CHAPTER 004.

“K… Kev…” I stuttered as another clot of blood sputtered from my mouth.

“Open the gate,” I heard him order and someone rushed to open the gate.

He entered gently, and I fidgeted gently as he covered the space between us by bending beside me.

“Y… you… you are…” I groaned and grabbed my stomach again.

“Alive? Yeah,” he grinned.

He picked up the document beside me and then groaned, “That is why you should not have acted like you are all that, come on! All I needed you for was your fucking inheritance!” he yelled and I closed my eyes shut.

Bastard.

Devil!

He came to me four years ago and I thought he was all I needed. My shining armor, I had thought.

But… it was all for this?

This was why he had been licking my foot for the past years. This was why he had never angered me and had done all I wanted without any question.

“But, you had to ruin it by getting pregnant! I had not been adding birth control pills to your water for the past three years just for you to carry a fucking baby all of a sudden! What the hell were you thinking?”

“W… what?”

All these while that I had been running helter-skelter for a baby… this man had been the cause for my infertility?

“You forgot you were just a muse in my bigger plan. Are you stupid?!”

“W… why? Why…? I didn’t… I didn’t even… do anything… to you,” I sobbed quietly, the blood not stopping at all.

“But that’s it. That’s where it all ends now. You just need to stamp this, and then rest. Forever.”

He grabbed my hand closer to myself, and I tried as hard as I could to resist.

“S… stop… please…”

God…

I cried profusely with all the strength I had left in me as he successfully pulled my hand to himself, and then pressed my thumb on the fingerprint ink.

Afterward, he pressed it on the document while I whimpered.

“Now, my darling wife,” he breathed out and then dropped his hand on my hair.

“You should rest now. You have tried enough,” he said, and after a while, he stood up.

As my vision gradually turned blurry, I watched him walk out of the cold cell that I lay in and then shook my head slowly as my body started to give in to the paralysis that was rushing through me.

“P…please…” my eyes closed for a second and I opened them to look at him as he and Katherine laughed.

“Sorry bestie!” She laughed out loud again and I closed my eyes again.

“Yes sir,” I heard Kevin say, and I squinted my eyes open again.

“Yeah, it’s all executed now.”

“Yes, trust me!” He added with a laugh.

Who was he talking to?

I wondered as my eyes involuntarily closed again.

I had no strength to even lift a finger again and all I did was lay there, waiting for death to arrive and take me away.

But, why?

Why should I die?

I am a good person, why would this happen to me?

God…

“God, please…”

I mumbled with the final strength in me.

“Please… I… I don’t… want to die…’’ I stuttered as blood sputtered from my mouth again.

As my organs were on fire, and as if my stomach was going to rip apart, I could no longer move my mouth and all I just wished for was that the big guy up there would have mercy on me.

“Have a nice trip back to hell!” I heard Kevin’s already distant voice and their retreating footsteps.

And at that moment, I lay in acceptance, fully accepting the death that knocked at my door.

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“Ms. Henderson!”

I gasped heavily as I felt a poke on my shoulder and then coughed out.

“Are you okay?” she asked me.

I grabbed my stomach with one hand and then dropped the other on my chest, breathing heavily.

“Do you need anything? Water?” she asked in a panicked tone.

“W… where am I?” I gasped as I looked around me.

This was…

“Mr. Davis law firm. Are you okay?” she answered as she dropped her hand on my shoulder.

I pushed her hand away and then looked around. I was truly at his law firm.

“What is happening?” I asked rather loudly, still confused.

“Mr. Davis will see you now,” she answered.

Mr. Davis… the lawyer?”

“Yes, ma’am.”

She answered with confusion evident in her face.

I swallowed the lump in my throat, and scurried away, panting.

What was going on?

I remember…

I remember what had just happened…

Just a moment ago, I was lying on that cold floor.

I still remember the feeling on the cold floor and the burn in my organs.

I still remember their faces in my head.

Their snickers. Contempt. Ridicule.

“I have been expecting you, Ms. Henderson!”

The voice of Mr. Davis rang into my ears as I entered the room fully and I gasped again.

“I should have come to you instead. I am sorry for making you come all the way here,” he said as I drew my brows together.

Why was I feeling deja vu?

I could swear all of this has happened before.

Have I truly died?

Is this the moment where they call ‘Your whole life flashing before your eyes right before you die.’?

“Come have a sit,” he ushered me in, and then he said again after I had settled down.

“Coffee or tea?” he asked and then instantly walked to the coffee machine.

At that moment, I raised a brow and then stared at the glass cup that was by his elbow.

“Fall…”

And in an instant, his back hand hit the cup and it fell, and then shattered to the ground.

“Fuck!” I screamed and jumped out of the chair.

“Ms. Lyra, it’s just a cup!” he exclaimed.

“Fuck, fuck, fuck! It fell!” I cried out and looked and looked around.

“What is today’s date?” I asked, spiraling out of control by looking around.

“Ms. Lyra, are you okay?”

“Fuck, what is the date?!”

This was too accurate to be just deja vu.

“Fifth of May, 2025,” he answered.

“M… may? 2025?” I shook my head in disbelief and then looked around to confirm my doubt.

If my memory is correct, this was just a week before my wedding with Kevin and I was supposed to go to the fitting shop right after I met with the lawyer.

“N… no way…” I kept looking around and I knew I was coming off as crazy to the man who looked at me.

And then my eyes dropped on the calendar that hung on the wall.

It was indeed the year 2025!

This was three years before everything that had just flashed through my eyes!

I had… traveled back in time?!