Made - Episode 29

 

Steve's POV

I could not get the courage to approach Cindy. She was the ebony beauty everyone in the hood turned their heads to look at. Her dimples were just an icing to the already sweat cake. How could i compete?

She was so kind to me. The only one who did not see me as the tad tale i actually was. Our friendship was special . How could i break it by telling her i had feelings for her?  I would rather cling to our special friend bond than to have her far way from me after confessing my love for her. Maybe she would have loved me back. We shared a lot .... a whole lot of secrets. Maybe i would have protected her from dangerous men like Kim. 

Such a dangerous guy.

Too selfish to protect his own love. He knew with the kind of business he was in they could not have allowed him to habour any love interest. She made him sloppy.

She got pregnant!

That pierced my heart. Knowing the woman i loved was carrying another man's child. He was even reconsidering his line of work to come take care of his family. 

Indeed love covered a multitude of sins. 

But his bosses couldn't have it. He was there best

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. Always getting the job done, when they needed it done and how they needed it done. He couldn't just breach their contract they had. So they killed her. That's how callous they are. To remind him of who the boss was. And that was their mistake.

I never knew love could motivate like this.

Kim hunted his bosses and killed all five of them including the two men they had sent to carry out their dirty work. It made him famous on the dark web.

It made him more callous than them.

The black heart that was turning white because of love was now removed completely and crushed. 

He was now a man with no soul.

Growing dangerous with every consignment and assignment he handles. 

Sometimes at night i close my eyes. I remember that night. Cindy crumpled down, lying there in that red dress. Kim always loved her in red.

I loved her in blue. 

It brought a different aura around her. Soft, charming-easy, outgoing and caring. Red looked so defiant on her ebony skin. So daring..daring to date men like Kim. Of course she did not know who Kim was. I could not tell her. Kim would have my head on a platter. 

I geuss he was too much drunk from the wine cup of love. He didn't see it coming.

I had lost the woman i loved more than anything in this cursed world. I looked at the three people that were now looking at me. The girls looked torn up.

Poor thing.

She is lucky she escaped his clutch- Daniella. I could see why he chose to date her.Her lips paused soo much like Cindy's. I could not miss the dimple on her left cheek. She was also fierce and gentle at the same time. So much like Cindy. I noticed how the man beside him held his hand.

She must be a gem.

I was so sorry for Mercy. The guilt she had to live with all those years. I did not_ i could not forgive myself.

How fast i ran to Kim that day. I have never ran so fast in my entire life. After accidentally coming across the news of the hitmen set for Cindy, i ran with all my might to save the woman i loved. As it turned out i was a minute too late. I remember the blood, the dress. Cindy bitting his lower lip defiantly even in death.

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"Am so sorry." I repeated.

He was grieving, he had been grieving for over nine years. He felt guilty and responsible for what happened. I felt for him. Heartbreaks were hard alright but death was just a little bit too much. I was looking at a survivor on the face. 

Love and death had made him.

So much like what happened to David's family. I squeezed David's hand. He had been holding it all the while and that was the reason i had no cried buckets full of tears listening to the tale David had going on.

"What did you do with the body? Daniel asked the question we had all in mind.

Steve swallowed the pained look that had momentary gone coming back. We all stared our ears itching for an answer.

"We held a service for her and gave her a decent burial."

"You did?" We all asked quizically

"Yes we did. Kim had... has alot of experience with corpses. He cleaned her body taking care of everything. He bought her a beautiful coffin and clothed her.... i don't know how but he also got a priest to take us through the burial session."

Ice cold silence reigned.

"You must take us to that place." Mercy said with finality.

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Mercy's POV

Finally closure.

If i never met Daniella i would never have known. I have lived in guilt of letting my cousing out that night. I saw the anguish on my guardians held in their eyes. How in the first couple of months my aunt could not bring herself to talk to me. She was hurt and dissapointed. My uncle did all to assure me it was not my fault. How could i believe that?

I knew there was someting off about Cindy's new boyfriend. Especially with that tad taler ..Steve being the go between. I should have listen to my gut feeling and not let my love stricken cousin out on that fateful night. I got to meet him - Kim Maxwell a day after Cindy dissapearing. He was at the police station giving a statement. I did not like him from the word go. He sure was handsome but by just being near him i could sense something off about him. I could literally sniff it off him.

My guardians had even wanted just a body to bury but they never got that. After a year of grieving my aunt turned me into a doll. Pampering, doting and loving me protectively trying to fill the whole Cindy had let on her heart. She made the pain and guilt i was feeling in my heart even worse.

Now i had the confirmation that she actually died. I had watched it happen. I had always had the feeling ..the day my cousin did not return. Something inside me died. I could not help but hope it wasnt true. I let the what ifs in. The possibility that she had eloped with her boyfriend to raise their unborn baby far way.

She was dead and now i was headed to her grave. Soon enough my gaurdians would know this too..

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Beautiful is not the word i would use to describe a grave site but that was how Cindy's grave looked like. A slab made of marble stone with its inside decorated with small white shiny pebbles. I had never seen such magnificent stones before.

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. At the head area was a white smaller obselik slab with the initials C.K graven onto them. Cindy Kate. A water fountain sprayed its water beautifully letting it reflect on the marble slab. It brought a soothing atmosphere and that was quite odd in a place that was supposed to act as a cemetery. 

Withered rose flower layed on top of the white obselik.

Somebody was here recently. 

Best geuss Kim.

Mercy knelt and cried her heart out for her younger sister...that was how she refered to her. I held her shoulder massaging her shoulder making no attempt to calm her down. Tears also slipped off my eyes. This was what she needed. To grieve more openly to the lose of her dear sister.

Steve far. A bit aloof. Sadness sardonically ardoned her face. David stood by him and for reasons unknown to me  made him stronger.

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Author's note 

So today i decided to give you Mercy's and Steve's point of view to this whole thing. I will give David's POV to the whole story which is like three chapters away.

Should i include Kim's POV? Tell me what you think on the comment section below...

Otherwise i hope you enjoyed reading this episode. Show some love y'all.

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Toda.

Dorsila.