The City Held Its Silence byIrel Knx 58

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Also when are you going to tell Megan? I asked him as we made our way up the stairs. 

“Soon! Don’t rush me I’m going to tell her, he complained.” She’s not even working today.” 

Megan was off today but she was coming tomorrow and so was he. I laughed at his 

reaction. 

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After work I went to pick up Tony as usual and then we made our way home. Although I paranoid at work, having something to do did help take the stress off my mind. However, heading back home now the full swing of my anxiety had returned. I 

When we arrived home and making our way to our home I then noticed a black car parked by the gate entrance of our home. I stopped Tony and I our tracks. Just as I had been fearing. Someone was there. 

A part of me thought it was Diana. However, thinking about it was unlikely it was her. She had said herself that Keith was going to call me in for ‘punching her in the eye. It was most likely Keith. 

I wasn’t afraid of Keith but I was not in the mood to speak with him right now. I was agitated from lack of sleep and tied with the fact that Keith was going to be 

reprimanding me for something I didn’t do, I wasn’t sure how I would act if I talked to 

him. 

“On second thought let’s eat dinner out today,” I told Tony. 

As I had us turn away and head back the way we came. 

“Is that Dad at the gate? Is he here to see you again?” 

“Probably, But I don’t want to talk to him,” I told him. 

Tony luckily was unaware of Diana’s visit last night as he was fast asleep. The fear I would have had, had he woken up and had to go through the same harrowing experience I had would have scarred me, 

As we ate I made conversation with Tony and talked about school and my work. 

However, my thoughts were also juggling our situation. 

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I was very clearly out of my depth right now. I had underestimated Diana’s jealousy. She was doing all this because she thought Keith had some how been interested in me lately and I was intentionally making him interested. Just ridiculous. What was going with both Diana and Keith!? Here I had thought that from my past life that if I distanced myself as I planned my divorce and departure I would be free from them. 

Why had Keith been visiting me? The first visit I could argue that maybe he was curious to see for himself what I was up to. However, the second time he didn’t have to come himself. He could have sent one of his men talk to me as he did in my past life since he said he came to help me ‘out of concern. I was nothing but rude to him the first time anyway so why would he come back for seconds. I didn’t understand. 

I internally sighed it didn’t matter. In any case, I couldn’t protect myself and Tony against Diana. Not on my own. 

“If you ever need anything don’t hesitate to call me, alright?” I recalled the words Louis had said to me the day I met him and took me home. 

I needed help and he was the only person I could turn to. I was seeing him in two days. I didn’t want to burden him but I had no choice. I would talk to him and explain everything to him. 

After dinner Tony and I returned home and luckily the car was gone now. I still didn’t feel safe in the home. Gosh I couldn’t wait to leave this house. The only assurance I somewhat felt was that Diana wasn’t going to come see me at least for the next two days as I dealt with Keith. Since she wanted me to get in trouble with him. She was probably watching me though. That I couldn’t avoid Jasmine was always going to be watching me no matter where I was. 

I had Tony quickly do his homework which I helped him with and then put him to bed. 

‘Jasmine we need to talk. The message read. I saw it was from…Keith. What in the world? Keith had blocked my number from personally contacting him after he had me moved out of the house even, in my past life. Now he had unblocked me? 

I looked at it and then put my phone aside. I then rolled my eyes, I wasn’t going to respond to that. That night I didn’t sleep much either. I found myself searching for apartments online. 

The following morning as Tony and I left the house I noticed the black sedan had 

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returned and was parked by the gate. That was probably Keith I thought to myself as I recalled his message which I didn’t respond to last night. 

“Let’s leave from the back gate,” I told Tony. We used the back gate and managed to avoid Keith’s men. I managed to take Tony to school and myself to work with no issue. It during the breakfast service that I got a message from Keith again. 

‘You can’t keep avoiding me like this. This is serious Jasmine‘ The message read. 

I rolled my eyes, put my phone away and continued service. After breakfast service all the waiters and I were cleaning up the dining area to begin preparing for lunch service. I then noticed the manager walking across the dining area with a familiar face. 

“That man’s back again,” I commented to Megan who was nearby as we worked. Andrew Gatwick was his name if i remembered correctly. He was one f the higher ups and worked as Louis assistant. 

“Ugh, Hopefully I can steer clear of him,” she commented as she looked at him with disgust. I knew she was referring to the fact that he was known to be creepy. 

“I wonder what he’s here for this time,” I wondered. 

“It’s near the end of the month he’s probably here for book keeping and sales to see how well the restaurant performed this month,” Megan explained. 

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