7

LATER…

Zac woke up in a hospital bed, bleary eyed.

"what happened?" he asked.

"you killed drake," vanessa replied.

"oh, right." Then he remembered why he had done it. He became very sad. A single tear rolled down his cheek. After all he'd done, it's no wonder vanessa was falling for another man.

"don't cry." Vanessa told him, "ill get you a special treat to cheer you up!"

EVEN LATER…

Vanessa soon returned with some yogurt. She smiled. "open up," she said and fed him some zesty mango goodness.

"vanessa.." zac began hesitantly, "I need to ask you something…"

"what is it zaccy?" vanessa asked him

"its just.." the tears turned into tiny rivers flowing down his cheeks. "did you love drake?"

vanessa giggled. "no," she said, "I wanted him to die. I didn't think id have to explain this to you."

"why not?" zac was beginning to get angry. "you didn't think id find out eventually?"

"no, it's because you weren't supposed to survive, zachary"

zac suddenly began to choke. His eyes widened. "baby v?"

then he realized. Vanessa had asked that woman clara in the alley for extra yogurt 'just in case'. It must have been poisoned. And after all he'd done, he felt *very* betrayed.

In his last moments, Zac abruptly remembered all the moments that should have helped him realize his destiny.

"I won't let this affect our baby and our future family," vanessa had said in the pool. Had she already decided on this?

In the hospital, the note in the pamphlet holder was written in messy penmanship, but drake had neat printing on the sticky notes in his house. Vanessa's writing in her diary was messy. Had vanessa written the note to get him to canada?

Vanessa had booked the flight to canada, with the connection in las vegas, where they had become husbond and wife. Was this her only motive? To access his money and belongings? "isn't this part of the plan?" she had said.

She had also said she would make "a few" calls, but they had only met up with the one woman for the yogurt. Had she called drake to demand he say jared forced him into everything? So zac would believe he had changed?

And what about the diary? Vanessa had written so loudly that night, almost like she wanted him to look for the diary and read what she had written. Like she had wanted him to attack drake, and for both of them to die. But zac had survived. Until now.

Zac went into the light…..

"haunt me daddy," vanessa whispered