The fill-in wife - Episode 33

 

"Don't you waste my time Derrick. I'm gonna blow your brains out right here without a second thought." The look in his eyes tells me he's damn serious and for the first time I wonder how we ended up like this. There's so much hatred in his eyes when we are meant to be brothers. Step but still blood.

"Why are you doing all these?" I can't help but ask . I'm not even trying to stall. Hell I'll give him everything without batting an eye lash. What good is it after all when I might not have anyone to enjoy it with anymore? Still,I'm grateful Maya isn't here to witness this.
"Will you sign the fucking papers?!" Nelson explode and Rose whimper brokenly beside me.
"You can have it all Nelson but I got to know. How did we end up like this? We were supposed to be brothers. Family. Doesn't that mean anything to you?" I speak softly, trying to get to him but all I get from him is a mocking laugh.
"Family? Oh now he knows about family. Now that I finally have the upper hand, with a gun to your fucking head,you talk about family. Always the manipulator. Everyone loves Derrick. I was the first to be brought to this house but then your whoring mother brought you and just like that,I lost my spot! Why can't you be like your brother Derrick? That old witch would always say!" Nelson spit out with pure disdain.
"I was told the same thing! Don't you--"
"Shut up and don't interrupt me!" He yells as he presses the gun harshly against my temple.
"You were always plotting to gain her attention. All those stupid attempts to run away only made her adore you

All episodes of this story can be found here >> https://www.ebonystory.com/story/the-fill-in-wife

. Derrick has spirit. She would always say. Be just like him. And I was the one with the best results! I finished college faster than you and all of my mates. I was always studying just to please her. But did that ever happen?" His eyes are now glazed over as he goes down memory lane.
"Nelson I--" my words are cut off as the butt of the gun slams against my head and my ears ring. God,that hurts.
"Derrick!" Rose screams at the same time.
"I said don't interrupt!" Nelson yell in my face, completely ignoring Rose. I feel blood trickle down the side of my throbbing head.
"You know what? Fuck these documents." Nelson spits out. He grabs the papers from my lap and throw them into the air. I watch them scatter everywhere.
"What's the need of signing them anyways? I just have to kill you, then everything will go to me as the only surviving grandchild. That's much better." He looks pleased with his new idea while I start to panic. I can't die now. I still need Maya to forgive me. I don't want my child to grow up without me either.
"Please don't do this. I'll sign." I say then immediately fall on my knees and start gathering the papers from the floor. I'm crawling on the ground gathering papers while Nelson laughs above me but I don't care. This is a minuscule sacrifice to pay for me to be with my family.
"You. are. just. so. pathetic." Nelson grinds out and each word is punctuated with a kick to my gut. I groan in pain but don't stop as I reach for the last paper. He isn't having any of that as he use his leg to push me away from the paper.
"Derrick!" Rose screams as I crash to the ground, my already throbbing head hitting the marble floor hard. I feel frail shaking hands hold my head but my eyes can't seem to focus on the face. I'm slowly losing consciousness as blood trickle in to my eyes.
"Derrick. Oh no. Please open your eyes Derry. Please." Rose sob above me.
"Look at the both of you. Pathetic!" He spits.
"You know what's pathetic? You always being in Derrick's shadow. Even if you kill him now, everyone would still talk about how he was so much better than you. You know why? Because he has a heart. He's not a Goddamned beast like you" I hear Rose say coldly
"Shut up!" Nelson yells and Rose's pained scream tell me he's hurting her. I try to stand up but my legs feel like Jelly and my eyes feel too heavy.
"You--k k know what else is-- is pathetic? You being so focused on Derrick that you gave me enough time and space to alert the police. You have been on speaker phone for the last few minutes." Rose spits and starts laughing hysterically. Her laughs turn to fitful cough.
"Bitch!" Nelson yells and the muffled but distinct sound of a gunshot reverberates in my foggy brain. A body slump on me and I know it's Rose's.
"No!!! What have you done?!" I yell as I shake her limp body.
"Rose? Hey can you hear me? Snap out of it!" I yell, completely rattled. Cold hands feel my face up before cupping my cheek.
"Rose! Thank God. Nelson please. She needs help."
"I'm--s--sorr--y Derrick. Do--don't for-give me." Those are the last words she says before her hand fall off my face.
"Rose? Rose!!"
"Shut up and get the fuck up." Nelson's cold hands grab my lapels as he drags me off the ground. I slip a few times on my jelly legs.
"Hey. Look at me. Come on, open those eyes." Nelson slap my face a few times till I manage to open my eyes.
"There he is." His gloating face is the first thing I see. My eyes stray from his face to the ground and I see Rose's body on the ground, twisted in an odd angle
"You are not going to get away with this." I say
"Oh I will and you are going to help me." 
"Over my dead body." I grind out as I finally find my footing and slam my knee into his groin.
"Shit." He groans as I take this opportunity to hit the gun off his hand. The gun fly off his hand and land few centimeters away from the both of us. I quickly turn on my feet to grab it.
"Oh no, you don't." Nelson spit out as he lunge himself at me and we both crash to the floor. Blinding pain radiate up my head as I try to focus my eyes. The gun. I start to crawl to it but my leg is grabbed from behind and pulled backwards. I fall back on my stomach. Nelson tries to crawl pass me to get it but I grab his arm. Both our hands are just few millimeters away as we struggle to get it.

 The sound of sirens in the distant meet my ears and I hear Nelson curse under his breath.
"Let go of me!" Nelson spits as he tries to slam his elbow against my neck. I manage to dodge his elbow and smash my head against his nose.
"Shit." He groans, disoriented as I take this opportunity and grab the gun. Yes!
"Give me that!" He yells but I just push myself off the ground and point the gun at him. God, I feel great as adrenaline rush through my body.
"You can't shoot me." He says.
"Try me." I challenge. He's looking at me. Trying to figure out if I can do it. He grins. He thinks I can't.

Read " Make You Mine(Redemption 2) " by the same author ( Ameh juliet )

. Wrong thinking bro. He starts walking slowly towards me.
"Stay back!" I warn but the bastard just smirks. My finger fiddle with the trigger as he gets closer.
"You can't do it,can you? Always so--fuck!!" My body shake with the force of the gun's recoil as Nelson fall to the ground. He looks stun. I can hear our gate shaking and I know the police are almost in.
"Now, you are going to remain like this till the police get in or I'll put a bullet in your other leg." I instruct.
"You know I never would have thought you could shoot me brother." Nelson says quietly as the sound of our gate shaking reaches both our ears.
"Stop talking!"
"I guess we are brothers after all." He continues anyways.
"I'm nothing like you." I grind out.
"True. Because unlike you, I never let anyone beat me." He says. What is he talking about?
"This is the police! Everyone your hands to your head!" Their footfalls are only getting closer but my eyes can't leave Nelson's.
"A real soldier never surrenders." He says as he pulls out something from his pocket and plunge his into his chest. My eyes go wide as I stare in utter shock at his gloating face.
"I b-eat y-ou this time br-o-ther." He stutters amidst the blood coming out of his mouth before he goes still with his smirk firmly in place.
"Your hands in the air everyone. Freeze!" The police men storm the room.
"Freeze! Weapon down!" They yell at me as they point thier guns at me. I know how this thing looks like with a gun in my hand and two dead people in my sitting room. I let the gun fall off my hand and pull my hands up to my head as one of them recite my Miranda rights to me.
 The shock starts wearing off as well as the adrenaline as my body give way to the pain and I slump to the ground.