The headche had a serious effect on my eyes.my wife sat beside me like a drenched woman, baby Jack kept on crying for the past fifteen minutes.
"When are we going?"
"Tomorrow"
The agony was soul piercing.for crying out loud.what wrong had my sister done by coming into this earth?for almost fourty years of marriage,and not a single child,okay.she tried adopting and now, the child is gone.isn't this world so cruel? Why would such a thing happen to my lovely sister why??.
"It's going to be alright, please don't grief too much"
It was Andrew my obedient child.I didn't even know he had, entered the room.
He collected the little Jack from my wife who was totally paying no attention to the little baby.
"It's so unfair, they don't deserve such, Nelly and her husband deserved better, they finished school early, made money early, got married early, but yet after so many years of marriage they lacked an issue, now God blessed them with a sweet child to take care of them, they were so happy.I saw the joy in their eyes.everyone, including a blind man could tell that kim made them so happy.and just yesterday I heard she's dead.what a miserable world.Eric this is unfair, it is unfair.this is wicked"
I held my wife from falling to the ground, she sobbed into my clothes.I patted her back but she just didn't stop crying, she felt the pain of losing a child.now I wondered if she only wept for kim or she wept for both kim and Rachel.
Indeed she grieved from the heart, it was tragic.
Andrew sat quietly with Jack.wearing a sobber face, he tried hiding his tears.poor child,I could tell he just wasn't so comfortable with the series of death he had experienced, it was just so unfortunate.I hated the fact that such news kept crawling into the family.I just didn't like to see him get hurt. I had grown to love him like my own son, not just my first son but my first child, he occupied a special place in my heart.unknown to him I had willed three cars, a primary school at 8miles,two supermarkets at Marian, two estates and the four houses at lekki to him.I know he would make good use of it, though he was currently running his IT programme, at the hospital but am pretty much sure his destiny is quite greater than that.
Well tomorrow I and my family would be visiting the states.
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I stood outside the question room patiently.I could here Nelly telling lies repeatedly.how could she ?the sessions where getting interesting but of course Nelly wouldn't cooperate.so the bell rang.that was the signal for me to come into the room with the picture.
As I walked in Nelly threw me a death glare.
"You? Jake? Your behind all this? Your the one doing this to me?"
I scanned through her demonic face once again and held my words back.
The detective collected the picture from me and put it on the table, in front of Nelly.
"Do you recognize this chocolates?"detective Williams asked.
She looked at it and bit her lips.without saying a word.
"Do you?" Screamed detective Williams.
"I don't"she lied.
are you kidding me? Did she suddenly lose her memory? Or had she vowed never to tell the truth?
"I see, Jake I'll be right back"
he quickly left the room.
"I knew it.I knew you were the smart one but your not smarter cause you"
she halted the minute detective Williams walked in with a white young girl, am guessing it's a teenager. Nelly's eye widened.
"Hey, don't be afraid. She's not gonna hurt you, just tell us what you know about this chocolates" he gave the picture to her.
The girl swallowed hard
"My boss here told me that she has been making this chocolates even before she started her restaurant, this chocolates are very special, tasty , unique and the good part about it is that she makes them her self."
"Good, has she ever made this chocolates for parties that took place in the restaurant?"
"Severally, these particular ones were made for a special surprise birthday party of her closest friend's son"
"Who made them for the party?"
"My boss the lady in that chair."
"Thank you very much lucy,"and the girl walked out of the room.
"Do you recognize the chocolates in that picture?"
"So what if I do? What has that got to do with me in here?
Nelly sounded so bold.what guts.
"Just incase you have forgotten, this same chocolates were delivered to doctor kylie minutes before she died.according to the lab scientists, the cookies contained the poison that killed doctor Kylie"
Nelly swallowed.
"You have to believe me, I didn't do it.I swear,yes I bake cookies and make chocolates but I didn't send this to her?"
"Then who did?"
"Honestly I don't know, this is a set up, someone is trying to set me up"
"Untill your able to tell us who did, your hereby under arrest for the death of doctor kylie"Nelly Jerked upward
"No wait, I think I know who did it,"
"Who?"
"It's cindy, my friend she must have poisoned some of the chocolates and sent it to doctor kylie"
"Hmm, now there is a cindy in the picture, Jake isn't this getting interesting?"
I winked at him and nodded.
"But you said you never went to canada not to talk about meeting doctor kylie , but it seems you know more about doctor Kylie than your saying.now am very much interested as to why cindy would wanna kill doctor kylie, hmmmm. And If I remember correctly you said you were at Mumbai in india"
Nelly rested her head on the desk and raised it back up.
She was shocked and speechless, little did she know that she had exposed herself.
"Sergent" screamed detective Williams.next minute a white man on uniform ran into the question room
"Take this junior crook away, and bring in the senior crook"
The officer took her out of the room and after four minutes, he brought in the senior crook which happened to be Joseph.
He was not shocked but very angry to see me in the room.
"Have a sit doctor"
Joseph quietly sat down.
He was probably aware of what was going to happen in here.
"So, doctor.how long have you been practicing?"
"Fourty years"
Indeed he had got to be a professional.
"Amazing.so how many plastic surgery patient have you had in the past fourty years?"
"Thousands, not specific about the number"
"But am sure you'd remember the last surgery you performed?"
"Positive"
"Good, according to research you are an uncle to Rachel.I remember visiting at your place to inform Rachel's parents about our latest discovery. Before I suddenly got a promotion to canada.now I wanto know, what business did you have with my boss, Jimmy?"
"Who is Jimmy?"
Smart move Joseph, but it ain't gonna work.
"Don't you dare play dumb with me.answer the god damn question?"
"I don't know what your talking about"
Joseph lied, detective Williams smiled .
"Okay,"he clapped his hands and the next minute two cops brought in mr Jimmy.Joseph was in a shock.he swallowed real hard.it's like he was gasping for air.
"Alright Jimmy if you tell the truth I promise to send you back home"
Jimmy nodded obediently cause he knew the consequences.
"Jimmy what business did you have with doctor Joseph"
"Am sorry Joseph, but I can't rot in jail, not even for a day, see Williams here is a devil and he hates it when a suspect lies, I advice you spit the truth"muttered Jimmy
"Jimmy don't make me change my mind"muttered detective Williams.
