Chapter 283
Elena
‘8 missed calls from Rona
‘From Elena
To: Rona
I’m alright, don’t worry about me. I’ll call you back later!”
Confused, I looked down at the key in my hands as I blocked off the sound of the waiting area. I didn’t even know what I was doing here or why I even felt the need to come-but it had somehow turned out this way.
Anya…
I squeezed the key in my hands as I thought about her request. The key was meant for Marvin and only him. Would he survive?
“Elena!”
No, not again.
I jumped up from the bench and stepped back in fear as I looked at my dad, who was trying to force his way into the waiting room. “No, sir-this is only meant for close relatives!” Two nurses held him back.
“But she isn’t a relative, she’s-
“Sir, that’s his wife.”
“No, that’s my daughter-and as far as I’m concerned, she does not have a husband!”
“Elena!” My dad called out once again. My brother, Alex, who had quickly noticed that it wasn’t going anywhere, held him back and pulled him away. “Dad, let’s go.”
“Elena, come here right now!” My dad yelled out as Alex dragged him away. I looked from my shaking arms to the key in my hands.I can’t leave. I can’t do that.
Not after Anya’s wish, and not after Marvin is fighting for his life because of me.
Two hours ago
My body froze as bullets flew across the room. Was this real life? In what kind of movie did I find myself in?
Marvin wrapped his arms around my body and turned me around to shield me while I held my hand in front of my ears with only one thought running through my mind. I am going to die, these are my final moments, and I’m going to
die.
I closed my eyes and prepared myself to take my last breath, but before that could happen, everything had suddenly stopped. Was I dead? Was I in heaven? Was I in hell?
“A-Anya?” Tiago broke the silence. It was enough for me to turn my head, and I could not believe my eyes. Anya’s body was covered in blood.
turned to look at the same man who had been all up in my business and interrupted me earlier in the
I’ll call
face, Tiago placed his hand behind her head. Unable to say anything.
“Tiago-”
don’t!” Tiago cried. “Don’t
losing it and seemed close to fainting any second. I was unsure of what to do and held her hand for support. She was still alive, so she would be alright. She had to be. “W-where is he?” Tiago
He’s getting
taking too long!” He called out before he ran out of the room and was entirely
whispered. I squeezed her hand. “He’ll be back
floor. “H-him,” She whispered. My heart nearly beat out of my chest as I leaned closer to hear her words. “M-
to get to the bottom of her words.
her head.
had passed, but it felt like hours, and there was still
forcing me to free her from the necklace. I figured it might’ve been hard
a state of unconsciousness. She was probably just tired.
in my eyes as I was still
it was meant for Marvin? That must’ve been it. She wanted me to give it to Marvin, otherwise Victor and at
concluded that I had yet to hear Marvin’s voice, and I slowly turned around. I was in a state of shock, seeing Marvin
Marvin’s side. “M-Marvin?” I fell to the floor. He was unconscious,
With shaking hands, I moved my finger to his neck in the
“Thank god.”
He was alive.
protect me from
after that had all become a blur, and all I could remember was how I rushed down the stairs as the
and his family or the fact that Anya was also injured. “Ma’am, this is as far as you
go!” I begged as the tears streamed down my eyes, I didn’t even know why I cried or if
whispered. “You know
“Thank you!”
I turned around with wide eyes, recognizing a familiar
at me, shocked. Shit, this wasn’t supposed to happen.
announced myself to be Marvin’s wife, and everyone
in a
back in fear while the door closed and watched how my dad and Alex ran to the van-only for it to close right in their faces.
“Ma’am.”
the man in front of me and scanned his uniform with my eyes. It was a cop. Was there
“Ma’am!”
cop chuckled and stuck out his hand while I looked down at my own, which had been covered with blood not
his hand. “E-Elena
a card into my hands. “I said
“Statement?”
“Your witness statement?”
look in the man’s eyes told me it would be
tomorrow.”
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