FIFTY-SEVEN
I slowly walked to the living room to make sure what was there. No one is there but the door is open when suddenly someone bumped into me. I fell to the floor but because I grabbed this person’s clothes, he also fell with me.
I punched him in the face and tried to reach the cover over his face. But he also retaliates.
“AH!” I heard a scream from the kitchen.
“Lauren.” I kicked the man and reached for the gun. I was about to shoot but he ran fast. I didn’t waste any more time with him and quickly headed to the kitchen.
“Lauren!”
“Hubby.” But my eyes widened when I saw a man holding Lauren. She was crying looking at me with a gun pointed at her head. The back door is also open and it is likely that this goon passed through here.
“Who are you?” But the asshole signaled for me to lower my gun.
“Hubby.”
‘Fuck, I’ll make sure I will break your bones, you idiot.’
The man again signaled for me to lower the gun. I slowly lowered the gun when suddenly someone came who stole all of our attention.
“Lauren!”
“Hendrick!”
I couldn’t lower my gun and aim at the man again.
“Let her go!” Hendrick screamed and was about to get closer when the gun was pointed at him so he couldn’t move either. He gestured back with the tip of the gun then aimed at Lauren’s head.
“Fine, fine, please don’t hurt her.” Hendrick retreated with his hand up.
“Hubby, Hendrick.” I can’t bear to see her scared and crying. Even Hendrick was clenching his fist and crying his jaw looking at the two but there was nothing he could do.
“Who are you and what do you need?” I asked and this person’s attention turned to me. He signaled that I was the one he needed and then pointed at the gun I was holding.
I threw the gun at his feet. He stepped on it and then kicked it away.
“Let Lauren go. If you need me, take me.” I don’t know how this person will react. I don’t even know if she is a girl or a boy. He pointed the gun at me. “Let her go!”
“Hubby!”
A loud shot echoed around the kitchen. My leg was stiff and couldn’t move while feeling myself. I can’t feel anything but stiff legs and heavy breathing.
“Hubby!” Another shot and I saw the tip of the gun smoking. Lauren struggled but the man only tightened his grip on her. “Hubby!”
“Dwayne Dale.” Little by little, my knee went soft and I fell. Hendrick caught up with me so I didn’t fall completely. I coughed and felt something gooey coming out of my mouth.
“Hubby! Please don’t leave me.” Tears came to my eyes when she said that. I don’t want to but no more air entered my body. My vision is blurry and my hearing is getting weaker.
“Dwayne Dale,” Hendrick called me. I’m so dizzy that I don’t understand. It’s like something is blocking my throat. I also feel that Hendrick is pressing my chest. “Help is coming. Don’t close your eyes,” he added.
‘Damn, I think I’ll die.’
“P-please, p-please s-save h-him.”
I saw in my peripheral vision that the man was pointing his gun again at me.
“Can you stop?! Let Lauren go!” I heard Hendrick shout.
“Hendrick!” Lauren screamed following the click of the gun. It clicks one after another but nothing fires. I also felt Hendrick’s trembling until I close my eyes but still I can hear them.
“Lauren!” Hendrick’s scream scared me even more until I heard a series of gunshots. Following the darkening of my vision.
HENDRICK’S POV
“Dy, are you sure we will give the police what we got?” I heard one of Dylan Dy’s staff ask him.
“Depends on whether you can let him sing, Clus. But if you can’t then I will replace you there.”
“Alright Dy, let’s just give that to the police.”
“Tell the fool Lieutenant to leave the one who shot my brother, the one that Hendrick caught for them.”
“What will you do to him?” asked Wallace. Isabelle’s ex-fuckbuddy. “We’ll play until he runs out of blood.”
“Alright, Dy.” His staff left to a police officer and spoke. Wallace turned to me and motioned to Dylan Dy so he also looked at me. I was about to turn to leave because it seemed that I was no longer needed here. Lauren is safe with her father and no one needs me here.
“Just a moment.” But I heard him call me. He and Wallace approached me.
We are here outside the operating room. I accompanied them here because the police investigated me here as well. They caught two. The one who shot Dwayne Dale and the other one I caught.
Earlier when I called Lauren and couldn’t reach her, I went to her house to find out what happened to her. I’m not used to not talking to her and not contacting her for a long time. When I got there, I saw a car parked outside their house. At first, I didn’t pay attention to it because I thought it might just be a neighbor parked on the side.
