FIFTY-EIGHT
DWAYNE DALE’s POV
I was comatose for one month. The bullet wound has healed. I was hit in the chest and luckily one of the bullets hit my bone so it didn’t go straight to my lungs. While one is straight in the stomach. The gun that the goons used is flipped. I just vomited blood because it had accumulated inside me.
The bullet was not removed because it was too dangerous and it was too fresh. But the doctor said my life is still normal and I can still do the things I usually do. In two to three years when the bone has healed and is no longer dangerous to move, I can decide whether to remove it or not.
My only problem is that when I feel hot or cold, the temperature of the bullet will also follow, so my ribs will feel a little tingly. But other than that there will be no problem.
The doctor said that it was a good thing that I was saved and he knew how to apply first aid. Knowing how to pressurize the blood because the second bullet hit is a sensitive part and blood gushes out quickly if you don’t know how to apply the right pressure. It can also accumulate inside if you don’t know how to release it. It would only take a minute and I would bleed profusely. But the one who applied it to me knew the right pressure that would not block and would not spurt blood. And it’s Hendrick.
I can’t believe the revelation that I found out. They caught one of those who entered the house. The man I let go to go see Lauren was caught by Hendrick. He came back because he noticed something strange. And the man who shot me was sent to hell by Dylan.
I found out that I was actually the target. And the one who entered our house was also the one who killed Carmona. And what’s worse is that we also only know the one who ordered them. And none other than aunt Laura.
The police caught her leaving the country. She was caught at the airport and when she was interrogated she had no choice but to confess.
When Carmona was released after being imprisoned by my parents, she went to America and started a new life there. Everything she saved she invested and grew. She hired aunt Laura to be a co-investor. Because they are best friends and she has confidence that everyone he entered was with aunt Laura.
But aunt Laura has entered investments that do not include Carmona. Everything she let in was a loss. Until she mortgaged her properties. In the business where they are both owners, their company grew more. Unbeknownst to Carmona, Aunt Laura has been making her share collateral for a long time.
She talked to Carmona that if possible, they should just sell the company in America because she needs her share. But Carmona refused. Since both of their names are stated on the papers, she can’t do anything unless Carmona will agree.
Carmona asked her where she would use the money but aunt Laura was too shy to say. Because she doesn’t want to embarrass those she entered and others, she spends on men. Because Carmona knows that Lauren and Laura’s daddy have a relationship so she doesn’t want to know that she also has boys.
Carmona has no relatives because she has been ostracized for a long time. No one will chase after her. Above all, it will go to aunt Laura because they are partners when something bad happens to her.
She has no choice because creditors are after her. Her only option is to eliminate Carmona in a way that she can get her money. And the option she has is to kill her.
And first, she let it out by accident. This is what caused Carmona’s leg to be amputated. And the second one is to drown her in the sea. And she succeeded. That’s what she thought.
She planned everything. I was the one she chose to frame up because I was the only one close to her who had filed a case once. I am more easily stressed in other words, which happened. I became the suspect and was almost jailed.
She’s ok with it. Because when that happens no one will think about her. But she failed when she found out that Carmona silently made a last-ditch effort. She bequeathed some of her possessions but not with her— but with me and Lauren.
Yes, she put me and Lauren as her heir. She named her property after us. And there, aunt Laura decided to kill me. Of course, she can easily turn Lauren around if I’m killed. But she failed again, and she has no choice but to admit the crime that she committed. Even with what happened there, the person who called the police admitted that she was the one who was killed.
Because this is the boat cleaner, she sent him there. When Carmona died he told her not to speak. People who entered his house were paid and then poisoned. She was also the one who told Hendrick about my past as well as about my son with Lindsay because she had me investigated. She did it on purpose so that the two of us would fight and doubt each other. She’s just unlucky because I can’t suspect Hendrick so he and Carmona don’t know each other.
“Hubby?” I looked at Lauren who had just entered. It’s been two days since I woke up. When I woke up and remembered everything, I hoped she remembered me also but sadly, she’s not.
“Where have you been?” I asked when she finally got close to me.
“Hendrick was outside so I went.” I want to be angry but I can’t. Somehow I’m still indebted to that guy. Whether I admit it or not, he saved me. I owe him my life. “The doctor said you can be discharged tomorrow.”
“Okay.”
“Hubby, I am sorry for what my aunt did.”
“It’s not your fault.”
“If something happens to you, I don’t know what to do with her. I might end up in jail because——-”
“Wife,” I cut her off when she suddenly started crying. “Wife, stop crying.”
“I thought you were going to leave me.” She sobs and keeps crying.
“Come,” I called her and tapped my bed. She sat here so I held her hand.
“I won’t leave you, of course. As long as your memory does not return, I will not leave. You have to remember me first.” I hold her cheek to make her laugh. “You’re going to cry.”
“I’m just worried.”
“Thank you for the concern.”
The door opened and Daze entered.
“Maybe there’s no porn going on?”
“Your words, Dandelion.” She came to me and patted me.
“Gosh, I’m old.”
“You’re still our baby.”
“Daze can make a baby now, hubby.” Daze’s face turned red. Oh fuck, I don’t seem to like that look. That was Lauren’s face every time we talked about us in bed when she didn’t have amnesia back then.
“Dandelion Daze.”
“What?” She called me annoyed.
“Your face turns red.”
“The hot outside is like lava, wazzaapppp brotha?”‘
“Stop saying things like that, it’s irritating to hear.”
“Well, don’t listen, you’re just listening and complaining.”
“Daze, are you and Ervic in a relationship?” Lauren asks her why our attention went to her.
“Huh, no, Enrique is my love.”
“He did not pay attention to you,” I said and sneered at her.
“You just thought that,” she whispered.
“What?”
“Nothing, I said, how are you? It’s good and you’re ok, I thought you will die. This wife of yours really thought you were going to leave. Don’t eat, don’t sleep, and just cry and cry.”
I look at Lauren who is bowing. My heart rejoices because of what I heard.
“I’m just worried.”
“Probably, that’s your husband, why are you going to do—- partying? Anyway, your hook— wrong, your boyfriend out there. He said he needed something before leaving.” My smile erase after hearing what Daze said. “He’s a martyr, we can stand him a monument. Go out and I’ll take care of my brother who peeked into the sky.”
“Hubby, I’ll go talk to him.”
“Go ahead.” When Lauren left, Daze stood in front of me.
“What?”
“Jealous, brother?”
“What?”
“Admit it, admit it.”
“What are you saying?”
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“Annoying.”
“Don’t stress, your high blood might be the reason for you to go back into a coma.”
“Shhh!” I took the blanket and went back to sleep. “Go away, I’m going to rest.”
“Okay, you said so. I’ll just go to Enrique mylabs. Byers.” She kissed my head and left. I still saw Lauren and Hendrick outside talking when the door opened.
Fuck, is there really no hope for her memories to return? Is it really gone?