Roses and Thorns – Episode 21

CHAPTER TWENTY ONE

The stalker got home after trailing his new victim from her new house down to the shopping mall, he had watched in anger how the soldier man played with her, when he couldn’t take it, he decided to resort to puncturing their tyre. “Seems like i have a rival” he muttered going into his bedroom. He lived alone in the six bedroom duplex owned by his father. But after he had killed his father and sent his brother to the asylum, the house became his. He pulled off his clothes and memories from the past started hitting him.

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Ezenwa walked into the living room fuming with anger, his father looked up from what he was doing and eyed him.

“What is it?” he asked.

“Daddy, have you seen Okenwa? he told lies to Ego and now she has left me to be with him” he complained bitterly.

“Who is Ego”? the old man asked.

“My girlfriend, the only one that i managed to get, the only girl that agreed to talk to me in school, now Okenwa spoilt everything, he told her that am useless and good for nothing”

“What was your CGPA last year if i may ask” the old man sneered.

“But Dad, what has my CGPA got to do with what my younger brother did”? Ezenwa asked still fuming with anger.

“Everything dullard, you are meant to read your books and not to have any girlfriend, i wonder when you will ever be useful to yourself, you are just useless, you are not intelligent, you can’t handle the family business, of what use are you to this family?” The man barked.

“What did i ever do to you? no matter how hard i try, you will always complain but whatever Okenwa does in this house is the best, did i wish to be a dullard? did i create myself this way, stop degrading me Dad, you are hurting me” he weeped.

“Now tell me, did your brother lie? are you not useless and good for nothing? will you leave here this minute before i descend on you?, illiterate” the old man shouted.

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The stalker flinched, he went to the adjoining room and went straight to the picture of his very first victim, he smirked while caressing the picture.

“I loved you dearly Ego, but you let my brother deceive you and now you are paying dearly for your stupidity” he said laughing in a horrifying manner.

“No one hurts me and goes free, i am the beast” he beat his chest vigorously. “And as for you soldier man, your days are numbered, enjoy my new victim while it lasts because am coming for your head and by that time? it won’t just be a punctured tyre” he added with a wicked grin.