Mystery of Raven's Love Breaker

Climax - The Wife of the Abuser

Chapters 19.

All employees of Hotel “Harrington” already know that Raven and Claire are getting married. It was announced via the hotel's notice board.

Raven purposely wrote it there.

The employees were also happy to see the happiness that will be achieved by the pair of humans, because they have always been together for a long time. And they are also a matching couple in leading the company.

Claire feels her heart is blossoming, and so does Raven.

Today, Raven entered the office a little later than usual, because last night she planned her wedding with Claire until late at night.

Whistling, Raven entered her study and walked towards her desk. He put his briefcase to the side, then sat down in a chair, getting ready to pursue his work that day.

His hands flipped through the files on his desk and turned on the laptop. His eyes were just about to look at the laptop screen when suddenly a piece of paper tucked between the files on his desk caught his attention.

Raven picked up the piece of paper and read the writing on it.

“There are very important things you should know about your bride and groom. She is not the right woman to accompany you in this life. If you really care, come now to the yellow painted house on Jalan W! The house is number 232! You will know everything.”

That's how it is written on that paper. I don't know who wrote it, Raven doesn't know, because the writing seems to be deliberately disguised by writing it in tatters.

The house is painted yellow and numbered 232 on Jalan W? Whose house is that? And what does this paper writer have to do with Claire, Raven's bride-to-be?

Then, what exactly is the secret about Claire that she does not know? Hasn't the whole thing about Claire been known to him long ago, because he knew the girl for ten years and they were always together?

But unkempt, Raven was curious to know who the prankster who wrote the paper and put it on his desk. That man must have put it early this morning, before he came. Of course by stealth into his work space.

The only way to find out what the man meant, was to go to the yellow-painted and numbered house 232 on Jalan W!

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Raven's car stopped in the yellow-painted yard. The house is numbered 232 ! The front fence is half open, enough for the entrance of a car. The walls, doors, and walls of the house were painted yellow.

After parking his car inside the fence or in the yard of the house, Raven walked up to the door.

At first he wanted to knock on the door, but he saw it as if it was unlocked. With a single push, the door was wide open.

Raven felt, the person inside the house must be waiting for her arrival. Therefore, he stepped in carefully, as if keeping his footprints from making a sound.

He walked and walked to every corner of the house, but there seemed to be no one there.

Fretfully, Raven turned around and climbed the wide staircase she had passed in the front room.

Room after room he explored but there was no one there.

Finally he arrived in one of the rooms whose layout resembles a private workspace. Raven went inside and a voice greeted her, seemingly making her heart beat.

“Finally you came too!” that voice, a man's voice. A voice he knew very well.

Raven turned around quickly, and at that very instant she saw Kyle was already in front of her! Standing with a cold look and an eye gaze as sharp as a dagger.

“Kyle?” Raven said no confidence.

“Kyle? Are you the one who wrote the message on that piece of paper?” tanyanya.

“Indeed me!” kyle replied stiffly.

“For what, Kyle? Wh-wh-what for? Why do you say, Claire is not the woman that suits me?”

“Of course because I don't want you guys to get married!”

“What does this have to do with you?” Raven was confused.

“Because I love her, Raven! No one else can have it besides me!” Kyle said tensely.

Raven shook her head, as if feeling funny. “But Claire doesn't love you, Kyle. So you can't forbid us from getting married. She should have married the man she loved, and that person was me.”

“Love is not the only reason, Raven. You can't marry Claire, because she's done you a lot wrong. You know who caused Vanessa's death? Claire is the one!”

“We all know Vanessa committed suicide. What does this have to do with Claire?”

“Vanessa instead of suicide, Raven. But he was deliberately killed as if it were a suicide.”

Raven was stunned for a moment. “Although Vanessa was killed, but Claire did not kill her, because when Vanessa died, Claire was with me.”

“You're such a fool, Raven! Did I say Claire killed Vanessa? It was not him who intervened directly, but through my hands. I'm the one who killed him!”

Chest Raven gasped. With a look of angry eyes, he looked at Kyle who was standing about three meters away from him. “So it's true Caroline said, that you killed Vanessa!”

