Chapter 165
Angel
I felt drowsy and ached all over my body especially where I had been shot. I couldn’t say precisely how many times I had woken up and fallen back to sleep but I was aware of one thing, that I had just received treatment for the gunshots.
I opened my eyes gradually, this time, feeling more awake than the other times. I stared at the ceiling above me for some seconds, I had thought I was the only one in the room untill someone raised their head from the bed.
“Angel?” The voice belonged to Cassie, I stretched my neck to look at her and she looked shocked with a glint of excitement sparkling in her eyes. I let out a deep sigh to ease myself but it did nothing to ease the severe pain I felt in my heart.
The pain of betrayal and heartbreak from the woman I loved dearly with everything I had
It hit me the most more than anything that happened that night.
“Angel, are you okay? How do you feel?” I heard Cassie call again but I looked away trying to hide the hurt I felt from her.
I wasn’t just heartbroken, I was angry and it only increased by the second.
“Where’s Knight and Caspian?” I asked feeling concerned. I had seen Caspian before I passed out but I wasn’t aware of Knight’s situation.
“They are all fine. You don’t need to worry. However, Doctor Phillip just arrived this morning from visiting his family. Thankfully Doctor Robert was around to conduct the surgery with the help of Florentine.” She said.
I was quite aware that the clinic’s doctor was on a break to visit his family. I just hoped there were enough hands to treat the other men who were injured. I hated to lose any man.
“Great.” I said hoarsly and I could feel Cassie tense. I glanced at her briefly seeing curiousity clad her face. I was acting weird for someone who had been shot and just escaped death but she wasn’t expecting I’d hop on her for a hug to show how grateful I was to be alive because the truth was I had no such feelings.
I was angry, desperate for answers and hurt to the core of my soul.
“What are you doing?” She asked standing to her feet. I was taking off the drips on me and without saying a word to her I got off from my bed.
“Angel, you should rest. I’ll go get Doctor Philip.” She said but I remained silent. I was in pain from the gunshots but I chose to ignore it. I fit my legs into a slide kept beside my bed and struggled to move to the door.
“Angel!” She yelled as I staggered from feeling drowsy I guess the general anaesthetics had not weared off completely. Cassie held me by the arm to steady me but I angrily pulled away from her.
“I need to know what’s going on.” I said weakly.
“What’s wrong with you.?” She scolded coming in front of me. “Quit being stubborn. They men will be here any moment and you can ask them whatever you want to know. I’m sure the are handling things.”
“Get the fuck out of my way before I push you myself.” My voice came out harsh and for her sake she should heed my words because I was going to do just that.
She stared at me unbelievably but soon gave way which surprised me. I had expected her to be stubborn but I guess I was too intimidating.
I opened the door just as she went to pick up her phone. She was contacting Dr. Robert but her voice cleared off the moment I shot the door behind her.
Damn it!
I felt weak and I hated it. I knew it would take some days to get better but time wasn’t on my side.
“Angel!” I heard my name being yelled from afar and the sound of my name got me irritated. Could everyone just stop yelling?
“Angel!”
Fuck! Fuck!
I looked ahead to see Doctor Robert quickly approaching with Knight and Caspian. They looked shocked like they never thought I could walk. What was I? Vegetative? Fuck them all especially Knight who got those stupid ideas of love into my head.
“What’s wrong with his eyes.” I heard Knight whisper to Robert and I directed my gaze to the doctor. He seemed startled by my look. I withdrew my gaze from him and shut them briefly instead.
I knew I was angry, very angry. I just needed someone to lash out on.
“Take me to the truck drivers.”
“What?” Caspian was the one to speak and I glared daggers at him causing him to avert his gaze.
“Ah… I think you should rest for now to heal quickly. Knight and Caspian will take care of things till you get better.” Doctor Robert suggested.
“Sure. You need to get well. We’ll give you feedbacks on everything that….”
“Shut your fucking traps! All of you!” I roared feeling my anger triple. My patience was zero. How the fuck did my men not figure that? They remained silent which pissed me off even more so I grabbed Knight by the collar. He knew me best and knew how desperate I was at this point.
