What Dreams Are Made Of: Episode 46

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Chrissy was too scared but she knew she had to keep her wits. She had to find a way out and losing her nerves would not help. Jake Tilly was standing behind her near the entrance door they had come in from. There was another door at the other end of the room but it was closed too. She tried to see if there was any other exit but there was too little light to make out clearly.

Susan continued with her ranting. “You were lucky to have escaped those times but not for long. I had finally succeeded in turning Nikloi against you with Richard’s help. At that time, I had thought it was much more effective and clean. Nikloi hated you and didn’t want to see your face ever again. It even made my job easier as he finally agreed to marry me as well. Look, we are finally getting married”, Susan laughed sinisterly.

“My dream for so many years was turning into a reality. I was so happy BUT YOU DECIDED TO TAKE IT ALL AWAY! AGAIN!”

Susan suddenly yelled at the top of her lungs and pulled Chrissy hairs in her fist.

Chrissy winced at the sharp attack of pain at the root of hairs.

She was pulled across the room and pushed into the seat occupied by Susan earlier. Slapping her hard across her face, Susan gritted against her teeth, “I should have ended your life much earlier but I was fooled to think you were finally out of his life. What with your moving to North Hampton and starting a new life! But it was all a farce. The moment you got your chance, you sent your dog, Henry, to do your bidding.”

In spite of the pain, Chrissy couldn’t stop herself from asking, “Henry doesn’t know anything. I didn’t ask him to do anything. Please, he is not involved.”

“Oh sweet Chrissy, trying to save Henry! You truly are a devious girl. All men in that family seemed to be swooning around your little finger”, Susan taunted sarcastically.

Chrissy was disgusted with her description. She tried to say but Susan cut her in again, “Your dear friend, Henry had come to warn me to stay away from you all else he would tell Nikloi all about it. Now, why would he go to such length for a friend is beyond me!” She again laughed loudly in that heinous tone of hers.

Chrissy was getting more and more worried with each second. She was trying to remain calm but it was proving to be very difficult.

“What did you do to him?” Chrissy asked frightened, not really wanting to know the answer.

“No, Sweety. He is not dead. Yet”, Susan replied in sugar coated tone. “I will decide what to do with him later. But first I have to deal with you.” The razor was back.

“You have caused me enough troubles already. I should have ended you long time back but no more regrets. I will kill you today and then I will marry Nikloi. And then we will live happily ever after. It will be the perfect ending. For you. And the perfect start for us”, Susan’s eyes sparkled with excitement.

Chrissy knew she couldn’t fight her way out. Between Jake Tilly and Susan, it was only a matter of minutes before they killed her. She had to find another way. She had to reach out to Susan before she did something irreversible. Her palms were covered in sweat but she tried to remain calm.

More interesting stories for you @ generalloaded.com. Trying to gain some time, she said, “I told you I was not interested in Nikloi. The way he treated me that night of hotel launch party was enough to put me off him

for an entire life. I can’t be with a man who can’t trust me. He is all yours, as far as I am concerned.” Susan looked up her face to see if she was telling the truth.

Gaining some confidence that Susan was listening to her, Chrissy continued, “Why would I move to North Hampton if I wanted to be with him. It’s been months since I heard anything about him let alone seeing him. He doesn’t belong to my world.”

“Yes, that’s true. You don’t belong together”, Susan said thoughtfully. “But unfortunately, now it’s too late for you. Today it was Hen

ry. Tomorrow it can be Nikloi. He may end up meeting you accidentally. He may have a change of heart. I can’t take the risk. You need to die TODAY”, she added with vengeance.

Small beads of sweat were forming up around Chriss’s face with each word but she tried to act normal when she said to Susan, “But killing me would not solve your problem. If Nikloi doesn’t love you, your marriage would never be successful”.

“Ha. Only fools believe in love. Smart people believe in doing things which would get them better results. Marrying our two families into one would further strengthen Nikloi’s hotels and other business. I know that and so does he. And that’s what matters.”

“But what if Nikloi comes to know about you”

“You would want that, wouldn’t you? But once you are out of the scene, none of it would be important.”

“But it doesn’t happen that way. One day or the other your crimes will come to

light and Nikloi will hate you for…”

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“Shut up, you bitch”, Susan slapped her hard again, never letting her complete. Chrissy fell off the chair. “Nikloi would never hate me”, Susan slammed her head on the floor making an acute wave of pain shoot through her head. Her eyes turned dizzy and she lost focus.

Susan was about to kick her in the chest when her phone suddenly started ringing. She turned away from Chrissy and went into a corner to answer. Chrissy was never more grateful to a phone call than she was at that moment.

Lying face down on the floor she could hear Susan and Jake speaking to each other. The call was over but obviously it was about something that had upset her. They were both standing close to the door from where she had entered the house. She slowly turned her head to the other side, making sure there was no sudden change to attract their attention.

She saw the other door in the room was not very far away from where she was lying. She didn’t know what it opened into or if there was a way out from that side but all she knew was that lying there was not an option.

Susan had turned into an ugly monster and there was no puzzle what she wanted to do. Chrissy had to get out, she had to get away. She had too many responsibilities to die like this. She couldn’t leave her mother and sister to fend for themselves in this selfish brutal world. She had to live and she had to escape.

With that resolution, she suddenly got up and made a dash for the other door. Susan and Jake were taken by a surprise but realizing what she was upto Susan shrieked to Jake, “Get her!”

Chrissy made it to the door and pulled the knob but Jake reached her at the same time. He jerked her away from the door and threw her back to ground, “Not so easy, my love”, he smiled maliciously. Chrissy landed hard on her back when she hit the concrete flooring at that speed.

“That’s enough. Too much time has been wasted on her. Jake finish her off”, Susan ordered to Jake.

“Much gladly”, he replied and pulled out a revolver from his coat pocket.

Chrissy’s breath got stuck at the sight of the gun. What should she do, she raked her brains for any idea of escaping her looming death.

He put the revolver on Chrissy’s forehead and said, “I never liked you and I know the feeling was mutual. So, let me end your agony and send you to your God.”

No, this can’t be happening. Chrissy’s brain refused to give up even though her body was aching all over with the several assaults she had endured already. There was a streak of blood running from her forehead, across her face and the blood had created a clot around her shirt collar. Probably from the time when Susan had banged her head on the floor.

Just as Jake was about to pull the trigger, Susan snatched the gun from him, “No, give that to me! Her death is fated to be by me.”

Chrissy looked at her twisted face and sparkling eyes, with the gun directed right across her face. “This is for all pain you caused me every time you kissed Nikloi and every time Nikloi thought of you instead of being with me. Now, die!”

But then the unimaginable happened. The main door thrust open with a loud crash and Nikloi rushed inside the

room shouting her name,

“Christina!”

He was the only one who called her by that name, all others using her pet name, Chrissy. She herself liked to be called Chrissy as she felt Christina was very archaic. But the sound of her name at that moment was like elixir to her. She had never imagined Nikloi would come as her saviour. Hell! she hadn’t imagined anyone to come and save her, because no one knew she had gone with Jake Tilly. But seeing him standing there calling out her name was enough to make her love her name.

She loved it, because he was the one calling for her.

“Nikloi!”

Both the girls called out his name together but for very different reasons.

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