Treachery Affair

Richmond Hill

How’s this even possible? How could Harley be Alexa? How did the table suddenly turns around like this?

Sitting on the edge of my bed, my face is buried in between my palms. I have so many things running through my mind. There are too many questions that needs answers, but I have no idea how to answer to them. How did she manage to escape from the fire? How come there were four corpses that day? Those are the questions that keeps running through my mind. Yes, she explained to me the person that rescued her, but then I don’t know why I think that there’s more to know about this. How did the man get to rescue her without anyone knowing it? Why did he do surgery on her? Those are the questions that needs answers.

My mind wanders off to Jay. He was the master minder of the whole thing. He caused the fire outbreak and killed so many innocent people. It hurts. I have always doubted that man right from onset. I’ll make sure that he rots in jail, where he belongs.

“Daddy…” I raise my gaze to see Clara, my cousin and Nelson. He’s having a sad expression on his face as usual.

“Nelson…” I smile as I watch him rush to hug me. I’ve missed him so much, but then I don’t want him back here. It hurts deeply to see him like this, and I prefer to not see him at all.

“Are you crying? What happened?” He cups my cheeks with his little hands, wiping off the tears from my eyes with his thumbs. He looks emotional.

“I’m not crying. I just missed you,” I pull him into my arms, hugging him tightly as tears trickle down my cheeks. Everything sucks, my heart is broken and hurts badly. I don’t know if I should be happy that Alexa survived the fire outbreak, or if I should be sad that we may not end up together. I mean, there’s no way I’ll be with my late wife’s sister, right? Yes, some people are doing it, but I feel it’ll be as good as betraying Emily.

“I missed you more, daddy. Grandma has been sleeping before I went to aunt Clara, when is she going to wake up?” He pulls away from me and questions me innocently. If only he knows that the woman is fighting for her life, if only he knows that she’s stuck between life and death. My whole life is messed up, but I have to be strong. I have to do the right thing.

“Grandma will be fine. She just needs some rest and she’ll be back to her feet, OK?” I ruffle his hair softly, smiling at him. I just have to be strong, if not for anything, but for the sake of my son.Published by Nôv'elD/rama.Org.

He frowns deeply, and I sigh. He has always been like this from the day he found out that his mom died. Of course, I didn’t want to tell him at this young age, but I was left with no choice then. I was so pained, that I didn’t know when I spilled the secrets and since then, he had been sad every day. I know he’ll get over it, it’ll only take him some time to heal.

“When will I see mommy?” He utters in between muffled breath. He may call that a whisper, but I heard him clearly. He still hasn’t ceased to calling Harley his mommy. I guess he’s so attached to her.

“Your mommy… She came here,” his face brightens upon hearing this.

“Where’s she? I want to see her,” he squeaks excitedly, and I smile.

“She’ll be here in two days again, to see you,” we didn’t talk about her coming back here, but I’ll definitely find a way to bring her back here, so she and Nelson can see, once again. They departed sadly the last time she was here to return him home. Now that I know that she’s his aunt, I have to strengthen their relationship.

“You have totally forgotten me, right?” Clara utters for the first time, and I sigh briefly. I can’t believe that I forgot that she has been standing there.

“I’m sorry. I have missed Nelson so much that I got so happy when I saw him. My bad,” I apologize to her, springing up to my feet.

“Clara… Can you help me take care of Nelson, while I head out for a while? I’ll be back sooner than you expect it,” I say to her. I’m going to the hospital to see my mom, but I don’t want Nelson to come with me. She’ll be sad and may cry when she see her later. So I’ll just go alone.

“Sure,” Clara reply to me.

“Where are you going, daddy?” He asks in his little voice.

“I need to take care of something. I promise, I’ll be back before you know it,” I cup his cheeks as I squat down to his level.

“Can you get me some chocolates on your way back?” He asks and I nod.

“Sure. Be a good boy, and don’t stress aunt Clara. I’ll be back,” I finally stride to the door and pull it open. I saunter out of the room and head straight to the exit door downstairs, making my way out afterwards. I heads to the parking lot and hop in my car, driving out of the house afterwards.

The drive to the hospital is smooth and cool, as there’s no traffic jam like it has been for the past two weeks now.

I arrive the hospital few minutes later. I amble to the emergency room where she is, under life inspector. Stepping into the room, there she is, lying on the bed with an oxygen tank fixed over her face, her eyes are closed. Her face looks pale as usual. I just wonder when she will open her eyes to look at me again.

The doctor told me that surgery is the only option, but some things have to be done on her before the surgery can be done. That’s why it’s been delayed…