“Caroline?” Kyle scrunched his eyebrows. “Caroline Manager of the hotel? Didn't he die falling into the abyss?”

“Caroline is not dead yet, Kyle! You're shocked, aren't you?” Raven said cynically. “He was the one who told me two days ago, that you killed Vanessa and made it look like you killed yourself.”

Caroline called Raven at the time, and told her to meet in Park Z near a statue of a princess.

That's where Caroline told me everything. That when he came to the villa, like Raven's order to visit Vanessa, the door was already open.

He felt suspicious and went upstairs. In front of Vanessa's wide-open door, she could not believe Kyle was hanging Vanessa with a piece of cloth on the ceiling of her room.

When Kyle turned around, he saw Caroline was dumbfounded to notice him.

Feeling Caroline will tell her about her actions, Kyle also tried to pursue her.

But Caroline ran quickly down the wide stairs and ran to the door, but her handbag got stuck in the door handle.

Caroline continued to run out of the villa and towards the very quiet hills.

Kyle continued to chase after her, and as Caroline hit a dead end on the edge of a ravine, while Kyle continued to push her forward, Caroline jumped into the deep abyss.

But death still did not pick Caroline up, because she survived after holding a branch of a tree, before the branch broke and she fell not far from the ground.

For a month Caroline hid herself. After feeling ready, he was determined to tell the incident to Raven.

While the SMS that goes to Raven's phone, it comes from Caroline's phone that is left in her handbag, but not Caroline who sent it, but Kyle who typed and sent it, so that Raven immediately cancels her engagement with Vanessa.

Then thanks to the car keys inside Caroline's handbag, Kyle runs Caroline down the cliff, and drops the car into the ravine, overtaking Caroline, to remove any traces. Or if the car was found, people would think that Caroline's car went into the ravine and Caroline died.

“That was the genius plan of your bride-to-be, Raven!” Kyle laughed happily. “Thanks to the chemical liquid he gave me, I sprinkled it into the Vanessa bathtub in that villa, and it was enough to make the whole skin of his body and face blister. That's why I made it look like I was hanging myself. The police will think that his face that changed horribly was the reason why he had to kill himself. So no one will suspect Claire, because everyone knows that Claire does not like your relationship with Vanessa!”

“Why should you do that, Kyle? Why would Claire kill Vanessa?”

“Obviously because you've denied him the opportunity he gave you, to cancel your plans to marry Vanessa. Claire told me everything, and for the sake of my love, I couldn't bear to let the woman I loved suffer. That's why we planned this. Ohiya, I forgot to say, that Rachel, your secretary died because of our plan.”

“You could kill your own best friend?” ask Raven in disbelief.

“He-eh. Rachel is nothing compared to Claire. She made Claire angry at me for introducing myself to her. Rachel's actions show that she actually wants to keep Claire away from you.”

Kyle took out a piece of paper rolled from inside his suit pocket and threw it at Raven.

Raven picked up the paper and unrolled it. His forehead wrinkled to notice the painting on the paper that resembled a cergam.

The story in the picture is in order. First picture, a woman is about to open the door. The second picture, a man smothers the woman's mouth near the door. The third image, the man pushes the woman's body into the house. The fourth picture, the man imprints a handkerchief on the woman's mouth. And in the fifth picture, the woman was lifelessly drooping on the floor. The faces of the women and men were very familiar to Raven. The woman in the game is Rachel, and the man who killed her is Kyle!

“You believe it now don't?” Kyle laughed again. “It was Claire's streak. He gave it to me the first day I knew him. That was my first job. I don't actually need the chemical powder Claire gave me to sprinkle on that handkerchief. Although I admit, the powder left Rachel out of breath faster. Everything has to be done quickly and briefly, right?”

“I don't think you and Claire planned all this in such a heinous way!” raven said sadly. Suddenly she remembered Tracy. “Did you also kill Tracy?”

“True, I'm the one!” kyle replied loudly.

“But Tracy was murdered shortly after Claire was nearly harmed that night. Because Tracy was found dead the morning. How could Claire have so quickly taken revenge on Tracy who was just about to harm her that night?”

