RECKLESS 2
Lawless – Episode 36,37&38
→ Chain•Of•Obsession ←
[Book 2 in The Untamed Duet]
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The first shovelful of sand landed on Thiago’s face. The second shovelful followed almost immediately…
Then…
The third and fourth.
Now, his face is partially covered. So, Nathan raised his back and turned to look at Shelby who’s still sitting on that tree trunk behind him.
She has stopped praying and counting her rosary. Now, she’s focused on wiping her bloody head. The blood is still pouring so much she definitely needs hospital.
“You should start filling up that grave. As you can see, I need treatment and I can’t die here.” She said, feeling his eyes on herself.
“That nasty, godawful attitude of yours, I’ll forever hate it.” Nathan sighed, sweat running on his brows.
He looked back at Thiago in the grave.
“Digging a grave might look harder than filling it up, but filling it up is actually harder. This would take more than thirty minutes.”
“Or just say you want me to do it. You’re too obvious it sucks.” Shelby stood and walked up to him, tracing the wave of his voice.
She grabbed the shovel from him.
“You know I can just push you to the grave and bury you with him, right? You’ve never been useful.” Nathan said with a evil smile.
“I knew you told Mio to clear the bodies and not follow us for this stupid reason.” Shelby nodded. “But I’ll give you another shock. Stacy knows about your secret, cos I told her the fake family system in full.”
“You what?” Nathan barked.
“She’s probably publishing it right now. Her dad’s medias is the most direct in the whole world yunno. You’re ’bout to trend, Nathan!” Shelby laughed loudly, but it was short.
Nathan’s hand closed around her throat, but she slipped away and grabbed him instead.
A gap before she’d actually push him into the grave, they heard leaves rustling from a distance.
Shelby’s eyes turned as she let him go, and he turned too.
The rustling got heavier—as if many feet is approaching that area.
It’s like a drum of war, and the closer it got, the scarier it got.
“What’s coming?” Nathan asked.
“Let’s hope that question isn’t for me,” Shelby replied.
The thudding finally got to them as hundreds of Japanese men surrounded the forest, forming a web-like trap and leaving now escape route for the two.
Then…
Kazuma appeared from the middle of the men, and he stood in front of everyone of them.
“Kaz?” Nathan’s eyes thinned.
“Too bad you’re gonna die for real this time, Nathan X.” Kazuma smiled jovially, slanting his head.
[Yesterday, Thiago’s Castle]
“I’m gonna go look for my best friend who’s in hiding since yesterday. Give me two hours.” Thiago said and strolled out easily, past his father.
He left the castle, offloading the anger from his system cos if he stayed one more minute, he’d kill his father for the statement he made.
He opened his car door and snuck in, then he received another text.
It’s Stacy again.
Why is she sending them bits by bit?
He opened the text though, and this one’s also longer than the second one
• I shouldn’t say this, but no… I’mma say it, cos you being in the dark is part of why your life is so fuckin’ messy. Your family century-long belief of giving birth to defective children or women getting hallucinations during pregnancy and committing suicide are all fake. Your mother and Shelby’s were killed by your father, and he’s the cause of your defects too. It’s not genetic. Fûck genetics, your father is evil!!!
Thiago just frowned after reading, and he dialled Stacy’s line.
She didn’t pick, but after it finished ringing, she texted…
• I don’t want to talk to you. I don’t care if you believe what I texted or not, but just get prepared for tommorow. I’ll inform everyone.
Thiago’s hand tightened around the phone so hard the screen turned slightly inky. He nearly threw the phone off, but he punched his car window instead.
His head roared again with headache. Killing, slashing headache.
She’s not lying.
What reason would she have to lie?
It’s obvious Shelby told her.
Shelby hates Nathan, but she’d rather focus on Thiago’s fall than spend even the littlest effort on Nathan’s defamation. So…this is true.
This is the reason she kept saying her mother didn’t jump. This is the reason she kept saying she was pushed from that skyscraper.
His headache doubled, and it reached his eyes he went blind for one second. He had to close his eyes and open it to calm down.
But there’s no calm anywhere.
He drove out of the castle, making sure he’s some distance away before he stopped the car and got out of it since it’s suffocating.
He squatted beside the road, holding his head in his palms.
When he remembered the GUILTY X tattoo on his lower back, his ears rang, and despite the ear processors, he stopped hearing for a minute.
The world went silent, just him and his harsh, hard breathings.
