CHEATING FIANCE

Leo was half asleep on the cot while Frost was busy on the laptop searching for information. The young lady was still comatose with a drip on her right arm. Machines monitoring her breathing and heart rate were beeping softly by her side.

Maria opened the door a crack and peeped inside. Seeing her boss, she went in with the lunch that she had prepared for them.

"Frost, you need to go home and rest for a while. Leo and l can watch over her".

Leo's stomach grumbled as he smelled the food. Frost got up from his seat and stretched, heading towards the window. The information he got about the wedding couple gave him question marks.

The wedding happened the same week he rescued her and it was also in the same county. How were they related for her to have such a violent reaction? And why was she locked up in that dirty, dark shed, beaten almost half to death? He never liked mysteries and he was itching to get to the bottom of this.

Leo was already up and eating while Maria got warm water and a face towel and started wiping the lady's face and arms. She felt so bad seeing the girl she had taken great care of in such conditions.

Needing a quick shower and a change of clothes, Frost handed the laptop to Leo and rushed home. Meanwhile, Weister was doing her afternoon rounds and came to check on her, her special patient. Nothing seemed to have changed since the night. Her vital organs were functioning normally and the wound wasn't bleeding.

She asked Maria and Leo to leave the room so she could assign a nurse to sponge bath and massage the lady. They didn't want her to have any bed sores.

*****

She stood frozen at the bedroom door, not believing the scene that was before her.

Her fiancé, the love of her life, the man she was ready to spend the rest of her life with was fast asleep in their bed, and horror of all horrors, a woman was curled up next to him. Her fingers went numb and she dropped the shopping bags in her hands.

That sound jerked Damont out of his sleep and opening his eyes, saw Vinca standing in the room. He scrambled out of bed, waking the woman sleeping next to him. He frantically searched for something to cover himself with while trying to figure out how to explain himself.

The lady leisurely got out of bed and lazily stretched her naked body. She then picked Damont's shirt and wore it. Damont with a towel wrapped around his torso went and held Jasmine's hand.

"Honey, what are you doing here? I thought your flight was for tomorrow evening?"

Her mind was completely blank.

The lady got up, went, and held Damont's waist. "Just tell her the truth already." She said in a mean voice

Vinca, as if coming out of a trance, looked at her fiancé waiting for an explanation. He turned to the woman and holding her by the shoulders, led her to the living room.

"Please, just leave and let me deal with this. I will call you later" he said and quickly rushed back into the bedroom.

Vinca was still standing in the same spot trying to understand what she just saw. He took her hand and made her sit on the armchair that was in the room.

"Honey, it's not what you think. This is a mistake, please forgive me. I promise it will never happen again."

Jasmine looked at him with eyes full of pain. "Who is she and what is she doing in our house? How long have you been cheating on me?" her voice choked.

Damien looking down said, "That is not important. Let's just forget about it. I said I'm never going to repeat it."

He wanted to downplay what had just happened because he wasn't expecting her to find out this way. He wasn't even expecting her to be back tonight.

He only hoped that her parents would not find out about this otherwise all his efforts would have been for naught.

Without looking at him, she picked up her phone to call her Dad. When he saw who she was about to call, he snatched the phone from her, held and twisted her wrist.

"What the hell are you trying to do? Want to report me to your father? You have no idea what is going to happen to you yet you want to alert that man. You must be crazy". He was shouting and hurting her hand.

Vinca couldn't believe the change that had occurred. Her gentle, ever caring and kind fiancė right now was like an insane person and she was really scared.

"Please, you are hurting me"

He didn't seem to care. Instead, he shoved her onto the bed and confiscated her phone, went to his wardrobe, took a shirt and trousers, and left, locking the door after him.

Vinca had no idea her nightmare had just begun. She ran to the door and started banging on it, calling out to Damont. He went to the door, kicked it then told her to stop screaming. Taking his phone, he called the other woman.

*****

"Mr V. wants to know if you are willing to make another appointment with him. You have some unfinished business" said Leo looking at his boss who had been out of sorts the past three days.

Frost shook his head looking at the time on his wristwatch. Picking the folder that had the Genex Project from his desk, he walked to the couch in his office. He could feel a headache coming up so he removed his spectacles. He squeezed the bridge of his nose and Leo noticing this, went to the drawer, took out some painkillers, and handed them to him with a glass of water.

His boss hadn't slept for the past three days shuffling his time between the office and the hospital. It was beginning to take a toll on him but knowing Frost, he wasn't going to rest until the young lady came out of the coma.

Back at the hospital, Maria thought she saw the young lady's pinkie finger twitch. She was watching over her as Frost and Leo were at the office.

Moving closer, she touched her forehead to feel her temperature. All of a sudden, the lady started having convulsions. She was thrashing her hands on the bed and kicking the air uncontrollably.