Condemned Daughter - S01 E14

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Condemned Daughter - S01 E14

Read Story: SEASON 1 EPISODE 14

After Clara had left his shop, he locked himself up right there and he was left with the sleeping girl.

Katie.

He moved her to his secret room inside that same shop.

He placed her on the roaster which he had already filled with kerosene.

He brought out his lighter from his pocket and danced to an imaginary rhythm excitedly.

He began to sing out loudly.

When the blazing sun is gone

When he nothing shines upon

Then you show your little light

Twinkle, twinkle, all the night

He woke her up by injecting her.

He wanted her to be awake while he was roasting her so that she will feel the pain.

She had to feel the fire piercing into her skin and jerking out her bones.

He closed his eyes to feel the sensation of just the mere thought and salivated.

That smell of a burning skin.

He would burn her body bit by bit with his lighter.

HIS MAGIC LIGHTER.

He placed a black cellotape on her mouth.

She tried to struggle out of that room that he had tied her to and tears filled her eyes.

His sister had helped him to tie Katie to the bed before she left.

Katie could never escape.

No matter how much she screamed beneath that cellotape, no one would hear her.

He hummed the second stanza of Twinkle twinkle Little Star.

He suddenly stopped short when he heard movement from somewhere.

Suddenly the ceiling tore apart on his head and Raymond Maxson jumped in.

He gasped and stepped back at the sight of him.

Raymond rushed towards him aggressively and punched him on his jaw until he lost his strength.

Two policemen jumped into the room through the ceiling and released Katie.

She panicked and rushed to hug her brother.

“Brother, I thought that i would die”. She panicked.

I waited patiently by the car and when I noticed them coming out with Katie, I rushed to place a blanket around her.

The police men walked out of the shop from behind with the handcuffed and badly injured Steve Austin.

They pushed him into the van and drove off.

Raymond’s subordinates drove Katie home while he remained right there with me.

Tears filled his eyes as he stared at me.

I wiped his eyes with my finger. “Raymond…”.

“What would I have done if you didn’t come into my life? What? Tell me!!!”. He hugged me. “If not for you, what would have happened to my sister?You saved my only sister! You saved me! How can I repay you?”. He kissed me on my forehead as tears trickled down his cheeks.

Raymond glared at Steve Austin as they sat facing each other.

Steve Austin chuckled. “Look how the almighty ‘Raymond Maxson was deceived for so long”.

Raymond placed the recorder on the desk and played the recorded conversation between him and his sister which Rosa had recorded through the bug she had placed in his shop. “Does this sound familiar?”. He asked him expressionlessly.

Steve Austin fumed at him. “You want to arrest my sister because of mere words?”.

Raymond smiled. “Mere words? Well the mere words will only implicate your sister if you don’t tell me everything behind those mere words that we both just heard”.

“Nathan killed his son. He made me kill his son and feigned the whole thing like an accident”.

“Why would Nathan kill his biological son?”.

Steve Austin shrugged. “Well that is because he was not his biological son. Gretta had cheated on him after they got married and made Nathan believe that he was not the father of the baby until the biological father of that baby had contacted him and told him everything. One month after Gretta’s wedding with Nathan, she had cheated on him. Just one month! Nathan’s heart was broken and my sister had mended back the heart. Few months to Gretta’s death, she had found out that Nathan had known about the paternity of the child for a long time and also how he had killed her child. She blamed him for killing her child but she was scared of her family finding out that she had committed adultery. With the kind of principled man that Alexander Anderson was, he would never allow her to have that inheritance because of that act of adultery that she had committed. Gretta had struggled on what to do, that was why she was quiet and pained without telling anyone the reason and eating herself up in silence”.

“Who killed her?”. Raymond asked as he searched his eyes.

“I killed her of course”. Steve Austin answered.

Raymond rolled his eyes. “You have a witness in prison that was with you the day Gretta was murdered”.

Steve Austin fumed at him. “I killed her!!!”.

Raymond smiled. “Your sister killed her”.

Steve Austin burst into laughter. “What evidence do you have to back that up?”.

Raymond smiled to himself. “Arnold…”.

“I have told you everything you bastard! I escaped from the prison and killed that bastard!!!”.

Raymond walked out.

He walked along the road, holding Rosa’s hand possessively. He thought deeply about Arnold’s last words. “When Arnold had sang that song to me, he had killed two birds with one stone”.

Rosa looked up at him. “What do you mean?”.

“He had used that song to link everyone that was involved in Gretta’s murder but he had also sang Twinkle twinkle Little Star in a different way that day to tell me something”.

“How do you mean?”.

“Instead of singing it like this, ‘Up above the world so high, like a diamond in the sky’, he had repeatedly sang it like this, ‘Up above the wall so high, like a diamond in the sky. He had said Wall, not World. He had repeated it so many times and emphasized the WALL so that I would get the message”.

“Are you saying that the evidence is ‘Up above the wall so high, like a diamond in the sky’…it is on a wall?”.

He squinted thoughtfully.

“Since everyone must have ransacked Gretta’s room and his room, Arnold wouldn’t be stupid to have hidden it there”.

“Are you saying that he would hide it somewhere with a high wall?”.

He nodded.

“Should we go back to the house of the Andersons?”.

He drove to the place.

Mirabel glared at them as they walked into the house.

“Mirabel, do you have a high wall in this house? Something like a high wall?”.

“The play house? Only the play house has high walls and a small door. Why do you ask?”.

“Where is the play house?”.

She directed them to a pink and blue cartoon like house with very high walls and a small door that you had to crawl in to get inside.