Him and himself.
Everyone has been fake all along.
Everyone beside and around.
Everything he believed in.
They’re all fake.
Did he just got fooled?
By his own father?
When his hearing returned, he staggered up and peeked back into the car, taking his phone with shaky, bloodless fingers.
He dialled Kazuma’s line.
The man picked faster than he expected.
Thiago groaned.
“Oh…I know that tone.” Kazuma said. “You found out the fakery?”
“You knew…too?” Thiago grunted, still holding his head with his second hand. He leaned on the car.
“I didn’t find out any sooner than you. I found out at dawn cos someone sent it to my mail anonymously. I was planning to tell you when all of these ends, but you somehow found out on your own?” Kazuma explained.
“Nathan is alive, and he’s an my castle now!” Thiago spat.
“Yeah, the anonymous mail I received mentioned that too. I already experienced my shock yesterday, good luck on experiencing yours. I’ve always known Nathan was a motherfucker.” Kazuma said.
Thiago’s eyes rounded the sockets. “Get all the men you can. This will only end one way; I’m going to kill them…lit them up and watch them burn to ashes!”
“First, get yourself a bulletproof vest and inject it with your own blood instead of animal blood. Your sick father would recognize animal blood if you get shot.” Kazuma said.
“I need to find Trinidad,” Thiago responded.
“Trevor is working on that,” Kazuma assured. “For now, do what I said.”
[Present Time]
“I knew someone was behind him, but I wasn’t expecting it to be you!” Nathan laughed. “His six years on the Australian sea, he was actually building alliance with you?”
“As you can see. You know I’ve always loved humbling fuckers like you, Nathan.” Kazuma’s smile remained there as more people joined them.
Jeremy first, Kane, then Reid.
“I feel more than hundred people here,” Shelby muttered, standing back to back with Nathan.
“They’re more than hundred. You better be ready!” Nathan broke away from her, jumping to another side of the forest where half of the men are.
The other half came for Shelby, and the forest rumbled with the force of the fight as forces clashed.
Jeremy, Kane and Reid jumped inside the grave, scooping sand away from Thiago’s face.
They carried him out.
Laying him beside the grave, they removed his shirt and met the bulletproof vest intact beneath it.
The first bullet from Nathan hit the vest, but the second bullet from Shelby hit his arm where the vest didn’t cover. He already lost lots of blood as a result of the transfusion he did to the bulletproof vest, so that one shot on the arm was enough to make him lose consciousness.
His arm is bleeding into the bulletproof vest so much.
“What’s the way?” Reid asked.
Jeremy instantly raised his fist without waiting.
He landed a impactful hit on Thiago’s chest, and Thiago gasped back to life, coughing out.
—
[The Streets Junkyard]
It wasn’t hard to find.
Despite the fact that there’s a state of emergency and Trevor saw no one to ask about the way, he was still able to locate it on his own.
Thanks to his navigation map.
He didn’t even wait to kill his car engines before he got down and ran in, but he couldn’t even run in properly, cos by the door…
Her body lay.
Trinidad’s body lay there, and the lollipop shattered with the white stick beside her.
His eyes widened, and he didn’t even know when he fell on his knees.
“Trinidad!” He called her full name fearfully, raising her head, but it slipped off like there’s no bone.
“Trinidad! No no…. please… Trinidad!!!”
His voice echoed in the skies, and it came back to his ears to haunt him.
His tears that stopped already began flowing again, dropping on her lifeless face as he lifted her up to his arms in a bridal style.
“You promised to wait for me! You said you were gonna wait! You promised to wait! You…. promised….. Trinidad!!!!” His yell tore out of his throat again as he ran to his car.
His life was already shaking before he arrived there, and he drove away like he’s going to war.
State of emergency didn’t affect hospitals. It never had.
He found an hospital at the end of the road and didn’t mind the locality.
He drove inside, screaming for nurses and doctors.
Four nurses and two doctors rushed out at the sound, and Trinidad was received on a stretcher.
Her nose was instantly plugged with an oxygen mask which they were pumping actively as she was taken into the hall.
“Trinidad!!”
“Trinidad!!!”
Trevor was screaming her name painfully, tearfully as he ran after the stretcher, but as she was wheeled into the EU. She was transferred from the stretcher to the bed.
Trevor was held back by nurses.
They wouldn’t let him into the ward.
