Chapter 42: Wrongly accused
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" You heard me right."
Daven first searched in his memories before laughing. " What? Me? The masked man? Who the hell is
that? "
" Are you being for real right now? You are laughing while I'm serious? " In anger, she slapped his right
arm.
" Ouch! " He winced in pain.
Brittney suddenly remembers something. That night she shot the masked man on his upper body,doesn't know the exact spot. ' What if its...' she gasped and shouted, " It's you, you i***t! I know it's you! "
Overwhelmed, she pushes him.
Seeing that she was angry, he gets hold of her arm and tries to cool her down. " Brittney calm down and
let me explain. " This time he softens his tone.
" Let go of me you liar? " she pulls her arm away and glared at him. " You will explain that to the police. "
with that she takes out her phone.
' Is she being serious? ' He rushed to her and grabbed the phone.
" Give me my phone, Dave. "
It was his first time seeing her this angry. He must had really made her angry. " You're mistaking me with
someone else. Let me explain first. "
" There's nothing to explain. How will you explain the tattoo on the side of your neck? " She takes the
bandage off and was shocked when she sees a wound instead a tattoo. She looked at him puzzled and
stutters. " W...wha...t? Where... is t..the tattoo?"
" What tattoo? "
Brittney stares at him in disbelief. Could she have mistaken him? " I saw it clearly that time. It was the
letter 'L' inside star on your neck. "
" What? I never had a tattoo before." He said defending himself.
" Then what happened on your neck? "
He sighed and took a deep breath in preparing to lie. " Okay fine, here's the truth. That midnight you were
out working, I was bored and couldn't sleep. So I decided to visit Amir and on the way there I saw these
two guys that were harassing a girl on the side of a road.
When I tried to help, I heard two gunshots and everything went black. When I opened my eyes I was in this unfamiliar place. Turned out that the girl brought me to her house. When I came back, I didn't want to
tell you anything afraid of making you angry that I slept at a girl's house. "
Brittney somehow seemed to believe him. She felt ashamed of herself and didn't want to look at him
anymore. " I'll be in my room. " she said running out.
Daven breathed out in relief. '' That was a close one. What really happened...after Brittney left him at the
church he wanted to erase off his suspicions about his cousin being involved in this. After the tattooed
man arrived, he wasn't sure yet until he followed him to the place where he stayed.
He waited outside for a long time scanning the villa and found out that it was going to be hard for him to
get in. After a while he saw him driving out with a male. He followed them all the way to this restaurant
which he got to hear some useful important things and to see the unidentified male's face.
On Monday night, when he left the house he went to the abandoned church and found a place to hide
before the police came. He went up the roof and that's where he saw all the action. There were two
reasons to why he went there. First, was to protect Brittney, he knew that this was going to be dangerous
for a woman to be present. Second, was to see who would be involved.
He planned not to do anything unless Brittney was in danger. When he saw the masked man touching
Brittney's face, he felt abnormal and suddenly got a killing intent. When he fired a gunshot, he aimed on
his head which he missed.
When he sees a man sneaking behind Brittney, he quickly shoots him before the man shoots Brittney.
When he made sure that Brittney was safe he tried to follow the truck. He didn't really need to worry
about not being able to catch up with the truck, because he already knew where it was going. When he got
there, there was a shootout happening which he unlucky got caught up in it as he was shot by the police
that mistook him as being involved in the d**g dealing.
He couldn't returned home as it was very far and doubted if he was going to make it. So instead, he went
to Georgia's house...
He takes a shower and decided to clean up his room. After that he to check up on Brittney. After all, he
lied to her. When Brittney hears a knock on her door, she really didn't want to open, she hasn't finished
crying on her pillow and blaming herself for everything that had happened. She stood up wiping off her
tears and opened the door.
" Hey Bri...huh " He stopped when he sees her face. How could he not notice that she had just being
crying. ' What is it now. ' He felt bad for her seeing her cry and wanted to cheer her up. He kinda misses
the old Brittney, the one he teased and joked about.
" Listen, I want to apologize for what..."
He immediately interrupts her, " Get ready, we are going somewhere. "
Brittney wanted to say something when he interrupted her again. " I will give you 15 minutes." He then
quickly got out of her sight.
Confused as she was, she washed her face and fixed herself without asking any questions. In the car Brittney was silent still feeling guilty about what she did. She literally just accused her husband
something he didn't do and would never do. ' F*ck Brittney! What were you thinking? '
Daven knew what the silent meant. ' She's beating up herself about it, oh this stupid woman. No wonder
my grandfather told me to stay away from girls, turns out he knew how these cute unpredictable creatures
can be. '
He didn't know where to take her as he didn't know this city very well so he just pulled up at any place
where it seems fun. He stops at an arcade.
Brittney got out and looked around with a puzzled expression. ' What are we doing here? '
It was past '7pm but people were still bustling up and down like it was still in the afternoon. They began
walking around looking for something interesting.
Brittney began feeling uneasy being around so many people. She has never done this before.
Unconsciously she takes Daven's hand and holds it.
Daven frowned thinking she did it on purpose and looked at her. He was about to say something when he
noticed her uncomfortable expression. ' Is this really Brittney? ' He sighed and allowed her to hold his
hands as he didn't have a heart to push her away. ' So she doesn't like overcrowded places. Mhm.'
...
Lloyd who was busy on other things suddenly thought of Brittney. He calls Troy to find out what's going
on.
" Yes young master."
" Where is she? "
Troy first stuttered before saying, " She is at the arcade with...a m-man."
Immediately he gets angry. " Send me the location, I'm coming over right now."
" Young master, I don't think it's a good idea. It's really busy out here, you won't be able to find them.
Even I lost them. "
Hearing Troy, he made a lot of sense. And was just not the right time yet. He calmed down and said, "
Alright, keep an eye on them. Tomorrow come here.''
" Okay young master. "
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