LOGIN212"Jasmine, no. Don't. You'll hurt our baby and yourself." Kyle struggled to lift his body up from the floor. "My baby and I are not going to survive anyway, Kyle." Jasmine averted her gaze to smile at him. That's when Lila decided to attack. She threw a punch. Jasmine saw it in her peripheral vision and pivoted. She twisted body and connected her elbow with Lila's mouth. "Ahh!" Lila caught her mouth with a cry."That's for having an evil eye on my husband." Lila gathered herself and attacked again. It was dodged, another thrown at Lila and her nose bled. "That's for calling my baby with names." Another hit, and Jasmine said, "For ruining our peaceful life."Another blow, "That's for Fiona."Lila stumbled back. Every part of her body was throbbing in agony. More than that her ego was throbbing in rage. She hasn't been able to drop a single blow back to Jasmine. She hissed and tried again. She aimed for a kick in Jasmine's belly. Jasmine beat her to it when she did a cart whee
211They headed for the second floor. Again they encountered a pair of goons who pulled their guns out. To Falcon's surprise, again, Vince pulled the trigger first before the either of them. Before Falcon too, though this kind of aggravated him. Why did he have to be so good at this? Considering his current appearance, it didn't suit him at all. But he was handling the gun better than most of the cops Falcon ever saw in his life use.Another good thing was that Vince's gun had a silencer. It helped them move further without getting caught.There was nothing on the second floor either. They stood by the staircase and glanced up in the direction of the third floor. They exchanged another look and were about to climb the stairs when... "Who are you fellas?" Falcon almost jumped. Vince was quick, nevertheless. He spun, took a look at the goon standing on the other side of the room, and pulled the trigger. The goon fell with a thud along with the silver suitcase he was holding. "Jeez, t
210Kyle opened his eyes to the view of Lila staring down at him. She was in his face with a psychotic grin that made him flinch back. Wasn't he dead though? He remembered getting shot in the back. He had felt the pain of bullet making a hole in his back. It was all real, wasn't it?"Kyle, my love. I'm happy to see you awake." Lila held both his cheeks as he tried to sit up straight.Pain shot through his left shoulder like someone was performing a surgery on him without sedatives. It compelled him to lie back on his side and take deep breaths. When he started moving again, his eyes scanned the room— they were back in the same room they tried to flee from— and settled on his wife sitting across from him on her knees."Jasmine!" He hastened past that soul stirring pain in his shoulder."Where are you going, love? Lie down. The bullet was a dummy but it still ruptured your skin. You must rest." Lila pressed her hands on his shoulder and he flattened.Kyle felt helplessly weak like all t
209"They're here! I can hear footsteps. Kevin, be ready. Jasmine, love, stand in the corner by the wall." Kyle said furiously as he stood with his back pressing against the wall beside the wall that opened inside the room.The moment was finally here. The moment they'd been waiting for for the last sixty minutes. Someone was finally here.Kevin staggered a bit while holding his head. But he managed to throw himself against the wall next to the door like Kyle in time before they were burst open."What the, where are they?" The man that had come to drop Kevin inside was here.He walked into the room, unaware of Kyle and Kevin, who were hiding behind him. They both lunged at him at the same time. The man hit his elbow out, connecting it with Kevin's head. He fell back with a groan while Kyle effortlessly caught him in a choke hold. He pressed his arms together and was about to twist his head to break his neck when his eyes landed on Jasmine."Look away, love." Jasmine did at once and th
208Luckily the men didn't come back to the bedroom. They had business outside the room and they left from there. Falcon let out a shaky sigh. He started moving again. Without making noise, he opened the door and slid out. He took the stairs to avoid running into them. He was hastily going down when his eyes caught sight of the two men straddling a bike. Falcon paused to observe them. They started their bike and disappeared down the curve in the street. "Who are they really? Anyway, I need to get to Kyle. He needs to know what Lila's up to." He muttered before starting to move again. ~~~Falcon arrived at Kyle's house in his car. His head was throbbing brutally. It was as if he was beaten with a hammer. Despite the intensifying pain, he drove. "What's that?!" He exclaimed, squinting his eyes to look ahead of him through the windshield. The security guards outside Kyle's mansion were attempting to chase a homeless guy away. Falcon got out and neared them. As soon as he got within
207Vince was wandering in the streets again. But like before, he had no look of apprehension marring his bearded face. He didn't care anymore whether was a murderer or that he still carried a gun under his clothes. His fear subsided last night when he ran into a cop outside a diner. Vince was searching for a bottle of water when the cop approached him. He growled at him, made a comment about his homelessness, then walked inside the diner to eat with his fellow team of cops. None of them recognized him. Not a single cop. That alone lifted Vince's spirits and pumped his courage. Now he was bravely walking around without a care in the world. "Isn't here that that social media star friend of Kyle's stays? What's her name... Yeah, Lila." She came at a halt across from Lila's housing society. There were several Looking-alike towers in a compound and the place screamed of elegance. "She must earn good from dancing in front of the cameras." Vince was gawking at a man tying the laces of
102At the hospital,Lila was going through her phone while chewing gum casually. Looking at her, nobody would tell that she was caught in an accidental fire or that her condition was critical.A nurse came in with a bot
107"Birdie! Oh my God, is this really you? Tell me I'm not dreaming." Jasmine ran to the door to open it. "This is really me. You're not dreaming." Birdie giggled as Jasmine fidgeted with the lock.As the door opened, Birdie threw herself in and into Jasmine's hands. They both hugged each other li
105Vince came back to meet Jasmine again in the evening, which was very unusual. He didn't show his face for days after his last visit. But today he came twice. Jasmine greeted him the same way as afternoon— Shoving her rod weapon through the food window, and he saved his eye by mere inches.Vince
96When Jasmine fell limp in his arms, Vince hugged her. He faked a crying face and sighed. The guests pitied him. Foolish women praised him and men looked at him in appreciation for loving a wife who almost tainted his reputation with her lies in a party packed with influential people."I'm sorry,







