Be My Bride

Chapter 25

    Samuel

    When Kimberly told me that Matilda asked her to go shopping with her, I felt like apprehensive because it all seemed like Matilda was to excited to work on her relationship with Kimberly which was not something that Matilda did with anyone. It was really strange.

    I got home late as my client wasted a lot of time in agreeing to the deal I proposed.  Immediately, I walked straight to Kyle's room and saw that he was playing with Gerta.

"Samuel honey, how are you." Gerta's smile always had a way of cheering me up.

"I'm good ,I'm just a little stressed." I said as Kyle kept grinning at me. I carried him and twirled him " How's my boy doing?"

   His adorable smile was the answer I needed. My son had the brightest smile.

    " You must be starving, I've asked Chef Luigi to prepare dinner. Let's go downstairs."

  We went downstairs. Gerta set the dining table. I held Kyle tightly as I sat down to eat. I checked the time. It was already past eight and I hadn't received any text or calls from Kimberly.

" What time will you be back home?" I sent the text.

    I started eating immediately, I didn't realize that I was hungry. Suddenly, the front door burst open and  Maltida ran towards me with a panicked expression on her face, out of breath and sweating, she stammered,

"K-Kimberly!", My heart skipped a beat.
"What happened to my wife?!".
"S-She w-was-" she stammered again looking so scared.
"Speak!" I shouted anxiously
" She was kidnapped"

  My heart skipped a beat.

" Oh my God" Gerta screamed.

   Conflicting emotions surged through my mind but mostly anger, who could have taken my wife.

     I clenched my fist. "Maltida", I said calmly "tell me exactly what happened...". With the different possibilities going through my mind.
 
     Kyle started crying and I handed him over to Gerta.

    " Speak." Matilda flinched from the harshness of my voice.

   Immediately Maltida finished explaining I decided to call the police. I reached into my pocket to carry my phone. " I'll call the police now".

     As I dialed the number, I noticed a panicked expression on Maltida's face quite different from the one displayed earlier.

"-Yes officer, she was last seen at the mall with my sister".
"Ok, do you know who could have done this?".
"No officer, I have no idea".
   "Thank you for your cooperation, we will come over to your place to get your sister's statement. It's very essential as she's the last person to see your wife."  The police officer told me.

   I gave him my address and hung up immediately.
      
     " Matilda, I'm only going to ask you once,do you know anyone who would have wanted to harm Kimberly? Did you see anybody? Did you tell someone where you were going to?"

    "  Oh great now I'm a suspect! Do you seriously think I would want to harm Kimberly? Just what would I gain from that" Matilda stormed out of the house. She was behaving very suspicious.

   Why was only Kimberly kidnapped. If someone wanted to make money , they would have kidnapped both Kimberly and Matilda. Why was Kimberly targeted?

    The  ringing of the phone disrupted my thought process. I looked at my phone, a private number?

   A faint uncomfortable feeling started in my chest.

    I picked the call immediately
" Hello"

  " Mr Samuel Blackwood how lovely to hear your voice again" The voice said, it was a robotic voice so I couldn't figure out if the voice was familiar or not.

   " What do you want? " I asked

  " Well we have your wife and we would like something in exchange for your wife." The voice said.

"Name your price."  No amount of money is more precious than my wife

"Nothing special, just fifty percent of Blackwood construction company and a signed divorce paper from you to Kimberly."

" Are you out of your mind?!" I exclaimed.  This was hugely personal. No kidnapper would ask me to divorce my wife. This has to be someone that we know, someone close to the family who hates Kim a lot.

"Forget tracing this number, or
tracking this phone. I'll call you again within 24hours, make sure you have made up your mind by then. If not...".

The call ended.

   I tried calling back but the call did not go through.

  Kimberly please be safe. I'll definitely find you I said cracking my fingers in anger. Whoever did this will definitely pay.

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Sorry for the short update guys, I've been having non- stop academic work. Nursing council is a few months away so, I've been busy. Thank you guys for reminding me to make an update. You guys are my biggest inspiration. Lots of love 😘