CHAPTER 3

Brianne Raye POV

“Bri, please let me explain…This is not what you think---” he said and tried to get close to me.

“Shut up! It’s not what I think. What excuse you will be fucking give? If it’s not what I think it is, then what you two are doing? A workshop? A scene rehearsal? I’m not fucking dumb Vander! You two are cheating on me! It’s clear as the air, you’re fucking her behind my back.” I said as I push him away as he tried to touch me. “Don’t you dare fucking touch me!” I shouted as I push him away again.

“Bri no----” He tried to say.

“You,” I said and look at Sabrina who is still on the bed looking stunned. “How long have you been fucking this bastard?” I ask her but she still stayed silent. “I’m fucking asking you!” I shouted and tried to pull her out of the bed. “Answer me!” I shouted.

“Bri, stop you’re hurting her,” Vander said and tried to get me away from Sabrina.

“Hurting her? I’m the one hurting someone now?” I ask as I look at him with disbelief. “Vander I’m the victim here! You cheated on me! You cheated me!” I shouted in anger and pain.

“Bri, I’m sorry,” Vander said and tried to hug me.

“Get fucking off me! You’re disgusting! BOTH OF YOU!” I said and push him. “I hate you, I fucking hate you. Don’t ever come to me, don’t ever show you’re fucking face to me.” I said to them and run out of the room and the apartment.

My face was full of tears as I tried to use the keycard for the elevator, but I keep failing.

“Please! Please just let me get out of this palace, please open up!” I said as I tried over and over again until I hear Vander’s voice calling for me. “Please… please just let me in,” I said and continue to try.

When someone behind me use another keycard that made the elevator open and quickly get in with him.

“Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!” I said as I hit my head on the wall of the elevator when I felt a hand block my forehead.

“Don’t do that, you’re being to hurt yourself.” A man’s voice said behind me. “If he is the one who cheated, that means he is the stupid one and not you.” He said.

“But, I trusted him…I thought he loves me.” I said resting my forehead.

“That is normal, it’s normal to give your trust to someone that you’re in a relationship with. That’s not stupidness Ms.” The man said. “The one who should be feeling guilty right now is that man and not you, he is the one who cheated with another person and now you, don’t blame yourself.” He said.

“It hurts too bad…”

Third Person POV

Brianne when outside the elevator with tears on her face as she walks looking down trying to hide to every person that she is walking pass. She continues to walk out of the building and turn to her right and just keeps walking without any plans in mind about where to go until a cab pulled off on her and she absentmindedly gets in.

“I just want to be happy… Why is it so hard for you to let me have that?” she said looking up at the sky.

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“Sir?” Hans said as his boss just stood in front of him as he opens the door of the car for him, but he just continues to stare to a distance. “Is there something wrong sir?” he asks him again but he seems to me worried about something.

‘Is he worried about the meeting he didn’t get to attend earlier? But he never careers about those things, why does he look so worried?’ Hans thought to himself.

“Give me the car key, I need to go somewhere.” His boss said.

“But sir Nicholas your parents are expecting with your parent’s family friends----” Hans tried to say but Nicholas quickly took the car key from his hand.

“Tell them I had an emergency thing to attend to and tell them to not call me.” He said and get in the driver's seat of the car and turn the car and drove away.

“What the hell is going on with him?”

~

“Please pull off on the side,” Brianne said to the cab driver.

The driver confusedly stops the car on the side of the bride and looked at Brianne who quickly took out the money from her bag and handed it to the driver and get out of the car without waiting for her change.

“You can keep the rest.” She said when the driver lowered his window.

“Oh, thank you. If you’re waiting for someone Miss it’s good to call them while you’re waiting, this place is known for being dangerous. Do you want me to accompany you here as you wait for someone?” the driver said and Brianne fake a smile and shake her head.

“No, I’ll be fine. Thank you.” She said as she tried to stop her tears from falling.

“Oh, okay. Have a nice night.” The driver said and drove away.

Brianne walk towards the railing for the bride and look at the dark sky over her and the light of the building from the distance when her phone suddenly rang.

Brianne Raye POV

“Hello, Bri? It’s already late, where are you?” Manager Clea from the other life of the call.

“I’m…somewhere,” I answered bit my lower lips to stop my sobbing.

“Are you okay? Your voice sounds so different.” Manager Clea said.

“I’m not…I’m so tired and in pain…” I said as I let out a sob and wipe my tears. “I’m so sorry but I don’t think I…I can still do this.”

“What? Brianne Raye where are you right now? Stop saying things like that!” Manager Clea said and I could hear the panic in her voice.

“I…I just want to rest, please tell Bryan that I’m sorry.” I said as I took out a keychain on my pocket. “Please tell him that I love him so much, tell mom that I’m sorry for being a failure. Thank you for always having my back Manager Clea, thank you for taking care of me and staying with me.”

“Brianne stops it! Where are you? Tell me we’ll come---” Manager Clea tried to say but I quickly ended the call.

