✨Chapter 2✨
Dylan was taken to a hospital, but his condition was too critical. The doctors didn't even know if he was going to survive it, but they tried their best and operated on him all night.
"Doctor, how is he?" Nicole asked the doctors as soon as they came out of the Operating Room
"The surgery was a success, but he still needs proper monitoring. Besides, he might have amnesia due to the impact on his head but we still have to wake up to be sure of that. All we have to wait for now is for him to wake up so that we can take better care of him," one of the doctors said.
"Thank you so much, doctor! Can I see him now?" she asked.
"Yes, you can. But don't make any noise to disturb the patient and don't spend too much time in there" the doctor said and left.
Nicole went into the ward after they left and sat beside him. Dylan's whole body was wrapped with bandages and even his face was hardly visible because of the bandage.
Nicole held his hand and smiled softly while staring at him.
"You need to wake up soon so that we can start living together. I will be the only one by your side from now on and you will definitely love me" Nicole thought to herself.
Julia opened her eyes the next morning and noticed that her surrounding was unfamiliar. She tried sitting up but then, she noticed that she was feeling sore down there and that was when all the memories of the previous night came back.
She remembered how the stranger whose face she didn't even see raped her mercilessly until she passed out and burst into tears.
"Why me? I was betrayed by my best friend and husband and was still raped on that same day. I didn't do anything wrong so why do I have to go through all this?" she asked herself as she cried harder.
After crying for over thirty minutes, she pulled herself together and went to take a shower. Last night, she went to that club because it was somewhere she and Dylan frequented before they got married.
She purposely went there because she thought he would look for her. Unfortunately, he didn't come for her like she expected and she hated him even more because if he hadn't betrayed her, she wouldn't have had to come to the club and she wouldn't have gotten raped.
She checked out after she was done dressing up and took a taxi to her former house. She was thinking of selling the house now that she got married but she hadn't gotten a buyer and she was glad she didn't get one.
As the taxi drove to her house, they passed the place where Dylan's accident took place the previous night but Julia was so uninterested in the accident that she didn't even turn around to look.
"I hope those people survive the accident, but I feel worse than them right now so I can't look at the scene," she thought to herself.
The taxi dropped Julia at her mansion and she went in. Everything looked the same without any changes and she slowly went in.
Fortunately, she employed someone to look after the house in her absence so everywhere was sparkling clean.
Different memories flooded her mind as she stepped into her room, including good and bad ones but she shrugged them off.
At that moment, the only thing that clouded her mind was Dylan Gerald and how she was raped by a stranger. Tears filled her eyes as she thought about her encounter with the stranger.
Never in her life did she think that she would be a victim of that especially when she's a married woman.
"The person at fault here is Dylan. I kept drinking myself to a stupor, hoping he would come and stop me like he always did but he never came" she mumbled to herself as tears slowly started rolling down her cheeks.
She picked up her phone to call him but she didn't have the courage to do that.
"I thought he loved me. How can he stay calm after not seeing me for a whole night? Do I really mean so little to him?" she thought to herself as the tears increased.
At the hospital
Dylan briefly woke up that morning but he lost consciousness after a few minutes.
"Doctor, why is he like this?" Nicole panicked.
"It's nothing to worry about. He's supposed to be awake in the evening so I suggest you prepare something for him to eat before then" the doctor said
"Really? He's going to wake up this evening?" she exclaimed excitedly.
"There's a huge possibility," the doctor said
"Thank you doctor!" Nicole said and wanted to walk away when the doctor stopped her
"Make sure to ask him about things that happened in the past when he wakes up. He has amnesia from the test we carried out but you can still confirm it" the doctor added and left.
A smile curved on her lips as the doctor walked away. That's exactly what I want and that's why I did this in the first place. How can I be with him if he doesn't have amnesia?
I'm going to help him forget Julia after he wakes up and I will make sure they don't ever cross paths from now on. Dylan is mine!
Two days later
Dylan was fully awake after two days and it was confirmed that he had amnesia.
"You really don't remember me?" Nicole asked him for the umpteenth time with a sad look on her face
"Who are you?" Dylan asked weakly
"I'm your fiancee. Even if you don't remember anyone at all in this world, how could you forget me?" Nicole asked with tears rolling down her cheeks
"I'm sorry that I can't remember you but I promise to try my best and love you like I did before" Dylan promised.
"We were planning to announce our wedding before this happened. If I knew it would turn out like this, I wouldn't have allowed you to leave the house that night." Nicole wept.
"Please stop crying. I'm sorry" Dylan apologized.
"I'm just scared that you won't love me anymore now that you've lost your memories. You might believe any lie that anyone tells you and leave me" Nicole said
"No, I promise you I won't do that. Since I've lost my memory and you are my fiancee, I will listen to you and trust you only. Do I have any family members?" Dylan asked
"No. You are the only child of your parents and they passed away already. Your friends are all out of the country so I don't really know them" Nicole explained.
"It's okay then. At least I know I can't believe anyone besides you" Dylan said
Nicole was happy that her mission was close to getting accomplished and she made sure to stay by Dylan's side until the day he was discharged.
After Dylan was discharged, Nicole packed her things and went to live with him giving the excuse that she had to take care of him because he was sick and had no one else to trust.
Before Dylan returned to the house, Nicole already discarded every picture and anything that had to do with Julia so that he would forget about her completely.
She began to live with Dylan and cling to him every time, gradually helping him to erase Julia from his memory completely.
TBC......
© Tricia