Stronger Than Pain
"Did you kill him?" The detective asked again.
"I've already answered you like a thousand times... Yes, he was a monster. Yes, he beat me up a lot but I didn't do it. I didn't kill Jude!" Amanda replied.
"I'm sorry. I know what it's like to be a victim of abuse and all that, but you need to understand that murder is a serious case too. You'll have to forgive us for asking you continually it's just that you were the closest to him we've got here."
"I wasn't. There was someone else he was seeing that knew a lot about him than I ever did," Amanda replied.
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The night was growing colder and the rains seemed to have agitated in full force. Amanda sat on one of the soft leather chairs that squeaked with her every move in the living room with tears in her eyes as she watched the rains drop on the floor forming small pools and waited for Jude to come back. She was worried sick about his whereabouts even though all his presence caused her were pain and more tears. The protruding bump on her stomach, made it quite difficult to move around at ease so she was stuck with calling his busied line while she watched the clock tick its way into the midnight mark.
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A heart rending story told differently. Stronger than Pain captures a dysfunctional Nigerian home where a callous man, beats his wife on a daily basis. Time flies and now he is dead. All the characters have a reason to kill him, but she's their number one suspect. The Question still remains, who pulled the trigger?
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Chapter: Chapter Four"I ran the tests as you requested, but nothing in it could have killed Bello. It's just a sex hormone enhancer not a poison," Tolu said."Well, I'm not a doctor but I learned there are awful side effects to these things. Why would Amanda keep such? You said it yourself that they weren't intimate anymore. Was she seeing someone else?""I guess you would have to ask her yourself Uju. You can't tell anyone about what I told you," Tolu pleaded slightly sobbing."Relax it's in my nature to be confidential. Where is the baby now?" Detective Uju asked."Dead. Bello would have killed me if he found out I was carrying another man's baby. I guess that's why God punished me by not giving me mine," Tolu said sobbing uncontrollably."Did Jude know it was his?" Uju asked again and Tolu nodded."I told him but he didn't take the news lightly," Tolu replied."I don't want to ask detailed questions about what happened but when did you tell him th
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Chapter: Chapter ThreeAmanda heard faint noises coming from the living room. The chatters and loud guttural laughs told her that someone had visited. They rarely had visitors as Jude always had a way of coming up with excuses whenever anyone wanted to stop by and it made her wonder even more who the guest was.She sat up as she had just woken up due to their loud chattering. She stared at the dressing mirror in front of her and noticed how thin and depreciated she had become. Her eye bags popped out and formed even more darker circles. There was an awkward swelling on her cheek bone that reminded her of the day before and the day before that. She sighed.None of her beauty treatment or facial creams were enough anymore to hide the scars but she kept applying them as she gracefully did that day. She attended to the wounds she had gotten from the previous day and just as she had poured out some drops of vaporizing liquid on another cotton ball, Jude barged in making her almost loose grip of the
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Chapter: Chapter TwoChShe instructed Obi to lock the gate after she had left and told him not to tell anyone who by inference had to be Jude, that she had gone out. She promised to be back before 12pm even though she was not sure how long the treatment of the wound will last. He humbly obliged and rolled the gate after she drove out. She was driving to her only friend's hospital, where she worked with her husband. The duo were practically the only ones that visited and it was still strictly by invitation despite how close they seemed to have been. She rode past houses and overtook cars on her way to the hospital. The thought of Jude returning before she did crushed her. She'd be dead. She was in their hospital in no time and parked in one of the numerous lines drawn out for cars. The Hospital had fleet of cars parked in a similar fashion with a few ambulances at the end. 'Merciful hearts' in a green neon light, was right above the building. The surrounding had a couple of cleaners in their duty wears s
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Chapter: Chapter OneDid you kill him?" The detective asked again."I've already answered you like a thousand times... Yes, he was a monster. Yes, he beat me up a lot but I didn't do it. I didn't kill Jude!" Amanda replied."I'm sorry. I know what it's like to be a victim of abuse and all that, but you need to understand that murder is a serious case too. You'll have to forgive us for asking you continually it's just that you were the closest to him we've got here.""I wasn't. There was someone else he was seeing that knew a lot about him than I ever did," Amanda replied.*******The night was growing colder and the rains seemed to have agitated in full force. Amanda sat on one of the soft leather chairs that squeaked with her every move in the living room with tears in her eyes as she watched the rains drop on the floor forming small pools and waited for Jude to come back. She was worried sick about his whereabouts even though all his presence caused her were pain and more
Last Updated: 2020-09-10
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