FLASHBACK=NINETEEN YEARS AGO***
“I’m pregnant” Odessa said and Vince looks at her with so much hatred.
“What did you just say?” He asked.
“I’m pregnant Vince. I’m carrying your child” Odessa said.
“Get rid of it” Vince said.
“W-what?”
“I’m sure your ears aren’t clogged, right?”
“Why will you tell me to abort the baby?” Odessa said as tears falls down her eyes.
“Because I and Tessa are getting married. She’s pregnant for me too, and we’re expecting our baby after our wedding” Vince said.
“Then what about me? What’s going to happen to I and our child?”.
“We have no child together Odessa. You’re just my secretary, you should have left me alone the night I was drunk”.
“I couldn’t do that because I was in love with you Vince. I mended your shattered heart when Tessa broke up with you and now you’re going to neglect me simply because you both are back together”.
“I don’t love you Odessa, Tessa is the woman I love. She’s carrying my child and we’re getting married next week, so better get rid of that thing inside your stomach, before it becomes late” Vince said and leaves.
“Vince!!” Odessa screams crying.
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STILL ON FLASHBACK***
Just like Vince said, he got married to Tessa, without telling her that Odessa was pregnant for him. And meanwhile Odessa didn’t abort the child like Vince told her to. She kept the child hoping to be with Vince no matter what.
Odessa secretly entered Vince’s house one night and seeing how happy Vince was playing and rubbing Tessa’s baby bump tommy, kissing her over and over again, tears falls down Odessa’s eyes, likewise anger too.
“I should be the one with Vince. He should be mine not yours Tessa. I love him more than you do, so I deserve him and not you. I’m going to make sure that I get to be with Vince and not you” Odessa said angrily.
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STILL ON FLASHBACK***
“Our baby girl looks so beautiful Vince” Tessa said smiling, as she carried her new born baby in her arms.
“Yes. She takes after you” Vince said and kiss Tessa. He also kissed his baby daughter.
“I’m so happy to have you both. Cassandra, Daddy loves you so much” Vince said with a smile caressing the baby’s face.
“Cassandra?”
“Yes. I have always wanted to give my first born daughter the name Cassandra” Vince said smiling.
“Cassandra. I like the name too. Cassandra you should say thank you to your dad, he gave you a beautiful name that suits a beauty like you” Tessa said and Vince smiles.
“I love you so much Tessa”
“I love you too Vince”
Vince smiles and kiss her forehead and baby Cassandra made a light cry.
“Don’t be jealous Cassandra, Daddy loves you so much too” Vince said and carrying her, and Tessa laugh.
Odessa who looked at them from the glass window, had so much anger in her.
“I promise you Tessa. You and that baby of yours won’t get to be with Vince. I and my son deserves to be with him” Odessa said. She already gave birth and she had to bear the pains and sufferings alone.
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STILL ON FLASHBACK=VINCE’S MANSION***
Odessa quietly entered the room where baby Cassandra was. She looks at the baby and she was still very tender, since she was brought to the world yesterday.
Odessa had mask on her face.
“Forgive me little one. But I have to get rid of you, so that I can be with Vince. After you die, your mom will be next. My son deserves to be happy too, since he’s Vince child” Odessa said and she made to strangle the poor baby to death, when Tessa enters the room.
“Who are you and what are you trying to do to my baby?” Tessa asked.
Odessa turns to face her but Tessa couldn’t see her face.
“I guess you will be the one to die first” Odessa said and rushed to Tessa. She tried to stab Tessa with the knife, but Tessa held the knife.
“Why’re you trying to ki|| me?” She asked.
“Because your inexistence will pave way for me to be with Vince” She said and succeeded in stabbing the knife inside Tessa’s stomach.
Tessa groans in pain. She manage to kick Odessa when she (Odessa) attempted to stab her with the knife again.
Odessa falls, hitting her back on the wardrobe.
Tessa quickly took her baby and run out of the house.
There wasn’t any maid or securities in the house, since Tessa told Vince there wasn’t any need to have one.
“Tessa!!!” Odessa screams going after Tessa.
Tessa dashed out from the house, Into the quite street of the night.
The only sounds that was held was her heavy breathing and the cry of her baby. She was bleeding furiously in the area where Odessa stabbed her.
“Tessa!!!!”
Tessa heard the voice of Odessa and she increase the speed of her feet, Cassandra’s cry increased, making Odessa Know the location Tessa was running to.
