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The sound of mumbled words cut through my— sleep?
Was I asleep? It didn't feel like that. More like I was getting back to something.
My neck hurt. And for some reason, I could feel a cough stuck somewhere in my throat, desperately pleading to be out.
But I had a feeling if I did, it'd come with much pain.
“She'll be fine.” A voice I knew I'd heard before but couldn't quite grasp, spoke.
“Okay, thanks a lot.” The next one was Don's voice.
What were they talking about?
And why would they decide to do that while I was asleep (that is, if I actually was)?
Couldn't they be anywhere but here?
The pounding on my head proved I wasn't actually asleep.
Something wasn't right.
When my eyes opened, they were greeted by the white ceiling, but when my gaze travelled sideways, I noticed a crying Hane.
Huh?
To fuel my confusion, a worried Don stood at my other side, where a man, I now knew wad the doctor who'd helped with Don then, seemed to be leaving with someone else I assumed to be a guard.
Why was the doctor here?
What was happening?
“What's wrong with you two?” I asked, since that seemed to be the only way to find answers.
They both turned to me in shock.
“You're awake.” Hane let out a breath of relief. “Thank goodness you're safe.”
Huh… was I supposed to not be?
But as I sat up on the bed, everything came running back to my memory.
“Are you alright? Do you feel hurt anywhere?” Don rushed to sit beside me.
“June. Where is she?” My brows drew in anger and panic.
“Listen, calm down. You shouldn't stress yourself.” He tried to place his hand on mine but I slapped it away, tears welling in my eyes..
“Calm down? You know none of this would be happening if you'd just involved the cops.” I sniffed in, wiping the tear that slid down my cheek with the back of my palm.
Hane stood up, bowing before leaving. She probably knew the time to leave us to have a private talk.
“I know, it's—”
“I pleaded with you to involve the police.” Another tear dropped down but I didn't bother wiping it off.
“I told you she was a psycho. I told you to just arrest her but you refused.” The tears were now pouring out more.
Like, I literally almost died.
What would have happened if they hadn't come sooner?
Maybe, by now, there'd be no Eri.
“I told you I didn't want anything to happen. Now that I was almost killed, are you happy? Is that what you wanted before you got your brain working to involve the cops?”
He stared at me, regret evident in his expression but said nothing.
“Have you forgotten I have a family who may actually be affected if anything was to happen to me?”
At that point, I couldn't control the streaming tears pouring out of me. “I'm just twenty five Don! I don't want to leave the world yet because of marriage.”
The last sentence was followed by a worrying silence, but it was the truth.
He hadn't taken this seriously, which had led to the most scary experience of my life.
If he still refused to, then who knows what could happen.
I might just as well end up losing my life.
At first, I hadn't seen it as a big deal, but the feeling when she choked me…
No, that wasn't something I wanted to relive.
It was the most scary thing ever, and I couldn't find myself letting such be repeated.
Yes, I love Don.
But there is my sister and my best friend that loves me also.
I'd just known Don for a year while I'd known Suzy for twenty one years, and Rose, ten years.
No way was I going to risk their sanity for marriage.
“Where's she?” I finally broke the silence, although I was sure it had placed a small scar on our marriage.
He sighed, looking anywhere but me. “She escaped.”
“What?” My eyes widened in both fear and panic.
She escaped?
That meant she was still out there, probably plotting different means to hurt me.
There was no doubt she wanted to kill me and instead of that type of person to be locked out somewhere, she was still out there?
I glared at him. “Are you still not involving the cops?”
Finally he stared at me, guilt playing on his expression. “I called them already.”
He was replied with a huff from me.
I wasn't even aware when I'd stopped crying.
“At least you can care enough to do that.”
“Eri.” His tone was laced with apologies, but that didn't make me feel any less mad.
Gently, he wrapped both hands of mine in both of his, staring like he thought I'd snap my hands out of his grip.
“I'm very sorry for not reporting this sooner.” His voice was low and soft. “I guess I just thought June was a girl of words but no action, that's what she'd been for fifteen years.”
“Well now she's taking action and trying to kill me.” I didn't stare at him from how annoyed I felt at the moment.
“I'm sorry about that. Please, look at me.” He shifted closer.
Finally, I turned to him.
And when our gaze locked, a part of me softened as I realized hie afraid he must have been when he probably thought I was dead
He was also scared and although this was partly his fault, I was being too harsh on him.
My gaze shifted to his huge hands that bottled my tiny looking own. “Okay, maybe I'm not being too good either. Sorry.”
With a sigh, I continued. “It's just, when you get face to face with death and just by a tiny chance, you are saved. Things just annoy you. Like, the fear just takes over your sanity.”
His expression was softer when I turned back to him. “I'm so sorry for putting you through that.”
“It's okay. You've apologized enough.”
“I promise to make sure June regrets what she did.” His jaw clenched. “As long as she lives, I'll make sure she wishes death.”
“And make sure she does not ever come between our marriage.” I added.
“I've sent the police to her house where they'd hopefully find her.”
I nodded, a little glad at that, before the question popped. “How did she escape?”
If I recall clearly, when he had arrived, she was still choking me.
So how on earth could she leave me and run off without being thought.
“When I arrived, I was more shocked to see you unconscious than to see her standing there in fear. I rushed to you, screaming at Hane to call the doctor and I guess that was her chance to run away.”
Oh.
“How did she get here anyways? What about security?”
Don seemed deep in thought. “Even I don't know.” He paused, then continued. “Maybe she's working with one of the security guards.”
That was the only sensible suggestion as to how no one would have at least caught her.
“I'll fire them all and get new trustworthy ones.” He said, while I just nodded.
I know it wasn't nice to make innocent people lose their jobs, but at that moment, my life was far more important to me than that.
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