Chapter 160 What a Mess
Vieva opened her eyes and looked around the living area.
"Ahh..."
She felt her nose stuffy and stood up to get in front of the mirror.
"What a mess..."
She could see her hair dishevelled and her face pale as a ghost, her nose was stuffed with dried-up blood and sweat was covering her whole face.
"This is getting out of hand. I have to find it." She paced her steps and moved towards the bathroom.
As she was moving, she felt a rotten stench hit her nose and she turned her head down to look at the rotting corpse of the green demon.
A sneer appeared on her face and then with a click of her finger the corpse disappeared in the thin air with the stench.
"Let me take a bath first." She entered the bathroom and after about half an hour she stepped out of it.
Her complexion turned normal and she looked as pristine as before.
After changing her clothes she sat down on the sofa with a warm cup of green tea to soothe her nerves.
"Mother..."
As she was sipping her tea, suddenly a voice broke her out of her happy mood and she turned her head up to look at the source of the voice.
In front of her Echo appeared and she kneeled down in front of her, her voice was choked and Vieva could see her shivering.
'At least she got some sense in her.' Vieva thought and sighed.
She moved her hand and placed the cup down on the table.
"Speak." She said in an authoritative voice and looked at Echo with her eyes narrowed.
Echo listened to her mother and moved her head up, she looked Vieva in the eyes and started to slowly stand up.
"Who told you to stand up?" Vieva stopped her midway.
"Sorry mother..." Echo kneeled again and gulped her saliva in terror.
'She is getting more and more angry with me, I have to show my worth.' Echo thought.
"Speak quickly," Vieva said again in an icy tone.
"Yes, Mother, I kept an eye on him, and he threw a dead body in the dumpster, this morning," Echo said quickly, not daring to waste any more time on Vieva.
She knew that Vieva was annoyed with her and it would be best for herself if she didn't annoy her too much.
Or the results could be pretty bad. She saw an example yesterday. If she didn't beg for her life then she might have died in a heartbeat.
"A dead body?" Vieva murmured and contemplated for a few seconds.
"Did you find out who it was?" She said again.
"Sorry Mother, but the face was completely mangled, it seems like he destroyed her face with a hammer," Echo said.
After Rick was gone Echo searched the two black polythene bags and she found many body parts cut apart and completely mangled.
"A girl..." Vieva whispered under her breath, she had heard about Rick and how he loves to torture women, she didn't know why, however, she knew that he had some kind of hatred towards beautiful women.
"You can leave now, and continue to keep an eye on him, I want to know everything about him." Vieva impatiently waved her hand.
Echo listened to her words and disappeared from the mansion without wasting any time.
She wanted to interact as little as possible with Vieva.
After Echo was gone Vieva let out a deep breath and relaxed on the sofa.
'He is just as dangerous as I thought...' She sighed and closed her eyes.
After a few seconds, she opened her eyes with a frustrated expression on her face.
'Why do I keep thinking about him?' She rolled her eyes back.
She was thinking about Jack.
"He can't even contact me." She sighed again, pain visible in her eyes. "Should I go back to him?"
She wanted to meet him again, however, her ego was stopping her from doing so.
"He is such a clever guy, no one has ever made me feel so weak." She thought and stood up.
...
Jack sat in Cassie's room with a notebook in his hands, Cassie and Sophie had already gone to college, while Nicole was out for her business.
Jack looked at the answers in his book that he asked previously about Rick and sighed.
"There is no other way, I have to intervene and kill him." He thought and closed the book.
He stood up and moved towards his car to check the sniper he brought, he had asked his book when Rick would kill his first girl and it gave him about a month.
"I have a month to prepare." He thought and entered his car.
He also asked who would be his first victim in his girls and it turned out to be Meadow.
"Why would he kill Meadow first?" Jack furrowed his brows and started his car, he didn't want anything to happen to Meadow.
She loved him very much and he too loved her, he would rather sacrifice himself than let Meadow be killed.
'I asked the book if Rick had any relation to Meadow but it said no. Which could mean that he would randomly kill her.' He moved on the road as thoughts started to move through his mind.
'I can't let anything happen to her.' He looked at his phone and thought for a second after that he let out a sigh.
'I want to meet her.' He thought and dialled her number while driving the car.
Soon enough she picked up the call.
"Hello..."
Jack could hear the excitement behind her voice and a pang of pain moved through his heart.
Just the thought of never being able to hear her voice again made his chest feel hollow.
"I am coming in fifteen minutes, get ready." He said directly, without any greetings.
"Really?" She said in a high-pitched and excited voice, however, her voice calmed down with her next words. "But Sophie is still here, what will I say to her?" She asked while whispering.
"I will wait five minutes for you, in the place we met previously. You have twenty minutes, if you don't come till then, then I will leave." Jack was direct with her.
He knew that Sophie also knew about their affair and that she wouldn't cause any major trouble for her mother.
She might even help her dress properly. So there was no reason for Meadow to be late.
"Ahh..." Before she could protest anymore Jack hung up the phone.
Meadow looked at her phone beeping and her heart started beating faster.
'He wants to meet me...' A wide smile formed on her face, she was happy that Jack initiated meeting her and she was excited for the fact.
"Mom, you look happy today." Suddenly Sophie came in front of her and sat on the sofa.
She had a bowl of popcorn in her hand as she munched on them.
"Why didn't you go to college today?" Meadow looked at her with an annoyed expression.
Sophie who was busy eating popcorn and setting a movie to watch on her phone, suddenly stopped and looked at Meadow with her brows raised.
"You told me to help with some laundry today..." She looked at Meadow's uneasy expression and then her eyes landed on the phone in her hand.
'Why did her mood change so suddenly, just an hour ago she was so happy that I didn't go to college and decided to help her with some housework.' She thought and narrowed her eyes.
"So why are you not helping? You are only eating popcorn." Meadow was even more annoyed suddenly.
When Sophie heard her words she wanted to throw the popcorn bowl to her face, however, she somehow controlled herself.
"You just said that I can watch a movie!" Sophie stood up from the sofa while placing the popcorn bowl to the side.
"Hmph! So now you have even learned to speak up in front of your mother." Meadow looked away from her.
Sophie looked at her with her eyes wide, shock visible on her face, she had never seen Meadow acting this way.
'What has happened to her? I remember she was just talking on her phone. Did...' She contemplated a bit and suddenly it struck her.
'So she has received a call from Jack...' At this thought a slight smile formed on her face.
However, the smile didn't stay for more than a second and then an annoyed expression appeared on her face.
"OK then! I am leaving! Hmph!" She moved towards her room and after wearing some decent clothes she moved towards her house door.
"Where are you leaving?" Meadow asked from behind.
"It doesn't matter, you are acting so annoying today! I won't be back before eight so don't try to call me." She said and barged out of her door.
Meadow looked at her with her brows furrowed and then snorted too.
'I wanted her to start working so I could leave easily, however, she left first, what a pain...' She sighed.
However, suddenly an idea popped into her head.
'She said she won't be back before eight.'
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