Chapter 105: MANIAC
"Oh you mean this? It’s just a little gift that I have prepared for you", Erika replied excitedly with a creepy smile plastered on her lips but Mary has a feeling that the gift Erika was holding wouldn’t be a good one. "But before I can give it to you, I would like to ask you a question".
"What is that?" Mary asked Erika with her voice much more toned down now.
"Why did you kill grandma Elizabeth?" The smile on her face had completely fallen, replaced with a cold and distant expression.
Mary felt as if a thunder storm was above her head. Suddenly the temperature in the warehouse had dropped, her forehead glistened with sweat and her throat went dry. She tried to swallow her saliva but it seemed like as if she would choke anytime soon.
"W...what? W...who told you t...that?" She stuttered, trying to avoid eye contact with Erika who wasn’t pleased with her answer.
"No one told me, I found out about it myself. Now answer me," She ordered. "If you don’t answer me, am going to inject this little gift of mine into your body system", Erika sang.
Taking a seat on another available chair, she waited for Mary to start speaking.
"I didn’t kill Mrs Hart. She is my mother in law for goodness sake. Why would I kill an old woman who didn’t do me wrong?" Mary denied, trying to sound innocent.
"That is exactly my question, why did you kill an old woman who didn’t do you wrong?"
Mary’s heart raced in fear. She didn’t know how Erika was able to come up with such an accusation which was true. Looking into Erika’s blue eyes that seemed to have a little tint of red in it, Mary realized that she was in danger.
Feeling both her cheeks sting due to the hard slaps that Erika had thrown at her and the body guards whose auras were suffocating her to death, Mary wondered if she would be able to leave from here.
"I told you that I didn’t kill anyone!" Mary yelled hoping that someone would hear her and come over to help her.
Erika instantly understood her tricks, "Did you see anyone when you were coming here?"
Mary shook her head even though she didn’t know why Erika asked her that.
"Then how do you think that someone would hear your pathetic screaming?" She questioned her with a glare but Mary was out of words as her heart skipped a beat in fear. "Maybe am being too easy on you", Erika stood up from the chair that she was sitting on, walked towards Mary who shrank back on her seat. "Maybe if I give you my little gift, you will be willing to talk".
Mary panicked. She didn’t know the kind of substance that was in that syringe but she knew that it wouldn’t be good for her. She started struggling, trying to pull the chair with her and probably run away but she forgot that her legs were tied as well.
Erika held Mary with her strong hands and injected the substance into her blood system.
"You bitch, what did you injected in my body?" Mary cursed at her.
"I really have no idea, let me show you what it is instead. Maybe you will know something about it", Erika innocently went back to the box and brought out a bottle.
Mary’s eyes widened more in shock as she stared at the familiar bottle. The same bottle that she had been looking for.
"You bitch, that is poison!" She exclaimed, both in anger and in fear that she was going to die soon. "Are you planning on killing me?"
Erika gasped as she used her hand to cover her mouth in surprise. "Poison? I didn’t know it was poison", she denied. "How did you know it was poison anyway? Have you seen the bottle before"
Mary gulped down her saliva in fear for saying something that she should not have said.
"N...no, I don’t k...know if it is p...poison. I only g...guessed", Mary stuttered but from the look on Erika’s face, she obviously didn’t believe her.
"You only guessed, huh? Well then let me show you something else", Erika brought out another syringe that had a different substance in it because of the change of colors.
Mary became curious when she saw the other syringe, "What is that?" She asked.
"This is the antidote for that poison that I just injected into your body but I will give it to you only after you confess all of your crimes", Erika said. Mary stared at the syringe in Erika’s hands like as if her eyes could draw it to her.
"Let’s stop with this games, Mary. Confess that you are the one who killed grandma Elizabeth with that same substance that I injected into your body then maybe I will take pity on you and give you the antidote", Erika told her as she sat down back on the the chair.
Mary contemplated if she should confess or not. Her life was very much important to her and she wanted to live but then if she confessed, Erika might report her to the police. Many thoughts were running in her mind.
"I heard from my brother that you would start sweating profusely as a sign that the poison has started acting up and then after that, you would start vomiting as well", Erika informed her as she played with the syringe in her hand. "And look at yourself, you have already started sweating and soon then paralysis will hit".
It was only when Erika mentioned that did Mary noticed that she had started sweating. Feeling the need to throw up, Mary faced the other side and threw up.
"Erika please give me the antidote", she pleaded with desperation in her eyes.
"You would only get it after you have confessed.
"What if I wont confess until you give me the antidote?" Mary tried to manipulate her.
"Then you will die, buried and Adam will take all of your money".
Faced with no other option, Mary decided to confess.
"Yes, i am the one who killed the late matriarch of the Hart’s family and I only did it so that I can get some of her properties in my name..."
PAK!!! Mary felt her cheeks go numb.
Even though Erika already knew about the truth, she couldn’t contain her anger from hitting the vicious woman.
