Never Letting You Go (WWBM)

Chapter 20 Kaylee

Two hours before Corey was shot..
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The detectives took the evidence that I gave them. They said that they were going to bring Jackson in for questioning. I'm optimistic that they're going to charge him for attempting to kill mom, for blackmailing me, and for embezzlement. I want that scumbag thrown in prison where he belongs. The detectives also said that they found DNA evidence at the crime scene which didn't match mine. So that's a good thing. I might not go to prison after all.

I curled up on the couch and opened the envelope which contained the letter that Ari had written me. My hands were trembling a bit as I took it out. I read what it said:

Dear Kaylee,

I am leaving Sacramento tonight. I will be migrating to the Maldive Islands. I'll be staying with dad's ex-girlfriend, Margret until I can get a place for myself and my baby. I have enough money to keep me until I give birth to my bundle of joy. After that, I'll be looking for a job. I found out that I'm six weeks pregnant three days ago. I thought about doing an abortion but I just couldn't. Please tell Aunt Terri for me. I'll contact you both as soon as I'm there. Five months ago, I made the biggest mistake of my life. I started having an affair with Jackson. I don't know why I did it. Jonathan was not paying me much attention and I felt neglected. I thought that he was sleeping with his brother's wife, Pat but he wasn't. I was so wrong. Now, I don't know who the father of my baby is. I think that it's Jonathan's. After you told me what that monster, Jackson did to you, Corey, and aunt Terri. I broke it off with him but he's obsessed with me. He threatened to kill me a week ago. I know that he is going to try and kill me and my baby. So that's why I'm leaving. I put myself in a terrible situation and I don't know how to get myself out. I don't even know why I cheated on Jonathan with that monster. I love Jonathan and I know that he'll never forgive me if I tell him in person. I prayed that the baby is his. I just want a fresh start, my cousin. I want you to take care of yourself and tell Corey what Jackson is doing and report him to the cops. He deserves to be locked up because he's a very evil man. I feel so guilty for hooking back up with him. Please forgive me, Kaylee. I'm going to miss you but always remember that I'll never forget you. No matter what happens. I love you always.

Love Ari.

I sobbed as I folded the letter and put it back inside the envelope. I knew that he killed my cousin and her unborn baby but I just couldn't prove it. I don't know how Monica got the letters. I'm sorry that Ari and I got ourselves mixed up with that scumbag. Now we're paying the price for being stupid, naive, and gullible. I'm sorry that Ari and her baby were killed. I forgave Ari because if she had known what he was doing all along, she wouldn't have gotten involved with him.

I will keep the letter until the end of time. I'll never forget Ari. She was my best friend and she was always there for me whenever I needed her. Every night I saw her in my dreams asking for my forgiveness. I know that she's at peace now. 'I forgive you, Ari.' I thought. I wished that she wasn't dead and she was safely on the Maldive Islands with her baby. My little cousin would've been so cute. I wondered if it would've been a boy or a girl.

I couldn't show the letter to the detectives because I had broken into Monica's house. I'm going over to Jonathan's office now to give him the letter that Ari wrote for him. I know that he's going to be angry but he deserved to know the truth also. Ari wanted him to have it. I took up my car keys off the table and headed through the door.

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Twenty minutes later after Corey was shot..
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I knocked on Jonathan's office door as I put my cell phone inside of my purse.

"Come on in. The door's open." He said.

"Hi, Jonathan. This is the letter that I was telling you about."

"Thanks." He took the letter from me and put it inside the pocket of his jacket.

"You're welcome. I'm sorry about everything that happened, Jonathan. I really am."

"So am I, Kaylee." He said ruefully. "I knew that Ari was sleeping with that snake. I also suspected that he killed her. When I came back from Chicago, she told me that she thinks that her life might be in danger. I asked her what happened. She immediately changed the subject and said that she was just being paranoid and it was nothing." He said as he looked at Ari's picture on his desk.

It was a picture taken when she went to the Maldives Islands four years ago to visit her dad.

I didn't know what to say. We both had tears in our eyes. He turned his head away because he didn't want me to see that he was crying.

I went and patted his back. "I'm sorry, Jonathan. She loved you. She just made a horrible mistake. We both did."

He nodded as he continued to stare at Ari's picture.

He was about to say something to me when his cell phone rang. He was yelling angrily at the other person on the line. Whatever it was, it sounded serious. He then disconnected the call a few seconds after.

"Jonathan, what's wrong?"

"That snake shot my son. He's at the hospital. That was Amelia. I have to get to the hospital immediately. "

"Oh, my God," I said with my eyes wide open. "I'm right behind you."

Please, don't let Corey die like Ari, please. I thought as I hastened through the door behind Jonathan.

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