Lord Davenport picked up the painting and looked at it against the light.
“You know, Mr. Stewart,” he said to the artist in a dubious tone “I still don’t get it.”
“Art has to be felt,” Graham Stewart replied with a chuckle, “not understood, Your Lordship. Give it some time, it’ll grow on you, I promise.”
Lord Davenport looked indulgently at the pretty girl beside him, and said, “I only came here because my niece Emily insisted on it. This is my gift to her. She turns 18 tomorrow.”
“And becomes the sole owner of my brother’s estate,” thought Lord Davenport bitterly, though he kept beaming with apparent affection at his niece, “and that is why she will be involved in an unfortunate ‘accident’ on our way back to the Manor today.”
Completely unaware of her uncle’s diabolical plot, Emily hugged him tightly, as if for the very last time.
For she knew that the undetectable poison on the frame of the painting would have seeped into his skin by now, and he would be dead by tomorrow. 10 Million Pounds of life insurance money, a huge estate,and Graham as her husband, what else could a girl want on her birthday!
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199 words.
Written as a part of Sunday Photo Fiction, hosted by Al Forbes till the end of this month, when Susan takes over. The objective is to write a story in 200 words or less, based on the weekly photo prompt.
This is also my entry for the #AtoZChallenge and #BlogchatterA2Z. Today’s letter was U, which in my story, stands for ‘Undone.’
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Emily was the super smart one- he would never have imagined she will outsmart him. Nice twist Anurag
Thank you so much Akshata, though she wasn’t THAT smart. She doesn’t know about the planned accident in the evening. So nobody wins in the end.
Thats the question right! Who strikes first? I thought its Emily
Two murder plots in just 199 words. Impressive!
Ha ha ha. Thank you so much Ed.
Evil plot trumped by another evil plot! Sounds like a great way to turn 18!
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She won’t, no? Remember that ‘accident’ that has been planned for the evening?
A wicked web indeed, and no-one saw the spider.
Thank you so much Di.
Some loving family! 😛 I’d be safer in a nest of vipers instead
Absolutely 🙂
Loved this! What a twist, from ‘poor Emily’ to ‘astute Emily’!
Thank you so much Luccia, though astute Emily won’t survive to see her victory, as the accident has already been planned for the evening 🙂
Oh dear😥 I was rooting for her!
I suppose the money will now go to deserving orphans, or starving artists.
Ha ha ha, Graham maybe? Thank God you got the fact that neither of them survives. I was getting a lot of comments on how the girl has trumped over her uncle, so I was wondering if the planned ‘accident’ part was a bit too subtle.
🙂 All a matter of terrible timing.
Nice twist!
Thank you so much
Ha, she’ll be laughing right up until the point she has her own unfortunate accident!
Eggjaktly 🙂
Another diabolical double twist painted with perfection!
Thank you so much Jules
Wonderfully done.
Thank you so much Sarah Ann
I enjoyed this double plot, but now I wonder who gets the cash,
Not me, unfortunately 😦 My bet is on the artist Graham 🙂