THE K1LLER'S KNIFE
The K1ller's Knife - Episode 27
" Where did you even get the money to buy the food..? I hope you are not stéåling from me again...?" Father asked looking at me suspiciously
I scoffed wondering when father will ever change for the better. He is more concerned about his money than his health. Not like I care anyways since I know the money didn't come from him
" I didn't stëâl any money from you father. It's part of the money mother gave me when I went to visit her two days back" I lied to avoid any tr0uble because if I dare tell him I got money from a stranger then I'm done for
" Is that so..? I am relieved now. I thought it was my money you used to buy the food...that's why I didn't want to eat so I will pun¡sh you with a clear conscience if it turns out to be true" father said with a dáñgerous glint in his eyes.
He finished the grilled chicken and dropped the bones in the plate
This man is so unbelievable and never cease to amaze me. So this was his fear all along..? Sounds so funny!
" I didn't stéäl your money father. You can confirm it for yourself"
" If you like...at least you know what will happen to you if you try such n0nsense" father said and I nodded vigorously
I turned to walk to the kitchen so I could dispose of the food but I was taken unawares when father snapped at me
" ...where are you going with that food...? I thought you said you brought it for me so why are you taking it away again...?"
"But father you said you didn't want to eat because of the doctor's food prescripti.."
Father cut me short when he shouted ângrily at me and threw the pieces of chicken bones on my body
I could have dodged but I was taken unaware añd got hit by one that flew to my left eye and it húrt badly
" Shμt up!!! Is that doctor the one who will be giving me money to feed..? So because a mád woman decided to st@b me...I should start planting a plantation in the name of doctor's prescription...?
"...Jacob bring that food here immediately...I'm still hungry, I know you want to go and eat it but you won't taste any.."
I smiled because this is exactly what I wanted in the first place.
" Okay father" I said calmly and quickly took the food to him before he changed his mind
Right there in front of me, father ate the food hungrily, he in didn't offer me any and didn't care to know if I'm hungry and wanted some.
He ate it up without knowing that it is laced with the exact same p01son he gave flora to k¡ll Keto
He is being k¡lled by his own kn¡fe and he would not know until days later.
I want him to feel the exact pa¡ns Keto felt as he groaned in pa¡n before taking his l,ást breath
I want him to experience what it feels like to be helplessly hμrting like mother and I whenever he was bëåting us
I want him to leave the face of this earth and never ever return to assâült or húrt innocent people again
Who knows...? Maybe in his next life, he will come back as a better person instead of a human béâst!
" Clear these plates...and don't let me get back here and see them. I want to go and rest my mind. Do you understand me...? Jacob? Jacobbbbbb..." Father shouted snapping me out of my reverie
" I'm sorry father...I didn't hear you... please what were you saying...?"
" So you are now thinking about how to feed your family of twenty at this young age right...?" Father said sarcastically and I know he was ângry inwardly
I have to select my reply before he stones me with a stronger wëåpon compared to the bones
" No father.... it's not like that...I was.. thinking of..hmm.." I was stammering unable to come up with any reasonable excuse for being absentminded when he was talking to me
" I was talking to you and you were thinking of something else. I am going to deal with you for this. Let my arm heal first and I'll show you why I'm called Jamie. So bear in mind that you are owing me ten strokes of cane!"
"... you stùpid child, you're as useless to me like your nøñsense mother. Give me just few days and you will pay dearly for your c⁰wardice behaviour..."
I smirked mildly as I said in my mind 'that is if you will be alive to do so'
" Okay father" I simply said and he was surprised that I wasn't pleading for mercy as I usually did
" I'm glad you are beginning to be a man by bracing up for your puñ¿shment..."
"...I will be sleeping in my room. Make sure you don't disturb me and clear these plates before I wake up"
After saying this to me, father got up from the sofa and left for his room. I began jumping in excitement when I was sure father had left.
I was overjoyed that my plan was accomplished successfully. Father ate the pø¡oπed food and will d¡e soon.
Now all I have to do is to wait and watch as the k¡ller get K?lled. I thought and laughed quietly so as not to disturb father.
Two days afterwards, Flora was discharged from the hospital and she came home but father did not allow her inside the house
Just like he did to mother, he threw her belongings outside and asked her to leave his house amidst her tears and pleas to be pardoned.
She was seriously crying and pleading yet father was so hardened.
" Please Jamie... don't do this to me.. remember all we've shared and been through together...please Jamie my love" Flora said going on her knees to hold onto father's legs but he kicked her aside
He k¡çked her so hard that she fell with a heavy thud
She stood and continued begging father.
" You should have remembered and thought of all that before stâbbing my arm with a kn¡fe. What was the kn¡fe doing under the sofa in the first place...? So you've been scheming to k?ll me Flora after everything..?" Father asked staring down at her in d¡sgust
" No, it's not like that Jamie. I only did that on impulse to defend myself...you were fl09ging me so bád that i was scāred that you'll bëåt me to dëåth.. I'm sorry Jamie.. I promise it won't happen again" Flora said pleading in tears
But all of what she said fell on déaf ears as father's mind was already made up on sending her packing from his house
" Leave my house Flora. I don't find you attractive again... infact I'm wondering what was even driving me crazy about you because clearly you are a mad woman. Felicia my wife is even more beautiful and tighter than you, i will check out for another woman that pleases me, there's so many women out there who will do anything just to be with me and if my next woman mess up, I will gladly kick her out..."
"...I have used and got tired of you Flora ...get out!"
Father's words felt like a sharp sw0rd passing through Flora's chest. She was crying on her knees unable to bear the shâme and the insülts father was heaping on her after everything he made her do so they can be together
" Keto would never have treated me this way. I gave everything up for you Jamie.. now you are calling me names. You are such a hëãrtless man for making me a widow and turning against me! Keto was very correct when he said that you treat women like a piece of trash...I håt£ you so much for rμ¡ning my life!" Flora fired at father who seems not to care
By now our neighbors had gathered and were mopping at flora without pleading with father on her behalf because of how tr0μblesome she was with them.
" Exactly why I am telling you to go back to your d£ád husband... that's if he still needs a mád woman of your type!" Father concluded and walked into the house locking the door behind him
Flora cried terribly with the whole of her heart while still on her knees.
I could tell she was feeling so ashámed and remorseful for k!lling her husband for a man like father who is now dumping her like an overused rag
For the first time, I could tell that she wasn't really as bad as I thought her to be so I began to feel so much pity for her
A familiar voice startled me as I was about to walk inside
" So you can cry Flora...? Tell me how does it feel to have a man you love throwing you out of his house...?" It was mother who said møçkingly to flora as she walked into the compound
We were surprised to see her.
It got me wondering why she came here and how she knew that this was going on.
(Do not take credit or Plagiarize AMAH'S HEART stories)
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