Must Read: House Of Secrets

6 years ago

Must Read: House Of Secrets

I had prepared breakfast for everyone and now I was preparing myself to go see the pastor at the hospital. I had already made something hot for him to drink, I hoped he was okay.

I decided to go through Grace’s things once more, I had never met her in person but I felt I had known her my entire life.

I fetched her album and stared at her pictures again especially the one she stood with Romeo, they looked so great together, I was sure Mark started raping her when she fell in love with someone else.

‘Bastard’ I cast the album aside and wept on my bed.

I cried for about fifteen minutes, my eyes were all foggy and swollen, I stopped the minute I heard a strange sound. You know when your battery is about to be exhausted and it makes a sound, exactly what I heard, but I was quite sure it wasn’t from my phone.

I rose up immediately, what if Grace had left her phone behind, I heard the sound again, it came from the cupboard where I’d found the photo album and the note, how come I’d never seen or heard it?

As I pulled out the last drawer, a huge rat climbed out and I screamed for my dear life.
‘Jeez, that wasn’t funny’ I laughed for the first time that day.

‘Here you are darling…’ I wondered what it was, it wasn’t a phone, I realized it was a mini sized video camera.

‘What’s this’? I pressed a button and waited for the device to show me something, but it didn’t, so I tossed it aside.

I slipped on my shoes ready to move when I heard sounds that resembled m0ans from a woman in pain, this time, pain wasn’t the case, what I saw was going to haunt me for eternity.

My phone rang and I picked it up hurriedly.

‘Hello’ my voice was shaky from what I’d just seen, how could that happen?

‘Ajunwa? Have you forgotten me so fast? This is your friend Joy’?

‘Joy, I’m sorry, I’m just not feeling too well’ I lied, how could I have forgotten Joy, my best friend whose uncle I worked for.

‘I’m sorry sweetheart, guess what’? she sounded excited.

‘Wow you sound happy, what’s that’? I asked.

‘I know my uncle just had an accident, the news is everywhere so I am at the hospital with him, later I’d be at the house and we would gist throughout the night’ she replied.

‘Wow, I’m coming there soon’ I replied and dropped the phone in my bag.

Joy was in town, I wondered if I could let her in on what I had encountered in the house.

I turned the video camera off and hid it safely, I had watched enough. Pastor Ita was making love with his daughter Rose, truly, this was a house of secrets.

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