Amy gulped when he pointed the gun at her. Her heart was beating frantically, but she pursed her lip and closed her eyes, a tear rolled down her eyes as she thought about Blake, Jade and her family most especially Lair. He was her favourite person in the whole world. Her lips twitched when she thought about Blake again. It seems she wasn’t meant to know how he felt about her. She’ll never know whether he liked her or not, but she’ll die with the thought that he loved her.
She took in a deep breath to brace herself for the incoming impact, her heart raced and cold sweat enveloped every part of her body.
Mason looked at her with angry eyes, he could see nothing but a person he had to kill. Somewhere in his heart he felt like he shouldn’t because if he was to honest with himself he knew she was just also a victim of her mother’s evil ploy, she had been separated from the man she loved, but his rage and thirst for vengeance had clouded his judgement.
“I’ll hope you die a slow and painful death.” He said as he pressed on the trigger.
BAM!!
Amy stiffened when she heard the sound of a gunshot. She held her breath as she waited for something to pierce through her but nothing came it. Was it painless when someone got shot? She waited a few more seconds but there was nothing.
Did he change his mind? If he did, what then did he shot?
Amy slowly opened her eyes to see what had happened, but she was welcomed to a shocking scene playing out in front of her.
‘Ethan?’
“Ethan!!” She screamed out loud when she saw him clutching his stomach as he fell to his knees.
“Ethan” She called out again as he groaned in pain but he didn’t look at her, rather he had his eyes glued to the man with a gun in his hand who was now standing transfixed with his hand quivering in shock. He didn’t understand what had happened. He had just pushed the trigger how had he appeared there?
“Mason” Ethan called out in pain.
“E..than” Mason stuttered out when he realized what had just happened. He let the gun slip out of his hand as he rushed to Ethan, wrapping his hand around him as Ethan fell to the ground. His heart was pounding ferociously when he saw Ethan like that.
“Why… Why did you do that?” Mason asked as his eyes began to well up. What has he done?
“Mason…let her go.” Ethan struggled to say through gritted teeth, not minding to answer his question. He clenched his teeth tightly and closed his eyes because of the pain.
“No.” Mason shook his head as he pressed on Ethan’s stomach, while he held his head up with his other hand.
“Wait let me take you to the hospital.” He said as he tried to lift him, but Ethan pulled him down shaking his head, indicating he didn’t want to.
“Mason you promised me. You promised not to do anything bad again, that you won’t hurt her, that you’ll give up on your old self. You promised me. Were your words empty promises? Don’t I mean anything to you?” Ethan asked him, staring into his eyes.
“Don’t say that,” Mason said, cutting him short. “You know you mean the world to me, but they hurt me.”
“And her mother will pay. Isn’t that enough? I might not know Micheal enough, but I know he wouldn’t want his brother to become a murderer. Mason let this anger go, it would only cause you more pain, please.” He pleaded before wincing out in pain making Mason scared. He didn’t know if he should press hard on the wound or not, but he was bleeding out.
“Ethan stop this. Let me take you to the hospital. Let’s leave this alone.”
“I’m not going to the hospital. If you want to kill her then let me die as well. She’s my friend and I can’t live with the guilt even if you can. I can’t!” Ethan said stubbornly. A surge of pain shot through him and he impulsively clenched onto Mason’s shirt.
“Ethan stop this please.”
“No, you stop. Stop trying to live in pain. I’m sure her mother must be confessing to her….her crime at this point. Let her face the law, but let Amy go. She loved your brother and he loved her back. She has a good heart, don’t let this take you back to where you’re coming from. You promised to change.” He paused when he couldn’t bear for much longer. His body was becoming numb.
“Ethan you’re losing a lot of blood, stop being stubborn” Mason told him.
“There’s no much time. Make it stop then we can go to the hospital.” He said with hitched breath, as a tear fell from his eyes.
He gripped Mason’s hand and held tightly, “Please for me. Save her and save me.” Ethan pleaded. He hadn’t planned to jump in front of a bullet, but he had no choice when he saw Mason pushing the trigger the moment he was approaching him. Left with no choice he jumped in front of Amy, and that was what led to him being shot.
Mason hesitated but he slowly nodded his head when he saw Ethan in so much pain. He looked at Amy who was equally in tears as she looked at Ethan on the floor. He sighed as he slowly brought out the remote from his pocket. He looked at Ethan who encouraged him with a nod. He sighed as he clicked on the button and the beeping noises suddenly stopped.
“You did good,” Ethan told him with a forced smile, before giving Blake a nod.
Blake who had been standing by the side hoping and praying things were going to work out successfully suddenly stepped forward. He had wondered why Ethan was so confident in resolving the whole issue, now he could see why.
He dashed towards Amy and set her loose. She fell into his arms and he caught her, she has been standing for so long and her feet could barely hold her up.
“Are you okay?” Blake asked with concern.
“Save Ethan” She cried.
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Jake stood by the door of the room Jade has been placed while the others surrounded her. Her mother and brother had been crying so bitterly as they both held each of her hand. Phil, Rick, Mike and Dan were also in the room, sad and depressive looks were etched on their faces as they stared at Jade. Though they had all spoken to her once, but the girl had left quite an impression on them. Only her could tame a man like Jake.
Phil looked at Jake and he could tell the man was at the verge of breaking down. He walked closer to him and placed a hand on his shoulder, “She’ll be fine. You’ve got a strong girl who loves you and she’s going to cling to you okay.” He said comfortingly while Jake nodded his head.
“Why don’t you go talk to her.” Phil nudged him but Jake shook his head.
“I…I can’t” He replied.
