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My head turned to the side, a groan escaping my lips. My eyes tightened shut. The pain surged in my chest then to my head and I was back there. Twice, I almost died in a fire but I couldn’t stop thinking about this time.It felt close, frightening. My heart raced remembering the chase and then waking up to a building burning while I was still inside. My grip tightened on the sheets. The pain dropped to my stomach.It felt bearable for aLucille's POV My head turned to the side, a groan escaping my lips. My eyes tightened shut. The pain surged in my chest then to my head and I was back there. Twice, I almost died in a fire but I couldn’t stop thinking about this time.It felt close, frightening. My heart raced remembering the chase and then waking up to a building burning while I was still inside. My grip tightened on the sheets. The pain dropped to my stomach.It felt bearable for a second then it spiked. Literally felt like there were spikes in my stomach. I hissed, gripping them. I opened my eyes to the bright lights of the ward I was in.The smell of antibiotics waft into my nose only making my situation worse. “Ben,” I called out softly.“Ben,” I called out again when I got no response, looking around.The room was empty. Where could he have gone? I sat up, still clutching my stomach. “Ah!” the pain worsened.I pr
King’s POVAnother punch came on the man’s face. His head slammed into the table in front of him with blood oozing out of his nose and mouth. We've had him now for a few days —Lawrence.The man with a good heart after he skillfully got my woman abducted chose to return. I nursed the cigar, letting the heat of the smoke fill my mouth before letting go.Niva poured a bucket of ice water on him. Lawrence gasped awake. “Glad you could join us again,” she said, then held his face.“I’m not as mean as he is,” she gestured for one of my men, his previous tormentor. “I want to make a simple deal with you.”“I swear I don't know anybody,” Lawrence said, his voice shaky.“Are you sure? I might be nice but he isn't,” she gestured towards me.I stared down at them from a distance. There was a large glass separating me from the three people in the room. I specially made
Lucille’s POVBenjamin returned to the hospital minutes later. “What’s going on?” he asked the doctor who joined us.“We noticed a mass in her heart. We hadn’t spotted any internal bleeding before now but we had to be sure which is one of the reasons we kept her here for observation but her vitals kept dropping and so we had to run another test and we found a mass caused by blood clots,” the doctor explained.“So what are we to do now?”“We will run more tests and immediately get her in for surgery,” the doctor said.“And you are sure she’ll be fine?”“Yes, it has a very high success rate. She’ll be fine,” the doctor said.“Could it be delayed just a little?” I asked.“I’m not sure how long your body can hold on with such clot,” the doctor said.“Thank you doctor. We’ll talk to you later,” Benjamin said. The doctor left us alone as Benjamin took my hand.
Lucille’s POVI held the sink as I threw up my lunch. I stared at my reflection in the mirror and my heart skipped a beat. I looked dead. My eyes were sunken, dark circles around them. I was pale, like any moment I could drop.My head spun and I gagged once more, throwing up some more. I splashed some water on my face before stepping out of the bathroom. “Honey,” Benjamin took my hand, helping me to the bed.He fluffed the pillow before guiding me down. I felt tired. I couldn’t look at him. Katherine’s words but the real truth was something I had ignored for so long. Could I really be with him again?He tried to kill me. He cheated on me and worse, it felt as though his efforts were not just working. At the moment, yes but not in the long run. He was trying to make it all better, his efforts told me that.The doctor checked on me and the nurse administered my injections which were more than it usually was. I laid
Lucille’s POVMy heart dropped but I recovered quickly. I kept my gaze steady on Katherine. She stepped away, laughing. “You knew,” she said. “You fucking knew.”She kept on laughing. “And here I thought you were some saint. You wouldn’t want something tainted but I guess that doesn’t involve your cheating husband. What would the front news look like?”She thought for a second. “‘The famous lawyer —no — the queen of the courtroom who is all about the good thing actually picks up trash’ yes, I like that one,” she laughed again.I was seething inside but could only listen. “Oh don’t look at me like that. You know what you are,” she said.“And you know what you are,” I clapped back.She laughed then leaned in. “Oh, yes. I do. I am the one who fucked your husband so bad he forgot to come home.”I slapped her. Hard. Her face whipped to the side. She brought her hand to the spot. She looked s
Lucille’s POV“Pick one.”I chuckled, shaking my head. “No, you’re going to trick me again,” I told him.“No tricks this time,” Benjamin said with a michievious smile. He brought his folded arms forward, moving them back and forth, urging me to pick. “Fine,” I stared at both of them a while before tapping his left. “This one.”“Final answer?”“The right hand looks tempting,” I searched his face. “Yes, final answer.”“Okay,” he shrugged opening his left hand.He laughed as my shoulders fell. “Again?”He opened his other hand and it was also not there. “Where is it?”He took it out of his pocket. “Trickster,” I said as we both laughed. “Where did you learn to do that?”“Youtube. After a long twelve hours of torture, they explained the trick in the last minute,” he said, laughing.“Well, that was fun,” I said.
Lucille’s POVI tossed the gun to the side, my hands shaking. King chuckled at that. “What is wrong with you?”I took in a deep breath, still staring down at his abdomen. The gun was empty but I wasn’t so sure. I’ve seen him shot before and the man was anything but cared for it.“Scared? Worried?”
Lucille’s POVThose words made me question a lot of things. I found a way to navigate through it before he finally fell asleep but it didn’t mean I could get it out of my head.I didn’t want shared custody after our divorce and I had my way to get him to accept it but it would hurt Harvey.He had n
Lucille’s POV“What is this?” a voice came through the speakers.“This isn’t important yet but what if I told you the new technology Mr. Mathew told you he created was not from him,” Benjamin’s voice followed.“Really?” the man sounded skeptical.At this point, Mathew and Raymond were on their feet
Lucille’s POVI returned home. My new home.It was simple, my style.Benjamin hated the concept of humility. His home had to be extravagant, showcasing wealth he did not own. He was a lazy man, yet I loved him.There wasn’t a penny to his name, yet I loved him. Every house was under his name, most







