Until her last breath

Chapter 4

I tried to chase after them but the warder obstructed my path, her eyes flashes at me.

I was glaring at her, with so much pain. They must have paid her to do this and she only got the chance when the detective was away.

"Where is my baby?" I questioned with rage in my eyes, feeble and running out of breath.

Anger seeth through me as I wish to tear her right there.

"Dead!" The prison warder snarl using her baton to push me away but I held on to her hand sternly.

She insulted me for being a fool for believing that i'd escape.

"Give me back my baby! Please" I cried not letting go. The prisoners in their cells began to bang their iron rod.

They always do this when chaos was stirred in a ward. She used her rod to hit my hand and I felt I broke a bone, whimpering from the hurt.

"Your ex-husband came visiting and he wants to see you" she announces grinning at me and then pulled me by the hair to leave the room. I kept screaming for my child even as she dragged me to the visiting room.

***

I paused when my gaze fell on peris in the visiting room.

I intended to draw closer to him with rage in my heart but the prison warder quickly handcuffed me and forced me to sit down opposite him.

The tears I shed were that of hatred and pains towards him now. He had better not harm my child and the detective has to be alive.

"Why?"

That was the only word I could spill watching him as he crossed his legs while I stared at the handcuff in my hands.

I never once though peris would betray me and use me for his ambition.

"What did you do to the detective!" I roared slamming my palms on the table between us and glaring at him.

"The detective, he was quite a tiger, getting involved was his mistake" he began drawing his face closer and I gasped, unable to breath or scream.

"You killed him"

He let out a sided smile and snapped his fingers. A prison guard at a corner appeared with a glass of wine which he drank from and then grimanced at me.

The small hair across my skin stood up as agony held me tightly.

"My baby! Where is he!" I barked with red eyes, as though I could strike him dead right there.

He was calm with that devilish smile of his that makes me quake.

"I just hate it when someone comes in between us, and that baby, he is the product of your affair, so feeding him to the dogs is the best thing..."

"Peris!" I yelled jerking up from my seat and growling at him but a warder behind me held my shoulders and forced me to sit back.

"That's your f*****g child!" I wailed closing my eyes to digest the pain my heart but he kissed his teeth, disinterested in my words. I felt I'd explode as I kept breathing hard, wrestling with prison guards to break out of their hold and devour peris.

"I'm just here to say, thank you for being a faithful wife and taking all the blames for me...I promise to give you a befitting burial after your execution" he whispers, chuckled and rose up from his seat.

I was speechless, staring wistfully at him. I dare not shed a tear in front of him again because he wasn't worth it. He had become my nightmare, my goal, my dream and until I get rid of him, I won't rest.

He adjusted his suit and said;

"I forgot, your mother passed away last week, don't miss her too much, you'd be on your way to meet her and the detective" he announced emotionless and for a moment, i was lost.

My lips part softly, my hands trembles as my anger gathered up as tears in my eyes. I lost everyone.

He turned to his heel and was just a distance from the door when I said in a low tone;

"If I survive, I'd hunt you and make sure you pay and if I don't survive, I'd taunt you in your dreams until you die"

There was a sudden silence as he shifted his gaze at me and smirked.

"Let's see about that" he responded and gestured to the warder.

"Kill her and make it look like it was suicide" he ordered, gave me a wicked grin and walked away.

***

I stretched where I laid, the poison I was forced to drink consumes me. My hands clutched my bedsheet as my eyes danced in my socket. My mother, my baby, the detective, those were the people I thought of.

My heart rate increases and I shook my head, hot tears poured out of my eyes. I don't want to die. I will crumble him.

It hurts, my body twisted on the ground, I could hear the lullaby of my mother, the gaggling of my baby and the assuring voice of the detective.

I must live.

They had locked me inside my ward, to die. Love is a fantasy and I only realize that on my death bed.

I gurgled out blood, if there's a rebirth or reincarnation...I want to become powerful, to crumble peris and everyone involved in my misery.

My story can't end this way. My blood stopped flowing and with my eyes plugged out of my sockets, I took my last breath.

***

"Is she breathing Pedro?" A voice whispers and I could feel something on my chest.

A defibrillator, I could sense it. I couldn't move as my past life flashes before my eyes.

Mixed emotions rushes inside me.

"s**t, I think we came late!" Another husky voice added and I perceived panic in their tone.

I was paralyzed and only my ears were still functional.

I heard footsteps stomping to and fro, sounds of sterile items clanging against each other.

My skin tingles and the wailing sound of my baby increases in my head. I need to see him, he can't die.

"Administer 1 milligram of epinephrine IV" a feminine voice instructed, her voice firm and commanding.

I squint my eyes as a heart monitor beeped erratically and I felt glued to wherever my body was.

Only their sounds pang in my ears. From the noises, I could tell I was in the midst of doctors and possibly two men who weren't a part of the team but serve as a watch dog.

"Her temperature level is dropping...save her it's his last wish" the first person screeches and my body jerked up.

Someone was told to intubate me as I heard them trying to get a fibrinolytic therapy because I was going into cardiogenic arrest again.

"I don't think she'd make it" the feminine voice whispers and I heard a loud grunt.

"Save her, we all are gonna die if she dies, it's dante's order that dangerous brute would wipe us with our families, please doctor"

Dante? I've heard that name before and it's only a rumor which I can't really recall either.

Anger rush inside of me in the moment the shock faded. Peris, that was the only name singing in my head.

"As we speak, his men has held everyone here hostage, we come out if she lives" another spat in a shaky tone.