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 was my fault, Sasha. I will never do that

had fallen freely

was stunned as it was the first time she had seen him cry after treating him for eight

berated, or was rough with him. He did

to Roxanne’s wrist and sobbed

pity. The sight of

“I’m Roxanne. Look closely, Sebastian. Sasha

“What did you say?”

as if he was struck by lightning. Then, a darker,

here, her body had been left behind. Karl had brought her back after you.

Smack!

sentence was interrupted by an abrupt slap across her face by

he commanded, glaring at her with bloodshot eyes, looking like a

long time, suppressing the urge

she could not muster up the courage to hit him back, though the anger burned within her. Contenting herself with a fierce glare at Sebastian, she departed without another word, with one hand

Sasha is dead!

door remained closed. The man inside was detached from the world. Nobody was successful in trying to rouse

the door to be broken down in his panic when the triplets appeared before him dressed in new

let us try and

the clothes that Mommy bought for us. Daddy would love it.”

breaking into pieces