Destiny

Chapter 48: Confession

Lini is at home with Agnes watching TV and pasting pictures in the photo album. She wonders where Taker went with Paul and Lona, she thinks back to what happened last night, she had a very nice evening until she was attacked by a drunk man but Taker is arrived in time to save her. She feels love for him, she loves being by his side, talking to him, telling him secrets, laughing with him. Yesterday there was a little game between them while she was singing but she didn't dare to kiss him remembering what she did the first time she went out to the bar with him and the Ministry. Besides, she doesn't know if Agnes would understand if her mother loves someone other than her late husband. She looks out the window, seeing that the clouds are starting to get dark, that it will soon rain.

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I'm going to see my mom and my brother, finally. Lona thought. She is excited to be here, to see her mom and her brother. Taker glances in the interior mirror to look at his daughter who looks happy. He tries to gain time to go through long paths but he can't go back. He thought about it all night long, he told himself the best to explain to her, it's better to show her where they are and then tell her. Lona waits impatiently, humming the songs on the radio but stops singing when her dad stops in a parking lot across the street like a park. "Here we are." Said Taker looking at the cemetery, his hands not wanting to let go of the steering wheel.

He gets out of the car and gets Lona out of the car before crouching down in front of her, trying to find the correct words for a child. "Honey, your mom and your brother have been in this place for two years. I want you to stay close to me and Paul, I'll explain everything to you later, okay?" He said calmly to his daughter who nodded, Taker stood up and took his daughter's hand. Paul gives the flowers to Taker before following behind them.

Lona looks around her, seeing small squares with inscriptions on them as well as flowers, plaques, small angel-shaped statues, crosses. She looks back seeing Paul following them gently, hands behind his back. Then looks at his dad who has his face closed, continuing to look in front of him.

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The further they advance, the closer they come to a grave with a large inscription "Calaway". Taker and Lona stop in front of this tombstone, he looked at his daughter offering her one of the white roses while he was crouching next to her. "Here's where they are." » he said in a sad voice, looking at the grave in front of him, his forearms on his knees.

"I'm sure you want to know why they're here..." He stopped talking, licking his lips trying to stay calm, a lump formed in his throat wanting to explode but decided not to let it show. She looks at her father, nodding, then returns her attention to the grave. "They are there because of a very bad person who seriously hurt them." he says, still looking ahead, refusing to meet the gaze of his daughter, who listens to him attentively, still staring also at the grave in front of her. "...they went to heaven where beautiful people are..." he said with tears in his eyes. "With Agnes' Dad so?" She asked him if she understood what her father was saying to her, Taker smiled sadly at her. "Yes." He admitted before looking at her after taking a deep breath. "Why don't you become Undertaker and help them get back here... with us?" » Lona asked innocently, Taker let out a small laugh at her innocence, a tear rolling down his cheek. "Honey, I can't do this..." he says sadly while sniffling, she has a sad look at her daddy. "But... Uncle Paul told me that you were underground like them and you came out" she said innocently, Taker smiles sadly knowing that his daughter is confusing what she sees and hears on TV with reality , probably refers to Buried Alive with Mankind in 96. "It's the character I play on TV, darling. It's not reality.." he says sadly.. Lona lowers her head sad that his dad can't bring them back.. He takes her in his arms while she looks towards the grave.

"You have the right to be angry with me for hiding it from you, for lying to you about them leaving. I'm sorry for leaving you behind, I don't want you to see me in a sorry state. I love you Lona, forever." He said lowering his head, looking down. Lona understands now, her mother and brother are with Agnes' father in the kingdom where all good people go like Lini tells Agnes. She walked towards the tomb in front of her seeing the inscriptions:

Jessie Calaway                                                                            Calvin Calaway

1970-1997                                                                                            1993-1997

Beloved Wife, Beloved Mother                          Beloved Son, Beloved Brother

                                                 Death doesn't stop Love.

Lona crouched down to place the rose in front of the tombstone before stepping back without looking back, feeling her father's big arms wrap around her body. "I promise to be a better father from now on" he promises his daughter who is in his arms, looking at the grave of her brother and her mother. Paul has tears running down his cheeks seeing this.

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After a few minutes spent at the grave of his brother and his mother with her father. Taker told her to wait for him with Paul in the car, she gave him a kiss on the cheek before leaving. Taker looks at the grave, steps forward and squats down, resting his hand on the headstone. He takes a huge breath, trying to find the words to say to them. "I spent two years locking myself in my emotions, I even left Lona aside to focus on the case and my work." He said as if talking to Jessie and Calvin face to face. "Recently, I...I met someone with who..." He stops talking, trying to clear the lump in his throat, he looks up at the sky when he feels the rain coming when a drop splashes on him. " ....With whom, at the beginning, I didn't really get on with because I had to work with her. You know me Jessie, I never work with women and i doesn't like to work with them." He said in a tone of humor, smiling trying to hide as much as possible the sadness and the tears that came to his eyes.

"Over the time that I worked with her, I understood that she was going through the same thing as me. The policeman killed in cold blood was her husband so my hypotheses were quickly formed by the murderer surely knows the family. " He licks his lips, taking a deep breath, he looks around him before returning his gaze to the grave. "The murderer knows the policeman's wife since he started harassing her by mail and telephone so I offered to let her live at our house." He smiled, nodded from side to side, still looking at the grave. "It's crazy how strange life can be at times." He said laughing before blinking, tears running down his eyes.

"I think it was her who I was missing to get better. She gave me back the desire to be as I was before your death, Lona and her daughter get along very well and me.." He s stopped talking again, realizing his heart aches when he talks about Lini. "I am rebuilding myself thanks to this girl who was banal at the very beginning for me but has become vital for me now."

He confessed in front of the grave of his wife and son. It took him a while to realize that he was in love with Lini, he's not the type to say that kind of thing to someone but he decided to confide in front of his wife's grave in order to go ahead with Lini if there is something between them. "I know it's that you always wanted me to rebuild myself with someone else. But the promise I made to you, I will keep it."

His gaze has become chilling, dangerous, clenching the fist that is on the stone. "I will find the one who took you from me and I will make him suffer." He said in a voice almost in a Undertaker, he calms down looking at the ground then put the white rose next to the one that Lona left. "I love you so much, I will never forget you." Said he let a few tears fall down his cheeks kissing the headstone before getting up. He takes the black handkerchief from his pocket, wipes his eyes with it before looking back at the grave and leaving.