The Love That Passed

Third Person’s POVProperty belongs to Nôvel(D)r/ama.Org.

“Are you sure about that?” Stacey asked Derrick.

“I thought you said that,–”

“Forget what I said!” he exclaimed, and everyone in the visiting room looked at them. “I asked one of my trusted men to look into it and he confirmed it. I am going to make him pay for ruining my career. I am not going to make him live happily with his wife. He did it for his wife, then I am going to make his action worthless.” he added,

“What are you going to do?” Stacey asked and her eyes widened when she realized something, “Don’t tell me, no, stop it Derrick. The woman was already dying. She wouldn’t even last for a year.”

“That’s what makes my revenge sweet, he thinks he still has less than a year to be with his wife,” Derrick replied crazily. Stacey was just looking at him in disbelief. She may have been a sl*t and she used Jared, but she can’t be a murderer, especially to someone who was already dying.

“Look, I was angry at Jared as well. He talked to me with a loud speaker, enough for the reporters to hear everything that I was telling him, but hurting the woman is too much,” she said.

“Are you chickening out?”

“No, I wanted Jared to be punished for selling me out. But the woman did nothing to me at all.”

“You’re getting Stacey, is that what I taught you?”

“I didn’t want the woman to get hurt, Derrick.”

“Are you an idiot? That woman loves Jared already! If something happens to that ba****d, I am certain that it will also cost her her life. And killing your ex just like that is not enough for the suffering that I have been through here and maybe even when I get out of this hell. The image that I tried so hard to build up was ruined instantly by that ba****d!”

“I don’t know. Just leave me out when it comes to the woman,” she said, and was ready to go.

“Don’t back out on me now, Stacey. Because one way or another, I am going to involve you in this.”

“Whatever Derrick,” she said and left. She wanted to take her revenge on Jared, but she already knew why he did what he had done. It came to her knowledge that sending her photos of Jared almost cost her her life and that was also the time that they started to get along well.

She was torn about whether she was about to continue to take her revenge or not because she also couldn’t ignore the fact that her dad disowned her. At the moment, she was staying at one of Derrick’s houses and she had nowhere to go. That’s why she just said yes to everything he wanted.

Derrick, on the other hand, went back to his cell. He was furious whenever he had to get back to that small room after he accepted a visitor and he knew that Stacey was staying with him because she had nowhere else to go as well. He knew that her father never talked to her after the news about them, and he took that as a chance so that he could still have someone he could ask to work for him other than the men he had from the organization he was with.

When his illegal activities came out, their leader got worried and had planned on killing him because he thought that he was the one that ratted them out. But then, Derrick explained to him and promised that he was going to find whoever it was that exposed them.

While he was in jail, his men constantly visited him and gave him reports about their investigation. He didn’t want to believe them at first, but because all their reports pointed at one person, that’s when he was certain that it was Jared who brought him down. Since then, he promised to find a way to make him pay. He then asked his men to follow him wherever he went and then he found out everything about him.

He thought that Jared was unlucky because of his wife, who was dying. What brought him more joy was the fact that she was pregnant and thought that Jared’s sufferings would become unbearable for him when he killed Colleen.

“Fu****g Stacey,” he exclaimed, “Now, I have to think about that woman too. If she didn’t want me to hurt his wife, then I was going to go straight to him.” he said to himself, “How would he feel if he wasn’t able to make it to his wife’s operation? Awww, sweet life.” he thought again and laughed.

In Jared’s mansion, he was in his study room and was making a phone call. He was certain that the text messages he received were from Derrick and Stacey and had kept on receiving them. He just felt relieved for a moment that they had not sent anything to Colleen.

“Hello, mom,” he said after he answered his phone.

“Come to the house now,” Claire said,

“Why? Is there something wrong?”

“Just come here and don’t take Colleen, tell her that I am going to discuss business with you.” she answered.

“Alright,” he said and got up from his chair and went to their bedroom where Colleen was, just to find her sleeping. He decided not to disturb her anymore but decided to inform Lucy and Betty before he left and drove to his mom’s mansion.

“Why are you here? I never thought that you would actually discuss business matters with me,” he said as soon as he entered his old mini-library.

“Take a seat.” Claire said, and that’s what Jared did. He looked around and noticed that Ingrid was not around.

“Our private investigator informed me,” said his mom, which made him sigh heavily.

“I clearly told him not to let anyone know about that,” he said.

“You think that he is not loyal to me?” Claire asked angrily. “How is Colleen?” she asked again, worriedly.

“She’s at home, sleeping. She doesn’t know anything about it either and I hope you are with me on this.”

“Of course! But you have to be careful. What if they just barged into your house and hurt her and everyone in your house?”

“He is not going to do that because he won’t be able to enter our community. You know the security here” he said,

“Don’t be too complacent. You don’t know what those goons could do just to get what they wanted.”

“I know that, I have already asked a few people to help me out. And they had a feeling that Derrick would probably try to escape just to get even with me.”

“And?” Claire asked worriedly,

“We will take that time to get him.” he answered,

“You make it sound easy, son.”

“I know that it is going to be hard and life threatening, but I cannot let him have his hands on my family.”

“If I aren’t able to stop you with whatever ridiculous plan you have, let me help you by sending someone to look after you and Colleen. In a week’s time, she’s scheduled to have her cesarean section. It won’t be good for her and the baby if we give her depressing things to think about.”

“I know mom, that’s why I am being careful. I didn’t want anything to happen to her and our baby.” he replied,

“Call your father’s friend, Gen. Anderson.”

“I already did, mom, that’s why I am confident about this.” Jared replied and Claire sighed in relief.

“I am not going to let anything happen to any of us. I promise.” Jared assures her and that’s when she hugs him.