The Reckless Marriage

Chapter 19: Avery's Decision

“Ok I’ll get to the point.......So see, last night I was scrolling through Mr Grayson’s office’s website. And I learnt that he has a special vault inside his cabin which contains thousands of spare dollars.” she said with excitement reflecting from her voice. It kind of sounded like the time she was able to get or should I say steal money from my pocket to get her nails done!

I got pretty nervous at her mention of money because I knew how money hungry, she was! She would act like a piranha amidst a pile of raw meat! And I am dead serious about that!

“Yeah, so?” I replied, trying to not sound as horrified as I was.

“You have to steal it for me!” she shamelessly declared! At first, I tried to push it off as some kind of a sick joke, but I knew she was being serious about it.

I swiped my hand across my hair and tucked a bunch of it behind my ear to prevent it from coming all over my face.

“Katie you must’ve hit your head on a wall or something. I will never steal anything, and you know that! Especially for someone like you!”

I said with a strong tone in my voice. For once, I tried to step up! Katie had bossed over me for years and it had to end at some point! I couldn’t just allow it to continue anymore.

“Nope! You will have to get it. You have no choice!” she stated in a very eerie way.

I was shocked to hear that! How could she say such a thing so confidently? I have no choice. What did that mean? I was scared to know what she was hiding up her sleeve.

“Now listen carefully, your dad-“she got cut abruptly.

When I heard her mention dad my alarm bells shot through the roof! My heart started beating super quick. I knew Katie was up to no good and I needed to know what she was trying to say.

I tried to dial her again, but I realised that my phone’s battery was drained out. I started to panic but was relieved when I saw a landline on a small table next to me. 

I picked up the handset and held it against my ear while I began dialling Katie’s phone number. I was getting impatient as I heard the call being dialled at such a slow pace.

“Listen carefully, ok?” Katie instructed immediately after picking up the call. 

I gave her the go ahead and paid close attention to what she was saying. 

“If you don’t steal from your boss, Grayson or whatever his name is, your dad won’t see the light at the end of the tunnel.... and I hope you know what I am referring to”

My eyes began to widen, and I released a gasp at the shocking words of Katie. That woman couldn’t get any viler. How could she even think of killing her own husband?! This was very low even for Katie! I was appalled to say the least!

“Katie! Are you crazy? You can’t kill your husband!” I rebuked.

“Oh, I can! You see I only married him to ensure I was able to support my wants or needs you can call them. Now that he is useless, what’s the point? Might as well kill him and take the insurance money....” 

“Now you decide, will you get me the money, or would you like to see your “dad’s corpse lying in front of your very eyes?” she threatened with a very calm, almost creepy tone in her voice. 

This was such a dangerous and reckless thing, Katie was doing. But I knew her! I knew she was strong on her word. There was no going back at this point and I needed to give her an answer. 

Of course, I felt horrible for even thinking of stealing from anyone! But seeing my dad dead was something I could not let happen! Especially at the hands of a pyscho like Katie!

“I’ll do it!” I responded hastily without thinking much! My dad’s life was on the line for God’s sake!

“Good! Remember, if you tell anyone about this, I will kill your “dad”, she reminded before hanging up on me.

I placed my hand on my forehead and lowered the handset from my ear. Being in such a position was the worst thing in the world.  What was my mistake that I got adopted by such a ruthless person?

Even though I said I’ll do it, question is how I’ll do it? Mr Grayson did give me access keys to his cabin, but I was sure security was going to be tight. And how would I get to the office without Mr Grayson’s knowledge?

There were so many things to think about and not enough time.

I quickly walked into my room and placed my bag which was previously on my chair on top of the bed. 

I stuck my hand into the bag and started to dig around to find the office’s keys. Once I heard a metal keys clash into one another and felt a cold hard object in the bag, I knew I found the keys.

I grabbed the keys, but my brain was so scrambled from Katie’s threats that I couldn’t think of a plan. I felt like I was in the middle of an anxiety attack because of that woman.

To calm myself fully, I entered the kitchen, which was super huge, had slick marble countertops with a variety of vegetables stacked on a stand. There were a lot of gadgets in the kitchen that I was unfamiliar with and a huge electric stove was sandwiched between two wide countertops.

I wanted to make a cup of coffee for myself to take care of the splitting headache that formed. So, I searched for the coffee sachets in a few of the many cupboards that were found in the kitchen and was lucky to find my favourite brand of instant coffee.

When the water started boiling from the kettle and the vapour fogged up the glass doors of the upper cupboards, I switched it off and started pouring the hot water into my cup of instant coffee powder. 

I added in some milk and sugar as black bitter coffee will never be my thing. 

Just as I was about to take my first sip, Mia decided to enter the kitchen and ruin the peaceful atmosphere with her presence. 

“Hey Avery!!” she said in a very annoying voice. I just wanted to clear my headache but here she was to not let that happen.

I rolled my eyes and almost slammed my cup of coffee onto the counter. Luckily, I avoided breaking the ceramic cup otherwise I would have had to hear a million different screams, especially from Mrs Wright!

I don’t know what it is but something within me hated Mia so much that even just having her presence in the room made me uncomfortable and angry.

She leaned closer to my face with a sly smile and started talking the nonsense that she always does, “You heard Mr Grayson’s mom, right? He is all mine!”

“Now that he is my future husband, you better keep your paws away from him!”

My head started hurting even more now after listening to her bullsh*t but I was in the mood for retaliation today. I wanted to know how suddenly Mrs Wight thought that a psycho like Mia, would be an amazing match for her loving son!

“Mia, first of all, I don’t care about him, he is just my boss. Second, how did you get his mother to get y’all married? I mean, look at you and look at him!”

She gave me a cutesy yet almost evil smile and started answering my questions, “One, that’s good cause if you go anywhere near him, I will not spare you. Two, his mother was always quite fond of me and so when I heard them talking about getting married, I convinced her that I was the perfect bride for him.”

When she finished yapping, we were caught off guard when Mr Grayson appeared in the kitchen. 

“Ahem!” he looked like he wanted to have a word with us, but what?