Ivy’s Divine Revenge

Chapter Two

Sean

“You were so desperate for love that you jumped at the first man that asked you to marry him, how could I love someone so needy and desperate?” He sneered at me and laughed, the disgust on his face pronounced.

“This is why no matter how hard you try you can never be like your mother, You are so boring and the only appeal you have ever held for me was your parents money, I would not even be with you otherwise, you think I would let you have my baby?.” He mocked gleefully, clearly enjoying the torment he was putting me through.

I bit my lip hard, heartbroken that Sean was using my deepest insecurities to taunt me, when I told him about my fears and how my mother’s perfection and how much she and my father had always been away in their own world together and that had made me feel like a stranger, when I was vulnerable with him I had done so In the belief that here was someone I could lay my heart bare for, he had made me believe that his arms were a safe place for me but this cold and callous person before me was not the same one i had cried to and been reassured of my own love, i was determined not to give him the pleasure of watching me cry, i would never let him know how deeply he hurt me.

After scrutinizing her with a cold look the glint in his eyes calculating he got up and stuffed the socks back into her mouth then dragged her on the floor into the small private area in his office that he locked up before going out and putting back his clothes on, he went down the stairs and saw that the security man was at his desk, moving closer to him he placed his arm on the counter and smiled in a deceptively congenial manner at the guard, “Stan, how are you this evening?”

Scrambling to his feet and standing alert the Young security man gave a bright smile and answered, “I’m fine Mr Noah, thank you, when I saw ms Winston go out a few minutes ago I did not realize you were here also, I thought you had gone home already.”

Sean needed to test the guard to see if he had seen Ivy come in, he needed to know what the man knew in order to tie up any possible lose ends, he would either have to get rid of him or establish an alibi for when the police eventually came, “No, Ms Winston and I have a lot of work to attend to and we are probably going to be here for a little while before we head on home” Then Sean walked on towards the door before he seemed to think about something and turned around and came back to the security desk. “I thought I heard some sounds, I even thought there might have been a scuffle going on outside, did you see anything Stan?”

“Not at all Mr Noah, I have been in the office supplies room for the past couple of hours but I made sure the door was locked, no one has come in unless they had a key, if you want I can go and check the surroundings.” The guard reassured him, eager to please the boss.

“Oh no that is no bother, I must have been hearing things, What time do you get off” Sean asked.

“I will be leaving in about an hour Mr Noah.” The guard answered while looking at the face of the watch on his wrist, “is there something you need me to do for you?”

Reassured by the guard’s ignorance of the unfolding events Sean answered with a smile looking like the friendly boss he pretended to be, “I have been expecting a delivery all evening and I just wondered if I should just push it to tomorrow since you will soon be gone and cannot receive the package on my behalf.” He said out loud the first thing that came into his mind to the guard and half listened as the guard agreed to the supposed package being moved to the next day.

Ivy’s impromptu office visit had blown his plans out of the water and moved the timeline he had set up, he would have to move fast, there was no way he could let her go now after what she had seen, surely the sorry b***h would go crying to mommy and daddy and all his painstaking plans and efforts would be washed down the drain without the expected rewards, he could not be arrested, what if they found out all about his prior crimes. Sean only had one raison d’être in the world and that was to be wealthy, it did not matter to him what lengths he had go for a way to get that wealth.

Sean was a child who had been dumped at an orphanage at age four by a mother who ran off before she could be identified so he did not know who either of his parents were, the orphanage he had been placed in abused the children in its care, depriving them of their basic needs and leaving them to fend for themselves while using the welfare money they were given to enrich themselves, the children got into criminal enterprises and by the time he was twelve Sean had gotten in with some older kids at the orphanage and they had gone from shoplifting and petty thievery to breaking into empty vacation houses and stealing, luck ran out on them when the police eventually caught up with them, however Sean escaped serving a prison term because of his young age.

The rest of his cohorts had not been as lucky as they were much older than him and were remanded in juvenile custody for years while he got sent to a foster home where he escaped from a few months after, choosing to be a nomad instead of having his freedom revoked, he stole, did odd jobs and banded with kids like him who fended for themselves and swore he would never go to jail like his friends had, they would have to kill him first and so far he had been successful on that front.

Since he did not have any connections or family money or even any skill sets that would help him reach his goals of stupendous wealth other than his thieving and as he grew older his charm and good looks, he learnt just how attractive he was to women and he took advantage of this gift, seducing rich lonely vulnerable women, getting married to them then drugging them slowly till they died so that no one would suspect him and it just looked like they had been sick and died of natural causes.

He would make them spend all their money on him and he dressed in the finest clothes, drove the finest cars and lived in plush apartments and when he was bored and ready to move on to his next victim after he had gotten all he could from his current wife he would collect the insurance money he had set up on them without their knowledge after getting married then he would disappear and move to another state and change his look and identity then go over the same pattern.

It had been so easy for him, women were putty in his hands and very few of those women saw the part of him that he hid under layers of charm, it was easy to fall in love with him and everything had always gone exactly as he had planned.

Except this time, after he had set his eyes on Ivy as his next victim he found out after the wedding that her parents were holding unto the purse strings tightly and he would not be able to abscond with her money unless he made them go back to her parents, he planned on killing her parents so that she as their sole heir would inherit everything and when things cooled down he would kill her and take over the considerable holdings that would be in her name, when she kept getting pregnant he seized on that opportunity to ground her at home by making her stop working and making frequent trips to her folks.

He had crippled any opportunity to be close to anyone other than him, she felt too guilty to be anything but the faithful little wife he would feeding her abortion pills and arsenic without her knowledge and when she miscarried he would blame it on her so called inadequacies as a mother or her refusal to obey him, he had enjoyed watching her suffer and it had been amusing playing the bereaved father, he had even made her feel guilty for not being able to carry her babies to term, he had planned on waiting a few more months but now that she had found out he was not the faithful husband everyone thought he was he would have to do something immediately, Ivy had to die tonight.

He was irritated because he hated when things did not go according to plan, the possibility of failure was higher then but no matter, if this time things went wrong he had a scapegoat he could place all the blame on, When he had hired Charlene as his assistant after Mrs Norris the old lady who had been his assistant had a domestic accident and had to stay home for a while he had been bored and thought that a little flirtation with his new secretary would rouse his spirit, along the line he got to find out that Charlene had gone to high school with Ivy and hated her guts and would be the best accomplice to accomplish his plans, he had fanned the flames of her infatuation with him making her believe they were star crossed lovers and he was only with Ivy out of obligation, he made Charlene believe that if Ivy went out of the picture he would be with her.

He stepped out of the door and lit a cigarette while he waited for Charlene to get back and when she finally did he took the spades and bin bags she had bought and stashed them away in the boot of Ivy’s car then together they went back into the building and up the stairs to his office.