“Do you think that you can no longer trust me? Even our son, Dilan doesn't understand what has been up with you lately. You don’t even play with him again as you used to. He feels so lonely right now and I am left with no option but to be a shadow of myself.”“Do you have any idea how this affects me? You don’t go to work during the daytime anymore but now at night time. If not that I found a way to monitor you a little bit, I would have been engulfed with the idea that you are probably cheating. Or is that what you are doing?Ralph’s words were a shield of defiance, his tone a rebuke of suspicion. “Hmm, to think that you have been monitoring me. Why then do you have so many questions?”“Don’t even try to pin this one on me,” Linda fired back. “I am not the one who has been kept in the dark for a long time. I am not the one who has had to deal with persistent questions from your son who doesn't have an idea what has become of his father. All of that is on me so don’t even try to act f

Dilan nodded his head affirmatively in response.“Now, that’s my boy,” Ralph had a bleak but frightened smile escape his lips as he patted his son on the head.Their little moment was interrupted by a loud voice they heard from the sitting room where the assassin spoke loudly.The voice was loud and dripping with sick humor as he slurred his tone to produce a melodious threat. “Raaaalphhhh! It's your time now. Come on don’t hide like a coward. I don’t have time to play games. Save me the stress, big man.”The assassin was a masked figure of death, his mask a faceless shroud of horror as he glided through the room with a gun in his hand. Ralph, who was compressed in the wardrobe obviously recognized the voice. He was trembling with fear as he heard that it was Grady Daug.Grady Daug was one of the miners along with Ralph and 5 others who Alan made a private pact with on mining a large heap of gold. They were mining for Alan so he was going to take the largest share but he promised a c

The sound of a gunshot soon exploded through the wardrobe as Ralph and his family all had their heart skipping in fear.Ralph jumped out of the wardrobe desperately. He couldn't afford that Grady would fire another bullet that would hit his wife or kid. His eyes were pleading as he looked straight on at Grady, his two hands raised in the air in surrender.“Alright, this is me. You can have me. Please leave my family alone. They have no part in this,” Ralph spoke, his words tumbling over each other in desperation as he sought to put an end to the whole tension.“Haha, you thought you were so smart that you could hide here right?” Grady spoke, his words a dangerous roar of destruction.Ralph’s face was reddened in desperation as his mind raced fast. “Please, don’t hurt my family. Please, just leave us alone. I am not sure threat to you. I will just surrender all the money to you. I don’t want the money from the gold. Just leave my family alone.”Linda and her son were two souls lost in

The woman scratched her hair again in embarrassment not wanting to reveal the obvious - that she had been cheating on Gregory and was just about to welcome the man she was sleeping with.“Errm, erm, Gregory is not here. He is most likely not coming home tonight as usual,” The woman responded, her lips quivering.It soon dawned on Alan that the reason for her embarrassment was because she was cheating on Gregory.Alan shrugged off the awkward feeling. He wasn't there to interrogate his wife for cheating. What he came for was to protect Gregory. If only the woman knew that her husband was in great danger, he thought.“So, do you have any idea where your husband is?” Alan asked, his eyes wide open in anticipation.“He is always at the clubhouse especially when he is not having a good time at work so I guess that is where he would be. It's not my fault that I decide to make my own decisions too and pick a man for myself,” the woman spoke, her voice laced with an eagerness to defend hersel

The clubhouse erupted into a frenzied stampede of terror that clung to the breath of everyone present.Alan, while keeping his head down darted around in tension to locate where the gunshot was coming from.“Just keep your head low okay?” Alan encouraged as they navigated their way out of the clubhouse together. “That must be Grady. He came for you like I told you the other time.”While engulfed in the tension and with his eyebrows creased with terror, Gregory spoke, his words tumbling over each other in haste. “But why is he after all of us? To be honest, I heard about the assassination of the other guys but the depression just made me while away time here. I thought that if I spent enough time here, he couldn't come looking for me here.”Alan hurried past the other occupants who were screaming in terror and also trying to find their way out of the hall. He was a protective shadow on Gregory as he shielded him from being seen.Before Alan could know what was going on, he felt a breez