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Chapter 2

Silvana

The smell of medicine and the sounds of machines beeping had me waking up from my slumber in an instant. My eyes opened slowly to the white ceiling of the hospital.

I was trying to recollect all that had just happened to me and I was almost having a brain freeze. All that stayed on my mind was the memory of the woman in the lingerie who had been walking down seductively from the stairs.

“Esham… her name wasn't going to leave my lips anytime soon. My heart burnt from the jealousy, hurt, and betrayal, all at once. That almost had me thinking that I was about to die.

“Hello, Ms. Hardin…” the nurse said to me, calling my attention back to the present moment. She gave me a stare that was usually given to people who were acting weird. “How are you feeling?”

“Pretty great…” I said, sitting up immediately in bed, and feeling a slight pain in my back and elbows from the fall. “How did I get here?”

“Uhm… some man brought you here. He refused to disclose his identity. But then, he said that he was just a kind neighbor who saw you when you collapsed while trying to go on a trip. Then he brought you here along with your belongings.”

“What?” I suddenly let out. That was the height of Reed's betrayal. “How could he…? A neighbor…?” The thoughts that those lies brought to my head were unbearable.

“Are you okay?” The nurse asked politely, even though she was still looking at me like I was acting weird. “Did he take anything from you? Did he do anything to you?”

“No… yeah… sort of…” I was confused about the words with which I would declare my awkward predicament. “He was my…” my words were cut off by a tired sigh.

There was no point telling the nurse that the so-called neighbor who had brought me had been my husband who couldn't wait for me to get on my feet before getting rid of me.

“Are you alright, Ms. Hardin?” The nurse had her brows furrowed as she was looking at me closely. “Are you experiencing any dizziness, memory loss, or dementia—”

“Wait, did he tell you that I'm a miss and not a Mrs.?” I looked at my left ring finger and saw that the ring was gone. I let out a pained laugh at that. The laughter went on for over a minute, as I just couldn't believe how perfect Reed's riddance of me had been. It was just too flawless, to the point that I was about to shed tears.

“Mrs. Hardin we have a therapist here as well, and a psychiatrist to handle even more severe cases when they arise,” the nurse was speaking with concern, but was still staring at me with that weird look. “We could refer you before it gets too late to remedy it.”

My laughter soon turned into tears as I was no longer able to hold it in. I knew that the nurse was thinking that I was on the verge of losing it at that point, but I didn't care as I cried my heart out right there and then.

“Ms. Hardin…?” The nurse called out to me again, but I was crying so much that I was unable to reply to her for a moment. “We can begin with a few shots of some medicine that can calm you down…”

“Where is my stuff?” I demanded as I got out of the hospital bed. I had to get out of there as soon as I could, and I was grateful that my clothes were still intact. “Where are they?” I demanded more urgently that time, nearly frightening the nurse.

“Are you sure you want to leave? In your current state?” The nurse didn't look so sure of letting me go, as I had been acting weirdly.

I calmed myself down somehow. “I’m fine. There's nothing wrong with me. I'm just going through a lot of things right now. My mind is just clouded.”

“There are therapists that can—”

“I just need to go home,” I interrupted, as I couldn't stand being treated like I was insane. “So… please, just show me where my stuff is.”

“Alright…” the nurse said, as she led me to the room where Reed had packed up all my stuff inside one traveling bag.

In the heat of my curiosity, I opened it to see some clothes, some of my documents, and my phone which I hurriedly took to see that he had wired a million to me, from all the fortune we had built together.

I had been so much in my feelings to question his sharing of the property. But then, I had loved him so much that I hadn't seen the importance of signing a prenuptial agreement. I was going to end up with nothing but what he had given me.

“Alright…” I said to myself, painfully accepting all that had been given to me. That was all I could do as I carried my bag out of the hospital. I was going to swallow my sullen pride and head back to my home and face the music.

As I walked out of the hospital with my bag in my hand, and all those eyes on me, I felt like the biggest fool in the universe forever falling in love with that bastard, Reed.

My life has been wrecked by Reed Gaston and his family after I had gone through all that crap just to please them. I laughed inwardly for ever making such sacrifices for a lying, cheating bastard.

But as painful as it was, I was about to turn a new leaf— a vengeful one at that. I was going to make Reed pay for taking advantage of me. I was going to make him suffer as much as I could.

Just when I was about to step out of the hospital, a car suddenly pulled over right in front of me and almost knocked me down when he pulled over.

“What the…” I muttered to myself, as I had almost seen my life flashing right before me. Who the heck was he?

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