MY WEDDING NIGHT
EPISODE 10
Esther tried opening her mouth to say something,
but the lawyer quickly held her hand, stopping
her.
“Don’t say anything. The officer is bluffing. He’s
trying to make you say something that could
incriminate you” he said to her before facing
detective Jeremiah.
“If you really have the evidence to arrest my
client, then go ahead, arrest her. But if you don’t,
then shut the f**k up and do your goddamn
work. Mind you, time is running out and you have
only two days. The next time you will see me will
be in court” he threatened, shocking the
detective with his words.
Of course not only the detective was shocked, I
equally was very shocked because Esther was
probably seconds away from confessing or
making an unguided comment before the lawyer
recovered himself and stopped her.
“Two days officer. You have just two days, else I
will tear you apart in court” the lawyer
threatened and dragged Esther out of the office.
“We were just close to making a breakthrough
damn” the detective hissed with despair after
they left.
“So what next?” I asked with fear. He breathed
deeply, opened the case file on his table, went
through it and shook his head.
“things are slowly adding up in your favour but
we don’t have time on our side. We surely need
a miracle” he replied, looked up at me and smiled
to make me feel relaxed but I surely wasn’t.
“Remember we talked about the possibility of
your husband going out to the garden the night
he was killed to either smoke or see someone?”
he said while i nodded.
“According to the report in this file, there wasn’t
any cigarette stick, ashes nor even anything
similar found at the garden which then leaves us
with one theory. He went out there to see
someone, probably Esther, before a stronger
person grabbed him from behind and stabbed
him” he concluded.
“How then do we find the mystery man that
struck the fatal blow which killed my husband?” I
asked desperately. The detective shrugged.
“That’s what i’m saying, we need more time, as it
stands, Esther alone probably holds all the
answers but we can’t touch her” he replied with
resignation.
Tears instantly dropped from my
eyes.
The police had every reason to detain Esther but
couldn’t because she was a foreigner. Instead I
was the person being detained without due
process. How bad can things get??
“I know you are helping me officer but you got to
do more, you have to try every necessary means
to free me. Please i beg of you” I cried, kneeling
before Detective Jeremiah who quickly looked
away with embarrassment”
“Please madam stand up, don’t kneel for me, I’m
not God” he begged but I still knelt, shedding
more tears. A junior officer came into the
detective’s office that moment bearing a file.
“Here are the rest of the results sir” he said to
the detective who quickly snatched the file from
him while I looked on hopefully.
“You can leave now” he dismissed the officer
before going through the file.
“Nothing new jeez, this case is really something
else” he said to himself as he went through the
file while I swallowed hard, confused on what
next to do.
“Does it mean i’m going to hang for a crime i
didn’t commit?. Can’t you run more tests” I
asked curiously.
“My dear our police department is one of the
best in Africa. I have conducted all the
necessary tests including fingerprint and DNA
matching. The people that killed your husband
had it well planned out and left no trace of
anything. The only clear prints found on your
husband’s body belongs to you, the rest are
blurred. The murder weapon had only your
mother in law’s prints on it. So you see there is
nothing we can use from the test results, we
have nothing. The person that killed your
husband probably wore gloves, only if we can
get those gloves” he concluded, while i cried out
with the last strength in me.
“Hey shut up, you are in the police station, don’t
you know?” the detective frowned and stood up.
TO BE CONTINUED…
Question: What could be the way out of this dilemma now?
