Chapter 101
"She died in an accident ten minutes ago. The news is all-over the city" Ashton muttered.
"Who died?" Warren calmly replied.
"Ixora Rhodes, her brakes failed" Ashton said.
"Ixora is at the church, waiting" Warren replied.
"She's fuckin dead! Watch the news, bro!" Ashton shouted.
"She's in the church, shut the fûck up bîtch!" Warren growled.
"War—
Warren hung up on him, leaving the bloody shop and pushing past the crowd in front of it white filming his bloody body.
He jumped in his car and drove into the abandoned district, his hands gummy on the wheel as a result of the blood.
Saying his chest was empty throughout the drive wouldn't do justice to what actually happened.
His whole organs felt stolen. The heart, the kidney, liver, lungs and all other bloody fellas.
He halted in front of the chapel, throwing the door shut and taking two steps at a time towards the building.
She better be in there, waiting.
She better be in there, waiting with his damn gifts.
She better be in there, breathing like a human.
He opened the door with his bloody boot, and for the first time in his life, he couldn't see in the dark, so he quickly pulled the lights wire by the wall, and the lights came on.
There she is, standing in the middle of the pew with few scratches on her arms and hiccups tearing from her throat.
"I nearly died...four cars nearly crushed me, but I was lucky to drive into a fueling station, and I crashed into one of their tanks, but I escaped the car before the tank blew up and the....the—
Warren was already with her at this point.
No idea how many steps he took to get to her, but he arrived, and with with blood-soaked hand, he gripped the back of her neck...
Ixora whimpered, a small tear leaving her bright brown eyes.
"I'm the only death of you, no one else... ME" He growls, and then...
His lips descended down hungrily on hers, and her mind spiralled to the land of no return.
....
"Dirty. Little. Liar"
The intense deepness of his voice came back from wherever he has been keeping it, and his nose flared at each pronunciation.
"A cinema-worthy show, wasn't it?' he spoke again, leaning on the table.
Capri was the first to move away from the door, coming angrily for him with fisted palm which he planned to throw at his face, but he already calmed down before he arrived.
"You do not get to leave us behind! We're a team! You suffered that hell behind bars and we watched you passed through the fire, you don't get to act alone!" He said angrily.
"You actually fooled us too? I'm fuçking speechless for the first time ever in my life" Konstantin uttered.
"What's the point? What's the damn point of your fake amnesia, bastard?" Ashton moved from the door.
"I needed to get cozy with her, I needed to plant myself deeply. I needed to give her something to remember for life. If I had told y'all, the awkwardness would be inevitable, and Konstant is an impatient bastard who'd ruin everything with his anger issues" Warren replied with an eye roll.
"Won't deny that" Konstantin replied, taking his seat on a table.
"And now the planting is done? Do the briefing" Ashton said, calming down.
"Mrs. Ortega is after her life, she sent men to off her in Capetown" Warren replied, turning on the projector in that room.
"It's normal for her to be after her, they cooperated to carry out the operation after all" Capri said.
"What do you mean?" Konstantin asked.
"Mrs. Ortega...that whore killed her husband to get his wealth, and at the same time, Evelyn wanted to punish me for turning her down, so they framed me for it, killing two birds with a stone. I was jailed, but then I was suddenly found innocent, and that means someone else killed the husband, not me. They could have reopened the case and continued investigating, but Mrs. Ortega obviously has someone she's bribing in the police force to keep it closed" Warren explained.
"But then...she's not completely safe, cos pet girl surely knows about it too since she's part of their team. Apart from her and her hiding daughter, pet girl is the only one who knows she's the one who killed her husband, so she's trying to keep all loose ends sealed by killing her" Ashton added.
"Yeah" Capri replied.
"I initially planned to leave Mrs. Ortega till we'll find her daughter, but that plan is cancelled. I'm killing her, and I'm giving little liar her perfect punishment. I'm getting the two out of my way so I'll have the darn time to focus on Evelyn" Warren said, projecting again.
"But...Little liar and Mrs. Ortega are not the only ones who needs to be dealt with right now... there's another one" he continued, clicking a name on the projector.
Hawke.
"Hawke tortured me like an animal in jail, he injected me with too many shots and chemicals, especially the one that took my sight for three days. He might be the great Hawke, but he didn't work alone, he has a supplier and a supporter." Warren explained again.
"Who's his supplier?" Anfisa asked, coming in.
"Crescent Hospital, the same hospital I worked in for one year before jail...the hospital supplied the chemicals under Elder Creed's name, but it's not Elder Creed, someone used his name" Warren explained, moving his body away from the table and dropping the projector remote.
"Who?" Konstantin jumped down too.
"Tomorrow at 8... don't be too shocked" Warren smirked.
The guys exchanged looks, and when Anfisa's eyes met with Capri, he walked out of the room.
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\[Rafael's Mansion\]
"We need to get to the hospital right fuckin now! The accident affected your legs this much? You can't even walk properly!" Stonia said alarmingly.
She's in Rafael's living room with Rafael himself, Ixora and Nadine.
"I'm fine, I'll be fine before tomorrow morning" Ixora replied, tugging at Warren's shirt that she's wearing as his scent seeped into her head.
"I'm gonna call the doctor for home treatment, you can't keep it up like this" Rafael took his phone, but Ixora quickly stood to take it from him.
"I'm really really fine, dad. My legs will come back before daybreak, and I'll just use my body lotion for my body scratches" she said.
"That won't work for me" Stonia replied, stubbornly calling the doctor.
Nadine already knows what's going on with Ixora, so she just kept quiet till the female doctor arrived.
Ixora's body scratches were attended to, and so much attention was showered on her leg, but still...the gap didn't disappear.
The female doctor looked Ixora in the eye, seeming to have finally gotten a hang of what's going on.
Ixora looked away, slightly biting her lip in embarrassment and hoping the doctor won't say it out.
"Can we talk alone?" She asked.
With reluctance, the parents and Nadine left the room.
"How intense was the sèx?" The doctor finally asked.
Ixora's cheeks heated.
"I'm not asking to embarrass you, but it's surprising, I think you've got cervical tear" the doctor said.
"What!" Ixora's eyes widened.