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Chapter 27: Stop Living In That Head of Yours

Narrater's POV

16 years ago...

"I hope, one day, you'll know I'm doing this for you, and Raiden." The middle aged Ruth, had said. Kissing her fore and middle finger, she then placed them on a photo of Ray, Raiden's father.

She waltzed out of the newly furnished office as she headed towards the master's bedroom.

On her way, a 10 year old Raiden spotted the flushed maid as he went to tug on her skirt.

"Harley, would you mind playing checkers with me? I have just received a new checkered board!" He exclaimed with happiness.

Yes, everyone, including the help, called her Harley. She preferred her last name to be said, yet no one knew it was her maiden name.

Only her lover knew her real name.

She bent down to the innocent boy's height, "I'm afraid not today, dear." She patted the boy's head, "I have an important affair to attend, another time?" She questioned, needing to leave.

Before he answered, they heard a loud thump being heard from above them. Ruth knew what the ruckus was, as Raiden chose to ignore the sound that held no attention to him.

"Of course, Harley!" He pulled up a fake smile, the fake smile that only the ten year old boy could muster.

He knew what was going on, he wasn't as dumbfounded as the other grown ups thought him out to be.

He turned around with a new saddened expression, to his room where he will cry again for his parents behavior.

He just couldn't wait until his sibling's arrival, for he can finally have someone to do something with. But he knew it would take long for a newborn to do the stuff he liked to do. He knew babies couldn't do much except burp, fart, or puke.

With Raiden's absence, Ruth made it upstairs to where the noise was heard.

In the master's bedroom.

Before she opened the dark wood door, she heard a sentence she would soon interrupt.

"Ray, stop with this nonsense and stress! I'm...," Ray's wife, Piper, pleaded.

"..Pregnant?" Ruth finished for her, walking through the now opened door.

"We can tell you're pregnant, you needn't say it anymore!" Ruth rumbled throughout the open spaced bedroom.

"Excuse me? Would makes you think you can walk through my door, and tell me what I should or should not say to my husband?!"

"Ruth, remove yourself this instant!" Her lover burst out.

"Never, you are mine! This doesn't concern her, she needs to leave!" Ruth exclaimed, putting a hand on her chest.

"What in, God's name, are you talking about?! She is my wife and pregnant with my second child! This has nothing to do with you!" He put out, confused.

Ruth's delusion got the better of her, always thinking Ray was stringing her along. When really, all those looks her way, soft touches upon her arms, and well mannered responses, was just nothing but him showing his kindness towards his maids.

"Can't you see, she's not meant to be here?! She knows nothing about you, not the way I do," Ruth referred to the all the secrets about the passages within the house, and that his gang used them as a way to get around the house without her knowledge.

"This is absurd! You mean nothing to me, stop living in that head of yours!" The master barked.

"You don't mean that, you're only saying that because of her presence!" She made up.

"That is the truth, now leave before I fire you with your deluded assumptions!" He turned back to Piper, hoping to calm her down.

"I LOVE YOU! I will not turn back until she is dealt with!" Finally, removing the hand from her chest, she reached down her shirt and clasped the small handgun that she had stolen from the previous room she was in.

The gun clicked as she pointed it to the side of Piper's head. Ray realizing this, pushed Piper down, causing her to land on her swollen stomach.

Ruth was shocked at Piper's replacement, but was too late to turn back a few seconds in time.

The bullet went as fast as the speed of light, piercing through the side of gang leader's head.

"NOO!" Piper sliced the air with her screech. Smoke now came from the man's head as he fell down, brain dead.

"H-How could-d yo-o-u do th-this!" Piper stuttered in the state of shock.

Ruth was stunned that she had just shot her lover.

"M-My w-water! I-It-t b-broke..," Piper exclaimed, unbelievable.

Piper had attempted to get up as she was on her hands and knees, holding onto her stomach.

It snapped the murderer out of her trance.

"AHH! This is all your fault, you bitch!" Ruth carelessly shot the mother to be, not regretting this second murder.

Well, third murder now.

She hurriedly ran to her lover as she cradled his bloodied head in her lap.

"This wasn't how it was suppose to go! You shouldn't have died this way, not by saving her!" She cried.

Knowing someone heard the gunshots, she had to leave. "I have to go now, but I promise to avenge your death! I will teach Raiden your leadership, your ruthlessness, your love, all your ways!"

She placed the gun in his hand and propped it to look like he committed suicide.

She padded her way out and hid to make her last phone call for that day.

Ring...Ring...Ring!

"Kenneth?" She questioned her husband that she hadn't talked to since her employment.

"What is it you want?" He queried.

"I want to go back to being your Mrs. Wallingford," she tried to sound happy, but still heard the emotionless tone in her voice.

"You always were and will be," he stated in an ecstatic and creepy tone.

"Well then?" She waited.

"Welcome back, Ruth Wallingford!"

•••••••••••

Greetings earthlings! I had hoped to post this before Christmas, but I guess things change!

I hoped this was understandable, because that was only part of what Ruth had been up to in the last 16 years.

I wish you a merry Christmas, and a happy new year! 🎄🎆

Until next year...

•Izzy•

Hold onto those resolutions for 2017!