“Are you just going to stand there and do nothing?” I yelled.
“You need to rest Angel. You could act rashly with such temper.”
“You bet I will.” I tightened my grip on his shirt, my eyes bulging with rage. “I could kill you out of that fucking temper.”
“Calm down Angel.” He said through gritted teeth but I quickly scanned his body and grabbed the gun he had stuffed on the side of his waist.
They all gasped and squinted their eyes at me.
“Angel! What the fuck are you doing?” Came Cassie’s voice as she ran between me and Knight. The gun pointed directly to her head and my hand shook letting it fall.
I was so angry at myself that I couldn’t air out the fury I felt inside the way I wanted.
I wanted to get some blood in my hands. I wanted to toture everyone that had an involvement in the attack and as for the ring man behind it, I swear I was going to kill him no matter what it took and how long.
My body kept vibrating from anger and out of frustration I bashed my fist on the wall beside us. Even the pain of the contact didn’t seem to do anything to ease all that fury.
I wanted to rage till my heart’s content.
I felt a gentle touch on my shoulder and I knew it was Cassie. I turned around to face her and she was tearing up.
I obviously scared her but I was so messed up to even care.
I should be able to gather my thoughts as I has been trained that way all my life in the face of such events but someone wrecked it all.
The self control, the sanity, she fucking wrecked me.
My heart bled. How could she do this me? Why?
I felt Cassie slowly wrap her hand around my waist hugging me. I looked down on her and I could hear her sobs. She was my little sister and I couldn’t imagine how scared she must have been when she saw me unconscious. Slowly, I wrapped my arms around her. That was the most consolation I could give to her.
Knight stepped forward and grabbed his gun which he stuffed back to his side.
“I’ll continue treatment at the mansion but that won’t stop me from getting to the root of the matter and no one should try to talk me out of it.” I said with finality in my voice.
No one objected and soon I was back at the mansion. To be fair, I was in pain and I needed to let my heart out so I let the men handle things for the rest of the day.
I locked myself in my room and the first thing I grabbed were pictures of Thea which I had taken unawares.
Her smiles were still very engraved in my mind and before I was even aware of it tears had started streaming down my face.
I squeezed the photo in my hand and went into a fit of rage.
I began tearing things, scattering the place to ruins. I drank and shattered the glass to the ground cutting myself in the process.
I tore every picture I took of Thea till the last one remaining.
The one I held her in my hands after we made love, my mind flashed back to her texting me the next day and questioning me about it.
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I was in a meeting and her text kept popping into my phone.
The taste of her lips, her beautiful smile, the sound of my name from her mouth. The hugs, the talks, the touch, eye contacts. The love making, the confession of love. What was it all for? No matter how I tried to think about it, it made no sense for her to leave that night so what reason? What reason did she have to act cruel and break my soul? How did I let myself fall so deep in love that I couldn’t even figure the guise she put up.
How was she so good at acting and deceiving me?” It was all my fault. I chuckled bitterly thinking about it, truly there was no way heavens blessed me with such gift. The nerves I had to think I could be loved.
My heart contristcted with more pain and tears kept flooding my face till I had no more if it to release.
The pain was unbearable. I swear it felt like dying. I couldn’t breath at the thought of losing her. She was my fucking life! Everything! That was what she meant to me.
Even if I found her, how could I live knowing it was all fake. She just needed the perfect opportunity to escape. I should have learnt my lesson after my father’s anniversary with her mum but I let my feelings clad my judgement and now I was reaping the fruit.
However, with everything that happened my prime suspect was no other than Sparrow. He had talked to Thea twice that night and had made some suspicious remarks to me and it only meant that he was calling war.
I picked up my phone and dialed Knight’s number.
” Get the men ready, find Thea, rake the entire city, the country even… just make sure you find her. I’ll toture the truck drivers myself tonight so they can spill out the truth. Sparrow is the closest suspect I can think of.” I ordered and hung up.
He indeed was calling for war. He wasn’t just going against me, he was going after his father’s ally and against the mafia rules. He had to be ready to pull such but one thing was for sure, everyone who stepped on me that night would have a taste of their own poison.