than how you really feelâŠbut love is deeper and more comfortable without you being unnecessarily emotional. Love grows gradually, not because you met the person once and you felt chemistryâ.
There was humour in his eyes as he looked at her. âI thought you said that you have never loved beforeâ.
She chuckled. âWhat about you? How was it with Mirabel? Why did you break up with her?â.
âI loved Mirabel. I did since my early stage at the university, but I started loosing interest in her when I noticed that I was always making effort to gain her love. She was always making emphasis to the fact that her father was richer than my father and that I donât deserve her. After i broke up with Mirabel, I told myself that I was never going to fall in love with any girl that is richer than me againâ.
âNo wonder you completely turned your back on her despite the fact that you know that she still loves youâ.
âShe doesnât love me,she is just naturally possessive. She is too proud to believe that I can fall out of love with herâ.
She chuckled. âI am so enjoying this love discussionâ.
He rolled his eyes and she burst into laughter.
His phone suddenly rang.
He connected it and gasped at what his subordinate had told him.
She searched his eyes impatiently. âWhat happened?â
âThe taxi driver that had killed Grettaâs child was released three days ago and Nathan booked a flight for him abroad. Why will Nathan book a flight for the person that had mistakenly killed his son in an accident due to overspending? Not just that, Gretta was the one that locked him behind bars before she died, and now, her husband is not only releasing him immediately after her death, he is flying him abroadâ.
âThat is obviously an attempt for his taxi driver to leave Nigeria. But why?â.
âWe have to get the taxi driver before he leaves Nigeria thenâ.
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