“No….I have to be with her! I have to be inside! I have to stay with her!” He pushed the nurses away, his tears all-over the place.
They grabbed him.
“She…she ate poison cos I wasn’t there! Now I have to be with her! Let me go!!!” He screamed devastatingly, pushing them off.
Again, they grabbed him when he was about to open the EU door.
“I can’t live without her I swear! I don’t wanna lose her! I love her so much I’m gonna really drop dead if anything happens to her! I….I can’t lose her….” He sobbed, his bones softening as the door was locked.
He sat in front of it, crying loudly.
—
[Forest]
While the fight went on between Shelby and Nathan and the Japanese men, Kazuma just sat somewhere, smoking tobacco.
Thiago is now sitting up, and Jeremy is currently pouring bottled water on his head to calm him while Kane is tying a bandage on his shot arm.
But Jeremy barely poured the water to half bottle when Thiago pushed it off and stood.
“Dude, you need blood! Like two to three bags of blood! You can’t attack like this!” Reid cautioned.
But Thiago wasn’t hearing a thing, literally. Cos he removed his sound processors and threw them off.
The guys exchanged shocked glances as he charged forward, entering the middle of the fight.
None of the Japanese men fell yet. Nathan and Mio combined aren’t even a match. They could only try.
Thiago got a hold of Shelby first, and her life flashed before her eyes when he rolled her hair to a tree and threw her around with it.
Then…. Kazuma threw him a blade which he caught and cut Shelby’s hair with. With the brutal silence in both ears, he’s more ruthless.
Since the hair is like Shelby’s major fighting weapon, she lost lots of points for that, and the moment she received two three punches to the face from Thiago, she saw blood.
From the nose and mouth, she bled. Even her ears bled.
The punches kept coming, neverending till her face became a wet mud,…so irritating.
A tiny red dot appeared on Thiago’s back at this point, and Kazuma was the first to detect it.
He looked up.
And from the top of a large chunk of stone in the area, Mio stood, sniper rifle set and her hand on the trigger, about to pull it on Thiago.
Kazuma snapped his fingers, and instantly, over fifty sniper red dots appeared on Mio’s body from different spots in the forest.
Those ones belong to Kazuma’s Snipers, and Mio’s hands dropped from her rifle immediately she saw what was going on.
Her eyes widened, and she was suddenly pushed from behind.
She staggered to the front of the slope, leaving her rifle behind.
Stacy appeared, sliding her hand under the sniper lodge where the rifle is housed.
She pulled it out, and Mio came for her with a roar.
Stacy pulled out her pepper spray, but it didn’t even reach Mio as she sprayed it.
Mio’s punch met her face, and Stacy fell, rolling down the slope.
The camera fell from her.
She hit her chest on a tree before passing out flatly.
That was when Kazuma climbed to that spot, meeting with Mio face-to-face.
—
At the down part, Nathan is still fighting his way with the Japanese men, and Thiago is still pounding punches into Shelby’s face.
Even when Shelby was barely breathing, he kept punching.
“Your only mistake was coming for me when I never imagined death for you even when I hated you!” Thiago snarled, slamming the last punch to her face which made her drop.
Her rosary and her small bible fell off her habit.But she wasn’t the type to give up easily.
She pulled her gun in the last minute and fired.
No idea who she fired at, but she fired before losing her remaining breath, and the bullet met Jeremy…
Unluckily.
Jeremy’s tummy got hit.
He’s between Reid and Kane, so the two screamed as his blood rained.
Thiago pulled a lighter out of his pocket, and he lit it before throwing it down at Shelby’s body.
Her dress caught fire, then her whole body did. The blaze of the fire made Nathan turn around.
Seeing what has occurred, he couldn’t hide his shock, and when he saw the sound processors aren’t in Thiago’s ears anymore, he got genuinely shaken. He ran out of the circle and began making his escape way out of the forest, but he was blocked by the men, so he turned to the right side.
The men blocked him again.
When he turned left, they did too.
So he turned back where he met Thiago himself again.
Before he could even talk, Thiago revealed an injection which he rammed into his neck.
Nathan gasped, eyes bigger as he stayed still. The shot flooded his system very fast.
He grunted, groaned, his eyes levelling with Thiago’s.
“I told you to burn me whenever I died. You should have listened to me and burned me when my heart stopped for a moment earlier, then I wouldn’t have this comeback…” Thiago muttered. “And I swear to fûck…I’m not going to touch you. You don’t deserve the energy I’ll waste beating you, but you’ll just relive everyday experiencing what you made those women experience…the hallucinations…”
He withdrew the hallucination injection after shooting everything in, and Kazuma’s knees kissed the ground weakly.
