Chapter 214
Upon hearing that I wanted to know about the current situation at home, Mia's expression couldn't help but soften, and her demeanor relaxed a lot. Anyway, my proactive interest in knowing about the family situation indicated that there was still room for reconciliation, making her job of persuading me much easier. If she couldn't persuade me, she had the ability to kidnap me back, but she understood that coercion would not yield results.
Mia began to slowly narrate, while I listened carefully while smoking. It turned out that after I left home, I called Sophia and told her to rush to my house to look after Katniss. At the same time, Katniss also called Mia, informing her to find me and Simon as a longtime friend, but not asking her to bring us back. Katniss just asked Mia to take care of me and Simon, fearing that we might suffer or encounter danger outside. After a brief explanation, Katniss hung up. Mia felt very strange, feeling like Katniss was giving final instructions, and Mia couldn't fully understand the situation from Katniss's brief words. When Mia tried to call Katniss back, she found that Katniss's phone was already turned off.
With a sense of unease, she quickly took people with her and rushed to my house. When she arrived, she found Sophia and Michael outside my house, the door tightly locked, and both of them anxiously knocking on the door. After Mia arrived, she learned that Michael and Sophia had just arrived. With Katniss's phone off, my phone off, the house door locked and unresponsive to knocking, Mia's team arrived just in time.
Michael and Sophia, of course, recognized Mia, and they turned to her for help as if grasping at a straw. Mia stopped them from calling the police and had one of her men unlock the locked door. It was no surprise that Mia's men had someone skilled at picking locks. Many of Mia's men were former military personnel from special forces, just dressed in plain clothes. For special forces personnel, picking locks was easy.
After opening the door, the house was pitch black. When the lights were turned on, they saw Katniss lying neatly on our bed, as if asleep. Upon closer inspection, they noticed that Katniss's face was pale, lips purple, indicating that she had taken poison. Michael and Sophia were shocked and started crying, while Mia's team immediately carried Katniss downstairs and drove to the nearest major hospital. At the same time, Mia contacted the best doctors in preparation. When Katniss arrived at the hospital, all the relevant medical staff were ready and waiting.
According to Mia, Katniss was lying quietly on our bed, dressed neatly, with makeup on, hands folded in front of her chest, holding a family photo of me, Katniss, and Simon. On the computer desk nearby was a short note. As Mia narrated, she handed me Katniss's note. I opened the crumpled paper, which had clearly been dampened by tears. Seeing the faint traces of tears, I could imagine Katniss writing the note with tears in her eyes.
"Mom and Dad, don't blame your daughter for leaving without saying goodbye. It was your daughter who did wrong, betrayed Kevin, betrayed our love and marriage, did something unforgivable to Kevin. It's all my fault, don't blame Kevin. Kevin left me, and without Kevin and Simon, there's nothing left for me in this life. I just want to become a ghost after death, hovering around Kevin and Simon. As long as I can see them, silently accompanying them will be enough for me. Mom and Dad, take care of yourselves, forgive me for leaving you.
Katniss"
There was also a will, where Katniss prepared to leave the property and all the money to Simon, to be managed by Michael and Sophia. After reading the note and will, despite trying to appear strong, I couldn't hold back my tears. I raised my head, trying to prevent the tears from falling from my eyes. Instead, they flowed into my nostrils and down my throat, tasting the saltiness of my own tears for the first time.
"How is she?" After controlling my emotions for a while, I couldn't help but ask while holding Katniss's note and will. Regardless of my actions, I still loved Katniss deep down, and knowing the situation, I was most concerned about Katniss's well-being.
"She's awake now and has passed the critical period. However, despite having her stomach pumped to remove the drugs, due to delayed discovery, Katniss still absorbed some of the drug components, causing severe stimulation to her body and brain functions. We need to continue observing her condition. Currently, Katniss often falls into deep sleep and is unresponsive. Even when she wakes up, she is in a daze, silent, as if she has lost her soul. Your departure has completely shattered her mentally. That's why I came to find you. I hope you and Simon can go back to wake her up and inspire her, giving her hope for a new life. After all, you and Simon are the people she cares about the most. If you don't go back, Katniss will continue to deteriorate. According to the doctors, even if there are no physical issues, with this mental state, Katniss won't live much longer." Mia's tone had softened a lot by now, perhaps sensing my feelings for Katniss, she spoke to me much more gently.
