#18 anti heroine
#30 baroness
#46 not gay
(Warning: this is not a story about gay. This is a story about a straight guy in a wrong place, in the wrong time)
"Everyone knows I'm a gay, Baroness. It's useless making advances on me," says Tom. "Then w...
" London was shocked with the sudden death of Duchess Channingham. She was last seen with a man, leaving her hotel in the mid morning.
Her body was found in the next morning in Thames river. Hard to identify her because of severe beatings to her face and body.
The authority has to call her husband, Duke Channingham to identify her corpse.
The Duke declared that she was indeed his wife. He has no idea who killed her. She has many "boyfriends". One of them might be too jealous that he killed her.
We offer our deepest condolences to Duke Channingham. He lost his cousin and his wife in the same month. May the Lord gives him strength to prevail against all these hardships..."
London Gazette, April, thirdweekedition
Tom vomits to the ground outside the runner office. He had been interrogated for almost an hour. Before the runners finally release him.
He is a Duke. Normally they couldn't question him like this. But he has come on his own will to prove his innocence.
It is normal for a husband to be on suspect list whenever a wife got killed. Tom just wanted them to catch the killer.
Fortunately he has a strong aliby yesterday morning. Viscountess Zane and Margareth Derwin were visiting him when Selena left the hotel with a man.
Selena might not be a good woman. But no one deserves such a horrible death. Badly, brutally beaten with a blunt object.
The killer has stricken her left side of the body and face. But he left the right side intact. As if he wanted everyone to see the "before" and "after" treatment.
It's easy enough to identify Selena from her right side of her face. But her left side of the face has been turned into black and blue mess.
Tom knows he wouldn't be able to sleep tonight. With Selena's ghastly face still imprinted in his mind.
He couldn't think when all he wants is just to vomit again. So he just kept on walking.
Somehow his feet have brought him to the entrance of Bianca's home.
Tom stares the house for a long time. Remembering his happy days with her. Short lived, yet he would remember it forever.
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Through a window glass, Bianca has seen him outside her house. She really misses him. But she couldn't go out and greet him. A good man like him deserves a good woman with a clean past. Not someone like her.