“You abused the martial arts you were supposed to use to save people. You're not just mean, Kyle. But you are also like a beast.”

“Whatever I'll do for Claire I love.”

After saying so, Kyle pulled out a gun from behind his suit. A short pistol! He pointed it right at Raven, who was standing only about three meters away from him.

“Now you know everything, don't you? So it's time for you to die. Say goodbye to this world, Raven!” Kyle was getting ready to pull the trigger.

But before he could pull it, the sudden presence of a person, unbundled his intentions.

Claire appeared in the doorway! His face looked pale and agitated. His breathing was as if he had just run.

“Don't, Kyle! Don't you do that! Put down your weapon, come on..!” Claire is about to walk up to Kyle, but Kyle instead moves the gun towards Claire and Raven.

“Stop there, Claire! Don't take another step, or now I'm shooting Raven!”

Claire stopped her steps.

“Retreat!” the thrill, because seeing the distance Claire quite close to where she stands.

Claire stepped back carefully. His back touched a bookcase. Under the bookshelf were two drawers. Claire scrunched her eyebrows.

Suddenly, in a short time, he remembered something. There's something in the drawer on the right! He remembered very well because he had visited Kyle's study before.

“What are you here for, Claire?” raven asked to distract from Kyle.

“I saw a piece of paper with writing on your desk earlier. I know it was written by Kyle despite being deliberately disguised. Moreover, the house he called me well known,” Claire stared intently at Kyle who was still brandishing his gun at Raven.

“Kyle, please, Raven is innocent, you don't kill her,” please Claire be careful. “This is all my fault, if you want to kill him, just kill me. Because I caused you to be like this. Rachel, Tracy, and Vanessa's deaths are because of me. So I deserve the payback. Shoot me, Kyle! Shoot me now.”

“I can't shoot you,” Kyle said coldly. “Raven is the one I should shoot because your wedding plans have left me dark-eyed and determined. If I can't have you, then neither can Raven. Better to die right now,” Kyle was about to pull the trigger again in his hand, but Claire again prevented it.

“Don't, Kyle! Nay! I promise you I'll cancel our wedding plans. I will never marry Raven, trust me! As long as you don't kill him. Just let him go, Kyle. Please..” while saying so, Claire's hand hidden behind her waist, reached into the right drawer of the bookcase she was leaning on.

He had managed to open the drawer even by turning his back, because Kyle was talking and not paying attention to his movements.

Now his hand had managed to find the thing he was looking for in the drawer. He grabbed and held it tight.

“It's too late, Claire,” reject Kyle.

“Raven already knows everything. I can't let him live and be a witness to everything I do.”

Kyle pulled the trigger of the gun that was in his grasp.

Raven could not have avoided it even if she could fly, because the distance with Kyle was quite close. Moreover, the barrel of the gun was right pointing to the heart.

“Doorrrr...!” gunshots rang out inside the room.

Raven held her breath. Looking at him, Kyle was holding onto his chest. Kyle's palms were wet with blood pouring from his own heart.

Raven's heart was like a gasp. But he felt himself still able to stand firmly, and his own heart was still beating. He's still alive!

While Kyle was standing in front of him, he suddenly fell to the floor with blood pouring from his heart that was shot.

“Ke.na..pa..? To.na..pa.., Cla...ire...?” kyle's words were not connected, because his breathing stopped later. He died curious.

Death had separated him from the woman he loved. Ironically, the woman he loved ended up killing him.

Claire shook her head in disbelief, looking at the gun in her hand that she had taken from the drawer.

The gunshot came from the trigger he pulled, a fraction of a second faster than Kyle's trigger, before Kyle could finish the pull.

“I killed Kyle. Killed him. I am a murderer.” Claire shakes her head to see her hand holding a gun.

Shaking, Claire let go of her grip, and the gun fell to the floor, causing a thud.

“Why did you kill him, Claire?” raven asked after he checked Kyle's breath which was no longer there.

“If I don't kill him, then he'll kill you.”

