The Last Pain

Chapter 2

When Elena woke up, she felt beaten for years, as the pain in her body was too much to handle. Her breath increased as her back was difficult to move, knowing that at every move she made, a pang of pain would attack her body. Fortunately, she was able to lean her back against the headboard and hold the end of the blanket to her abdomen. When Elena checked herself, she saw several wounds on various parts of her body. The apparatus beside her bed contributed to the unpleasant feelings when she opened her eyes.

Her eyebrows furrowed in confusion about what she was doing at the hospital. She tried to pull out the needle on her wrist and free herself for just a few minutes—the blood stained her white robe, but she didn't bother herself. Her eyes wandered across the room when the object that caught her attention was lying on the center table near her bed. She attempted to grab her phone. Good thing it was there, but it took her two attempts before she had it in her hand.

"Finally, what news could I get from this?" she wondered.

Elena unlocked her phone and found several private messages, and one of those was from her father. As she read the text messages from her father, her body was slowly shaken from the news she had gathered. She felt a mixture of emotions at the moment, as her anger rose so fast. The phone fell from her hand as she sweated. Her mind did not process what she had just read. Her heart races rapidly as her breathing increases. While her memory reminisces about what happened to her, she unconsciously caresses her stomach as if feeling a life inside her. Unfortunately, she has felt nothing but anger and emptiness.

The phone rang out of nowhere, but she accepted the call without looking at the caller's name. Her brain was still searching for answers to her negative thoughts but still hoping the other way around. She can't just lose it.

'She can't lose her child just like that. She would raze hell to take revenge if that happened,' she thought.

"Hello?" she whispered coldly on the other line. As if she doesn't have a life in her.

"Hello, baby? Thank God you've woken up. Is your f*****g husband with you?" she recognized the soft voice of her loving father on the other line.

Elena went silent after hearing her father's voice for the first time after her marriage with Jv. Whenever she talked to her father, she felt guilty for going against her father's will. Her father wanted her to take over their business, but instead of following her father's command, she got married to Jv. Her father doesn't want her to get married yet and gets married to her husband now, as he thinks Jv doesn't deserve her. Honestly, her father thinks Jv doesn't love her for real and has a hidden agenda against her. But of course, her being blinded by love causes her to be in her current situation—losing herself in the middle of the battle and her enemy taking away her major weapon.

"Dad...Daddy." She stuttered as her tears dropped irresistibly.

"Baby, where are you? Don't worry; the Philippines is where I will be for an hour. I am so sorry for only receiving the news just this morning about your critical situation. I promise I will f*****g kill your husband for hurting you." Her father firmly stated.

Remembering what her husband did to her was hardly traumatizing indeed. And the only thing that she could do was protect her child that night, but she wasn't able to. She couldn't protect her child from Jv, and it was her fault for staying despite knowing the danger.

It was her fault.

She keeps hitting her head in her anger, realizing her stupidity. "It was my fault, daddy. It was my f*****g fault for not believing you. My stupidity was to blame for losing my child. It was my f*****g fault." She cried, blaming herself.

"Do not blame yourself for what happened, Elena. Your husband's violence was not acceptable and moral from any point of view. Please, can't you see, baby? He was manipulating you to take the blame yourself. He was f*****g playing victim, and I'm not letting him hurt you further." Her father announced with a glint of concern in his voice.

"I am sorry, dad. I am so sorry." She cried because of realizing how much she sacrificed everything, including her father, just for a mere asshole.

"Baby, please, stop apologizing. You're hurting me." Her father pleaded.

She couldn't stop crying because of the guilt that she was feeling. She just wanted to run away and forget everything. If she could just throw away everything so easily, she would.

"Daddy, please, take me away from here. Please save me for the second time." She said with sadness evident in her voice.

Phoenix, Elena's father, saved his daughter once, way back when his wife and daughter were in critical labor. Phoenix had the power to choose whom to keep that night between his wife and daughter, but instead of choosing his wife and where his life depended on, he decided to be selfless rather than depriving his daughter of seeing what was waiting for her in life. Sadly, Elena forgot how her father protected and saved her just to let a monster hurt her.

