wrongfully convicted

Chapter 40 (Part 2)

I woke up in a room, I looked around and as I became familiar with my surrounding I realized I was in my room. Not my room at my uncle and aunts but in my actual room in the house I once shared with my parents. As I continued to study my room all the memories from last night flooded into my mind and my heart started to beat in over drive, my body was shaking.  As the image's finally started to fade my memory the last image still remained. The image of the reaper, the man who made this all happen. The one person who over time I grew to despise but once truly loved. Just as all my emotions where coming near, my door opened to reveal the face of the man responsible for causing me such pain and heart ache. To say the least I was completely mortified at the realization that the man I looked up to, the man I confided in could be capable of such a repulsively gruesome act of hatred.

As he came near my blood ran cold, my emotions went crazy and I seen nothing but red, I have wanted to kill this man since day one. He took so much from me with no explanation to why. Not that there is even a explanation for taking the life of another person but my only instinct was to run, hide and protect myself even though I wanted so much to hug him.

I coward as he came closer, I seen what he could do to another person and I didn't want to be his next victim. As he hoovered above my now trembling body I slowly drew my gaze to look him in the eye, with tears threatening to pour out at any time, I managed a small plea for my life." please,please don't hurt me."

Reapers POV

"please,please don't hurt me" She whispered in utter fear. The realization of the pain I have caused her was completely displayed on her face. The only problem is I was not the one who cause her all that pain. I slowly leaned down and placed my hand on her should she recoiled back like I was about to strike her.

"Shh, angel,I would never hurt you." I told her. She slowly brought her face back to meet my gaze. Confusion and disbelief was plastered in her eyes along with fear and hatred. I had to tell her, I had to explain to her everything. She is my angel and always has been. She is my little girl and it would kill me to lose her.

"You where dead." she wailed into my chest.

I concealed her in my strong embrace. She needed to know I was not the enemy nor was I the one who was the monster totally. She needs to know I will never hurt her in anyway.  I just held her until her sobs turned to slight whimpers. I needed to explain to her why this had all happened. I know the truth will more then devastate her, its like pouring salt into a open wound, but she needs to know.

"shh, Angel." "why?"
 "April, there is a explanation to all of this but it is a lot are you ready for this?"
 She sat up straight and pushed me away. Her tears where gone now, the look of fear was replaced with anger. "Am I ready for this? Are you serious. I have gone through so much. I buried my murdered parents well my one murdered parent or is she here too? I am more then ready, I deserve to know why you put me through such hell!" She boomed her voice full of anger.

"Your right you do deserve to know."

She just cocked her head waiting for me to continue. "April this is not going to be a sappy fariy tale what I am bout to tell you will most likely crush you even more. It will be very hard to understand but you are old enough now."

"Well I don't think it could be any worse then finding out my father was not dead at all and was the man who made the last year of my life nothing but pure hell!" She spat

"ok. here it goes. Seventeen years ago when you where born your mother and I both felt that it was our duty to give you a life your biological parents where not able to. They where very young and where just starting college when you biological mother found out she was pregnant with you and your brother. Yes April you have a twin.Your brother went to another family and you came to us. No one was any wiser to anything they just figured you where our daughter. As life went on your mother ended straying away and your biological mother and father started to want more to do with you after they where able to provide you  with what you needed. The other body that was in my room was obviously not me it was your mothers lover. No before you ask I did not kill her or the man. I came home early from work and walked into it just being finished. When the man seen me he was completely mortified that he had killed the wrong person. So I used that to my advantage. I sat him down to figure out why he did this. He explained everything to me and I was able to convince him not to kill me. He told me he was hired by someone to kill me and your mother. After he told me who I knew why. Him and I together decided to piece together the reaper and that's how this all came about."

I could see the tears running down her face I knew that she would be hurt, but that's wasn't even the worse part yet. I just wanted her to be able to comprehend it all first before I went on.

"So who are my biological parents?" She asked I knew that question would come so I was prepared for it."Your biological parents are your aunt and uncle and yes before you ask they where the ones who hired the man to kill me and you mother. They did it because we would not agree to give you back to them. We agreed that once you turned 18 we would all sit down and explain it to you and you could make the choice of what you wanted to do. But they where not to happy with that plan so they found someone to eliminate the only people holding you back from them."

She didn't say a word, she just stared at me trying to understand what I just told her.  "but why did you make up the reaper? Why didn't you just tell the cops?" She questioned.

" that would of been the logical thing to do, I am aware of that but when you start to throw the name of one of the wealthiest men in the state around and accusing him of murder then you better have proof. So me and the hit man created the reaper to get proof on him."

She was starting to finally understand, her demeanor changed and she didn't seem so afraid anymore. I know it will take some time before she completely understands and is able to accept all of this but right now she just needs to know I was not the enemy.

"What do you plan on doing now?" She asked "well, I'm not to sure, cause right now I am looking at murder, kidnapping and faking my own death, so I guess my little plan wasn't as flawless as I had hoped."

She gave me a questioning look and then something sparked in her eyes like a light switch was turned on. " I got a idea."