“Hi, sweetheart,” someone whispered over me.
I felt like I had only just closed my eyes, but now they felt harder to open. “Wh…I…wha…” I couldn’t form words. What the hell was going on?
“Don’t worry, this will be over very soon.” I knew that voice. With all the might I had, I forced my eyelids open, blinking quickly at the stream of light pouring into my eyes.
“Avi..Avi...” I hissed through my teeth.
“Not here.” She grinned, looking at the name on her lab coat. “Here, I’m Doctor Yang.”
She was pushing my bed down the hall. I tried to move, but my body felt like it was encased in lead. Nurses, doctors, patients, and walls passed me by without my control. All I could see were her damn blue scrubs and bad red wig hovering over me. Clenching my teeth, I tried my best to speak but the muscles in my jaw were useless. Whatever she fucking drugged me with, I wasn’t used to it.
“Liam…kill…”
“My doctor friend will keep him and little Ethan so busy he won’t notice until it’s too late. Now sleep, sweetheart.” I didn’t have time to brace myself before she stabbed me in the fucking neck. I no longer had any control over my body. That’s when the tears started to fall. I refused to believe that I may never see my family again.
Fuck her. If she thought she could end me like this, she didn’t know who she was fucking with.
LIAM
Something was wrong. I could fucking feel it in the pit of my stomach. The fucking doctor was taking her sweet time looking him over, but that wasn’t my problem. Something was off and I couldn’t put my finger on it.
“Liam.” Declan stepped in next to me, staring at Ethan through the window. He was blissful as he gurgled in his little incubator.
Declan was stiff, his jaw was clenched so tightly that it looked like stone, he breathed through his nose slowly, watching the doctor’s hands carefully. Hearing the door slide open, I watched as my father walked in without even bothering to look at me. He stepped up to my son, blocking my view of the doctor.
“You have five seconds to start speaking, Declan.” My hands twitched, more than ready to bash someone’s head in.
“Don’t make a scen—”
“I asked you a motherfucking question, you work for me, now answer. What fuck is going on Declan?”
He was silent.
“If I have to ask you again…”
“Mel.” He paused. “She’s gone.”
Taking a deep breath, I tried to ignore how quickly my heart was pounding. “Did you check with the—”
“She’s gone. Evelyn went back to check on her and noticed. No one has seen her in the last two hours. I hacked the hospital cameras…” He handed me his cell phone, but I didn’t need to fucking see it.
“Aviela.”
The bitch! I’m going to fucking kill her!
“Liam, breathe.”
“I want this whole fucking hospital on lockdown! Every fucking exit, shut! How the hell did she get to my wife?” Right under my nose.
Every head in the vicinity turned towards me, but I didn’t give a fuck. I would slit each one of their fucking throats.
“She got in using Dr. Yang’s badge and a wig. Liam, don’t…”
I started towards the door before he could even finish, but he jumped in front of me, halting my steps. “We have eyes everywhere. There are cops all over this place.”
“Bring me Dr. Yang! Take her out back. Block out the damn cameras.”
“Okay. I know you’re panicking, but brother, breathe,” he replied.
Running my hands through my hair, I took a step back, and breathed through my nose before nodding.
“Get her the fuck away from my son. I want men around him at all times.”
When he left me, I tried not to think about her. I couldn’t think about her not being in her room waiting for me. I just couldn’t handle that. Fuck. How did she fucking get her? Fuck.
“Let go of me!” The bitch hissed as Declan all but dragged her out of the Ethan’s room by the arm, lifting her tiny frame towards me.
“You better speak before I get down there or so help me God, your definition of pain will be obsolete by the time I’m through with you.” That’s all I said before walking into my son’s room. Seeing Ethan in my father’s arms burned deep down into my soul. She wasn’t just my fucking wife, she was his mother. He had a mother that loved him and I had to bring her back. He wasn’t even a fucking day old and he already had to deal with this shit. Kissing him, I stepped away, and watched him rest in my father’s arms.
“Dad…”