As soon as I entered the room without a door, I knew immediately who I would meet there. Behind me I could feel the people following us.
Full of courage I decided to face my fate.
"Savanah." I uttered. Nadine, the real fiance and not me.
She set a trap and now I found my self in front of her in this hunted like house.
With her hair neatly falling from her shoulders. She was wearing a white dress while crouching in a crib.
"W-what ..." I whispered to myself. She glanced at me and smiled sweetly which made me shiver to death. Smiles you thought took no life.
"Savanah, what is this all about?"
She didn't answer and gently gestured as she tapped the bouquet I see in the crib. She has a child?
"Savanah please, give up. Y-you have a child and ... if you surrender you can still settle these things-"
"Shhhh."
Deafening silence I heard her picked up something in the crib. I heard Noah sighed and comforted her. There was no noise but him.
"You're an animal."
I turned to Noah and I could clearly see the burning in his eyes. I'm sure if he wasn't tied up he would have accomplished what he intended. He gave us another look in our direction while still singing his bit-by-bit bouquet. What whispers I heard from Noah that seemed to be urination just to do what he wanted.
"Savanah e, please. If you give up now Justine and you will still be happy as a family and-"
Her attention was like a trigger and my soul almost ran away when she threw the child she was just holding in our direction and when I saw that it was just a baby doll, I was even more surprised.
I brought both my hands to my mouth and almost knelt in weakness. She laughed and laughed while gracefully walking on crib's direction. There he picked up a gun that made me even more nervous. In a blink of an eye she shot the head of the baby doll without even hesitating like it was just common thing to do. I closed my eyes tightly and did not understand what was happening.
"Family? Why are you talking about something that you don't have, Jade?"
She smirked and walked in front of me.
"And I am too. Me myself who also don't know a thing about that damn family because I never experienced to have one. And now when I was about to, you ruined everything."
Her eyes glazed over as she said that in front of my face. I don't know her story. But based on what she's saying I can already pick up the missing puzzles and make a conclusion about what's happening.
"I lost my baby. And so his father who doesn't know a damn thing. Because you did nothing but to fool him! What do you have !? What !?"
She pointed the gun at my chest while shouting grievances. At these times I have no hope. I knew I would pay for the things I just chose to ignore.
"Savanah. I don't have anything with you, you are a woman and a mother. I gave up my relationship with Erato. And you can talk to him after all, I'm sure he doesn't know because you haven't told but for sure when he knew about this- "
"I didn't told him because he doesn't care! It's just Jade! Jadee! What the actual fvck of sorcery you did to him huh !? Why does everyone seem to want you !? "
"It's n-not like that Savanah. I'm sure he loves you too and will-"
"How can someone love a satan?" Noah laughed and scolded my back.
Mariel's pull of the trigger in Noah's direction just made me close my eyes and her scream made me deaf. I thought it had housed him but I saw him kneel on the floor while holding the bleeding thigh.
"You bitch! I'll kill you!" Noah shouted and Savanah just laughed in response.
"Thank you for bringing Jade here. You're just like your girlfriend, stupid and just want money."
My jaw dropped at what I heard. I was fooled. Again.
"You're like this hypocrite. Forcing herself into the world isn't for her. Isn't it?"
My tears welled up in the pain I was feeling. I would have accepted that I was just stupid and mindless, but I could not get rid of the pain of being repeatedly turned away from me by people I hoped for and trusted.
"How pitiful isn't it?"
She smirked and turned her back to me.
"Didn't your parents get burned? Why didn't you just go with them?"
"If you know everything about me, why do you have to ask me?" I sighed boldly at him because my patience was already attached especially since my mother and father had joined.
"Bitch."
She walked fast to just apply his palm to my cheek. I immediately felt the rust in the mouth because of the force of its impact.
"Pathetic bitch! I'll kill you myself!"
"Then kill me! Kill me like you did to my friend! Kill me and Noah e and whoever else you want! And what will you get in the end Savanah? Does that change a thing? No! Because for sure not only to jail but to hell as well! "
"Shut up! Shut up!"
She fired a few more shots and it hit everywhere, I bowed in fear and tension. His hand that was focused on me was shaking and I was also staring at him sharply.
"Now, I know why Erato never loved you in the first place."
"What?" She spat and laughed with no humor.
My lips trembled and tears welled up in my eyes.
"Her mom liked me for him all along."
I don't think I want to hear the next ones now that Levi's mother has joined again. I don't know if I would even forgive him if I found out he was helping Savanah.