“Please Cassandra stop crying, Mom has to get you to safety first” Tessa said weakly and like magic, Cassandra stopped crying.
SOME MINUTES LATER***
Tessa was still trying to caught her breath, when Odessa pulls her from behind.
“Finally gat you” She said pulling Tessa’s hair aggressively.
“Please spare my life” Tessa begs.
“Sparing your life is like letting go of the opportunity of being with Vince and that’s not what I’m ready to do. Where’s your child? Where did you hide her!!!!!” Odessa yells.
“I won’t let you harm my child just the way you want to harm me. Wherever Cassandra is, I’m sure she is in save hands” Tessa said and Odessa slaps Tessa.
Tessa cries falling to the ground.
“Vince is surely going to love me after you die. And your child, I’m going to make sure I find her and ki|| her too!!!” Odessa yells and hits Tessa so hard on the head.
Tessa loss consciousness and her body rolled still its falls down from the cliff and landed in the deepest ocean.
“Vince belongs to me and only me, I deserve to be with him” Odessa said and she sees a woman with a one month old baby looking at her. She obviously saw what Odessa did.
She tries to run away, but Odessa caught up with the woman and used the stick she was holding to hit her.
She carries the woman and her baby to Vince’s house. And after Odessa weared the woman one of Tessa’s clothes, she chopped off the woman’s head and that of the little baby.
“Sorry, but Vince have to believe that his precious wife and daughter are really dead inorder to be with I and my son. We deserve to be happy” Odessa said.
And she also made sure to wipe out the CCTVS footages of Vince’s house.
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STILL ON FLASHBACK***
Vince’s life crumbled immediately when he saw the headless bodies in front of him. He just returned from the company, and seeing the clothes the headless bodies were wearing, he immediately thought it was the body of his precious wife and daughter.
His life became empty and he almost went mentally insane. He tried investigating the case on how they died, but he couldn’t find a single clue.
He was still mourning for the death of his wife and daughter, when Odessa enters the house with baby Carding.
“Vince”
And Vince looks at her with lots of tears in his eyes.
“What’re you doing here?”
“I heard about what happened to your wife and daughter” She said acting all innocent.
“I lost them Odessa. I lost the family I love so much. I wasn’t there when they needed me. I wasn’t there when that monster chopped off their heads, is all my fault” Vince said crying.
“Is not your fault Vince. But life have to move on. You still have me and your son. I didn’t get rid of him like you wanted. His name is Carding” Odessa said.
Vince looks at baby Carding and more tears falls down his eyes when he remembered baby Cassandra’s face.
“You both are free to stay here. But just know that I’m doing this because of my reputation, I don’t want anyone to find out that I have a bastard son who you didn’t get rid of”.
“Thanks Vince” Odessa said smiling.
“But always have it in mind that I’m never going to love you both the way I love Tessa and Cassandra. He’s just a son born out of mistake and nothing more” Vince said and continues looking at the picture of Tessa and the that of baby Cassandra.
FLASHBACK ENDS=PRESENT DAY***
Odessa sighs after remembering what she did.
“That was how far I went just to be with you Vince. I don’t know where your daughter is, but I know Tessa is already dead. Let go of your feelings for Tessa and love me instead” Odessa said caressing his face.
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NEW YORK CITY=STATEN ISLAND***
A woman in her late forties, stands near the window, watching the people having fun at the beach. She was wearing a yellow sheathed gown, her lips were reddish, as a result of the lipstick she applied on her lips and in her hand lies a blue wine.
A boy of 20, enters the house with a brown envelope in his hand.
“Ma. Tessa” He calls.
And Tessa turns to look at him, he bows slightly.
“Clark” She said with a smile, and Clark gladly returns the smile
“Any information about my daughter?” She asked.
“Yes I have”
“Really? You finally found my daughter after thirteen years of searching for her?” Tessa asked smiling.
“Yes ma’am. The investigator in charge of searching for your child, finally have an information about her”.
“So where is she?” Tessa asked curiously.
“She is in Chicago. The man who you handle her to, was the one who raised her. Her name is Paige Castillo”
“She goes by the Paige? Can I see her picture” Tessa asked getting emotional.
“Sure Ma. Tessa” Clark said and gave a picture of Paige to her.
Tessa smiles with tears in her eyes as she caress Paige’s picture.
“My daughter is so beautiful”.
“What’re you going to do now that you find your daughter?” Clark asked.
“I’ll go back to Chicago to see my daughter. I guess is time for Vince to know that his wife and daughter are still alive”.
TBC