From there, he dropped.
And as the empty injection fell from Thiago’s hand, he lost the little energy he has been managing.
His consciousness slipped away too. He dropped down, passed out.
At the top, Kazuma and Mio are still fighting it out, and the one with the upper hand is pretty obvious cos Mio’s face is already bloody.
“If anyone told me I’d one day throw fists with my own daughter, I’d have killed whoever said it.” He smiled, going down to dodge a punch. “But here we are, fighting it out.”
“You abandoned my mother and I first!” Mio rapped in Japanese.
“Wrong. Your mother wanted to leave cos she hated blood, and I allowed it, but you killed your mother cos she was too soft for you, and now you’re harboring the thoughts of ruling the Yakuza one day? Please, wake up.” Kazuma grinned, bending back to dodge a kick from her.
Mio double-kicked, and he grabbed that leg, cracking her ankle before letting it go. She staggered.
“That’s enough,” he snapped his fingers, and before Mio could get to him again, a drum of sniper shots impregnated the air.
And the drum impact appeared in Mio’s body as she was hit from all angles by the sniper rifles.
She scattered, literally.
Her body parts separated, and Kazuma had to shift back so blood won’t touch him.
He looked down.
Shelby is still burning, and while some of his men and Reid are carrying Thiago…
The other half of his men and Kane are focused on Jeremy.
As the two men were taken out of the forest, Kazuma followed behind.
—
[Three Days Later, A Low House]
Zendaya looks like a starved dog as she pushed wraps of fishcake into her mouth with both hands, eating as much as she actually can.
She’s in the house of the truck driver she payed to damage Tania’s legs six years ago. The man was kind enough to take her in, or so she thought.
This is like the safest place for her wanted arse right now.
The man sat in front of her, watching her eat silently with his greedy eyes.
“So I heard you told me to crush Tania’s legs that year cos of a guy, and the guy is that bastard heir of X?” He spoke up suddenly.
“What? Now that you got air of it, you’re gonna chase me? I heard there’s a bounty of 200k on my head.” She replied, drinking water.
“You’re paying for staying here remember? I’m not daft.” He shifted back. “I need to go get some eggs.”
He stood, wore his slippers and left the house.
Zendaya had her fill of the fishcakes and thought of going for a bath, but that was when a knock sounded on the door.
She paused.
“Why the fûck are you knocking in your own house!” She shouted, thinking it’s the man.
She went to the door, but her brain rebooted.
It can’t be him.
She shifted back and picked a stool, throwing it at the locked window.
Broken like that, she jumped over it and landed down, but she landed into the midst of cops, led by Tania herself who has folded arms and smirky face
“I knew putting a bounty on your head was the best way. Where else would a rat like you hide if not in a gutter? Bitch!” She spat.
Her voice went from soft to rough, and Zendaya turned violently before stumbling on the wall when her face received kicks from Tania’s two legs.
“Feel that? I’m so back! Your plot was weak from the start!” Tania laughed, coming closer. “You’re going to jail, and in jail, I’ll send death workers to thrash you daily till you die. I won’t have mercy!” She whispered.
“I didn’t send the driver to crash you! I didn’t send anyone!” Zendaya denied, shaking as she was cuffed.
“The truck driver who notified us that she’s here must have escaped. Find the idiot. I’m taking the bounty back from him.” Tania told the cops.
And as Zendaya was taken away, her denial didn’t stop.
She kept it up till she arrived at the front of the house where two more of the girls are.
Tasha and Kehlani.
They didn’t even wait.
They pounced on Zendaya at the same time, and Tania joined them.
They beat the denial out of Zendaya’s body, and the cops didn’t even try to stop them. They allowed it.
“Please!! Please!!! I was wrong!! It’s all my fault!! Please!!!” Zendaya’s pleas fell on deaf ears.
The more she begged, the more she got thrashed.
—
[Washington DC, Federal Police Station]
Since Kaylee’s first trial is today, Trevor took the chance to come do his quota on her.
She knew about her son’s atrocities.
She knew about his sins.
She covered them.
The idiot Dorian didn’t rape Trinidad alone. He allowed a crew member to do it too, and Trinidad contacted the virus from the member.
