Chapter 120

Bloodline

Brian’s hands trembled as he held the photo, feeling not to blink as though if he did the photo would vanish out of his hand. Nothing had astonished him than beholding his father, Mr. Coleman, holding hand-in-hand, face lit up with smiles, as he posed with Ella’s husband in the photo. After beholding it for what seemed to be forever, he turned the rear only to behold a stylishly written note that maddened him even more: Cousin and I at sister’s wedding, May 1st 2021.

“Oh my God!” Brian exclaimed, sniffing as he felt nauseated immediately. There was this roaring in him; as though he had a baby lion in him that was about shooting out. “Oh my goodness!” he exclaimed yet again, casting an investigative stare at the corpse on the floor and the image in the photo and saw the perfection in resemblance. He need not be told that he just murdered a bloodline. He could affirm that because he barely knew his closest cousins let alone his distant cousins. He stared in the c