The Perfect Crime

Chapter 3

CHAPTER 3

“You don’t deserve to live Laine! You should have died!” Amanda’s voice roared throughout the passage. I’m pretty sure everyone in the house heard her. Not that it stopped her. “YOU SHOULD HAVE DIED LAINE!” she pushed me up against the wall and lifted me up by my neck. I could feel the blood draining from my face, my heart beat slowing down with every second she held me like that. She eventually let go and I fell to the ground. She turned on her heel and walked away like nothing happened.

My vision was blurred. I sat for a while until my breathing came right. Suddenly my surrounding changed. I was now outside sitting by a little pond, watching the happy pack families’ walk by wishing I was one of them. I heard noisy footsteps. I looked up to see Sean and Walter. I quickly got up to leave so they wouldn’t see me.

Too late.

I was spotted by Walter who never passes up a chance to torment me. They both walked towards me as I braced myself for whatever was going to come, but instead I found myself breathing in water. A few seconds, instead of water, oxygen hit my lungs. But as quickly as I was pulled out I was dunked back in and this time no one was going to pull me out.

I gasped as I woke up from my dream.

“It was just a dream, it was just a dream. That’s all it was,” I muttered to myself. Yeah, more like memories, I thought to myself. My memories haunt me in the form of nightmares. Even my dreams hate me.

I had only gotten one hour of sleep. I did not want to go back to sleep and give my memories a chance to haunt me again, but I was so tired that after a while I drifted off to sleep.

Beep, beep. My tiny alarm clock went off. I looked at it and it read ‘5:30-Friday’. I was running a bit late. I only had one hour to make sure the kitchen is clean before everyone starts waking up. I jumped out of bed and ran to clean it up.

59 minutes later I was done and had a minute to spare. I showered and got everything ready that I would need to clean the rest of the house. Everyone is gone by 7 so I started with the rooms a few minutes later. Everything needs to be done before 2, before the first person reaches the house.

By 7:10 I started cleaning. I started with the kitchen since it was always the filthiest. It didn’t help that most of the kids would make it dirtier just to give me extra work. After the kitchen is done I move straight to the rooms. Thankfully I don’t have to do a lot since the other maids do the adult rooms.

I decided to start with Sean’s room since his was the filthiest. I sometimes felt that I would find an unknown species of an insect in his room. But today I found worse. No bug or insect could ever amount to this. As I walked in I found him naked with another girl. My sister.

For the first time ever I looked into his eyes. I saw fireworks shoot from behind him. Birds soared in my stomach. I felt like my life was finally making sense. That all that torture would finally be worth something. I felt like I could fly, like I was in drugs. But I had never taken drugs so this could only mean one thing. He was my mate. Uh-oh.

His eyes widened in shock but a second later his face scrunched up. He felt it too. So I wasn’t delusional and picturing the worst. I suddenly felt like my life got 10 times worse.

I suddenly heard his voice in my head. Keep your mouth shut and I won’t hurt you. We’ll talk about this later. I knew what this was. He was talking to me through our mind link. I wouldn’t have known had my father not used it the day he died. Everyone had shut me off from hearing them. I wasn’t to be trusted.

“I’m sorry,” I said deciding to take him up on his offer.

As I walked out I heard my sister screeching, “You’re just going to let her get away with that?” I ran away before I could hear his reply. I didn’t want to be there in case he changed his mind.