WICKED: HEXED TWO || URBAN (CB)

Chapter 26

Anais Jones
I walked into work wishing I would see Josh. Something told me he might be here today. But something also told me I was wishful thinking. As I clocked in and set my things down in the back, I opened my work locker and couldn't help but notice Josh's was wide open.

There was nothing inside his locker which was odd. Looking around to make sure no one was watching, I walked up to it and checked the outside of it. The sticker that had his name on it was now gone.

"He quit?" I asked myself.

Suddenly from behind, I heard someone answer me.

"I wish that was the case." They spoke. I turned around to see who it'd been.

With a glum look on his face, I saw that it'd been my coworker Theo.

"What do you mean?" I asked.

"Ahh...Joshua...he was murdered." He huffed. I could tell it'd been hard for him. They'd been close as well.

"What?" I asked, INSTANTLY tearing up. I was hoping murdered meant something different in they language cause wasn't no way.

I wanted to cry. I was already crying before I could realize it. Hot tears streamed down my face as I tried to process what happened.

"Are you sure?" I asked.

He nodded his head. "A thief robbed him. Took his belongings and money. Killed him with some sort of blunt forced head trauma."

I looked around as if I would find answers that way. But I didn't.

"I'm sorry Anais. I know you guys were close. He couldn't stop talking about you." He sighed, walking over to console me.

"How could this happen? He didn't bother anybody. He was so sweet. He had his whole life ahead of him. What about his brother?" I asked.

I've only known the man a few weeks and I was already in shambles over him. I had attachment issues and could not get over people easily. Especially when they just dropped dead like that.

"I can't do this today. Tell Mr. Dupont I can't work today." I cried, taking my things from my locker.

"You can't work? We're too short staffed Anais." He spoke with worry in his tone.

I left the employee storage room. But Theo followed me out. "I- I don't know. Tell him I got sick or something. I can't do this today."

And like that, I left my job without a care. How was I supposed to work while in a shitty mood? I couldn't. I wanted to quit all together. But what was I gonna do? Have Milo and Luca take care of me like I wasn't a grown ass woman? I refused to become a liability to them.

How was I supposed to carry out my plan of taking the twins to the states in the future?

Storming through the lobby of my building, I wiped my tears as I went for the elevator. I made it just in time before it left the lobby.

As I rode it up to my floor, I contemplated my life. It always seemed like just when I was happy, some invisible force came and took it away from me.

It wasn't fair. It really wasn't. But I thought about the things that I was grateful for. My health, my kids, Sage, my family although I haven't spoken to them much, hell...even Milo and Luca. They fucked me over plenty of times but I was willing to forgive them in time.

What was going to happen to his little brother that he spoke so much about? He had no other family. This hurt my heart so bad. I have lost so many people in my life and at this point, it was like what could you do about it. Death was inevitable.