"How did she get the poison? Aren't poisons strictly controlled?" I felt puzzled because I had specifically checked the house before leaving and didn't find any poison.
"Katniss didn't take poison, she took all the medications stored in your house, including cold medicine, gastrointestinal medicine, and more. I found the empty medicine boxes and blister packs on the coffee table in your living room, she had taken enough medication to fill two to three bowls." Mia replied. Indeed, there were many medications stored in the drawers at my house, bought by Katniss for emergencies. Among them were some leftover medications from Nathan's time, and Katniss had taken all those medications. Overdosing on medications could also be toxic, and the combination she took could have been fatal multiple times.
"Who has read the note?" I couldn't help but ask, as the truth had finally come out, but Katniss didn't specify who she had an affair with. I knew she wanted to preserve Nathan's reputation to avoid affecting Nathan and Jennifer's future life. If Katniss had exposed Nathan in the note, more than just Katniss would have died. Nathan would have faced not only public shame but also internal guilt.
"Your father, Jennifer, as well as Michael and Sophia know, and of course, me. No one else knows, as this is a disgraceful matter and we need to protect your and Simon's reputation." Mia replied, though there seemed to be a hint of something unusual in her expression, but I didn't know what that fleeting expression meant. Nathan knows too? How is he doing now? He must be regretting it, at least feeling ashamed. I wanted to ask Mia about Nathan, but the words stuck in my throat, knowing Mia's shrewdness, she could catch on at any moment.
"Have you made up your mind? Are you ready to go back with me?" Mia, seeing me silent for a long time, couldn't help but ask, as this was the reason she had put in so much effort to find me.
"I will go back with you." I didn't hesitate at all. Seeing Katniss in her current state, if I didn't go back, she probably wouldn't survive much longer. A day as a couple, a hundred days of grace, I couldn't abandon Katniss. Besides, I still loved her, and with her in danger, I was deeply concerned.
"Alright, let's immediately start our journey back." Mia, upon hearing my decision, smiled again, achieving the result she most desired - persuading me to go back willingly.
"Even if I didn't go back, you would have taken me back, right?" Standing up from the floor, I couldn't help but ask Mia with a wry smile.
"No, I wouldn't force you. Coercion is futile. But you can choose not to go back, but Simon must come back with me. You can leave Katniss, but you can't deprive Katniss of her rights as a mother. Without you, at least leave something for Katniss to hold onto, something to support her and give her a reason to live." Mia stood up to call her team to prepare the plane, but just as she was about to press the intercom, she stopped abruptly, as if remembering something.
"Oh, there's one more thing I forgot to tell you. Jennifer has left, and we don't know where she is now." Mia looked at me and said, with a hint of confusion on her face.
"What? Jennifer left? When did this happen?" My heart clenched again at this news. Jennifer suddenly leaving, could it be...
"She left on the third morning after you left. Before leaving, she gave me a note, telling me to have you call her if I found you, and she made sure I found you. I could sense that she seemed very sad when she left, very worried about you." Mia handed me a note with Jennifer's elegant handwriting and a new phone number. At this moment, I had a bad feeling. I took out my phone to call Jennifer. Jennifer had always been someone I deeply respected, and I didn't want anything to happen to her.
"I'll go check on Simon first. You make the call here. Let me know when you're done so I can have the plane ready for takeoff, and we can return as soon as possible." Mia took the initiative to leave, leaving the entire office to me. It was then that I realized what Mia's unusual expression meant. She might have thought of something, with Katniss's affair, Jennifer leaving, and if these events were connected, it could lead back to Nathan and Katniss. Mia probably considered this possibility but didn't want to believe it, feeling she might be overthinking, as the truth couldn't be guessed at.
Thinking of Mia's shrewdness, I turned to look at the tightly closed office door, scanning the room for any surveillance devices. What if the call was being monitored? But upon further thought, Mia, despite being a woman, was bold and had a special kind of dominance, she wouldn't stoop to eavesdropping.
Shaking my head, with a mix of complex emotions, I took out my phone and dialed the number on the note, waiting for the person on the other end to pick up.
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