Chapter 11 Getting Rid of Judith
“You bitch! I’m going to kill you!”
I saw the glimmer of a blade in my face in the dim bedroom.
Shocked, I shielded myself against the knife vainly with a blanket. Judith’s contorted expression looked more eerie under the dim light in the night.
“My grandchild is dead because of you! You need to die!” Holding the knife, she charged at me once more.
I grabbed the water glass from my bedside table and hurled it at her. It hit her right in the middle of her forehead.
Blood trickled down her forehead, but she lunged at me like there was no tomorrow. She looked as though she had been possessed.
I lifted my pillow. The moment the blade pierced through the pillow, I turned it over and kicked Judith hard toward the other side of the bed.
“You need to pay for my grandchild’s life!” Judith wouldn’t stop yelling. She even scrambled up to throw herself at me again.
“Was that really your grandchild? Take a better look at these and tell me whether that was Grayson’s child!”
I pulled out the bedside drawer and found that stack of photos from Cliff. I flung them at Judith, yelling, “Open your eyes! Think before you decide whether or not that was Grayson’s child!” Aside from the photos that Cliff handed to me, there were newer photos capturing Olivia and Sean entering and leaving the hotel. There were also photos of their dates.
Judith raise the photos with trembling hands. She wouldn’t stop flipping through them.
Finally, she fainted after a scream escaped her mouth. I had to call 911 to get her to the hospital.
We were back in the hospital, facing the familiar doctor and the same operating room.
“Unfortunately, she suffers from cerebral hemorrhage. I’m afraid she’ll have to spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair and bedridden.”
The doctor gave me a regretful look before leaving. After that, I entered the patient room.
Judith was staring blankly at the ceiling. When she saw me, she huffed and puffed agitatedly for a while, but she could not form a sentence and ended up drooling.
I peeled a banana and waited for a while by her side. Only then did she manage to utter a few words, “I… I’m sorry.”
Judith had given me the attitude in the past. Hence, I was surprised to have received her apology. Still, I didn’t believe she meant it. Some people were rotten to the core. Anyway, I wasn’t a saint who would repay evil with kindness.
Everything had happened too fast. I believed she had only apologized to me just in case I wanted revenge against her.
“Do you finally feel miserable?”
Standing in front of her bed, I stared at Judith without much expression while she drooled.
“Don’t worry. I can make it more miserable for you.”
I swiftly processed the paperwork for Judith’s discharge. After that, I sent her to a faraway nursing home in the countryside. The building was dilapidated–even the trees were wilting. Countless old people with vacant eyes lived there.
The sight made Judith clutch onto my sleeve fearfully. Her tears stained my hand.
Yet, I was unmoved by her crocodile tears. I paid for ten years of care upfront. The nursing home staff delightfully wheeled Judith into the nursing home.
Only God knew if she could live another ten years.
Before I left the nursing home, I ordered someone to plaster photos of Grayson after his car accident on the walls of Judith’s room.
“Spend the rest of your life with your son.”
I patied Judith on her shoulder. Just when I had turned around to leave, she held onto the hain of my shirt.
Then, she stuffed a locket into my hand.
“My grandchild… S–Sean… Lambert…”
I slowly unfurled my hand. I didnt even need to look at the locket to know it was the same one Judith had bought for my unborn child and later snatched away from me. But why did she suddenly mention Sean?
“Explain everything!” I grasped her hands, hoping she’d elaborate.
But she hung her head low and refrained from looking at me. She kept repeating Sean’s name, but she refused to say anything else no matter how I interrogated her. Clutching the locket, left the nursing home in the car.
As the scenery whirred past the car window, the nursing home soon faded from view.
I looked down and checked the incoming, new photos and messages from Cliff on my phone. Unbeknownst to me, photos of me had been sent to another person as well.