The crew member is dead. Dorian is dead, but Kaylee won’t die.
Death would be too simple.
Trevor looked at the small can he’s holding, and he lowered the hoodie covering his head.
He’s standing on the rooftop of the station, and he’s not alone.
Investor Brooke came with him, and he’s the one who made plans of how they were able to climb this far.
He greased the right hands, and Kazuma pressed some buttons too, so it should be easy to do.
The murmurs of the press and the shutters of cameras alerted them of the coming of Kaylee.
Trevor squatted on the roof and waited while Investor Brooke stood at tension behind him, ready to help when things go south.
But nature is on their side.
And the whole police department cooperated.
The ones who led Kaylee out with the pressed stepped away from her immediately they got out.
And Kaylee was left alone by the entrance of the station.
Trevor poured the hell-inducing liquid from the can, and from that rooftop, it flowed down.
Not everything, cos some portions got blown off my the breeze, but the portion that landed on Kaylee?
She felt it instantly.
Her hair received most of it, and her head was already burning with a part of her face before the cops attended to her, calling for ambulance after she suffered for as long as they want.
Their Chief looked up at the roof, and he nodded at Investor Brooke.
The man nodded back.
—
[Los Angeles, Monroeville Hospital]
Elmira has refused to talk to anyone.
Since the issue of her UTI came to light, she chose to stay silent in shame. So…all day, she’ll just be in her sickbed, crying.
She’s receiving treatment, but she doesn’t even look like it.
She’s so lean she could get blown away by the breeze. The only thing heavy on her is her BBL butt.
Matteo has been trying his best to stay beside her, but she’s not making that easy with her waterworks.
When she heard that Anita will be going to jail and that Roxy was attacked with acid in her office and is now dead, her tears just flowed more.
Who’s gonna rescue her now?
Why is everything falling down?
“You should be thankful that the HIV isn’t from Dorian but from his extra crew member. If if was with Dorian, you’d be living with the virus too right now.” Matteo said beside her.
No pity in his eyes. No guilt.
Cos Elmira was already doing so well as a model before she decided to go get raped by Dorian just to appear in front of a popular magazine.
And that magazine? She didn’t eventually appear.
She brought all of these upon herself, just like her mother.
Her cries went higher, pounding the walls of the ward.
— — —
[One Month Later – Montana Family Hospital]
Trevor nearly dashed into two nurses carrying care trays into a public ward when he ran into the hospital.
He was smiling, and his heart was thumping with emotions he has been camping inside for long.
He never left this hospital, except the time he went to Washington with Investor Brooke.
Apart from that, he was always by her side, eating, bathing and sleeping here too.
But he needed fresh air and also needed to go cry cos she wasn’t showing signs of waking up as fast as the doctors had predicted, so he went for a drive, but he barely spent ten minutes driving when he received the call from the hospital, so he had to rush back here.
He retracted his steps before he could collide with the nurses, and he ran into the ward after nearly splitting the door open too.
And there she was,…
In bed.
Her back has a wrap of soft clothes supporting her, and she was staring into space before he came in, but her eyes got refilled with love when he entered the ward.
“You’re really…awake…” He smiled, too deep he could break his face.
She nodded, inching closer to the edge of the bed and he walked closer to the bed too.
“Trevor,” her gentle, soft voice spilled sweetly.
“No, I don’t wanna hear that,” he shook his head.
“Baby,” she smiled wider, and he nodded immediately, taking his seat beside her. He cupped her face like a breakable egg, and her tears of joy fell from her eyes.
“I’m so sorry….so damn sorry, baby. I’m very sorry I didn’t mean to still go on with the poison. Taking the lollipop to my mouth was a mistake, and I was even shocked when the pains started. When I found out it was the pop, it was too late to undo.”
Trevor was already shedding tears too, but he was wiping her own tears.
“I was literally dead when I brought you to a local hospital that night last month. I was insane and I cried like a toddler at the EU door. I thought I lost you, but even fate is aware that our love story is only just starting, so it returned you back to me…”
“I’m so sorry, I love you so much I can’t breathe without you…” Trinidad’s arms climbed up his neck, holding him dearly.
He continued wiping her tears. “So I transferred you here after you got stable two weeks ago. If I had arrived at that junkyard a minute too late, gawd forbid I’d have lost you.”
“You won’t lose me,” she shook her head, repeatedly.
