loosing consciousness, but no one stepped up to help her. Who would help a
good-for-nothing illegitimate child with no shame? Who would step up knowing
fully well everything Ciara 'did' to her elder sister? People called her a dumb
beauty while some called her evil, but one thing is inevitable, and that was
the fact that Ciara was way more beautiful than Maria.
Amongst the people who gathered around her nearly dead body, she could clearly
see a man, pale faced man in a dark suit, but the more she looked at him, the
more she thought him surreal. He stood among the crowd, yet, seemed different
from them.
Before she could think more to the matter, her consciousness slowly faded
and she felt herself grow light. After what felt like forever, she felt her
pain subsided, she couldn't feel anything, she could only hear the criticism of
those around her.
"The illegitimate daughter of the William family passed away in a car
accident, pathetic"
"Serves her right for scheming against her sister"
"She's quite pitiful though, she didn't even get to say goodbye to her
father"
"What father? He only took her in because her mother was dying and she
was his blood. Do you think Elvis Williams is a good guy? He might have dome it
for public opinion"
"Her father doesn't accept her. I don't know where you got your
information from but from a reliable source, I heard it was the Old Master of
the Williams family that accepted her back. Even her father doesn't recognize
her as his child"
"Those rich people are quite disgusting"
The onlookers kept talking till they finally dispersed but Ciara definitely
didn't want to hear anymore of it. She was in shock. One minute she was lying
on her blood in pain and the next minute, she was standing in the audience,
staring numbly at her lifeless self in front of her.
"Impossible" She murmured. She looked around but it seemed no one
could even see her. "Impossible" she mumbled again. She just couldn't
find any suitable explanation for what was going on. She looked around once
more and noticed the pale man in black, staring right at her!
"You...You can see me? You see..." she couldn't even form a simple
sentence due to anxiety. Looking back at the man, then her corpse, then back to
the man, her eyes widened in shock. "You...see ghosts? I'm a ghost? Do you
know what's happening? What do I do? I..." She didn't even know what more
to say, she could only look at the man in front of her who stared back at her
silently. "You..."
Just as she was about to urge him to speak, she saw someone walk through
him, then her, before she suddenly turned dumb.
Staring at her dumbfounded state, the pale man sighed before he calmly said,
"Ciara Williams, illegitimate daughter of the Williams family. Always at
the mercy at her step-mother and step-sister. Only backbone being the Old
Master of the Williams family, Samuel Williams, eldest member and Patriarch of
the Williams family. Ignored by biological father and slandered by both people
who know her and those who don't. Eventually, lost in thought about her
pathetic life, she's involved in a car accident orchestrated by evil
Step-sister Maria and Step-mother Sophie. Am I right?".
Ciara was not shocked that the mysterious man in front of her knew of her
identity and predicament, rather, she was shocked upon finding out that it was
Maria and her Step-mother who actually killed her. "You...is what you're
saying true? Did Maria and Aunty Sophie really...really kill me?".
Noting her discomfort, the pale man could only shake his head before
explaining, "If not them, who? The masses? We both know that they only
love to gossip and no psycho maniac would waste his or her time to actually
kill you, knowing fully well the Old Master is on your side and risking a life
imprisonment, or worse, death? They may be stupid but I don't think they're
that stupid. Not like Sophie or Maria are they're idols or something".
Listening to the pale man's explanation, Ciara could only sigh. "It's
all done, so there's no mulling over spilled milk. Now, I'm dead, and there's
no going back. But you haven't told me who you are yet. Are you an Angel taking
me to Heaven or a Demon taking me to Hell?".
The pale man stared at the curious eyes in front of him in silence, waiting
to see her reaction to his silence. But Ciara didn't back down, she just stared
and waited for him to talk patiently.
Seeing her persistence, the pale man asked, "Do you really want to
know?", to which Ciara hurriedly nodded.