The Fractured Wife

Chapter 18

When they all left the ice cream parlour after Conan showed off his new shoes to anyone willing to listen to him, Roma and Lucien were talking like old friends after playing 21 questions.  They found that they had a lot in common but Roma was holding back from telling Lucien much about her past as it was still too raw to tell him. Lucien was fascinated by this woman and he knew a little bit of what she went through but he had decided not to push her to reveal everything about her past. 

“I guess we will see each other around,” Roma said as they stood at her door. “We could maybe meet up for a coffee sometime if that’s alright with you?”Roma saying expecting Lucien to laugh in her face. 

“Yeah, I would like that,” Lucien said just as nervous as what Roma was. “Great I’ll see you later.” Lucian stammered as he walked towards his house with a cheesy grin on his face. 

Once she shut her front door she sagged against it feeling the coolness through her clothes. She smiled to herself as she thanked God for her son who was outspoken and broke the tension today. “Conan go and put your shoes away and then you can go out to play.” Roma urged her son as she went about the rest of her day.

Meanwhile Frank was standing in the airport looking down at his phone staring at the picture of Roma and Conan laughing and smiling with them. He couldn’t help but feel his blood boiling as he stared at the picture. he gripped his phone in a vice grip and felt the phone starting to crack under the pressure he was applying. His knuckles were white as he gripped the phone imagining they were Roma’s neck. He had landed in Scotland about an hour ago and just got through all the checks and he was currently waiting on the person who he knew, that would take him to his family. 

“What the hell took you so long?” Frank seethed to the man who he had hired to find his family. “Is the witch still where you said she lives? I can’t wait to see her face when I start squeezing that neck of hers.” Frank raged once they were outside the airport. 

“Yeah she’s still there and she’s very friendly with that guy called Lucien and she lives next door to her sister and brother-in-law.” the man reported to Frank. “She will never notice that you are here till it’s too late.” They both laugh as they drive to the hotel that was in the next town to where Roma lives. 

Once frank had booked into his room he took a shower and let the hot water run down his body as he imagined every possible way to deal with his wife and all the gruesome ways he will make her pay for leaving him. He had booked in under a false name as not to raise suspicions and no one knew who he was. He was in disguise when he entered the hotel. He sat at the desk in his room and started writing down his plan when there was a knock on the door.

“Yes, who is it?” frank shouted as he hid his diabolical plans as he never wanted prying eyes to see them. “Room service sir,” the bus-boy from the hotel shouted back. “Leave the tray outside the door I’ll get it shortly.” frank shouted harshly back to the employee. He heard the tray being put on the ground and the employee leaving from in front of the door. Frank’s stomach growled and he stalked to the door opened it and picked up the tray before slamming the door behind him. 

A little while had past and Frank had finished putting the finishing touches to his plan when there was a knock on his door. “WHAT?” Frank screamed as he had forgotten that he had told his investigator guy to call by when it was dark. “It’s me,” said his spy. Frank grumbled all the way to the door and opened it with a whoosh and grabbed the man and pulled the man into the room. 

The man was standing there waiting on Frank to tell him the plan as he knew it was going to be good no matter what Frank had dreamed up. “We begin the plan by making her think she is losing her mind by catching glimpses of me when she is out of the house, in the street, in malls and especially at the schools that my sons go to. We will make her paranoid and make her think she is going crazy to the point she starts looking over her shoulder everywhere she goes.” Frank said evilly putting the Grinch to shame.