“Why? You should be at her side. She needs you Jake”
“I failed her. I just can’t.” He hissed and walked out of the room. He had no place in mind to go, but anywhere other than Jade’s room would be fine. Seeing her like that made him run out of air. It looked like she was sleeping but she wasn’t. She was in a coma and only God knew when she’ll wake up. He felt both suffocated and angry. Angry at life and himself for not getting to her in time.
He should have been quick. He should have driven faster, maybe he would have gotten there in time and she wouldn’t be in this condition right now.
Jake was walking aimlessly in the hallway of the hospital when his phone started ringing. It was the shadow guard he had employed for Blake.
“What is it? Where’s my brother?” He asked in a firm tone, when deep down he was anxious. Tonight has been a crazy and taunting night so much his mind was already waiting to hear something bad.
“He’s on the way to the hospital” Jake tensed up the moment he heard that.
“Did something happen to him?” He asked nervously.
“No, but someone has been shot and they’re bringing him to the hospital.”
Jake heaved a sigh of relief when he heard that. He couldn’t take one more bad news tonight. He was already exhausted both physically and mentally. But he wondered who the ‘he’ was.
“Have the girl been found?” Jake asked.
“Yes”
“Okay, I’ll wait for him here.” Jake said before hanging up. He looked at his shirt and sighed. It looked horrible but there was nothing he could do.
He looked back at the direction he had been coming from and sighed, before stepping into the elevator.
Jake had only arrived the lobby of the hospital when an ambulance arrived with Blake’s car driving behind it. He caught sight of Amy at the passenger seat and he heaved out another sigh of relief.
Amy hopped out of the car and rushed towards the stretcher which was been wheeled out from the ambulance. She missed a footing but Blake was quick to catch her.
“Amy wait” He told her but Amy was stubborn as she pushed forward towards Ethan who was already been wheeled into the hospital.
“Blake” Jake called out but Blake walked past him like he hadn’t even seen him. He looked at him but Blake ignored him and continued on his stride.
He wasn’t surprised, he was angry at him and he deserved it.
….
“Blake, Ethan is not going to die right?” She asked frantically as she cried. She was still in shock. She couldn’t believe Ethan would do something like that for her. What was he even thinking jumping in to save her like that? Didn’t he think of himself? Why did he do that? She continued to cry as she asked herself those questions.
“No he isn’t.” He comforted her. He noticed she was having a hard time with the gown she was wearing.
“Come and sit.” He said as he led her to a seat. She sat on it, but she kept tapping her feet nervously. Her hand held a part of his shirt subconsciously as she nervously waited.
Blake looked at the guy who was just standing right in front of him. So he was the Mason guy? He could swear he was the one he had seen his pictures earlier at the company. He must be a twin brother of the guy. The resemblance was uncanny.
Blake watched him as he pulled out a cigarette from his pocket. Was he going to smoke there? He was about to tell him he couldn’t smoke there when the man cussed out and squeezed the stick in his hand. Sheer frustration could be seen on his face. He had seen the way the guy was back at the cliff. He had looked like he was about to die. If it wasn’t for Ethan right now – funny he was considering Ethan at the moment given the fact that he disliked him days ago – he would have killed this idiot with his own hands for kidnapping Amy and for making her go through so much.
Blake was still trying to comfort Amy when someone suddenly manifested in front of them.
Blake didn’t have to look at his face before he knew it was his brother. What did he want now?
He waited for him to say something to him but instead Jake looked at Amy and asked, “Hey, are you okay?” He asked as he crouched down to her level.
Amy looked at him with teary eyes as she shook her head. She wasn’t okay. She was shaken up and she was still so scared. Blake wrapped his hands around her tightly as she tried to sniffle her tears.
“You’ll be fine.” Jake said in a comforting tone while Amy bobbed her head up and down as she wiped her tears.
“Jade… where’s Jade?” She had only remembered her now. She looked to the side to look for her, but she wasn’t there. She looked at Jake who was now standing on his feet. She wasn’t at the auditorium right? She should have known that something happened to her by now. So where was she?
“Where is Ja….” Amy paused when she saw the blood on Jake. She shot up to her feet, her movement was too abrupt and it made her dizzy as her legs wobbled but she didn’t give in.
“Where is Jade?” She asked anxiously. She didn’t like what she was seeing. She was having this ominous feeling in her stomach and it made her scared.
Jake looked at Blake defeatedly, he didn’t know if he should tell her the truth or not especially when she was facing her own ordeal.
“Tell me where’s Jade?!” Amy yelled as she held Jake by the shirt. This shouldn’t be what she was thinking. It had better not be.
Jake sighed and looked at her, “Jade is in a coma.” He said in the most defeated tone he had ever spoken in. It seems saying it out loud made him realize the real situation of things.
Jade was truly in a coma. And he would not see those blue eyes that sparkled whenever they saw him. He wouldn’t see those smiles that made him float in space and made his heart swell. He wouldn’t hear her giggle or kiss him.
The realization hit him so bad, it made his eyes swell.
“I’ll leave now. Blake will take care of you and I’ll be back later.” He told her before glancing at Blake who was also looking at him with a surprised gaze. He wasn’t expecting to hear his sister-in-law was in a coma.
“Have her checked up.” He said to Blake who was still looking at him with a weird expression on his face. Jake looked at Amy one more time before he walked away.
He let them be for now, and he also had to be with Jade as well. She needed him now, and staying away from her because of guilt wasn’t going to make him feel better. He had to be there for her and her family.
But mean while there was something that was more important, and that was getting back at the people who had put his girl in her condition.
He picked up his phone and dialed Marcus number.
“I know what you want to say” Marcus said the moment he answered the phone.
“So?”
“I’ve got them both. Come to my base whenever you’re ready” He told him.
“Good”.
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