“Doctor! Doctor!” Gabriella shrieked, sending the doctor and nurses rushing into her ward.
“What’s the matter with me? Who sent me here?” Confounded, she eyeballed the medical staff fanned out before her.
“Miss, you had too much to drink yesterday night and was suffering from an alcohol overdose. A man sent you here…” A nurse explained to her.
Last night? Alcohol overdose? That’s impossible! I was drinking with Larry last night, and then… I think I drank too much… And then…. What happened?
Gabriella’s mind was blank as she sat upright on the hospital bed, trying to knock some sense back into her head exasperatedly.
She had planned to let Larry send her to a hotel, and then she would try to take some photos or videos that might make Joan jealous. Damn it! I actually blacked out from drinking too much.
Then, Gabriella got up slowly and made her way to the window.
Ding! Her phone pinged with a message. She took out her phone to check her mailbox.
It was an email from Jory containing all the photos of her being together with Larry yesterday night.
An evil glint fleeted across her eyes that moment.
“Larry, where did you go last night? Why did you need to head out so late last night?” Joan asked.
The man looked at her and decided to keep what happened last night to himself.
“I have a lot to deal with in the company. So, I will be quite busy lately,” he explained as he caressed the woman’s hair.
Was he really out to deal with the company’s matters and nothing more? Joan’s face fell, disappointed at his answer.
As an attempt to steer the topic in another direction, Larry asked, “How is Nancy doing?”
He did not wish to disclose what happened with Gabriella to her, apprehensive that Joan might overthink the trivial matter. Besides, she had nothing to worry about anyway, not especially regarding him and another woman. Larry knew he only had eyes for Joan.
“Same old, same old. Nancy didn’t love Caspian and thought that both of them would suffer if they stayed together any longer. Hence, she was thinking that it might be better if they separate…” Joan replied in a small voice.
Am I really telling Larry that? Or is that a message for myself?
“Alright, don’t overthink this. Nobody knows what the future holds. I will talk to Caspian, but I don’t think we should get involved in what is clearly a matter to be resolved between the two,” the man said as he circled her in his embrace tightly.
Love was blinding and could easily drown people in apprehension as well.
Meanwhile, Joan did not know whether she and Larry would continue to live the rest of their lives together. However, one thing was for sure – she was going to treasure every moment spent with him.
“Larry, I’m saying this just in case. If, and I mean if, one day you’ve met the girl of your dreams who feel the same about you. You’ve got to let me know, okay?” Joan lifted her head and looked straight into the man’s eyes.
Larry was stumped. What is she saying?
Aren’t you the woman I love?
“Joan, you’re the woman I love, and you will be my last, as well as my only one. Joan, we’re in this for the long haul…” Larry pinched her cheeks.
Joan was overwhelmed with bliss at that moment. Maybe, just maybe, the voice on the phone last night wasn’t a woman’s… Maybe I was just imagining things.
Feeling reassured by her husband’s words, she hugged him.
Ding… It was Caspian calling.
“Larry, where are you? I need to talk to you.” Caspian sounded weary.
Larry cast a glance in Joan’s direction with a glint in his eyes.
“Okay, where are you right now? I’ll get there as soon as I can…”
Larry knew it was no minor matter if it warranted Caspian asking him out like that.
“Caspian, are you serious?” Larry looked at the man before him in disbelief.
Never in a million years would he have imagined that Caspian would do such a thing. However, those words did just come out of his mouth. What the hell is going on?
