7

“Is it done?”

Even if there was an earthquake and the noise of the world was deafening, there was no way she wouldn’t remember the voice of the woman that tortured both physically and mentally, the woman who took away the one real thing she thought she had ever known.

Kaitlyn Moore Jules.

“Yes, ma’am,” Another gruff voice replied, it was probably the hit-man that was in the car.

“I don’t believe it, let me check it. This bitch has a life thicker than bones, she has the ability to survive even the most ridiculous situation, just take what happened five years ago as an example.”

Nirvana’s vision was blurry and her breathing was faint but her ears can never be sharper than now.

Does this mean that Kaitlyn knew something about her accident five years ago? Was she the one that orchestrated it?

She felt the door open and it wasn’t long before the jumbled figure of Kaitlyn was standing in front of her, she bent her face to stare at hers, before a small laughter tumbled from her lips. “Would you look at this? What did I say? I said she has got all the stupid luck in the world.

After all that pushing and hitting, she is still hanging on to life pathetically,” Kaitlyn scoffed before she stood upright. “I guess that makes things more interesting. I would tell you some things that you must be desperate to know.”

Nirvana wondered what the use was now, she was going to die anyway, and whether she knew or not was not going to make any difference, her only regret was that she was dying in front of this woman.

“Tell you what? Your beloved lover, the one who you were willing to turn mellow for, the whole meaning of your life is the same reason why your life is hanging on a balance.

He got so tired of you that he ordered your death to be finalized.

He planned the same five years ago when you were rushing along to mess up a wedding, he knew you too well, he knew that’s what a hot-headed woman like you would do when you learn of what your parents did, so he had some men wait for you but these men were just too incompetent and couldn’t just get rid of a rat like you which was precisely the reason why I am here this time.”

“Why?” Nirvana managed to let out and Kaitlyn sighed.

“Of course I would tell you the reason, don’t be too hasty. Do you really think that Derek wanted you not to live on the street and that was why he made you stay at the Jules mansion? Don’t be delusional! He could care less if you rot in the street.

But you just had to go ahead and be too smart. This is because of that accursed grandfather of his! He loves you too much to the extent that he gave you his entire fortune, only for you to offhandedly tell him when he asked you about how you would give your own inheritance that everything would be for Derek as long as he took perfect care of you.

And just like that we have a clause in a will that even you had no idea of.

He had to keep you close and take care of you in the mansion to make that man think that he still loved you and cared for you.

You thought that you were the one being appeased that I would leave soon? You are wrong! I was the one who waited for years for Derek to find a way to make that stupid clause useless. How else do you think I would have your files if he didn’t hand it over to me?

Now that you have fulfilled your usefulness? Of course you would be discarded!”

Nirvana didn’t have any more energy to say anything or form a reaction to what Kaitlyn was saying. She could only feel the immense pain of her heart breaking from inside out and her heart shattering.

Who knew that it was over something as measly as the company that she would have willingly handed over to Derek if he had asked was the main reason why he wanted to end her life?

Her stomach churned in horror, unable to cover her ears like she desperately wanted to, so that she didn’t have to continue to listen to what Kaitlyn had to say.

“And did you seriously think that the car key that was on the table was forgotten there and just laying around? No, you are wrong, it was deliberately placed there.

Derek knew that Calvin would tell you everything that you wanted to know and you would still make the decision of finding us just like you did five years ago. You might have lost your memory but your temperament never changed, especially if there was nothing restraining you. You are still as hot headed as ever.”

Nirvana could feel her head light up because of the amount of blood she was losing and immense pain in her head from remembering her lost memories and injury from the accident.

But it was nothing compared to the pricking ache in her heart.

It just had to be Kaitlyn hazel eyes that she looked at as life slowly seeped away from, it just had to be her.

There was no sign of the man who she dedicated her entire life to, she wasn’t even important enough to let him witness her death.

Not a threat, not a lover, nothing more than a pawn.

Kaitlyn finally moved away but it was to get men who poured gasoline on her car before she finally set fire on it with her inside.

At her last moment in the car, as the fire licked and seared her skin, unable to scream for help as her existence slowly faded away from earth, she realized that she never left the restaurant that day.

From that time, to the time she had no memory and even till now, she was waiting for him to admit that he got it wrong and that he was back for her.

It took a long time and two deaths for her to know—a time when she had no more chance for her to get over and back at him—to grasp the fact that he was never coming back to her.

At the end of the day, the lessons are learnt, but in the hardest way possible.