Unluckily Fated With the Billionaire

Encounter 14.2: Why?

For the nth time now, my head started throbbing again as if it was going to be cut into half. The pain was too much that I had to helplessly squirm, lying on the cold floor as my hands clutched into my head in hopes to alleviate some pain, but it was helpless. My body just started to tremble more and there was a point where I wondered if it was already time for me to die what I was experiencing.

Luckily, after going through all that, it all stopped after at least thirty minutes.

When I calmed down, I immediately went to the kitchen to drink water. After I did, I clutched at the counter and sorted all the things out, but I couldn’t. I only had one thought in the whole process.

What if Lucas leaves me?

A lone tear was let out again after that thought. I may view myself as someone who is independent, but when it comes to Lucas, I get very dependent. I may not have spent half of my life with him, but I’ve still spent five years loving him, and now that we're engaged, I was more than ready to spend the whole remaining years of my life with him. My love for Lucas was very strong, and I was willing to do everything for him.

“But, what if he really leaves me because of this?"

"No… no, no. That can’t happen. That shouldn’t happen!” I exclaimed to myself. If that indeed happens, then I don’t even know what might happen to me.

I tried calling Lucas to explain things further with him, but his phone seemed to be turned off. I did it many times but to no avail. I tried to call Charlotte and Irene next, but both weren’t answering their phones. The only person to call I had left in my mind was Liam.

“No! I shouldn’t… associate myself with him anymore if I want to fix my relationship with Lucas.” I blurted out. But guilt immediately ate me up after I realized something.

“But I already promised… that I’d help him no matter what, so I’ll have no choice but to really get associated with him.” I weakly muttered. If it was still the past me who was sworn enemies with Liam, then I would’ve immediately cut ties with him, and the only thing that would bother me is that I’m his psychologist and that would mean I wasn’t doing my job well. But now that I knew what he was going through, and I promised to help him as a psychologist and as Zairiel myself, things just got more conflicting and harder.

I felt that my head was going to burst if I let this train of thoughts drag on any longer, so I decided that it was best for me to sleep now. I didn’t even realize that it was already almost midnight. I didn’t have any strength left, so I just went straight to my bed without even getting to change clothes or put my makeup away.

My eyelids were already getting heavy, but I went wide awake when a realization hit me.

Someone took a photo of us, the one who took it seemed to be in front of us. Earlier, after we ate, I saw someone who was in that plausible position to see us…

“Irene…?”

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It was still only 6:30 in the morning when I got into the clinic. Unsurprisingly, Ella still wasn’t there as she gets to work at 7:00 AM. I usually get here around 8:00 AM, but I was early today since I couldn’t sleep peacefully, and had to get myself distracted. I had very bad nightmares and I kept waking up every hour full of sweat like I had just run a whole marathon. So, I thought the best thing to do was distract myself with work.

But what welcomed me inside my office was something very strange.

On my desk, there were five blue toy cars placed in an ordered manner. When I got closer, I saw that there were also five stickers of smiley faces.

“Did Ella put this here?” I mumbled, asking myself. To be honest, it was creeping me out, especially the five smiley faces. I called her to make sure.

“Hello? Why are you calling this early in the morning, doctor?” Ella said on the other side.

“I’m here at the clinic—“

“What? Why? Did we have an emergency? I’ll be there in a few—“ She panicked.

“No, no. It’s alright, I got here early because of something, but it’s nothing for you to worry about. But were you the one who put these toys on my desk?” I asked, but it was uncharacteristic of her to do so.

“Toys? What toys? What am I, a kid?” She jokingly said, and I just nodded along.

“There were… five blue toy cars and five stickers of smiley faces on my desk when I entered, so I thought it must’ve been you,” I said, and took pictures of them from my desk so that I could show them to her earlier.

Silence.

“…Doctor… that… wasn’t me.” She said between pauses, and I felt shivers and goosebumps when the realization struck me.

“Shit.” I cussed before I immediately bolted outside the office, and got out of the clinic. I heard Ella panicking on the other side as I was running, saying that she was coming immediately.

“Doctor? Doctor! Are you still there? I’ve already called the cops, so keep safe, okay?” Ella said and I could hear her car speeding up. I was just about to answer her when I caught something in my peripherals.

The man in black who chased me back then was leaning on a post just a few walks from my clinic.