The Love that Never Really Dies

Yancy had defied him and delivered the child, causing his carefully laid out plan to fall apart. Hence, Federick was rather infuriated.

Frederick left. Not long after, Karl arrived.

“Mr. Hayes.” “Where is she?” he demanded, the most pressing matter heavy on his mind.

Karl lowered his head slowly.

Sebastian felt something had ripped his chest open, leaving behind a massive hole where his heart used to be. He began coughing violently like he was exposed to a chilly gust of wind.

“Mr. Hayes, are you okay?” Karl asked urgently as Sebastian’s hacking coughs grew louder and more intense.

Bent double from pain, his veins throbbed in exertion as his handsome features were contorted in pain. Like a fish out of water, he gasped for air, being completely devoid of oxygen.

With a final cough, he spat blood and fell back onto the bed, and passed out.

Sebastian only recalled snatches of things when he was not himself. Once, he had remembered Roxanne performing hypnosis on him. He had hated it so much that he had an urge to drag her into the kitchen and savagely mutilate her with a knife.

The memory of him opening fire at the woman who burst into the room swam across his mind.

“No… no!” Sebastian moaned in his sleep. “Sasha, I didn’t mean to do that. I… “

“Sebastian, wake up!” Roxanne attempted to rouse him out of his nightmare.

upright. Grabbing her wrist roughly, he cried, “It

that had fallen freely down his face

she had seen him cry after treating him

or was rough with him. He did not even shed a tear when she had

that moment, however, he held on to Roxanne’s wrist

pity. The sight of his miserable

Sasha,” she said gently. “I’m Roxanne. Look closely,

“What did you say?”

he was struck by lightning. Then, a darker, more horrifying

repeated, hardening her heart. “When you were brought here, her body had been left behind. Karl had

Smack!

sentence was interrupted by an abrupt slap

bloodshot

her cheek as she stood motionless for a long time, suppressing the urge to retaliate. Nobody had ever dared lay a finger on

anger burned within her. Contenting herself with a fierce glare

Sasha is dead!

days, Sebastian’s door remained closed. The man inside was detached from the world.

in his panic when the triplets

try and talk to

all wearing the clothes that Mommy bought for us. Daddy would love it.” Vivian approached Frederick as she was clad

his heart breaking into pieces