Arranged marriage

Darkness Watching

I but my black heels on and finished my makeup. I smiled and walked out of the room and down the stairs.

"Shit..." Jay looked me up and down with a huge grin on his face.

"Don't curse." I laughed and winked.

"Too late now, Princess." He spun me around and pinned me to the wall.

"Your like a GPS pinning me every chance you get." I laughed and he smirked back.

"I somehow always find you. What a coincidence." He winked back and confusingly looked behind him. "What's wrong?"

"It's...nothing. I just got a little paranoid." I sighed and walked from under his arm drinking the glass of water.

"If your ready, I'd like to show off my wife off to everyone in that party." He laughed and I nodded.

"Yeah...Whatever." I grinned and grabbed my bag walking to the car.

We get there and we're talking and I'm meeting new people. One guy stood out to me and it was a guy that seemed to be in his late twenties early thirties but for some reason I always caught him looking at me. I shook it off and stuck with Jay the whole time.

"Jay, I'm gonna go to the bathroom, I'll be back," I whispered in his ear and he nodded.

"Do you need any help getting there?" He asked and I said no. I walked up the stairs and down the long hallway. It was absolutely gorgeous in here and I loved the way the house was decorated. I knocked at one of the doors randomly and when there wasn't a response I opened the door and an over wheeling smell of iron hit me like a damn trunk and caused me to almost gag.

I turned the lights on and stood in horror staring at what was in front of me. A body of a girl that I had met not an hour ago. The whole room was drenched in blood and I was even more petrified when I looked at the body. They had cut the limbs of the girl and took her eyes out and they neatly put them in both her palms. The mirror had "I loved you." Written on it in her blood.

I screamed at the top of my lungs and sprinting down the stairs. I was trembling and crying as streams of tears fell from my cheeks. Jay ran to me looking at me in concern and horror.

"There...the body! She..she's dead!" I trembled and everyone froze panicking. "Call someone!" I yelped and the host immediately called 911. "Someone...murdered her!" I sobbed in Jay's chest as there was a deafening silence. But when the police came everyone was panicking and terrified. The police went upstairs to the bathroom and took the body out.

"Ma'am I'm gonna need you to come with us to tell us exactly what happened." A young officer approached us and I slowly nodded still trembling.

*************************************************************************************************

I dragged myself upstairs and stared at myself in the mirror. Bloodshot eyes, makeup all over my face, half my hair was frizzy from all the sweating I'd done. I got in a shower and changed crawling under the cover.

"How are you holding up?" I heard Jay asked walking in the room.

"I can't get her body out my mind, Jay. You read this online and think that there isn't any chance of that shit happing to you...it happens." I sealed my eyes shut covering my head with a pillow.

"I know...trust me." He gently lifted the pillow and looked at me brushing my hair away. My phone starts to vibrate on the bedside table, so I pick it up sitting upright.

"Sila?" Tejah asked from the other end and sounded a little shaken up.

"Yes?"

"It's...about Ace." She sighed and my heart sank.

"Great! As if today wasn't great enough now this?!" I felt my body giving up already.

"He...well." She hesitated.

"Spill it." I groaned and bit my lip.

"He's dead...committed suicide."

"W-what? When?"

"They found him this morning." She mumbled softly.

"I...I'm..." I jumped off the bed and went straight to the bathroom not even having time to close the door I started to vomit in the toilet.

"Are you okay?!" Jay ran in and rubbed my back. I felt like the energy in my body was just sucked right out of me.

"I can't take it anymore..." I cried and buried my face in my knees. "I'm too tired..."

"Shh...it's over now. You're fine." He wrapped his arms around me. "It's all over. You have me now."

He took me back to the bed and laid next to me humming in my ear. Then after a while, I drifted into sleep.

I jolt up from my nightmare and dart my eyes to Jay who was still sound asleep. I covered my face and slowly walked to the bathroom washing my face before walking downstairs into the kitchen.

"Amina! Girl, I missed you so much!" The cute fluff ball jumped into my arms licking my face. "Sorry we took a little while last night...it was intense."

The doorbell rung and Amina started to bark like crazy. I put her down and walked to the door. There wasn't anyone around and when I looked down there was a cute purple and red box. I picked it up and closed the door. Jay walked downstairs and picked Amina up off the ground.

"What is that?" Jay asked confused. I shrugged and pulled the box closer but instantly pulled it away as a strong smell hit me.

"I don't think this is a good thing," I mumbled and hesitated before slowly opening the box up. I put the lid aside to reveal a small black box and a note. I picked the note up and read the six words that sent shivers down my spine.

       You looked too innocent to hurt.

"What the fuck?" Jay put the dog down and picked up the black box. He opened the box and my blood ran cold. A finger, a bloody isolated finger right in the small black box.

"Jay...this is sick." I crawled away not having enough energy to stand up.

*************************************************************************^^^^^^^^^^^^**^****^****^^^****

         So, this is still the tip of the ice burg, next chapter you'll be able to finally understand why and how Ace got caught. Also more about her past and just how bad her insecurities have had a tool on her through her life.

                                                Much love,    
                                                           Author