NICKI walked out of my ward with mother calling my name. I bumped into father outside. “Son, I thought you just had a heart attack. Was your mother just scaring me to get me here?” he looked so worried. “Apparently, I did have a heart attack, and I just discharged myself.” I walked past him. “Nick, where the hell do you think you are going then?”“To find out who did that to my wife using my name.” father said nothing else, I believe that he too knew what I was talking about. I was the only moron who didn’t know and kept causing her pain on top of everything else. I went to the third floor where ICU was. When I got there Marcus was still there. He didn’t say a word to me.I went and opened Olivia’s room. Ethan sat on a wheelchair by her side with a bandage on his head. What the hell happened to him? he let go of her hand when I got inside. “What happened to you?” I asked. “I was in the same car she was in.” what the hell was he doing with her?“We were coming from dinner when the acci
NICKA week past and Olivia had not woken up. It was driving me crazy. I had tried everything I could think of to get her to wake up. I have asked the nanny to bring Samuel to the hospital to see and talk to her. hoping that she would wake up, but she didn’t. I even let Marcus go into her room and talk to her. mother and father tried as well but my beautiful wife remained sleeping.Ethan was discharged four days ago, but he too lived in the hospital same as me. I would work during the day then at night I would be at the hospital with my wife. Marcus and Ethan rotated the day shift when I was at work. They would be at the hospital keeping an eye on her. We were working on the theory that if that person who ran them off the road wanted her dead, then he was going to try again.For the sake of Olivia, we all put our differences aside and worked together to protect her. In the past week I had seen how much my wife was loved and cared for. The two men I thought had different motives towards
NICKI thought Ethan has something to do with my men at the prison disappearing but after what I had witnessed with mother, father and the man. I was beginning to think that whoever they were afraid of was the one responsible. I hit the wall repeatedly feeling angry and helpless.With all the fucking money I had, I couldn’t do anything to find that person or protect my wife from him. just who the hell was he? “Woah! The wall did nothing to you man.” Ethan said stopping me from hitting the wall. My knuckles were raw and bleeding. My hand throbbed but the pain was nothing compared to the pain and anger I was feeling inside.“Did something happen?” I wished everyone could stop asking me that question and assuming the worst about my wife. “Mother knows who did this, or at least I think she does, but she is too afraid of him to even say his name.” Ethan’s jaw tightened.“Then we find him ourselves, he didn’t go after Olivia alone. I was also in that car; I could have been killed.”“I was wa
NICKMy whole body shook in anger, and I pushed myself off the wall. “I am going to fucking kill HER!” I pushed right past Ethan and just as I rounded a corner my sister appeared out of nowhere. “Woah, where is the fire?” I glared at her, the sight of her made my stomach churn. “Get the fuck out of my way!” my voice was dangerously low and threatening.“Okay, jeez!” she moved aside, I took one step, but Ethan held my arm stopping me. “Why didn’t you tell me this before? I could have told you the truth and prevented you from making the biggest mistake of your life.”“She fucking convinced me not to! I believed her and her doctor confirmed everything! What was I supposed to think?”“Tell me the name of the doctor, I will go there. I want to know why he lied.” The damn thing was a web of lies and even her doctor was involved. I remember that day I wanted to bring her here, but she refused and said she wanted her doctor.The man has a practice close to the mall and I took her there. I told
ETHANSomething clicked in me when Nick told me that, “Let me call you back Nick.” I cut the call and rushed to my car. “Go back to the hospital.” The drive back to the hospital felt very long and it didn’t help that I was on the edge of my seat with worry. My stomach twisted painfully at the thoughts I was having.I hoped it wasn’t true, but it would be the only thing that made sense in all of this. “Step on it or find back roads, I don’t care, just get me there and fast.” My driver swerved and started overtaking cars careful not to hit anyone. We got to the hospital in record time, and I rushed to the third floor.Those few minutes in the elevator felt like hours, why didn’t they make those things a little faster than they were. Getting there I looked around and couldn’t spot the person I was looking for. Instead, I saw Marcus in the waiting room reading something in the newspaper. “Where is she?”He placed the news paper aside with a frown on his face, I didn’t like the guy, I knew
NICKI saw red when she threatened my family like that. In a second, I had my hands wrapped around her neck and squeezing. I was ready to kill her right there and then and prevent her from laying a finger on my family. “Why are you not stopping him from strangling her?” asked Ethan on the side.Marcus shrugged. “They are siblings and siblings fight.” Those morons! “You kill me, you never know who did all those things to Olivia.” I let go of her neck as if it burned me. Ethan was all up in her face in seconds as I stepped back. She coughed uncontrollably and then the evil woman smirked.“You are so easy to fool Nick, did you really think I was going to tell you?” she shook her head as if she pitied me, me, Nick Jones. “I will tell you this though, this whole accident brought you and Olivia close. Or it brought you closer to her because she is out and might not feel the same when she comes to. At least you got to spend two weeks with her, so I guess that’s something.”She continued to sm
NICKWhile we were busy glaring at each other, doctors ran past us going to the direction of Olivia’s room. As if we planned it. All three of us ran there as well, my heart was already beating fast worried that something might have happened to her while we were busy arguing out there. When we got there, we stood by the door and watched as the doctor took out the tubes from her mouth.Her eyes were closed and for a minute there I thought she was dead. My heart sank to the bottom of my stomach and my knees grew weak. That was until she coughed that my world lit up again. I walked forward and she frowned looking at me. I stopped in my tracks remembering that we were not on the best of terms.My sister was right, I was the one getting close to Olivia and she was not there with me. she didn’t even know what was happening the past two weeks. “Water.” Her voice was scratchy, and Ethan jumped and poured water for her and helped her drink. My sister was right about him too. My best friend had f
OLIVIAI listened as Marcus and Ethan told me everything that happened over the past two weeks. I couldn’t believe I missed so much. I didn’t care that Nick claimed our divorce was not final and that I was still his wife. I cared about the fact that he did what was best for me and made sure I got the best care. On that one he was thinking like the Nick I once knew not he monster he became later.“Thank you, guys, for taking care of me and making sure that my son was safe.” Before any of them could answer, the door opened, and Samuel walked in first followed by Lupita and Grandma Susan. “Mama!” he rushed to my bed, Ethan helped him up and he gave me the biggest hug. He must have missed me, my poor son.“How are you baby?” he gave me a thumbs up and a smile. “Thank you for bringing him, Lupita, how are you grandma?” she waved her hand sitting on the chair next to my bed. “I should be the one asking you that, you gave us quite a scare Olivia.”“Am sorry grandma.” She stood taking somethin