"I waited for him, for years but he didn't even know my look and name. Because it's just you! You became a model and so I did too! Maybe he'll see me too but then Justine came, and I loved him which I thought he did too. But after all of it, you and you are still Jade. "
"I do not understand you."
"Even my own mother. You stole her from me too, didn't you?"
She smiled at me. And saw her tears flowed into her cheeks. Her smile are giving me creeps and horror. To hear those words from the deprived woman and think I robbed her was not mine to be processed.
"What do you mean ..."
"Oh! Stop bullshiting me Jade! I don't care as long as I want you to disappear now."
Noah grunted more. She aimed into my head while I'm kneeling in front of her. If you look, I have no hope. Noah and I. But when everything came like a flashback, everything that happened from the fire on the island until now gave me a pinch of hope. Like maybe I'm here for a reason all along. If I can't save myself maybe others will. I quickly slapped his hand and he let go of the gun he was holding.
The incident happened quickly and I heard a commotion behind me that seemed to be Noah's resistance as well. I quickly stood up and picked up the gun but before I could do that I felt a strong pull in my hair.
"Bitch! Your still have courage to fight!?"
I grunted due to the pain. I don't know how Noah was able to knock out the two men holding him because my vision was blurred by Savnah's scratches on me. I tried to reach for the gun but we both fell to the floor and he hit me to slap me repeatedly. I fought back with all the strength left in me but she was just a big girl and she even managed to bang my head on the floor. My vision gets blurry and I felt blood rushing into my temple. But I did not despair.
I pushed him with all my might and forced the gun to reach the floor again even though he was weakening. I even turned to Noah and saw him holding the long ice pick that had been stabbed at the man he was fighting. I could have reached for the gun when Savanah kicked it and pulled my hair up again. I grunted more when I felt the pain of my body and the numbness of my system.
"Fvck! You're really flirty! Still having the courage to fight back. Come here and I'll give you what you want."
Her grasped took me no strength to me and carried me to the terrace. I could see the surrounding expanse but everything was blurry. I was also very weak and even I wanted to get away and there was nothing I could do. She was about to push me there but Noah grabbed his attention when he called him.
"Hey bitch! I'm the one who's in trouble but you're even worse than me."
Savanah's eyes looked at him sharply, still not letting go of my hair. I felt that Savanah was surprised to see that all her staff were gone and that the gun that Savanah had just held earlier was pointed.
"You have nothing to lose now. Straight from hell now." Noah laughed.
I saw Savanah's anxiety and she quickly pulled me up and placed me in front of her. Noah's eyes were confused because of what he had done.
"Am I really the one you should kill, huh? Is this woman the cause of your girlfriend's troubled life? Will you save her? Why? What is for?"
My eyes went wide when I thought of what she's doing. Brainwashing Noah.
"Didn't everything revolve around her? You did a scandal for her, your girlfriend even died because of her. You lost everything because of her. Now you want to kill me when all I did was to help you and give you money? "
"Noah, no. Don't listen to him."
"You shut up!"
Noah pointed his gun but I could see that his mind seemed to be involved in what Savanah was doing.
"All right! Shoot that gun at me. Save this woman who killed your girlfriend who will put you in jail after all this! "
"That's not true Noah. Didn't I say I'll help you, we'll work together."
Noah shook his head and blinked emphatically and seemed to have exhausted his patience. Like in the blink of an eye all at once the bang happened and I saw Jomar fall and Savanah kneel. I docked on my place and when I looked at Nadine she's been shot by Noah's aim.
Trembling, I immediately looked at Noah who was lying and bleeding on the floor and that was because of Erato who popped out of nowhere and aimed for him. I almost crawled in Noah's direction and approached him.
"Noah, no- not Noah. Don't- just wake up I'll take you to the hospital."
I saw how his blank eyes looked at me and his side of the lips rose. And his hands reached for mine.
"Jade, let's get you out of here."
I didn't listen to Erato and covered Noah's right abdomen stopping the bleeding.
"Just wake up Noah. You can't. For Mariel, right?"
My tears continued to flow as I saw Noah gradually disappear into a trance.
"Jade." Levi called me but I didn't even give him a glance.
"Sorry Jade."
My breathing stopped when I saw how his hands glide into mine and saw him lost his consciousness. How his smile faded, at the same time as he closed his eyes. I never thought someone would lose because of me. Not just one, two or how many more. I shook uncontrollably as I stared at Noah's lifeless body in front of me.