Underestimated Retribution

Chapter 36: Jennet's Past

Jennet held the phone to her ears with shaky hands. It felt like she was speaking with a ghost. If her memory serves her well, she was speaking to someone from her past, someone she had thought to be dead for many years.

“Jennet? Hello? Are you still there, Jenny?” the voice came again.

“Charlie?” Jennet asked tentatively, faint embers of hope coming alive in her heart.

“Jenny. Hello, Jenny. It’s been a lifetime,” Charlie said with a voice full of nostalgia.

And indeed, it had been a lifetime, a very long one spent in wishful thinking of what is and what could have been.

Jennet had run into Charlie when she was at an all low in her life. She had just been jilted by several lovers who found her too demanding. All she wanted was a bite of their giant-sized snack of money and affluence. Since when did that become a crime?

It didn’t matter that Jennet had been with all those lovers at the same time when she got busted. Somehow, they belonged to the same rotary club and played golf togethe