🛳 Chapter 31🛳

🛳 Dean's pov 🛳

I was leaving no stones unturned, we parked in Harbour View where we could watch the road. Two trucks past before I saw Antoine's jeep sailing past, then Grung's car, then Quenger's. Demar snorted and started the car, he ask if everyone has changed their phones and he collected the old ones in a bag- only mines weren't in there. It was empty of everything, that was the only souvenir I was leaving him- not even a picture of the twins.

Demar took us to where his mother, father and brother was and we all tried to get some rest. Adajay called and told me that the money from Antoine's house sale had been deposited into my account and I told her thanks and end the call. I should have burnt down his house in Rema I thought bitterly, bout him did a guh bruk my mada ass- him can guh bruk fi him mumma ass right now out a anger.

Fucking stink. After all wey him put mi through, bout him come waan lick. Demar drive out behind Desmond to drop off Cam's car and me and my mom sorted and packed our hurriedly packed kitchen wares. I was sorry we hadn't emptied out all the food stuff also and hope they didn't go to waste. Where was Demar going to put all the food stuffs that we had taken out of the refrigerator I wondered.

I ask him when he came back, but he said to let them stay and went away again- alone this time. The small two bedroom home was sparsely furnished, but we all tried to be comfortable while we waited. He came back with a bucket of KFC chicken and after he ate he went out to the rental car and began organizing the stuffs neatly. He got ready to leave again with the remainder of our things, except the large duffel bags each of us has with clothes for our journey and the small suitcase I had with money, two new guns and our documents

I'm glad I got to take the money and all their documents, I gave Demar his and his brother's passports and his bank card. I ask him if he needed money and he said no, I locked the suitcase and put the key inside the small bag I was carrying over my shoulder with items I may need to get my hands on quickly. No one, not even Demar has to know that I had so much money. He pulled the engagement ring from off my finger, I hadn't even remember that I was still wearing and then he left.

I couldn't wait to be away and to start my new life, I was anxious and nervous when he came back driving a Town-ace mini van and told us to get ready.

Antoine's pov

I was even more angrier when the chappas call telling me that police had arrive at the house, they had came to collect clothes and food stuffs donated by the former owner. So where the fuck did Dean put our clothes and other things if all the furnitures are going into the trucks? I could hardly focus as I try to call the police officers that were under my hand.

Suddenly my phone went blank just like how I had found Dean's phone that morning, my heart begins to race- not even my password was there. When Erica finally call telling me that the estate agents were locking the gate and leaving, I press gas straight there. She was already inside the house and sifting through some clothes piled in a heap on the floor of the living room when we all got there, I hasted into the room and felt relieved when I saw my suitcase inside the closet. It felt light when I took it up.

"Jesus Christ!" I said before I even opened it.

THIS AINT EVEN HALF THE PRICE FOR ALL THE SEX YOU GOT... KMT

It was Dean's handwriting, I lay down on the ground unable to cry. With no contacts in my phone, there was no way to call the travel agents or anyone unless someone contacts me- which I wasn't sure was still possible.

"Suh wey she duh wid mi bloodclaate passport and somn dem?! Hey!" My mom said and I heard her footsteps coming back towards the room.

"Hey Antoine! Try find har and get my somn dem ino, cause mi nuh-" she was saying on the top of her voice.

"Shut di fuck up ina mi ears nuh!" I yelled cutting her off.

My phone rang and I hurriedly answer it. "Hello?"

"A wha kinda a thing this bredda? A police come a tell mi sey me a trespass ino, dem a sey a different people own di place and dem nuh gi mi nuh authority on di premises," the builder informed me.

"Jah-Jah! A'right just bill fi di day until mi get it sort out, mi e shout yuh," I told him and end the call.

Grung hurriedly wrote down his number on a piece of paper, I would have to get another phone and fast. I will have to find Dean and fast, I got up and drive quickly to Desmond's house and like I had suspected they were not there. My head began to pound and I felt like I could hardly breathe, this can't possibly be happening- I have been extremely careful. None of this is real I told myself as I drive back to Ms. Jennifer's house that I am going to sell, Anthonia my daughter was standing by the gate looking at the FOR SALE sign. She pushed the gate open for me to drive in and stood to one side, the children will soon be getting home from school- where were they gonna sleep or sit?

I place my hands on the steering telling myself that I just to focus for a minute. "A sell Dean sell the house and gone?!" Anthonia asks and I held up my head that was heavy like lead to look at her.

Grung came and told me to move over to the passenger seat, I watch everyone moving about as if in a daze and then we were driving out and away. My eyes were burning with unshed tears by the time we reach Rena, I got out of the jeep and went inside my house- I climb the stairs and walk straight to my room and locked the door behind me. I stripped and went under the shower, letting the cold water flow from my head down. I was feeling a great sense of loss and I hope she would just return from wherever with our sons, night was drawing nigh when I hear Erica arrive and the children's voice disturbing the quiet evening.

I lie naked across my bed wondering how she had managed to pull all those stunts right under my nose, I had been so careful and have her watched. My main worry was if she was with Demar and his family, but every thought felt like such a weight all I could do was allow my tears to flow until sleep took me under.

The following day after Chadwick call I check with the plane ticket agents under our hands and finding nothing I put things in place to watch the airports. I check every estate agent and bribe whom I could, there were no recent house sales to Dean nor any of them. A week later still nothing. Every angle I turn was just a dead end to find them and night after night I can only cry my eyes out on the floor.

Anthonia said her FBI fiancé was coming to work on a case of her deceased aunt, when Grung ask her about her aunt and she called Steffanique's name I told her to look somewhere and rent. I told Erica the same thing a week later when her man came there arguing with her and my mother said that I should get a babysitter because she was going on vacation when her man came.

When the police call me in for questioning I was surprised to see a detective I had ordered Demar to kill, I am sure he had told me that the man was dead and I began to sweat as he put a picture of Steffanique on the iron desk in front of me. Out of every murder I had committed, I am being interrogated and kept in jail for the one I did not commit.

Dean's pov

It was dark when someone finally came and knock on the drivers window of the minibus, we got out and our bags were loaded unto a trolley. Demar stretch for the small suitcase but I told him I would carry it, he looked at me puzzled but said nothing. We walk at a brisk pace behind the man pushing the trolley and was lead hurriedly up on a ramp and into a ship.

My heart pounds within me as we got settled and the ship jolts as it began to move, I glance around at my mother and sister then at Demar who winks at me. We are leaving I said in my head and felt tears of happiness and of hope prick my eyes.

THE END

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COMING AUGUST 18, 2022

Dean & Demar coming at a later date.