He paused the wiping of her tears and stared into her eyes, sniffling. “You’re still at the HIV stage. It hasn’t graduated to AIDS, and it will never graduate to that.”
“That’s because Stacy’s mum made me pills that’d last me for years, but now she’s dead and….”
“Shhhh,” he placed a finger on her lips, and she nodded.
“Stacy is alive, she’ll do it. She’ll make you every medication you need and keep you alive for me. We can be one big, happy family with our kids in the future. I…want you, and I love you.”
“I love you more, Trevor.” She smiled, kissing his teary face. “Sorry I hurt you with my silliness.”
Trevor planted a soft, intimate kiss on her lips, and she smiled widely.
Her tears stopped.
That was when Investor Brooke entered with Tania who’s holding a tray of food for her.
“Dad,” Trinidad widened her arms, and the man hugged her tight.
“You know I love you so much, right? And you can tell me everything immediately they happen. You’re the only one I have.”
“I’ll never hide from you again. I promise you, forever.” Trinidad nodded, feeling extra safe.
“You better keep to your promise, Trini…you better.” Tania said cheerfully as she dropped the tray of food in bed for her.
“And you woke up to a big news,” Investor Brooke said.
Trinidad blinked, and Tania swiped scantily her phone before showing her the latest news.
Both of them made the last list of the new talent footballers of the country.
They weren’t dropped.
“Oh my goodness!” Trinidad covered her mouth, jumping down from the bed immediately.
“Oh my gawd!” She sniffled, wanting to start crying again, but Trevor held her face and soothed her with a smile.
“You have every reason to stay alive, Mia Cara. Every fuckin reason.”
“Yeah,” she nodded emotionally. “I have the most handsome, caring man in the world who loves me. I have the best dad who doesn’t play with me. I have the best Society of Glitz friends, and I have all my dreams coming true. I own my dream computer tech company and now I’ve been listed for football? The world is so nice to me.”
“Cos you deserve it, T-girl. You deserve every good in this world.” Trevor smiled wide.
“That’s right,” Investor Brooke added, grinning happily.
Trevor wrapped Trinidad to himself in another hug which nearly took her breaths away, and her tears of joy still fell uncontrollably.
—
In the next ward, there’s Remo who’s getting his last check done on his nailed palms.
The wounds have closed up, now he’s left with fresh scars.
As the bandages were removed, he waved his hands.
“Finally? Gawd, Dorian did me bad.” He nodded.
“Dude, the case is over now, you can stop lying on Dorian.” Scott said not far from him.
He sat in the ward chair with Frank, and Remo sneered at the two of them.
“Now that I’m used to the lie, that’ll be hard.” He said.
“Is anyone seeing Max’s IG?” Frank suddenly laughed out.
“What’s going on?” Remo looked up.
Frank flashed his phone screen at Remo’s face.
Max’s latest video on his IG is a video of him and crying drinking in a bar.
“This early morning? That’s wild.” Scott smirked.
“I’d cry in a bar early morning too if I was the one with a dead manhood. Initially, he said Kehlani’s presence made it hard, but now, the wall of Jericho fell completely. It’s not even rising anymore.” Remo grinned.
“He’d be so jealous of you. I remember the number of DMs you got after your video with Kaylee was posted last month!” Frank laughed.
“So many people wanted my cóvk, and I was thinking I’d lose my reputation after that video, but the only person who complained was my problematic strict mother and… Tania..” Remo said.
“Tania complained that your cóvk was online? That’s new.” Scott shifted closer to Remo. “Remo you’re lying.”
“I’m not f+kin lying!” Remo argued. “She deadass said ‘now that your cóvk is online, no one would wanna marry you’. I know that’s her way of complaining. Y’all don’t know her more than me!” Remo shouted.
“I still don’t believe,” Frank said.
“I’m not begging you to believe, fuckface! And stop acting like you aren’t trying to get under Tasha’s skin too?” Remo shot.
“Trying?” Frank laughed. “I’m already under her skin!”
“Arse,” Remo rolled eyes.
By the door, Tania was about to enter, but when she heard the ongoing discussion, she just stood by the door, smiling and listening more.
But her eyes stayed on Remo, and she nearly grinned as she watched him try to convince Frank and Scott.
She left the door and moved to the next door where Thiago’s ward is.
Inside, there’s Matteo with him.
Thiago sat up in bed..
His legs are on the floor though. So, he doesn’t look sick.
He’s already recovering cos he woke up two weeks ago, and as usual, he refused to wear the hospital gown.
