2: GOODBYE, EVE

EVE

Pain throbbed in my head, my body paralyzed, eyes sealed shut but my ears are working just fine.

The darkness ate down into me, and I felt like a lost puppy. Just then, I heard footsteps near me, which means Sheila is still in the room.

A light of hope lit in my mind, thinking she would make him help me, but instead, what I heard was a thud on the bed.

“Dr Mike, we shouldn’t be doing this here” I heard her voice, now clearly. “You should see the new panties not this”

The reality of their sin made anger and sadness course through me as I remembered what Mike did to me, but there was nothing I could do.

I heard the sound of a zipper opening. “What should I do if my wolf is hungry for you Sheila? I can't wait till tonight, baby”

Sheila, the secretary moaned, “Come on Dr Mike, zip your trousers, I can’t do anything with your wife here”

Then I heard him snort. “She can’t react right now. The sedative is enough to knock her out for hours”

“But Mike….”

“Relax” Mike snorted. “The receptionist is keeping everyone out until she wakes. We’ve done this before, why are you resisting me today honey?”

Betrayal burned worse than the pain, I felt like killing them.

Afterwards, I listened as they both made out with each other, not minding me. When they’re done, Sheila kicked my side, sneering, “She thinks she’s the most beautiful, with those curves, but her belly will be swollen after the sedative wears off, and she'll lose that shape”

Mike laughed dryly. “You’re prettier. Anyway, I'll get the kit to wake her up before someone sees her”

Sheila giggled and sat down, while Mike left the office. When he was gone, she began to hum a tune that only increased my headache. Then she stopped abruptly. “Who left a PT strip here?”

I didn't react until I suddenly felt her presence beside me as she snorted again, “So you're carrying his child, huh?”

She spat in my face. “Fuck you and that bastard” she cussed and kicked me on the side harshly.

Adrenaline rushed to my body and I squirmed even though I couldn't open my eyes or say anything. The pain hit harder than when I was injected but I couldn't cry out — my voice was lost.

She kicked me more than I was expecting until Mike came in and she stopped.

“Did you want to kill her?” He cried. “I need her alive at all costs!”

Whatever they're saying after that, I couldn't hear it anymore. The radiating pain got out of control and my body activated some kind of trait I didn't understand, as if I wasn't myself anymore.

I sprawled on the floor, struggling between life and death, as I felt something burst out of my pussy — blood! Which means… I've lost the baby I was trying so much to save.

The agony of this revelation added to the pain, and just as I thought I should just embrace whatever it was, the darkness grew thicker, and my ear gave way…. My body stopped moving too..

It felt like death, but no, it was a miscarriage, I know it thanks to my knowledge in medicine. The baby is leaving my body, and something else is growing.

Then a voice echoes, “Blood!”

Blood? I was still in that position for what seems to be ages, the voice in my head echoing blood not stopping.

Then my ears activated again, and I heard Mike and Sheila talking hushly, “Is she dead?” Sheila asked.

Mike's tone was different, “Her heart is no longer beating, Sheila what do we do!!”

My heart is no longer beating? I become scared, is this what death feels like?

All the scent in the hospital conjures to my nose, all the sounds, even from the street outside, are audible to my ears; is this death?

Then I felt his hand around me as he picked me up. “She's no longer alive, Sheila. I'll take her to the OR”

“No, Dr Mike” Sheila stopped him, her voice sounding more foreboding than fearsome. “What will you tell others? This is a disaster!”

“So what do I do? I have to save Eve at all costs, she's the only….”

The darkness around me has begun to move, like a light is approaching me. I heard the sound of Sheila's kiss on Mike's cheek as she whispers cornily, “Don't you think you should let her go? Her heart is no longer beating and you'll lose your license if her autopsy shows we killed her”

The movement of the darkness was very fast and my eyes snapped open, but now, I'm no longer in Mike's office but in a moving car.

I fought fiercely, trying to stay alive at all costs by not closing my eyes until the car arrived at some place, and I was taken out of the car by Mike.

But when he placed me under a tree, he knelt beside me as he patted my head, “Funny that we ended our perfect love life this way, Eve. All thanks to you, no one knew you were my source of inspiration. If you had listened to me, things wouldn’t have come to this….. But thanks for everything” His tone cracked, smothered with a little guilt. “Goodbye, Eve”

Sheila scoffed. “What are you still blabbering about? Is it so sad to see her die then you shouldn’t have ....”

“Sheila!” Mike snapped. “At least respect the dead”

The dead? Which means they're dumping me out here, thinking I was dead? No. I wanted to pull him back, but I was unable to lift a finger, and it's already dark. He couldn't see my open eyes.

Then he stood up and left.

In the forest by the cliff, Mike left my body for wild animals, obviously thinking I was dead. Sheila hissed and then their footprints disappeared.

Not too long after, Sheila came back, probably in a hurry, and then bent down beside me and touched my body, “Think you’re a healer? The most respected trait of our kind?” Then she unsheathed a dagger. “Just in case you’re to come back in your next life with this face…. At least you won’t be pretty alongside being a healer”

I wanted to yell, escape, or even fight back, but my body was numb. I only waited until she brought down the dagger and scared my face.

She laughed maliciously, “Now I’ve finally fulfilled my wish of destroying your face”

“Sheila,” Mike called, and she jumped up and ran away.

The pain in my entire body was unbearable, but the worst thing was the pain in my soul, bleeding and shattered.

I was discarded on the ground like trash, on the edge of a precipice, my consciousness nearly slipping away from the pain Sheila just inflicted on me. Only if I could heal myself like I heal others…..

Why… Why…. I asked the goddess from my mind, wishing she could hear me, but she doesn't, so I lay there, waiting for any dimension my life will take.