When Lauren and I talked in my car, she asked if I was in the car. When I said no, he was also surprised but I didn’t pay attention because even she just shrugged her shoulders.
When I left I saw the car move. I thought maybe the paparazzi were following me. But when I got out of the subdivision, I was nervous and the car did not follow. I don’t know why but it’s like someone is whispering to me to come back.
When I came back, the car was still there but the place was different. It is facing the exit. When I turned to the door of Dwayne Dale’s house I saw that the door was open. Out of nowhere I went down and heard a scream from inside. And I couldn’t mistake that it was Lauren’s voice.
I called my police friend to come there as I quickly ran inside when I met a man. He was so quick that he didn’t notice me so I caught him. We wrestled until I choked him and knocked him unconscious. I don’t even care if I killed him.
I left him outside without thinking if he was still alive and might be free. I quickly went inside and found Lauren being held hostage. Even though I want to help, I don’t know how. One wrong move and one of us is doomed. I don’t want that Lauren even more.
I admit I was scared when I saw Dwayne Dale get shot. I’m not used to actually shooting. But I was more afraid to point the gun at me. I thought it was the end of me when he pull the trigger. Fortunately, there were no bullets.
I was also scared when Lauren struggled and fought because the suspect might have a spare gun or a knife and he would do something. But I couldn’t move and couldn’t get close to help her because I couldn’t leave Dwayne Dale and I felt she was still alive. I know something in the first aid kit about how to slow down the blood flow. Fortunately, Dylan Dy arrived right away as well as his brother-in-law and their friend.
If I could ask Dylan Dy to be the one to beat up that idiot, I would. I can’t forgive him for holding Lauren hostage. I saw the fear in her eyes when that asshole pointed the gun at her head. And I also saw the pain and sadness when Dwayne Dale got shot.
“Why?” I asked when they got close to me.
“Thank you for calling the police and staying there while no help arrived. And for saving my brother.”
“You’re welcome.”
“Would you like to say goodbye to Lauren before leaving?”
“No need, she is safe and her daddy is with her. I’ll just talk to her when everything is ok.”
“It’s up to you, thanks again.” And he left with Wallace.
I’m not stupid, I feel Lauren already loved Dwayne Dale before she got amnesia. I confirmed even more when my driver told me that Lauren knelt before Dwayne Dale and begged. But I ignored that and thought that she was able to do that because she owes a lot to the Dy family.
But I’m wrong. Because before she lost her memory she broke up with me. In the car where I picked her up, she confessed everything to me and said that she loves her husband. She couldn’t wait for dinner to end because she wanted to go home to her husband
She admits that something has happened between them and most of all they only blurted it out because she admitted that she loves him. She loves him more than the love she gave me. She told me to just focus on my son. My son was born accidentally because Isabelle and I were on drugs. Call of flesh and no love.
And Lauren said that she and Dwayne Dale decided to continue their marriage. Because they are ok, she will come back to him. Since she will come back to him she wants to end our relationship. But I begged her not to leave me. I know I’m guilty but I’m sorry and ready to make amends with her. But she insisted that she didn’t want to.
What happened to us is not an accident. I meant that. I would rather die together than see her end up with someone else. Lauren is the only person who understands me and stays with me. When she’s gone, my life I’d rather just die too.
She is everything to me. If I don’t pay attention to her it’s because I want to get rich to be worthy of her. I couldn’t fight her in my job because I didn’t want to lose my desire to have a lot of money and save for her.
To be worthy of her and to pay her father for the debt my father. Her agency will be paid so she can stop working. I need money for her.Text property © Nôvel(D)ra/ma.Org.
My life got messed up when my parents died. But its joy and color returned when I met Lauren. I just didn’t know that she was the daughter of my father’s debtor. When my father’s business partner broke and the business went bankrupt because of my father.
I want to be perfect for her. I want to be worthy of her. I love her and I can’t bear to lose her. I’m hoping that when she got amnesia we can be ok.
I hope so. I thought so. Because even though she has amnesia, even though her mind has forgotten, it’s like we just went back to before. Even if she doesn’t speak, I feel—–I feel that her heart has not been forgotten even though her mind has been forgotten. She still loves Dwayne Dale. And for the second time—–I lost her.