33-HIDING FROM THE PAST

ROSE

I froze when I saw the gun right there at the table as for the second time he just looked like he would go ahead and shoot a man. I tried weighing the idea at the back of my mind.

The more I stared straight at him, the more it became impossible to get myself to succumb to whatever all this was about, I needed so bad to get myself away from him, as a matter of fact I was starting to regret having signed that contract with this man that pulled out a gun with each chance he got.

“Why not put the gun away and we can talk about this amicably." Maurice's voice said in a calm tone close to where I was.

Looking into his eyes all I could see was that dark look, I saw a man that had been broken severally and didn't have it in him to trust again.

“I am Sorry guys, maybe I am doing this the wrong way."

A sudden thought, a need to know, came to me, and it escaped my lips before I could stop it.

“Who made you this way?” My heart

thumped to an awkward beat. That was the most invasive thing I