“You don't have to do that for me, Claire. I won't thank you, after the two heinous murders of Rachel and Vanessa that you planned.”

“I didn't ask you to forgive me, Raven,” Claire said with trembling lips. “And you did not need to forgive me nor my papa, which caused the deaths of your parents.”

“What do you mean, Claire?” ask Raven doesn't understand.

Claire smiled blandly. “There's a big secret you don't know, Raven. A secret my father told me about his death. You must not know that my papa is the one responsible for the deaths of your parents.”

“I don't understand your words at all,” said Raven. “My father died in an accident, and my mother committed suicide because of it. That's what I remember. So what do you mean, saying that papamuans are responsible for their deaths?”

“Indeed your father died in a car accident, Raven. But that's because my papa has outsmarted your papa's car before and deliberately sent your papa off duty out of town. Because that's what happened in an accident,” Claire explained.

“But for what? Why would your dad do that?” Raven still doesn't understand.

Claire started telling me, “Actually, before your mom married your dad, he was my papa's lover. But my grandfather forced my father to marry another girl, my mother. After my mother passed away, my father re-established a relationship with your mother secretly. Then my papa planned to eliminate your papa, which is why he outsmarted your papa's car until an accident occurred. But my father was mistaken, because your mother could not accept my father's actions, and then he committed suicide. That's why I say, if their deaths were caused by my papa's deeds.” Claire ended the story.

Raven shook her head in disbelief. “I've never known this before. I can't believe Mr. Harrington, who raised me and whom I've considered my parents all along, did such a thing to my family. I really can't accept it,” Raven said sadly.

“I don't either,” Claire chimed. “That's why I got angry at my papa and shouted in front of him, until he had a heart attack. Actually, I was still able to save my papa back then, by taking the medicine that was in the cupboard. But I didn't do it, because I was so angry. He told me not to marry you, even if you can stay with me for the rest of my life. There's no way we're getting married, Raven. Because your parents' deaths were caused by my father's actions. I'm sorry, Raven...” Claire lowered her head and cried sobbing. His chest felt tightened by the various kinds of problems that had befallen him lately.

Usually, when Claire was crying, Raven would come comfort her, hug her, and bury her head into her chest. Then stroked her head gently and affectionately, whispering pleasant words in her ear.

But this time Raven did not do so Raven suddenly felt the girl was a stranger to her.

The girl had a knife in her heart, and it was sharp!

The blade had wounded Raven, wounded Kyle, and even the blade had killed three women at once. The knife is a heart knife!

If not touched, the knife will not cause a catastrophe. But if it has been touched and not carefully using it, the knife can hurt anyone! Not only could it hurt others, but it could also kill them!

That's what happened to Claire. The knife in his heart had injured many people, even killing them!

“Raven, I'm sorry.., also forgive my papa's actions..,” once again Claire begs. His tone sounded very alarming.

Apparently, he was really sorry, also regretting his father's actions. Because of her father's actions, Claire always did not dare to express love in front of Raven.

He never dared to ask Raven to be his lover, or even marry him.

He is in a difficult position, because on the other hand he does not want to see Raven along with other women besides himself.

Were it not for Raven first expressing her intention to marry Claire, Claire would not have dared to reveal it for the rest of her life. And they will never be together!

Raven did not answer. His heart felt cold and frozen. So too was the blood flow in his body. He was not able to think anymore, his head felt willing to break thinking about events after recent events that he did not suspect at all.

Even Claire's story about her father's actions against both parents Raven, making her even more unable to think anymore. Raven felt resigned. Let everything go as it is.

Police car sirens could be heard roaring down there. The footprints that entered the house, walked up the stairs, down the corridor, and stopped at Kyle's study.

Police found a dead man in the room and two short-barreled pistol guns lying on the floor.

The two people who were there, namely Raven and Claire, were secured by them. Claire and Raven are both taken to the police station, awaiting interrogation.

Earlier, neighbors heard noise and gunshots in the yellow house.

They believe something has happened inside the house, which is why they contacted the police.

And in no time, the police have come to secure everything. Victims, evidence, and suspects.

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