Chapter Forty Nine

A single tear

Then another

Another

Did she leave me alone?

Does she hate me?

My friend, my sister.

Where is fate taking me? This is not what I want in my whole life. If someone told me to choose between Ronald and my sister then obviously I choose Ronald because I can't live without him. But now the things I'm watching and feeling tell me I'm too late. My skin feels a warm touch when someone wipes my tears.

"So you hear everything?" Without opening my eyes I let myself go until I started weeping badly.

"She hates me."

"Stop it!"

"She left me."

"It's not good for your health. Stop it now." But he made me cry. After fifteen minutes later I stopped crying. He's still sitting there watching me with sleepy eyes. He's looking so exhausted.

"You're still here?"

"Are you done?" He got up and called Theo. He smiled after greeting me. Why he's smiling?

"How are you feeling, Miss Rose? I'm sorry if..."

"Cut the shit and tell the doctor we're taking her home." What? Home? So suddenly. Still, the drip and machines around me are giving me chills with voices.

"Don't be shocked it's not safe here for you. I mean the gossip all around about you and me." Oh! But the news has already faded away. Yes I know how much safer it is when Ronald is around me. He's still unaware of the part who pushes me.

"We're a couple." Huh? Don't know why I suddenly burst into laughter? Seriously, why are they interested in us? His dark green eyes changed from inside. Both looked at me with different expressions. Am I looking stupid?

"So..sorry." After clearing my throat I tried to stop. myself.

"She lost her mind after the accident." A wheelchair entered with the nurse and my smile dropped. God, I hate that most.

"No need I'm taking her. Theo!" Thank god, but wait! How?

"We're going from the underground parking area. Everything is ready." What's the hell happening? Did something happen in my absence? Ater the pictures of us I thought the thing settled down but It's not look that way. After the nurse unpinned everything Ronald carried me in his arms. The smell of his light perfume hit me. I missed him. Why is he so late? What if he takes me with him? Don't know why I did it but his eyes warned me when I rubbed my nose on his skin.

"You're hurt so stop provoking me." My face feels so hot with his whisper entered in my ear.

Coming outside from the room I found the empty hall just his security. Total of ten people with Theo and another new face around us. We just kept going and going until we came outside from the lift. A total of five cars were ready to take me home.

'What's going on?" I asked Ronald but he ignored me and helped me in sitting. The cars start running on the road. When we passed the hospital my mouth dropped to the floor after looking outside.

"Don't be so shocked. We're a national couple. They're looking for you. In two days we caught fifty photographers who tried to enter the hospital. Fifty or sixty catches from around the building. Look at that." Ronald passed me a tablet.

"It's a single picture now trending." In the picture, Ronald is sitting near my bed looking in pain. It's only a little glimpse of his face I can see and his body language is not so good. My face still hides. Sitting near my bed his arms on his knees and fingers pulling hair. He's also suffering with me. Turning over, I saw his face that was already watching me. How much does he love me?

Love?

"You're in pain." A silence fell in the car. Only vibrating and some light music running.

"After I heard about you every single second I died in different thoughts. The thoughts of losing you. The thoughts of not seeing you again. It's been a long time since we came together and if something happened to you then.." My teary eyes met his.

"Nothing." He takes back his tablets and our ride passes in silence. My whole body is in pain. It's a double dose. First of my body and second after watching him. He suffered a lot. But what about the night you spend with someone. How can I suffer from it?

My eyes open with lots of pain and cramps. Like someone beat me enough. With my hands, I tried to get up but failed.

"You need sleep so take a rest." That's the only voice I hear before I dive into deep place.

Two days passed and I'm still on his bed. Every day he comes in the morning when I'm sleeping and comes home when I'm sleeping. That's it. He never came inside. Just a nurse who's always trying to talk with me but the only topic is Ronald. She's always around him and keeps gawking whenever his voice comes on. But today I don't know if something is not good. My heart keeps pounding hard like I'm feeling him around me.

"Miss Rose, the investigators are here for a statement." Statement? Shit, I forgot about the accident. They need something to search for.

"If you're okay I can take you outside." Nodding, I got up with her help and came outside. Ronald, Theo, and a new face also standing there with two officers. This is the feeling. My whole body started shaking. Ronald's gaze met mine but he was not here with me. Ronald's eyes are not soft today. Something is coming toward me.

"Is it okay to tell them what happened? Who hurt you?" Where I'm going to start or where I need to end. All of them. They've...

"Miss Rose?" Huh?

"I was going home after my shift ended and my things fell on the road. I... I try to pick up in between the accident." The whole sentence I said lowering my face because maybe they agreed with me but what about Ronald? When my betrayed eyes met him I felt anger and smirked together. He knows. The tension between us makes me so weak. I know what that means to lie to someone who is already living with the truth.

"You saw something suspicious around you?" I shake my head.

"I think it's done for today. She needs some rest." Both nod and gone. Now it's coming.

"Out everyone." This is the order in which my whole body jumped. How am I going to calm him? My words.. My lie…My truth.

"But sir." His challenging eyes met who spoke in return. No one said anything and left. It's me and Ronald.

"You have magic, Rose. The magic of lying. From the first day to now you're just lying. Don't know why? You speak lies with fluency and everything shut. So tell me what happened?" Why? What are you going to do?

"Again asking from your mind you catch some lies for me." The pain in my body has now gone double. My stomach keeps giving me cramps in fear.

"What are you talking about?" He sat in front like an owner. He's raising questions about me? Digging nails in the fabric makes me try to think.

"Stop thinking and speak." My back touched the couch corner when I put some distance. Distance from him is the best way now.

"It's true what I said before." I said confidently. He got up and walked toward me. He sits at a table closer to me where I can feel his anger. Nose to nose face to face.

"This.." Putting the pressure on my wound with his finger he let me feel the pain. I can't... my eyes start watering.

"Just the word accident. Now Mrs. Rose, is he your husband or lover?" Shocked or numb I can't understand what he said before?

"Wh..what does that mean?" He came close enough to say something. My breath stops coming.

"He's after you. A husband or a lover? How many others? How many times do you spread your legs for others?"

"How dare you?" My hand came up but he stopped my hand when it came to him in anger. A ruthless smile on his lips. What the hell is he thinking?

"What? Aren't I saying something true?" His hold is tight enough for giving me marks. How dare he think about me or he thinks I'm...

"How many are still waiting for you outside? Day first to now you're telling a lie. Lie after lie. Tell me the truth." My mouth keeps shut. He doesn't know his words. He never needs to know how dangerous he's.

"I'm waiting for you. How many did you use for your satisfaction? Damn it! Speak up." My body feels nothing when his cold bark lands on me. Unable to say something, my tears start rolling in my eyes. He's hurting me not physically but emotionally also.

"Don't talk like that." Looking away I turn my face. He's so strong that it makes me weak. Why does it hurt more than I thought? After That night my heart kept saying tell him…but now he shows who's he? Just a joke.

"Or what?" Jerking my hand I tried to put some distance between us but failed. His dark eyes shine with anger or revenge.

"You're hurting me."

"You already did. Who's he? Why is he behind you?"

"I... I can't." My words broke with pain or tears.

"You can't or..."

"You think I'm trying to hide him?" My breath kept calm when he left my grip but my breath stopped when the hand came in my hair. A scream comes from my stomach.

"R.."

"Shut up! Listen to me. That fucker who put his hands on you today or tomorrow I'll kill him. Do whatever you want to save him. Count your days here. You're stuck here baby. Now, what death means I'm going to show you." The blurry eyes are now unable to see his face. He hates me.

He hates me

The last hiccups came when the world went black.