"I assure you, my daughter, I will protect you from that man. As long as you let me, I will, no matter what. Wait for me, baby; I'm coming."

Elena sobbed silently.

"I'm tracking you. Just wait for me there." That was the last thing she heard from her father before the call ended.

She was about to get down from the hospital bed carefully when the cold door cracked open, and a man entered the room. Suddenly, her movement halted, and her heart raced so wildly that she thought she needed some air to breathe. Elena was stupefied seeing the man who beat her to death standing just meters away from her. Jv's current figure seems like it's been days since he had his shower, but his handsomeness didn't change a bit.

His beard grew, and his expression might look cold, but there was an odd emotion in his eyes that she couldn't point out. However, Elena didn't bother herself but was busy protecting her fragile body from this monster. She steps back many times until she can feel the icy wall behind her. On the other hand, Jv notices Elena moving away from him—protecting herself from him, which brings an odd and unrecognizable emotion within him.

"Elena," Jv whispered nearly inaudibly to Elena.

"What the f**k are you doing here?" She asked angrily. Seeing Jv urges her to slap him hard on his face. She will never forgive him, never.

"I am here to apologize for what I did and for everything. I will make it up to you as long as you agree to start a new life with me." He determinedly said.

Her blood boiled as she heard him say those words. She couldn't resist walking over the distance to her husband and smacking him hard on his f*****g face. The pain in her hands from smacking his solid face didn't bother her, as nothing could do worse than what she had experienced at the hands of her husband.

"f**k you, go hang yourself! Are you f*****g kidding me? All this time, the pain that I have experienced in your own hands is just about to start a new beginning? You almost killed me! You even killed my innocent child. How dare you say that, as if it was just all nothing!" She shouted while slapping him three times in a row. Her anger exploded and couldn't be controlled, and she thought she was going mad in a second.

Jv accepted all her hurtful actions and was about to slap him one last time when he grabbed her wrist in anger and pulled her hard on him, causing her to crash into his body. Elena struggled to free herself from him, but Jv held Elena's waist harshly, causing her to cry in pain. On the other hand, Jv was unaware that Elena had a wound on her waist and back, causing her to scream in pain, but he didn't bother himself as he thought she was using tricks on him.

"Did you forget it was partly you who was to blame for everything? Trisha, the woman I loved so much, broke up with me. You ruined my life because of your f*****g obsession!" He said coldly.

"But what about my baby? Do you really have to kill my child for that?" Her tears streamed down her cheeks while asking her husband. "You give importance to your loss from the past, but you neglect your responsibility as a father to your child in the present times. You almost committed murder when you drowned me in the bathtub filled up with water. However, I am afraid that would not be the case with your child. Unless you really didn't care. I'd rather you had killed me than face the reality of knowing I have lost my child at my husband's hands. A tragedy that no man should experience."

Jv's hand slowly lost grip on her waist as guilt enveloped his eyes. He becomes speechless, knowing that it was his fault for losing his child, but his ego is trying to stop him from confessing the sin. "I didn't know that you were pregnant. You tried to hide it from me and dare blame it all on me?"

Elena slapped him directly on his face, causing him to let go of her. She stepped back to move away from him in disgust.

"You are a disgusting, immature motherfucker. I am done! We will end it here, and I'll go on with my life, and so do you. I'll file for annulment, and it will be over!" She said in so much anger and was about to pass Jv's side when he grabbed her wrist savagely. Elena was afraid of her safety when Jv was not planning to let her go.

"Let me go!" She desperately pulled her hands away from him, but Jv, on the other hand, gripped her right wrist effortlessly, his face facing the other side, letting her see his side face while gritting his teeth in frustration.

"What did you just say?" Jv finally faced her fully with a smirk visible on his lips. "You think you can just leave me just like that? Over my dead body, Elena. I will take you down, including your father, before you get away from me. Let's see if you'll not beg for my mercy—"

Hearing him threatening her with her father resulted in her cutting him off with a slap four times in a row.

"Deserved," she said nonchalantly.