Vanessa didn’t like it.
“Move faster,” he often said abruptly. I’m not paying you to walk around my house.
Once, in front of several guests, he even said:
“If you keep this up, I’ll have to ask you for a new uniform. That one won’t be left for long.
Rachel said nothing.
He just lowered his head.
I saw his eyes fill with tears.
That night, for the first time, I was ashamed of my wife’s behavior.
But everything changed on a Tuesday night.
It was almost eleven when Rachel knocked on my office door.
He would normally have gone home hours earlier.
But that night his face was pale.
His hands were shaking.
He went in, closed the door and said quietly:
“Mr. Richard, I don’t know how to tell you this. If I’m wrong, you can fire me right now. But if you don’t listen to me now, I may not wake up tomorrow.
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I got up from the chair.
“What happened?”
Rachel looked at me quietly for several seconds.
Then he whispered:
I heard Mrs. Vanessa talking to someone.
With whom?
He said a name I knew very well.
Kevin.
I felt my blood freezing.
Vanessa had always introduced me to Kevin as a distant cousin. He came to our house often. Sometimes I would help with some documents and sometimes take Vanessa somewhere.
I’ve never suspected anything.
Rachel explained to me that she was cleaning the hallway when she heard their voices coming from the next room.
They thought she had already gone home.
Vanessa had said that I had not yet signed the New Testament.
Kevin replied angry that she had waited too long.
And then Vanessa said a phrase that I still can’t forget.
“When everything is in my name, Richard will no longer be a problem.
I was paralyzed.
For months, Vanessa had really been constantly talking about my will.
In addition, I had recently started to take care of my heart medications.
Two weeks earlier, my car’s brakes had also failed.
At the time, I thought it was an accident.
After that night, I stopped believing it.
Rachel looked down.
“Mr. Richard, I desperately need this job. I still haven’t managed to save enough money for my mother’s operation. But if I kept quiet and something happened to you, I could never forgive me.
