Chapter 6: 2025, 2027?
651 Words
“ Ouch! s**t!,” he grunted in pain as it hit his shoulder, now realizing she's extremely pissed at him and now looking for another weapon to grab, he quickly ran out of the room for his dear life. He heard the door slammed shut as he run outside, “ what the f**k is wrong with her?.”
“ Babe, I'm sorry,” he shouted from outside, but heard no response. He stood outside the door for a few seconds, unsure of what was going on.
‘Is this some kind of hormone?’ he asked himself, cluelessly, but then an idea came to his mind. Maybe he just needed to display some affection, maybe that's what she wanted.
‘ I have to make her happy, today can't go wrong,’ he smiled as he said in his mind before walking away, knowing exactly what to do to put her in a good mood.
Eloise turned back from the door, her chest felt suffocating, and her eyes brimmed with tears as she looked around in confusion while rubbing her chest with her palm, hoping to soothe the pain.
She glanced around with a wrinkled brow; she had no idea if she was currently alive or dead.
She pinched herself and winced.
“ This is not a dream,” she shook her head, tears streaming down her cheeks, the aches from her chest, the pain stabbing her soul mercilessly, they felt too real to be a dream.
“ What's going on?” Her voice shook, fear, confusion, and pain accompanied every word.
She remembered clearly running into a car, and the pain all over her body.
She touched her whole body, up to her ankle, but felt no pain.
“What's happening to me? Were all those really a dream?” She walked towards the bed and sank onto it. “There's no way it is,” she remembered being pregnant, the unforgettable pain during delivery, the death of her grandfather, her child, the betrayal, the car accident; they were all real, that she knows for sure.
The sudden ring of her phone jolted her a little. It was an old, ringing tone playing, one she changed a long time ago. She grabbed it to see it wasn't a call, but a reminder ringtone.
“ A reminder? To what?” She swiped up.
The tone stopped playing, and her eyes fell on the reminder messages.
(Reminder 1- Visiting grandfather at the hospital at 1:00pm )
(Reminder 2- Introducing Mason to the Archeon circle at 6:00 pm)
Eloise furrowed her brow, this reminder is something that has happened before, she remembered this was the app she do use to set reminder for her schedules and she set this particularly after handing over her company to Mason, and then introduce him to the Archeon circle, a discreet group of CEOs and financiers who collaborate on off-the-record mergers, political influence, and global wealth strategy.
“ Why is this coming up again?” she asked, knowing she had done that, yeah, a lifetime mistake, something she's still regretting with every hair on her.
“ Wait, what!?” she exclaimed as her eyes fell on the date. Her fingers frantically slid up, and her eyes widened, not believing her eyes. She looked for the calendar, and her jaw fell to the ground.
The date wasn't showing October 27th, 2027. The day she died, rather, the date is May 17th, 2025.
With her widened eyes, her head slowly raised from the calendar and the phone, with confusion, her head trying to wrap around what was going on, but the only explanation and the only sentence that her head could make out of everything was that.
It's either everything that happened was a dream, which can’t be, her two years of married life can't be a dream.
Or.
She went back in time to a month after her marriage to Mason!
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