LEONA“You should rest, you’ve been here all day,” Aiden suggested when I let out another yawn. I immediately shook my head at that idea and took the plate in his hands. How could I consider resting when Jordan was not awake yet and Genesis was still unconscious. The doctor had said that she was fine and would be up soon but for my son, I still had no idea.“Aiden is right, we can look after them while you rest,” Abigail, Genesis’ mother walked into the room just in time. I looked up at her and gave a faint smile. She had been coming to check on me every single minute and I could not be happier that I had her on my side.“I will, I just can’t see myself sleeping when Jordan is still unconscious and Genesis is still….”“Genesis would be fine. She is simply in shock and the doctor had assured us that she would wake up soon.” She interrupted and I sighed. Genesis must be through a lot and had collapse when Jordan died for that brief second. She had no idea that he was awake already even
GENESISI opened my eyes and looked around to find that I was alone and since I had been in the hospital a couple of times, recently, I knew that pungent smell anywhere and knew just exactly where I was. Not to add that the I.V drips also added to that knowledge.Tears swelled up in my eyes and the last memory I had of Jordan resurfaced in my thought. Tears and pain choked me and something clogged my chest, making it hard for me to cry out. I recalled seeing him in that hospital bed and wanted to scream. I wanted to scream, yell and call out to him, but my voice seems to have disappeared and the pain in my chest was making it hard to even breathe.“Blue eyes….” Someone called out to me and Ava soon appeared at my blurry vision. She disappeared within a second and when she returned, she was with my dad, Tiana, Tiffany and Nate. They surrounded me and were speaking all at once. But just as Jordan disappeared before my eyes, like a dream, a beautiful dream, he made a very short night a p
I placed my hand on his already pale one and held it. It filled my heart with warmth, and tears started rolling down my cheeks again. I thought of every touch, every feeling, every hold, every kiss he had ever given and shut my eyes tight. The beeping sound grew in my ears and so did the sound of his heart beat.“I won’t leave,” I entered boldly. He was so scared that I might leave him, probably just the same way Samantha did. She had known that he had a disease that was why she refused to marry him and had left him alone for years, never loving him truly, even after her return. He had his mother and cousin but he was alone, fighting a silent battle of life and death and no one to truly comfort him, not even me. I remained in the dark because he was scared, I would be like Samantha, he was scared that I would be like any other person. Who knew how many had left him, the moment they found out? The tears against my eyes did not stop and the pain in my heart also didn’t. I thought of wha
Samantha’s jaw dropped immediately, then she scoffed.“Jordan must really love you,” she entered and once again I was back to that place.“How is he doing?” she asked, dropping all the pomposity in her voice that she sounded like she really cared.“Do you really care?” I asked, hating her guts to even stop and speak to me. How could I easily forget what she had done, all she did to me and Jordan.“I was his childhood friend,”“Though I might had turned to the Villain of his life and love, I care.” She answered sadly and I frowned. Trusting her was definitely not my aim and would rather she remain her distance and talked.“What do you want?”“I couldn’t just pass by when I saw you sitting here.” She answered.“Your mother-in-law made sure that I was never allowed into that hospital premises. I have been there a couple of times to see you and him.”“How are you doing?” she really sounded like she cared.“Don’t you want me dead?” I couldn’t help but asked. A pained look suddenly appeared
LEONAKatherine held my hands tightly and squeezed it in other to comfort me and remind me that she was there. She looked strong, like a pillar that I would fall to at that particular moment, but life was hitting me so hard, my heart was tired, my body was tired yet I didn’t know if I should fall to her and simply become weak or if I should simply be strong, and take whatever I get. The last seemed to be a better option since I still had Jordan to look after, I still had Genesis to hold and a world that was waiting for an explanation from me. Could I truly afford to be tired and weak? No, I could not afford to feel any of that emotion. Life was feeding me with thorns and it would only beat me down more. I had to keep fighting, because I still had something to fight for, I still had my son to be strong for.We followed the cops to a place we didn’t know. It looked like a laboratory of some kind but it was hidden and kept secret. I had no idea where we were going to. They had only infor
For a long time, I simply held that letter in my hand. Tears refused to fall down my eyes anymore and my heart stilled. I recalled the last conversation we had, when he suddenly appeared for the art exhibition at Genesis.“You look lovely,” he had smiled at me, genuinely this time and it creeped me out. It’s been so long I saw him smile at me that way and it felt different, strange, yet my heart had missed that man who had turned into a stranger to me so suddenly. The loving father who had turned to a hateful and cold one and a husband who had turned to a cheat and an abuser later on.“What are you doing?” I replied, simply because I could not trust him. I had let go of our marriage after the last time he hit me and had not returned to the house ever since Jordan took me away. I was not planning to do that now, especially because I could not trust him.“I won’t return to you, so stop the pretense. And what are you doing here? Do you want to ruin the day for your daughter in law?” I pu
GENESISWe stopped in front of the church and I stepped down immediately. But the moment I stepped down from the car, another feeling of dread settled at the pit of my stomach and I immediately turned to the direction we came from. My heart was hurting and my guts were telling me that something terrible was happening. Should I return?“If you are not feeling alright, we can go back,” Samantha suggested as she stepped down from the car. For a moment, I thought about going back, to be with Jordan, to know what was happening, to make sure that he wouldn’t leave me. But what could I do? It was not like I could keep him away from death and that was where God came in. I turned back to the church and shook my head.“No…” I turned to the guards that stepped out from the car that followed that of Samantha. I was shocked to see that a car was there speedily and with it were more than ten of them.“You’ve gotten pale, ma’am,” the one who entered the same car as I did enter.“I think we should re
“Hey…” someone yelled beside me. I snapped my gaze to the voice and found Samantha looking at me with a frown on her face and worry in her eyes. I blinked and looked around, wondering if I was in the same place and if I was seeing right. She definitely could not be worried about me. I shook my head and tried to move but my knees and butt was hurting so bad, I groaned.“Why would you sleep, I thought you were praying?” she began chiding and I frowned.“What are you doing in here?”“You were not replying to any of my calls, I was thinking you died before I could kill you,” she replied and I glared at her.“Really?” I looked around.“What? He knows I’m a bad person even when I am not in the church,” she responded so casually. I sighed and shook my head, knowing that I was just going to waste my time arguing with her.“My guards could have woken me up. You didn’t have to come in, I’m not planning to die anytime soon,” I responded, remembering the voice of Jordan in my head. My heart was a