Don’t Try To Cheat On Me by Tatiana Syniavska

"Ok my loving wife,

you are beautiful already, no need to get even more ..so can we go now?” - Mike said while I was getting ready to go to office. I replied to him yes, and we went together after locking our apartment, where we were living happily married for two years.

I couldn't believe that it’s been two years now. I met him at work, which we both loved madly. We loved our job so much that we didn't even have time for romance, and, it is hard to imagine, but even a marriage proposal I received in the store room of our office.

It was almost 2:00 o'clock, I made a phone call to Mike to check if he is going to home or he has extra work. But he did not pick the call. So, I went to his department to check on him. It seems he went home because he was sick. I got worried, quickly checked out of the office and went home. I was walking on the stairs and reached the second floor, when I saw the open door of our apartment. Every furniture was out of the place and some was torn apart. I went to the balcony it was the same, even the flower pots were destroyed. But still no sign of Mike neither anybody else.

Suddenly I heard a phone call coming from the kitchen. I went in and I saw a nokia small phone right there on our dining table, ringing repeatedly. I was afraid to pick up because that's definitely not our phone but answered the call without saying a word.

-“Melisa?..are you there? I know it's you..you are probably guessing who did such destruction to your lovely apartment? Isn't it?..well it was me". - The man said.

-"Who are you? Why did you tear apart my apartment? What do you want?" I asked so many questions in one breath because I was so confused.

-I want you to steal million dollars from your own company and bring it to a location I tell you..simple as that" the man replied with a relaxed voice.

-I started laughing and replied "You are joking? Isn't it? What makes you think I would do that?

-1 have your husband .I kidnapped him..if you don't do anything as I say he gonna get tortured and killed, more importantly, if you tell about this to anyone else especially police..you will find your dead husband body within an hour"

- "What? No, no don't do that ..I will do whatever you say but I will need assurance that he is alive".

Mike started talking as fast as he could "Melisa, don't do anything they say..“

The call ended there and I went down on my knee crying out so loud. "Not this again" I said to myself, calmed and sat down on the blue sofa in the living room. Then, I got up and moved my hand to the back corner of the sofa and click a switch which opened the sofa down part. I started taking out knives and guns from inside there. I put it all on the kitchen counter when I counted 6 guns with 13 magazines of bullets and 4 knives of different size including a small knife toolbox. I went inside my room changed my clothes to all black and covered my face except my eyes and wore black boots. I started looking through my apartment to check if the kidnappers left any clue mistakes but couldn't find anything.

I started thinking about my past. I wished my team were here today. But they couldn't because but they were dead after our failed mission in San Pedro. It was the real reason I left that part of the past. I couldn't bear the loss of my team, my family I had that time. So, I left that job, erased all the information on me being on that job, came far away to the Maldives and applied a job which I got in right away. That where I met my next family, my husband and I feel like I am about to lose him.

The nokia phone that kidnappers left for me started ringing again. I was so relieved to get the phone call location that I didn't wait for a minute. I took my big-size handbag to put the 3 guns and 3 knives to it. One knife I placed in my thigh after putting a belt. I took the small knife toolbox and place some from it in my boots inside socks, inside the hand under the dress, and went out.

In no time, I was near the location I traced from the call. I was so shocked when I was standing right in front of my office. I did even check twice to be sure if I was in the correct location. The kidnapper might keep Mike inside the office but why would he do that?

Every light in the office was off and no sound was heard except the server running sound.I went to the store room hall quietly cause I did not want them to know I was here. I was shocked again to find the store room had its light on. "Oh it must be kidnappers..they are in the store room..what am I gonna do now?" I was right in front of the door when someone opened the door. I pushed the person inside the hall and without hesitation I shot him in the head, calling for Mike.

I was so fast in my actions I shot all the other people except the person who was standing where the sound came from. The person kept calling "stop stop". But I brought my gun down after shooting everyone in front of me. It was then the light came on and some people who came running from the hallway entered the store room. I couldn't believe what I was seeing, some of my colleagues in the office were lying on the floor with the bullets I shot them including my husband Mike.

In a half-hour, I was sitting in an investigation room of Maldives Police Service. I kept seeing my husband's and the colleagues' faces over and over again. I told everything to the person who came to questions me including how I got the weapons and about the kidnapping call. It was him who explained to me that my husband and the office were preparing a surprise party for me, after what I just broke out of tears and kept crying for I don’t know how long. I think until the officer told me the consequences of my actions will be going to jail for life.

Well, they shouldn't have tried to cheat me.