OLIVIAI watched in horror as Marcus fell backwards, Ethan hiding behind the door and crawling away with Samuel. Grandma Susan falling next to Marcus and defining screams of Lupita. The door closed, I was not sure If I was the one who closed it, or Lupita did.Everything was happening so fast that I couldn’t register who was doing what. Ethan came back still with my son in his arms. “Let’s go around the back, come on!” he yelled but I couldn’t leave Marcus and Grandma Susan. I didn’t want them to burn to death. I couldn’t even tell if grandma was still alive, but Marcus was.But he was losing a lot of blood. He has too many holes on him that I didn’t know which one to put pressure on. It didn’t help that the fire was getting closer, smoke filled the house and the heat from the fire was unbearable. “Come on, Olivia, go get into the car and I will help Marcus.” Ethan shouted.I looked around, Lupita and grandma were no longer in the house. I didn’t know when they left, my focus was on M
OLIVIAWe sat there in silence waiting for his men to send the footage for us to see. I didn’t have to see it to know It was Sandra and Ethen kept telling me I should talk to that man. How was I going to do that when I didn’t even know how to contact him?“May I use your phone; I need to give Lupita feedback about her grandmother.” Ethan took out his phone and handed it to me. I took it and called the hotel, and they connected me to her room. I told her what the doctor told me, and I could hear the relief in her voice when she heard the news.I gave Ethan his phone back but not before looking at the time. It had been three hours since Marcus was sent for surgery, and we have not heard anything. It worried me to death. I needed to know how he was doing. “Nick, where are you going?” I lifted my head to see Nick about to pass the waiting room.He didn’t look good at all. He looked pale as if he was in a lot of pain. He was holding the side of his stomach and limping. “I have to go out th
NICKI glanced at Luke when Olivia said that. he looked as bad as I did. Hurt. He and I had something in common, we both loved Olivia, but she resented us for different reasons. She hated me for what I did to her and protecting Sandra now. But what she didn’t know was that I was doing it for her this time.Me sending Sandra to the psych ward was not to protect her but to punish her. I wanted her to suffer in there, for them to keep her so drugged up that she didn’t know if she was coming or going. If it was night or day.I wanted her to lose sight of reality that she would wake up five years later with no memory of who she was to begin with. But I couldn’t tell her that. I had to let her hate me then see for herself what she would have been like after I was done with her.But I didn’t count on Faren breaking her out, I didn’t even think of her when I sent Sandra there and I still didn’t know how she did
OLIVIAMy heart ached seeing all those tubes coming out of him. Just hours ago, we were having a nice dinner, and he was kissing me. Now he was laying on a hospital bed with tubes all over. We had a moment just one fleeting moment of peace and quiet before all went to hell again.I was beginning to think that Nick’s mother was right. I was a curse, because everyone who got close to me got hurt. Look at Grandma Susan and Lupita. They were fine living a peaceful life in Summer Strand before I came along.I brought them here and look what happened. Grandma almost died, Lupita too. Marcus was fighting for his life with no hope of waking up. It would have been fine if it were me who kept getting hurt but the people I cared about? It was too much.“Look at you, social climber. Now that you don’t have Nick, you are looking for another man with deep pockets to support you. when will you learn Olivia that you don’t belong i
OLIVIAThe frown on my face deepened, I didn’t know If he was a pathological liar or that he was good at playing people. Either way, I didn’t like it. “You never made contact with me, what are you talking about? What I am getting is that the man had me tortured because he could and for whatever reason he had that I will never get to know!”I was shaking in anger; he should have stayed away from me if he knew something like that would happen. He should have never made contact and just when did he make contact? “I didn’t make contact directly, but I had people keep an eye on you. When they informed me about your imprisonment, the Don found out and he didn’t like it.”He sighed running his hand through his hair. “He sent people to hurt you to teach me a lesson, that when he tells me something, I do it, no questions asked or there will be consequences.” He let out a dry chuckle. “As if I made contact physically, the man still went ahead and hurt you to punish me. I couldn’t let that slide
OLIVIAA small chuckle escaped my lips, he was awake and had taken out the tube in his mouth. His voice was scratchy from the tube. Wait! A frown replaced the smile I had. “Why did you take out the tube, you could have hurt yourself.” I reprimanded rushing to his side. He offered me a smile.“If bullets can’t hurt me then there is nothing this little tube could do to me. I am indestructible.” He joked. He was back. Oh, thank the Lord. Now it was time to do what I set out to do. “Let me get the doctor to check on you.” just as I turned to leave, he held my hand.“Not yet just give me water.” I poured him water from the jug next to his bed and helped him drink. I placed the cup back. He still held my hand. “Tell me, why were you crying?” I smiled at him. “It’s not important now.” He studied me but did not force the issue.“What is this I hear about you wanting to leave me.” I gave him a sad smile; he must have heard me talking to him earlier. “Do not focus on that now. Focus on getting
OLIVIAGuilt ate away at me, now that I knew that Nick wasn’t the one who sent those people to hurt me in prison. I felt guilty that I was doing all that to him. yes, he did his fair share of hurtful things to me, but I did not want him to die. One day Samuel was going to ask who his father is and why he wasn’t in his life.I want to be able to look my son in the eyes one day and tell him who his father is and why he wasn’t in his life growing up. It would kill me to have to tell him that his father died, and I had a hand in it. “Ethan, I don’t want Nick in our lives, he might be innocent on somethings, but he has done a lot to me and his presence in our lives right now, is putting my son and everyone I love in danger.”Ethan nodded, he knew as well as I did that the decision I made to keep Nick away, was not taken lightly. I was sorry he was sick but as guilty as I felt, I couldn’t let him back in, not with Sandra still on the loose and not when he is still protecting the woman. “I k
ELODIEBloody hell! where did he come from? Olivia just scoffed then left us there. I wanted to stop her, tell her to save me and that I was sorry. That I didn’t mean to hit her. But it was too late, she was gone, and I was left with the monster I used to call my brother. Right now, he looked exactly as he did the day he wanted to kill me.The day my father pardoned me and banished me instead of having me killed. Luke was livid that day, he wanted me dead, but he could not kill me when the Don had already pardoned me. “You think you can do as you please with my daughter like your father did, is that it Elodie? Or you just don’t respect me enough to stop yourself from doing shit like this?”A shiver ran down my spine, I got cold and yet it was hot outside. “Luke, I didn’t mean to but the things you are doing are leaving me with no other choice but to take my revenge on her. you are hurting my son, Luke.” He gave me a dry chuckle.“So, what your father did to her and me is not enough. Y