🥁 Chapter 6 🥁

            🥁 Dean's pov 🥁

  I saw Antoine's number calling her phone as I cried while driving home, I hated him- I did not mean to kill her. My phone began to ring with him calling me but I didn't answer him. I slowed
and flung her phone into the stagnant waterway in Rockfort, how had I kill her so easily if she was truly a detective I wondered feeling terribly nervous and sad.

  It was after nine when I got home and saw Anthonia and my mother sitting on the verandah, I put the files under the mat behind my seat then gather my bag and laptop and got out.

"Good night, I hope the boys weren't too stressing,"I greeted saying.

"Night hun, dem gone sleep over a hour now," Anthonia said.

"A how yuh reach home so late?" Mummy asked.

"I was chatting with my friends and exchanging best wishes and I didn't realize the time," I told her and walked off into the living room before she say anything else.

  Erica was on her phone on the couch and I wave at her and past, must har dutty bredda she a inform to- a dat him have dem yah fah man, mi caan shit or piss and him nuh know. Mi could a swear him sey him a guh buy aneda house or build somewhere.

  The dog shit came home in the late hours of the night while I lay asking God to please forgive me for killing the woman. He left the next morning at day break and his mother came for the twins after I sorted them out and leave pushing them in their stroller to the grocery store where my mom is. Erica's boys and Antoine's daughters went with her, with the house to myself I took the files from my jeep and went through them.

 
I search for the best place to hide them and decide that Cam's room which Erica now stayed in was the best option. I put them in plastic and sealed them, then trash the gloves in the kitchen bin. All I could stomach to put in my mouth was some tea, after drinking half a cup I checked that I had everything ready and reply to the text Adajay aka Ms. Confident sent me.

  I double check that I had everything in place for my travel and that everything was organized so my sons would be alright. Then I drive to where the rental car was parked and place my suitcases in the car trunk. I cleaned out my jeep and took it to the carwash, then I drive it to the car dealer and waited until he checked it thoroughly. We dealt with the final paperworks and stuff, then after I told them what time to collect the rental car from the airport the following morning I drive home.

  I ate the dinner my mother cooked and we talked, I was going to miss her and my baby boys- but I needed to leave. Antoine looked like someone lacked of sleep with bags under his eyes when he came home

"Where is your jeep?" He asked as he came in.

"Good night, it's at the garage for fitness check," I told him.

"Why yuh neva tell mi suh dat Grung or someone else could a deal wid it?" He asked sternly.

  I sighed and my mother excused herself and went away, he hand me a new SIM card and told me to give him the one from my phone. When I sat there unmoving from where the boys were playing, he took up my phone and switch the SIM card.

  "Check that you have everybody number who yuh need to have," he said handing me my phone.

  I did and texted Adajay when he went into the bathroom, when I check his phone the password had changed and it binged announcing that someone had touch it. The look he kept giving me when he came out let me know he had heard it, he looked at the phone for a few seconds then walk over to me and said.

"Mi nuh av nutn in a mi phone a hide, suh yuh nuh need fi a search mi phone."

"Tsk, talking is one your actions speaks otherwise, thank me later if yuh don't get flush down the toilet," I hissed and said then bit my tongue.

The latter was spoken nastily and he looked at me vexedly. "A bet yuh mi mek yuh nwam back wey yuh just sey, mi nuh like how yuh a talk to mi from waday ino. Watch yuh mouth and a di last warning yuh a get," he said coming to stand over me.

  I looked at him then cut my eyes, I hardly slept and I knew he wasn't sleeping each time I woke up. He bathe and left at daybreak and I couldn't be happier, from the closet I took all his money and put them into separate parcels to pack and take with me. His liscence firearm I hid inside Cam's closet as his sister left, then drank a cup of tea and hugged my mother as she was leaving for the grocery store.

  She smiled looking at me and I pecked her cheek and made a funny face causing her and Anthonia to laugh. I bathe my sons and take them downstairs where Athonia had there plantain porridge ready and waiting. Then I went back upstairs to my room, got ready and leave with my large handbag.

  I did not rest easy until the plane was up in the sky with me, I breathe a sigh of relief and relaxed somewhat. When the plane land and I cleared immigration, I smile feeling a great weight lifted off my shoulder. I remember that my phone was off and turn it back on, more than a dozen missed calls from Antoine and two from the hotel I'd be staying at.

My phone begins to ring and I answered the hotel, then I went outside to meet the driver who to pick me up and was taken to the hotel.

       Antoine's pov

  I was in a state of shock when the car dealer said that he had just sent and collected the rental car Dean had been driving from the airport. I knew she was gone, when he said he had to pay for three hours parking fee and I was devasted. On top of can't finding Steffanique this is going to mad me, I already told the chappas to brace themselves. The tech had manage to find out that Steffanique was a detective an American one at that. How the fuck I did not see it I have no clue.

  With her phone turn off for days now, we can not even track her a little bit. Grung drove me home, but I was in such a state when I realize that all my money was gone including my liscence gun that I had to lie on the cold tile floor for the rest of the evening.

  How could she? Spent-shell said she had manipulated the stock check in the books and I had came home with them to ask her about them only for my mother to tell me she had left couple hours ago and hasn't return. I had driven to the car place we normally go to and not find her after worrying and calling her.

  I felt numb, where had she gone and was she ever planning to return? I questioned myself. My head throbbed threatening to explode, this is the second time she has up and left me making me look unworthy. Her mother's shocked expression could be fake I thought angrily getting up off the floor, what the fuck more Dean wanted from me? I gave her everything.

  My phone binged with a message and Grung looked at it, he got up and walked over handing it to me. A barrage of texts began coming in from her as I opened my phone, they were all through watsapp and my heart fell when I saw the screenshots of the texts of me and Steffanique. I knew it, my worry was how and when did she found out, was she the one who called her- wait she had said she didn't know and that the person had been calling and bothering her.

Dean
𝐈 𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐈'𝐥𝐥 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐥𝐲 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐩𝐮𝐭 𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡, 𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐧- 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩 𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐚 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐲𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟 𝐈 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐤𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐈 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐞. 𝐈 𝐇𝐀𝐓𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐲 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐛𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐦𝐞, 𝐅𝐔𝐂𝐊 𝐎𝐅𝐅 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐝𝐨𝐠, 𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐨 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐈 𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐚 𝐟𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫.

  I re-read the text over and over, Grung stood looking at me as I sat back down on the floor wondering where did I go wrong with her and what I was going to do to her. I was so angry and I was so hurt it pained excruciatingly, I love her- I would turn the world over for her. She may just want to spite me because she finds out that I had been cheating, but did she have to fly abroad and where was my gun because I knew she couldn't carry it through the airport.

  I felt wounded and I ache from injured pride.

To be continued...