Arissa left the ward after she shared a short conversation with the occupants in the ward. She did not contribute so much to the conversation, she most tis stayed quiet and watched them laugh heartily at one of two of Richard’s jokes with a grateful and fulfilled smile on her lips.
Leaving the ward with her phone clenched tightly in her fist, she pressed her back on the door and started at the empty door nurse seat, and then, her eyes trailed down to a particular spot in the hallway.
That spot! The particular spot where her father almost took her life and the particular spot where she realized life wasn’t always about family.
She forgave her family for selling her out because technically, they did not. She was the one who picked up that as a choice rather than to watch Adele die.
But even at that, most tis when she sits in a quiet corner, she would begin to wonder what would have happened to her had she not accepted to marry Nicklaus.
Would she have been ganged ra*ed, the sa fate as Adele or would she have been made to be dood for life?
"Where are you going?" Diego asked professionally but with caring respect. He did not want to crowd her, which was why he asked.
Arissa who was pulled out of her thoughts with his voice turned to Diego, "I’ll be on the next floor." she told him with a small smile.
Diego nodded, "Would you want to accompany you?"
Arissa declined the offer, gesturing with a wave of her hand, "I want you to please help remain here with them. You can go in if you want but don’t expect back so early,"
Being her guard and being ordered by her to stay away was alright but when she added he shouldn’t expect her back so early, Diego lifted a brow at her words. His facial expression showed displeasure.
Arissa read his expression and released a soft sigh, "I’ll be on the next floor. Nicklaus won’t complain, this person is a close acquaintance." she explained.
Diego nodded.
He knows who she spoke about but still, he insisted, "Please send a ssage if things get out of hand." he spoke from her experience with her father.
"I will," she assured.
Life wasn’t always about family. Diego, Mrs. Wyatt, Jocelyn, Nicklaus, and Collins proved that to her. But still, her heart arched she didn’t have much blood family around to fall back to and it brought a sad smile to her lips. She wished the world could be better.
She brought her phone to her line of sight. Switching it on, she scrolled through her ssages and when she saw the one her mother sent, she repeated it, reading it out loud.
She scoffed and deleted the ssage from her phone before walking toward the elevator. Getting to the Knewman’s couple ward, she pushed every other thing not related to them to the back of her mind before knocking on the door.
The door pulled open from the inside and Collins appeared before her line of sight. She was taken aback because she expected him to be sowhere else.
Nevertheless, she walked through the wide-open door with warm air around her. Stephen stood up from his seat beside the bed when he saw Arissa approaching the bed.
"Mrs. Wyatt," he called.
Arissa’s feet halted when he called her that way. There was sothing in the title and how he called it that made her heartbeat fasten. It brought a cute blush to her cheeks.
anwhile, Collins who stood beside her tried his hardest not to look broken but rather professional. The title broke his heart.
He loved her in the most hardest way possible and now, this was his price to pay. He has to watch from afar and battle with his emotions.
With a warm smile on her lips, Beatrice turned to whoever her husband addressed as the woman he had been telling her about.
She felt a strong rush of emotions run through her when she saw Arissa standing there. Ever since Laura began to have kids, her best friend had never let her see her kids and now, seeing one of her children for the first ti ward her heart.
"You look just as lovely as your mother," Beatrice’s lips let out before she could stop herself from speaking.
Arissa who was once happy with Beatrice’s progress felt her heart breaking into a thousand pieces at the woman’s words. In this world, no one is blaless for the bad things happening in it but to be honest, so people don’t deserve the credulity earth carries.
When she first assud this woman, Adele’s mother, was a nice person, the woman hadn’t parted her eyes nor spoken to her. Now as the woman spoke, it confird her thoughts.
She wondered how Beatrice would feel if she found out that Laura was the person who caused her all these pains of childlessness throughout the years.
She also wondered what Beatrice might have done wrong that warranted such hatred from Laura towards her.
She took steps towards the couple. When she got to them, she stood beside the bed and stared at Beatrice for a short mont.
She loved the person who stared back at her and she turned to Collins. Collins looked away when she turned to him and with a soft gulp, Arissa turned back to the couple.
Beatrice took Arissa’s hand softly in hers, "You have a heart of gold just like your mother." once again, Beatrice unintentionally broke Arissa’s heart.
"Thank you so much, Mrs. Wyatt," Beatrice added and Arissa sniffed, trying her hardest not to cry.
Arissa hasn’t known Beatrice for a long ti and in the short ti she has known this woman, she found the woman’s biggest flaw. To Arissa, the woman’s biggest flaw was her heart. She has a very soft heart which she passed down to Adele.
She squeezed the woman’s hand back, placed a kiss on it, and ordered with a gentle smile on her lips, "Drop the titles. To you, I’m Arissa. Just Arissa,"
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