Chapter 59
Chapter 59
It had been five hours since Olivia blurted out those words to Ethan. Five hours had passed since Ethan had locked himself up in his room. and Olivia had not seen him since then.
Five hours since Olivia sat at the front of Ethan’s door, pleading with him to open up but never got any response from him.
Olivia had envisioned different ways the situation could go, but she had not planned this one out. What frightened her most was the fact that Ethan was locked up alone in that room
“Ethan, please open up, please,” Olivia said as she rested her aching head on the door. Suddenly, she came up with a plan to get him to open the door
“Ethan, I need your help. I’m not feeling too well.”
Before she could conclude her statement, the door swung open, revealing Ethan looking disheveled and frazzled, his hair looking like he had run his hand through it numerous times–rough, unkept.
His face was red and his eyes bloodshot. His eyes searched maniacally around Olivia’s body
“Where does it hurt?” He asked hurriedly, his voice raspy. Olivia hugged him, the top of her head just reaching his chest. She didn’t want to let him go as she was scared he would go back in and lock the door on himself again,
“I am so sorry, I tried everything, I tried to save him.”
“What are you talking about?” Ethan asked, a scary smile on his face
“Ethan..” Olivia started
“I just spoke to my dad a few hours ago, stop these cruel jokes.” Ethan continued, almost as if he were gradually going insane. Back inside his room, he had tried to let out the words Olivia blurted out and pretend like he didn’t hear anything. Once the sun was up, he would hurry straight to the hospital first.
“Ethan, please, I know it is hard to accept but..”
“Stop it! I said, Stop it!“. Ethan growled, his fist connecting with the wall just above Olivia’s head and she flinched, whimpering in fear.
“Ethan,..” She began again, not planning to back down. He was trying hard to block the reality of what she had said to him,
“Get the fuck away from me!” Ethan shouted as he threw the vase on the table to the floor
Olivia jumped in fear as the shattered glass pierced her
arm.
She winced in pain, quelling the pain by clamping her lips
“It can’t be true, it can’t be true, it can’t… no!” Ethan mumbled over and over as he crouched on the floor, his head between his knees
Instead of sulking in the pain from the cut, she crouched beside him, parting his hair
“You need to calm down, I am so sorry, Ethan. One minute, he was fine, and I went to see the kids, and the next, he had an arrest. I tried to revive him, but I failed. I am so sorry.“She said in tears
Ethan began shaking his head maniacally
“It can’t … it can’t…“.
Suddenly, Olivia could hear him wheezing and making choking sounds
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“I can’t… brea…I can’t breathe… He stuttered, his hand clutching his throat as he struggled to breathe
“Oh my God! You’re having a panic attack!” Olivia exclaimed, pulling Ethan to her chest.
“Listen to the sound of my voice, okay, just focus on my voice, forget about every other thing. Please focus on my voice.” She yelled repeatedly, and Ethan nodded in desperation
“Take deep breaths, everything is fine. Breathe in, now, breathe out. Yes, just like that, just like that.” Olivia murmured into Ethan’s ear as he began to calm down, tears still rolling down his face.
“I can’t believe that he’s p gone,” Ethan whispered as he curled up in Olivia’s arms.
“Me too, Ethan, Me too, and I’m sorry.”
“I got this bottle for ten thousand dollars at an auction,” Bryan said as he poured out the sparkling wine into two glasses
“Here” He handed the second glass to Derek
“I had doubted the plan, but it actually worked out perfectly. I’m in awe of your brilliant mind.” Derek said as he took a sip of the wine in his
hand
“I told you time and time again, nothing ever goes wrong with anything I plan. I’m fucking too experienced and smart to make mistakes. I don’t tolerate mistakes, I don’t make them either, and once I set my sights on something, I achieve it no matter the obstacle in my way.”
Bryan swirled the contents of his wine glass as the thought of tucking the boxes on one of his wishlists had finally been achieved. For so many years, for so long he had waited for the day he would see the look on Mr Fordham’s face while he was dying in his hands. He had imagined it all, and it happened. Nothing could be marked as a happier day for Bryan, at least until he finishes Ethan off.
“Do you think he has been informed by now?” Derek asked as he placed a kiss on one of the women on his arms
“I suppose” Bryan sighed as Sandra rubbed his chest seductively
“Baby, this is what I needed, your touch,” Bryan whispered in Sandra’s ear
“It’s your fault we have been so apart these days, you never have my time, neither do you pick up my calls, you even stopped sending me money,” Sandra whined
“Come on, you have to understand my situation, we have to tread carefully, you know that, to achieve all our plans, we need to tread with caution. What does a few years apart in the grand scheme of things mean? Absolutely nothing” Bryan comforted,
“But are you sure we will be able to pull this off, She..” He placed a finger on her lips, shutting her up before she could complete her statement.
“Are you doubting me?t have perfected this plan over the years, and you know that, where is all this doubt coming from now?” He asked with an eyebrow raised
“Do you love her?”
“What?!”
“I don’t know, you are different, it’s almost like you have actually fallen for her.” Bryan let out a frustrated sigh
“Is that what all this is about? You’re jealous of her?”
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“Wha.. what?“She sputtered, her face flaming with embarrassment
“How can I be jealous of that hag?”
“Then, you should not ask stupid questions like that when you know you’re the only woman I have ever loved and that I would ever love fam doing all this for both of us, so that I can make all your dreams come true, all our dreams, everything we said we would have, and all the places I promised to take you to. I am doing all of this so that we can have that.” She searched his eyes for something before she emptied the entire contents of her glass
“That’s good, so don’t forget that. If you betray me, I will ruin you. Remember that Hun” Sandra dropped a kiss on Bryan’s lips and ran upstairs
“Stupid bitch” He grumbled under his breath, “She is beginning to get on my nerves.”
“I wonder how you put up with her.” Derek chipped, and immediately Bryan shot him a stink eye
“Shut it.” He growled, and Derek raised his hands in surrender
‘How dare she threaten me? Me?” He growled in his mind, tightening his fists around the wine glass in his hand
He had to tread carefully; one thing she was right about was that she could destroy him, and she was too formidable a partner to get rid of just yet
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