The hospital doors burst open as a man sprinted inside, befuddled and out of breath, in which cradled in his arms was a lady whose body was limp and lifeless, her face pale and streaked with blood. “Help! Someone, please help!” Xander shouted, his voice screaming urgency and fear, as he ran towards the nurse he saw approaching, “Please, she is dying.” The young beautiful nurse sprang into action immediately, as she alerted her colleagues instantly, “We need a gurney here, now!” she called out to her colleagues. Within a few seconds, a team of nurses and doctors rushed forward as they swiftly took her from his arms and transferred the body to the gurney, her head lolling to one side. Her face was swollen and bruised, her lip split and bleeding, as well as angry contusions marked her arms and neck.“Who is she?” One of the doctors who came instantly turned to question Xander, “And how did she sustain these injuries?” She observed the body lying on the bed, and noticed that it seemed
“The child is dead?! Are you kidding me?” Marilyn's words hung in the air, incomprehensible, and absurd as Carlton felt a wave of dizziness wash over him as if his mind had been plunged into darkness. “I am sorry to announce this, Carlton. The doctors tried all they could to save her life, but it wasn't successful,” Marilyn's loud sobs wracked out of her throat violently, her voice trembling with angst. “Wait. Wait,” Carlton shut his eyes tight, his voice barely audible while finding it hard to breathe as he tried to process the impossible news again. For a moment, he was struck dumb, as his thoughts spiraled into confusion as numbness spread to his limbs like wildfire, the phone slightly slipping in his grip. “What do you mean?!” He demanded imperiously, his emotions distant and unfocused. “I know this is hard to accept, but it is true. Daisy is gone. She died this morning,” Marilyn's words slapped Carlton hard on his face again, and cast him into an endless pit of instant des
The first golden rays of dawn filtered through the window past the thin curtains of her room at the inn, casting a glow upon the lady's face sprawled on the bed, causing her eyes to slowly blink awake. A slight moan escaped her lips as her body contorted into the blanket that she snuggled into, and her arms suspended in the air to stretch and crack out her sore bones. The first thought that occurred to her as she took time to savor in the serenity of the surroundings, and listen to the faint chirping of birds outside which made nature come alive, was how she had not slept for many days since she arrived at the inn. Last night, the kind old innkeeper had offered her a cup of tea and it worked like magic. Carefully, she lifted her body off the bed, swung her legs over the side of the bed, her bare feet touching the cool wooden floor, and took a deep breath before she rose on her feet and made her way to the small window to push it open. She took a few minutes standing by the win
“Miss Nadia. Can you hear me?” Doctor Betty came around after a nurse had informed her that Nadia had stirred after two days of being deeply unconscious. She pointed a flashlight to her dilated eyes to check if she was truly conscious, and then moved to check vital parts in her body to see if there was a reason why Nadia was not answering the question she had been asking. She just lay there with her eyes open. DormantDisoriented with her mind in a haze that blurred against the wall of her consciousness, Nadia's eyes were fixated on the person who was talking to her, unable to give her an answer to whatever she wanted to know. Even if her eyes and body were slightly stiff, and it felt like her entire body was on fire, she knew she could move her lips if she wanted to. However, she couldn't. The deadly scent of the man who almost sent her on a journey of no return was somewhere around. Near her. Lurking around her. “Miss Nadia. Can you see my fingers?” the doctor raised the first
“Good morning. We would like to take the patients for the tests now,” the nurse's loud piercing voice disrupted the silence in the room, and Xander immediately withdrew from Nadia's body, as he turned to flash a modest smile at the nurse. “I was scared for a second that she was not breathing. Seems like she was just sleeping peacefully after all,” his warm smile compelled the nurse to smile also, as she moved closer to check Nadia's vitals and adjust the IV connected to her hand.“Do not worry, Mr. Kirk. She will be fine,” she turned to Xander, who had carefully taken his seat, “I am going to take her for a CT scan and some blood tests to see how she is doing, so the doctor can confirm if there are some complications that the first tests did not catch,” she explained further to him. “Oh,” Xander mouthed flippantly, as his eyes shifted to where she was instantly, disappointment washing over him.Nadia felt relief wash over her in an instant, just when it felt like she would die just
“Code Red! We have a missing patient!” The announcement blared over the intercom as soon as they were informed about the recent upheaval, the voice sharp and urgent, “Security, report to all exits immediately!”The hospital had erupted into chaos in an instant, as the once-ordered corridors became disoriented, with doctors and nurses scampering around with palpable urgency. “Check all the wards!” Doctor Betty shouted, her voice barely cutting the hubbub everyone had been thrown into, “He couldn’t have gone far with her.”“Nurse Suzanne. Follow me to the surveillance room now. We should catch him in one of the cameras,” she ordered in motion, already on her way to the elevator, her heart beating fast in fear. “That bastard!” Doctor Betty cussed under her breath, her body quivering in fear that she had neglected the persistent gut feeling of her sixth sense from the day she saw him bring Nadia into the hospital in his arms, and talked about an abusive boyfriend too. ‘He said she wa
Liam had been thrown into the cold hands of despair ever since he crashed his wedding, and had been unable to switch on his phone or go on social media because of the countless tests, emails, and DMs asking him where he was. He had been desperate to search for Nadia while working together with the investigators tirelessly for hours, which turned into days. However, his hope seemed to be wearing thin already, and the strong armor of strength he had put on not to break down wore away very quickly. It was the evening of the third day of searching for her, and he was sitting in a rented car which was parked at the last town they visited to investigate, disheartened and broken. The pain in his chest was a constant, gnawing ache that grew larger with every passing second of every disappointing news. He had not slept at all. The dark circles under his eyes had become more pronounced, and he saw her face anything he wanted to close his eyes. His head couldn’t stop replaying their last conv
Days had turned into weeks, and life had not remained the same for Carlton, whose existence had been disrupted after the most painful truth about Marilyn's entanglement and how she succeeded in messing with his life and happiness. After she was arrested at the airport while trying to leave the airport, she was detained and investigated concerning the sudden death of the child she had claimed belonged to Carlton. “I cremated her already!” She claimed repeatedly no matter how many times she was questioned by the prosecutor in charge of her. “Why?” “There is no use in keeping a dead child and breaking my heart more,” she responded, without remorse or sense of guilt, her eyes darting uncontrollably to every corner of the room like she was looking for something. “Where are the medical reports that confirmed she died and have her bio-data?!” The prosecutor, whose patience was already wearing thin, questioned, seeing how unstable and restless she had been since she entered to question M