He’s in his loose casuals.
“Is she awake?” He asked almost immediately, panic in his voice.
“Calm down,” Matteo cautioned.
“No, she’s not….” Tania stated.
Thiago sighed, sitting back slowly. “Jeremy?” He asked.
“He’s not awake too. They’re the last two, but….”
Tania paused.
“Trinidad is awake!!” She shouted excitedly.
“She is?” Thiago smiled genuinely.
“I swear,” Tania chuckled.
Then two more people rushed into the room.
Kehlani and Tasha.
“She’s awake!” They chorused too fast. “Stacy is up!”
“What!” Tania gasped.
Thiago froze.
—
[Stacy’s Ward]
The first thing Stacy sighted was Louis’s hair when her eyes opened slightly in bed, and she didn’t hesitate to open wider, forcing the blurriness away before trying to sit up.
Louis quickly helped her back with a pillow, and she squirmed softly.
Louis brushed her tangled hair away from her face immediately.
“How long have I been out for?” She asked slowly.
“One month,” he replied.
Her eyes widened. “One month?”
“They said you hit your tummy on a tree or something in the forest, and it was too fatal.” Louis said.
Stacy shed immediate tears, scooping him into her arms guiltily.
“You mean I’ve left you alone for a month? What the…oh baby…I’m sorry.” She held his face dearly. “I’m so sorry. Mummy is sorry.”
“You don’t have to be, cos we spent every day of that one month together. I didn’t leave your side. And besides, you won the fight.” He replied maturely, pointing at the table beside the bed where Mio’s rifle camera is.
Stacy snatched it immediately.
“Mio was killed by Kazuma. Someone bathed Kaylee’s head and face with acid in Washington, but that didn’t stop her trial. She was sentenced to life improvement just last week. Anita, Zendaya, Angela and Mr. Brown were sentenced to large years too, though Angela got just four years.” He explained, still trying to arrange Stacy’s hair with his finger.
“Really?” Stacy’s heart leapt.
“Yeah, Zendaya was caught. The pedophile couldn’t hide.” He said.
Stacy chuckled.
“And…” Louis pointed at the other side of the ward where a large poster with Stacy’s name and rank and titled picture stood.
When Stacy saw the title, she gasped.
“Miss America???”
She got down from the bed and grabbed the board shockingly.
“You didn’t attend cos you were unconscious, but you still won in honour of my grandma Ophelia Montana.” Louis smiled.
“Oh…my…gawd!!” She screamed uncontrollably, but she coughed out immediately, and she held her chest.
She fell back in bed. The board fell from her.
“You know you shouldn’t be moving yet! The doctors are yet to come check on you!” He scolded.
“I’m so sorry, I’m just so happy….” She pouted slightly.
“I’ve not even said everything,” Louis blinked, and she blinked back.
“There’s more?”
“Shelby was set on fire in the forest, and I heard Nathan is caged somewhere where he’s getting hallucination shots. The X family has been banned completely in Australia so Thiago won’t be able to go back.” Louis continued the gist.
“Oh…” Stacy blinked, calming.
“And that day in the forest, both Thiago and Jeremy lost consciousness and fell in coma,” he said.
“What!” Stacy spranged up. “And they’re both in this same hospital?”
“Yeah,” Louis nodded. “But they’re both awak—”
Louis didn’t finish talking before Stacy stood again, going for the door.
“I haven’t finished talking, and the doctor hasn’t checked on you!” Louis shouted, going after her.
By the door, they met Kehlani and Tasha and the doctor.
But Stacy pushed past all of them, and her steps stretched when she rushed out to the hall.
From the second ward, Thiago came out with Matteo.
Immediately Thiago set eyes on her, emotions he doesn’t know how to interpret swam in his deep eyes.
Now, he’s not crying or kneeling since he once did fakery with the two.
He genuinely stood on his toes, ready to apologize and go low like the undeserving sinner he is.
And at the same time, Jeremy came out of the third ward with Kane and Reid behind him.
He’s just waking up, still looking sickly with his dry lips, pale face, and he lost pounds of flesh.
He gasped surprisingly when he saw Stacy rushing in that direction, but when he saw Thiago is also there, his hope died hundred times.
But…
He waited just like Thiago.
And Stacy’s run didn’t stop.
Cos it’s sure…that she’s coming to hug one of them, and that person…
Will be her endgame.
TBC.
