Read Story: SEASON 1 EPISODE 188
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At the general hall, Seraphina received her well wishes from her staffs and Annika and her father, but nothing about her depicted aliveness.
She still looks down.
Even as the staffs kept showering her with words of affection.
She felt nothing.
Acosta came to her sudden….
“Seraphina, you need to know something about your parents—”
“I’ll be right back!” She cut him off and rushed into the nearest washroom where she rested on the water dispenser and let out her tears.
The tears she has been keeping.
The waterworks rushed out, bathing the dispenser hotly.
“Tobias…” Her nose ran too, stinging had burning when she remembered how he pushed her off and took the steel pipe on his head instead.
When she remembered the blood that bathed his head before he fell, her tears burned hotter.
“What do I do? What do I fuckin do?” She slipped down. “How do I live without you? It’s impossible…I still feel like dying…”
She dipped her face into the arms she rested on the dispenser, and at the same time, the door opened.
She didn’t look up till she heard the mean voice.
“First Lady.”
Her head went up to meet Yalda by the door.
“Yalda?” She hiccuped.
“Wrath has been found…..” Yalda dragged the words. “Alive.”
Seraphina’s eyes widened.
“He’s…what?”
“Alive, but in a deadly condition. His head was a mess when the divers rescued him, and it’s still a mess.”
“What…what do you mean?” Seraphina’s heart jumped.
Yalda led her out of the washroom, to the park where they both hopped in her car and she drove them to the Oddsion.
Odds are cleaning up the blood and body already, but Yalda took her across the mess to Tobias’s room at the far top of the lift.
When they got to the door, Yalda walked away and left her there.
The smell of antibiotics and antiseptics and cleanliness hit her nostrils first, causing her chest to thud faster with fear of what she might meet inside.
Fear of the unknown.
Before she could even touch the door, it opened like it recognized her.
She stepped into the huge room, and in bed, he looks like a fallen giant.
He lay there, motionless with a large wrap of bandage around his head and a spread of blood on it. He’s shirtless, only covered by his black transparent pants, eyes tightly shut.
Slow steps, steady eyes, and racing heart brought her to his bedside. She didn’t sit beside it or stand around it. She climbed up and lay beside him, placing a palm on his chest.
It’s now she had a clear view of his face. Paler than pale. He clearly lost a lot of blood cos he looks lean already, and his porcelain skin has reddish marks from the fight.
She couldn’t stop the tears again.
It slid out of the corner of her eyes to the mattress slowly.
The tear from her second eye stained her mouth, and she kissed his hair with the teary mouth.
“You know…” She started. “I wasn’t expecting you to do that. I mean..the only place I saw males take hits for their girl was in movies, and I’ve never fantasized it cos I thought…who’s take a hit for someone like me? Who’d lay his life down for a girl like me? But you did… Tobias…you didn’t care, you did…”
She rubbed his chest, hiccuping.
“I didn’t know I could even control authority and crowd till I met you. You changed me, Tobias. I can’t even remember the last time I stammered or shy away from cameras, or the last time I cried from humiliation, or the last time someone even humiliated me… and it’s all you.”
A sniffle left her nose.
“You made me bold, I took steps I never imagined myself taking, and I could confront people I didn’t even dream of meeting. I command millions in my account, but I didn’t even spend my money cos you made sure I got a card from you. You took care of me like a real Daddy, spoilt me materially and sexually. You might be the criminal they all hate, my love, but You’re forever my sweet man, and no other will replace…”
“You own me, my heart, my everything. I’m willing to go through pain for my first twenty-four years in my next life again so far I’d meet you at after twenty-four, but it won’t be bad if I meet you earlier though, cos… I can’t do without you, ok? But we aren’t even done in this life yet. We haven’t even started anything…I want you back to life…I want you so bad to life…my love…I want you…”
Her sniffles mixed with her tears and hiccups, and it mixed with the sheets.
“I love you so much, Tobias. I…. love you…I love you…” She chanted, placing her lips on his ear. “Love you like crazy…” She kissed his ear.
She stayed there, talking to him like he could hear her, and giving him bodily kisses, lamenting and sniffling and crying for more than five hours.
No one disturbed.
They left her alone.
But at the sixth hour, the door alarm came in a low tone.
She got up and went to the door, pulling it open to meet Jude Estelle.
“Sorry to ruin your moment, First Lady, but I just thought you should know about this…” Jude said.
Seraphina looked on.
Estelle pulled out a tab, handing it to Seraphina who took it slowly.
“Read the news.”
Seraphina’s eyes darted to the tab screen. She read the Redd couple news for just two minutes before another tear slid down her left eye.
She looked up, shutting her eyes as her right eye shed it’s own tear too.
The tab fell off her hands, and she followed it.
Her body crashed to the floor.
“First Lady!”
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