Having seen my child devoured like an animal really broke me, I lost the little strength that I had within me,I couldn’t even cry I silently waited for her to eat me up too, what was the point of living? What did I have to live for? I wanted to die so I could be with my Thabiso, I wanted to tell him how sorry I was for having not protected him, as a mother I felt I had failed him terribly and I would never ever forgive my self.
“If only I had not met Geo, if only i had stayed single, my baby would still be alive”
When she was satisfied she had this kind of yellowish glow in her eyes, she let out another howl and turned back into her human form.
“You see what you pushed me to do?” She asked
“You, you, you” I stammered as I tried to form a sentence
“Now you can’t talk huh, you said you were ready for war, fight me now”
“Just kill me too” I whispered
“No I want you to feel my pain so I won’t kill you, I will spare your life so you can know what pain feels like”
I looked at her face and saw no remorse, my heart was shattered and for a minute i experienced total darkness. I don’t remember what happened next but when I opened my eyes I was sleeping in a strange room.
“She is awake” A women almost my own age called out to someone.
For a minute I wasn’t aware of my environment then I scanned the whole place and realised I was at the hospital.
“My child oh my” Mum hugged me when she walked in, she looked pale and her eyes where red and swollen
“How are you feeling?” The doctor asked when he walked in a few minutes later.
I was about to respond when memories of what happened flashed right before my eyes. I thought I had been dreaming.
“Where is Thabiso?” I asked softly
“Oh baby” Mum broke down confirming my worst fear, what happened was no joke, my baby was really gone.
“How could Talia have been that evil?” She really planned her revenge well, she took away the one thing that kept me whole, how would I live with myself knowing my baby got killed because of me.
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I was discharged from the hospital two days later and we buried the remains of my son. In that three days I had not said anything, I didn’t even cry when we buried Thabiso. I was still in shock, I couldn’t accept Thabiso was gone.
The police had come to question me about the wolf but I couldn’t talk, each time I opened my mouth to say somthing, I instantly closed it because everything I witnessed seemed so unreal.
What made it worse was the fact that I had also lost the pregnancy. Could life get any worse for a human being.
I wish Mum had left me to die in that house. Apparently some neighbours had heard the howl of the wolf in my compound and alerted the police but when they got to my place, Talia was already gone and I had passed out. It was then that they had contacted my relatives. I still couldn’t believe Talia was the wolf,would people even believe if I narrated what happened? Never in my whole life had I ever believed in werewolves yet I had come face to face with one.
light fade.
I sat by the stool opposite Tamara’s bed, she was quiet as usual and her eyes where closed. I tried holding her hand but she pulled away. I felt tears slipping down my cheeks, I too was broken by what was happening to her, I wanted to be there for her,to help heal her wounds but she was pushing me away.
We had buried her son but she still had not been able to say anything to anyone. I looked at her finger and noticed she had taken off her ring, then it hit me really hard, she wanted nothing to do with me. But why? Maybe it was my fault that I wasn’t there to protect her but I too was hurting over what happened to her, my worst fear was losing her, I loved her so much I couldn’t afford to lose her.
“Tamara please talk to me”
“Talk to me, shout curse, say something but please talk to me” I pleaded but she didn’t respond.
“Baby let me take your pain”
“Leave please” She said
“Tamara”
“Leave” She yelled and I had no choice but too walk out even if It hurt badly to have her treat me like that.
light fade.
It was a cold Sunday afternoon, I lay on my couch sipping some coffee as I watched the news week, nothing seemed to interest me and I was almost changing the channel till something caught my attention.
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A four year boy had been ripped to pieces by a wolf a week ago, the photos they showed where disturbing, his body parts could hardly be recognized.
The report further said, the boy’s mother who had witnessed the whole ordeal had gone into a state of shock and could hardly say anything.
“Poor woman” I thought
The mother’s name rang a bell in my mind and I paced up and down trying to recall where I heard it from. Then a conversation I previously had with Talia lingered in my mind.
“Geoffrey has left me Cleo, he left me for a stupid girl at our school” She had cried to me on phone
“It’s for the best” I had tried to comfort her
“No it’s not, that Tamara Chiluba will pay one way or another” She had insisted
“Talia let it go, you can’t force love now can you?”
“That’s your problem, you are full of negativity, you know what I will never call you again” She had yelled before cutting the line and that had been the last time I had heard from her. She had blocked and blacklisted my number so I had just given up on her as well.
“Gosh Talia has gone too far, she needs to be stopped”
I had turned her into a wolf and I had to do something before she killed more innocent people
I walked to my room and took a shower then I packed a little clothes so I could get ready for Lusaka, I was going to put Talia in her place, her stupidity was costing a lot of lives. I walked to my car and placed my little bag at the back seat, then I walked back and got my gun, I had bought myself a gun for self defence and it was loaded with silver bullets. Those would help bring down Talia.
I made sure to lock everything up before driving off.
light fade.
“Please don’t kill him, please leave my baby” Tamara screamed as she rolled on the bed.
“Baby, baby, wake up” I said trying to wake her up
She opened her eyes after some time and hugged me tightly.
“Shhhhhhh it shall be fine” I said patting her back
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“She killed my babies, she killed them”
“Who is she?” I asked worriedly
She didn’t respond but continued crying on my shoulder, after she calmed down a bit, she asked me to call her mum into the room. And when her mum came into the room, she instructed us both to sit next to her.
” You know when she said she would rip my baby to pieces I thought she was just joking because what normal human would do that to a child?” Tamara said wiping away her tears
“What are you talking about T” Her mum asked
“I still can’t believe they are gone it hurts so badly but maybe talking about it will help me heal”
Tamara then started narrating to us what happened the night Thabiso was killed and by the time she was done, we were all in tears.
“Dermit” I yelled hitting the wall
“Baby it’s not your fault” She whispered
“It is my fault, how could I have not seen the signs?”
“Talia is just an animal with no Mercy”
“She killed our babies and t’s all my fault” I said feeling hopeless
“It’s not” She whispered
She was trying to be strong but I could see how deeply broken she was, she had just lost two children and it was all my fault.
“You know what, let me call the police so they can take your statement and have this woman dealt with” Tamara’s mum said as she walked out
“You know what, I won’t wait for the police, I will go and confront her”
“No she is dangerous, let’s wait for the police”
“I will make sure justice prevails”
“Geoffrey I don’t wanna lose you too”
“You won’t lose me”
“Geo——” I didn’t even let her finish the sentence I just stormed out of the room and hurriedly rushed to where my car was.
I was pissed off, how could I have not seen that Talia wasn’t a normal human being.
The rough sex, the aggressiveness, the scratching, it was all there but I turned a blind eye to it all for what? I was going to teach her a lesson she would never forget.
light fade.
To be continued.
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