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Fleeing the Darkness
n the blink of an eye, Kevin was lying on the floor motionless, with blood gushing out from his head. Realizing what she had done, her hands began to shake, making the remaining part of the broken flower vase, which she was still holding in her hand slip off, and shattered on the floor. Ellie fidgeted as she looked at Kevin, who was lying on the floor groaning in pain and was gradually losing consciousness. Although he had hurt her a lot, she still never wished for him to die. All she wanted was to be free from his torment, but she never knew her drastic action would cause the scene right in front of her.
At that moment, she was on the fence and didn’t know what to do; whether to run as far as her legs could carry her at that moment she had the chance to or to save Kevin’s life. After giving it some thought, she decided to go for the former. She hurriedly packed the things she could lay her hands on and hurried to the door, ready to leave but her kind nature and guilty conscience wouldn’t let her leave Kevin lying on the floor, fighting for his life. She decided to save his life and call 911 for help using Kevin’s phone. She made her way to the door and as she held the doorknob, she turned around to take a final look at Kevin. Even while on his brink of death, he still had the wicked and unremorseful look on and which crept Ellie out. His gaze was fixed on her, as if telling her she would never get away from him. Drenched with fear, Ellie dashed out and ran as fast as she could without looking back. She didn’t care about whether Kevin would survive or not, all she cared about at that moment was to get as far away as possible from Kevin and she was able to.
She was able to achieve her dream of getting away from him, but she wasn’t able to achieve the other dream; the dream of never seeing him again. Just like he did in the past, he had turned her life into turmoil once again.
“If I had known, I wouldn’t have gone to meet him at the hotel when he instructed me to come that morning. If I had known, I would have told Edward my past and come clean before him. If I had done that, my unborn child would not have become fatherless, and my future will not have become so unsure and uncertain” Ellie kept on thinking inside of her head. She was bitter and filled with regret and wondered how an assistance she had rendered in one night, had turned her whole life upside down. Unlike in the past when she would have thought of killing herself after going through difficult times, that time around, she didn’t think of committing suicide as she could bear to kill the son of the man growing up in her womb. Although Edward had forsaken her and broken her heart with the message that he sent to her that night, she just couldn’t bring herself to hate him, and her heart kept on yearning for his presence and love.
“If Edward won’t be mine again, then I should be able to have the only thing that can fill his space and presence in my life” Ellie thought, deciding not to give up on living, for the sake of Edward’s child growing in her womb. Since Sophia had informed her about Edward getting the police informed of the crime she had committed, she knew the police would come for her anytime soon and so, she waited all night, without getting a wink of sleep, waiting for the arrival of the police.
Just like she had predicted, the police came knocking at her door in the early hours of the next morning.
“Hello, are you Miss Ellie Edwards?” one of the policemen asked.
“Yes, I am,” Ellie, whose eyeballs had budged out from crying and had dark circles underneath her eyes, responded in a low voice, already aware of what was going on.
“We got a report last night that you committed murder at Square Scout Hotel a few days ago. You have not been found guilty yet, we just need you at our office for questioning. If you do not mind, can we go now?” the policeman politely said. Ellie, who was not taken aback by what was happening before her eyes, quietly followed them, without throwing a tantrum. Throughout her stay at the police station, she didn’t say a word. No matter how the police pressured her to talk on what she knew about Kevin’s death, she didn’t. She kept staring into space, with no thought, running through her mind. Sophia was glad she had finally been arrested and kept on doing her best to make sure Ellie was arraigned to court and sentenced before Edward would wake up.
All evidence gotten by the police after looking into Kevin’s death kept on pointing at Ellie to be the murderer. With the push gotten from Sophia and Ellie’s determination not to acquit herself and give her own account of what had happened, the police arraigned Ellie to court. Ellie refused to get a lawyer to defend her. After a series of sittings with no lawyer to defend Ellie and with her not saying her own side of the story nor pleading not guilty, she was sentenced to 25 years imprisonment. Ellie was surprised by the judge’s decision, as she had thought she would receive the life imprisonment sentence, but she never knew Richard had been silently supporting her without either she or Sophia knowing. Richard had a liking for Ellie no doubt and when he realized his son wasn’t there to protect the woman he loved, he had to do it in his place.
Sophia was angry upon learning that Ellie was sentenced to 25 years imprisonment and questioned the competency of the police and the public defenders she bribed to make sure she got the life imprisonment sentence and if possible, the execution sentence. She didn’t want Ellie and Edward to ever meet again. She got so angry that she broke her windscreen in the process, but her anger later subsidized, when a plan struck her mind; a plan to never make Ellie come out of the prison alive.Content provided by NôvelDrama.Org.