Frank glanced at the wall clock and noticed that it was almost one in the morning which was about three hours before the helpers came back and he knew he needed to move fast. This time Frank grabbed the man on his upper arms, shook him hard to wake him up from his deep reverie

“Terion get up! Your people will be here in just a few hours and we have to get rid of her body!”

The house owner raised his eyes looked at Frank and just nodded as if he suddenly forgot to formulate a word

“Yeah that’s right come on” Frank ushered

Frank wrapped Veronica’s body with a carpet, brought the woman into the deeper part of the woods where they knew that nobody could find her and buried her. After which they hurriedly went back to the house to clean the office and Frank made sure not to leave a trace of the savage killing.

Tina couldn’t believe what she just heard from the old man and in all honesty she didn’t know how she felt at that very moment. Should she be happy knowing that the person who had hurt her the most was dead already? Grateful because the man she thought abandoned her took the liberty of giving justice to her sexual abuse? Angry because the revenge she was yearning all her life against the woman who damaged her was stolen from her? Or should she feel cheated because had she known about the killing many years ago then maybe she would have not committed the things that she did out of deep anger that resulted to some lives being destroyed?

Tears started to fall down like flood on her cheeks followed by an uncontrollable sob. Maybe what she felt right now was a mixture of everything but she also knew that knowing the dark secret would finally put so many lingering questions inside her head to rest.

 “You know what’s funny?” asked Tina as she held those kind old eyes

“What?”

“All along I thought nobody knew about what Veronica did to me. God knows how many times I’ve tried to work up the nerve to tell this fucking secret to my father but I was so ashamed and scared… all these years I didn’t know I’m not the only one who has a dirty secret but what I don’t understand is that why daddy didn’t tell me what he did even if I’m of the right age?”