When suddenly it vibrates again on my hand, it’s Vander.

“Hello? Bri? Where are you? Can we please talk?” He said as soon as I pick up the call.

“What for? Are you still not satisfied too what you did to me? What else do you want?” I said as I clench my fist.

“Babe please let me explain, please hear me out. I’m still here at the apartment please come---” he said and cut him off as I fake a laugh.

“Wow, you’re unbelievable. I’m still the one that will make a fucking effort just for you to hear how you will justify your action. Do you really take me as a dumb person Vander?” I said. “We’re done Vander, there is nothing for you to explain because I saw it already with my own eyes.”

“No, Bri please give me another chance. Please, where are you? I’ll pick you up and let’s talk.” He insisted.

“I’m…I’m at the end, I hate you and I want you to know that. I want that to be the last memory of me to you, I hate you so much Vander Will I hate myself for trusting you and loving you? I hate you, if I could just turn back time, I will choose to not let our paths cross.” I said as I pull the phone away from my ears and ended the call tears starts to uncontrollably stream on my face as I look up at the dark sky full of stars

“You’re always unfair to me and I can’t do it anymore, I’m giving back the life you gave me I just want to rest.”

Third Person POV

“What the hell is she trying to do?” Nicholas uttered as he sat inside the car he pulled over to the side of the bride and watch a woman standing on the side of the bride.

He removes his seatbelt as he watches the woman talk to someone on the phone she cry and keep trying to wipe her face with her hand. Nicholas is watching every move of her intensely as he put his hand on the door of the car and is ready to get out of the car time.

“Fuck!” He exclaimed as the woman drop her bag and phone on the floor and starts to remove her shoes using her feet.

He quickly got out of the car and run towards the woman who was about to throw herself on the bride until Nicholas manage to get to her and hug her pulling her back and both of them landed on the floor.

“What the hell do you think you’re doing?!” Nicholas shouted at her as they fall to the ground.

But the woman didn’t speak and just got up on her own, ignoring Nicholas who is still laying on the ground as he felt a pain in his shoulder part.

“I’m doing what is best for me for the first time, so please don’t stop me this is the first time I’m putting myself first, please let me do it.” She said as he looks down her him.

“Stop it!” He said but didn’t get any response than tears on the lady’s face.

“Please tell him that I hated him even to my last breath.”

_

“What the fuck! Call 911!” Hans shouted as he watches right before his eyes his boss jump off the bridge. “Fuck! Fuck!” he shouted as he tried to look on below the bride.

HANS WAS STANDING ON ANXIOUSLY AS HE WATCHES THE RESCUER look around the river to find his boss.

“What the hell is he even thinking?!” He said to himself as he brushes his hand on his face in frustration. “I can’t just stand here! Fuck this!” he said and walk away from the shore and took a flashlight. “There is no way he died, the bride is not that high and he is a good swimmer, please god please.” He said as he starts to walk around looking around.

He pulled out his phone and dialed his boss's number but still not answered, He continue to walk until he could barely see the light from the rescuer. He dialed his boss's number again for one last time before deciding to head back to the rescuer hoping that they finally found him while he is away when he suddenly hears a phone ringing from a distance.

He quickly runs in the direction where he hears the ringing of the phone louder.

“Sir!” He said as he saw him lying on the ground with a woman in his arms. “Fuck!” he curses again and tried to put his two fingers on their neck checking for a pulse. “You’re still alive.” He uttered. “Help! He is here!” he shouted at the top of his lungs as he dialed another number on the phone. “I found him quickly come here with medic!”

He was painting heavily as he stood up and watch the medic take them and put them into a stretcher.

“Be careful.” He said worriedly. “Her pulse I checked it, it was weak.” He said to the medic that too the lady, quickly followed by hiding them as they took the two away.

“Sir, Mr. Nicholas's father called and asked for an update.” The driver with Hans said.

“Tell him we found him and we’re on our way to the hospital, ask him to not tell Mrs. Leone. Mr. Nicholas will be fine.” Hans said and get inside the car and starts to tail the ambulance. “Hello? Mr. Lancer? This is Hans, the secretary of Mr. Nicholas Leone. I need a favor on the behalf of my boss, can we meet at the hospital that I’m going to send to you? It’s an emergency---okay thank you.”

~

“Hello? Is this Clea Denver?” Hans said on phone.

“Yes? Who is this? If this is for work, I can’t talk right now---” Manager Clea said and you could hear the panic in her voice.

“No, this is about Brianne Raye,” Hans said.

“What? Who is this? What happens to Brianne? Where is she?” she asks panicking.

“She is at the hospital, I’ll send you the address. It will be safer for you if you’ll come here and see her for yourself---” hands tried to say but quickly got cut off by Clea.

“No! tell me now! How is she? Why is she in the hospital?!” Clea shouted on the phone as she sobbed.

“She’s in ICU and in critical condition."