Chapter 128

Jimmy drag Triffany inside the building, she had no chance to look around the place as she was dragged by the hand and shoved into a room.
"Look!" Jimmy shouted in anger and in a cold voice as he pointed towards the bed.
Triffany who had her back turned at it, gently turn around, but at the moment she saw it, her eyes widens and her teeth chattered, her fingers trembling as she clasped it to her lips and fell to her knees as tears run down her cheek.
"Now, do you see clearly why I can't let you be!" Jimmy shouted and Triffany was too shock to even speak.
"Why?" His voice was cold and like a blur wave passing through Triffany’s eyes, all her focus was on what she saw on the bed.
"No, it was who she had seen on the bed, the same face that she had looked upon three years ago, the lady who had killed herself just go save Triffany.
"Should I let you be now, should I stop acting this way now?" He shouted again and it felt like toom shook. "Well Triffany, let me tell you this, you will be mine and I will make you suffer as much as she did."
Triffany’s eyes was wet and her heart wobble, she doesn't even know if the lady was alive or dead, she had only seen her that once and was not allowed to see her after she was taken to the hospital.
She was connected to a life support, was she still in coma, for three years, because of her, this beautiful lady was right her, right at this state.
Triffany pressed her hands to her chest as it was heart to breath, if felt like the whole room was airtight and she was suffocating.
"Don't be dramatic Triffany." Jimmy shouted when he noticed her action and body movement. "You aren't the one suffering, I am."
"Let me tell you the state she is in now Triffany." Jimmy bent close to Triffany and made her look him in the eyes.
"She is brain dead." He told her and Triffany stills. "Do you have any idea what that mean!" He shouted again and Triffany shudder and turn her eyes to look at the bed.
"Look at me!" He shouted again and her focus turn back to Jimmy. "She is legally dead, for two years!"
"I couldn't, I couldn't let her go just yet, because I still had hope that she would make it and come out from this state, but as you can see, she is never going to make it out."
"That's why, I have to let her go, and by doing so, you have to be mine and her replacement!" His word thundered in her mind and her lips quiver.
Triffany tried so hard to gulp in air, the past accident she had witnessed, the words of Jimmy and the eyes of the lady looking at her while choking in her own blood all came as a rush to her mind.
She couldn't take all this in, everything was too heavy and hard to bear, she could see Jimmy's lips moving as he was still saying something, but she could no longer hear him out.
She could not make up any word he was saying, her head buzz, and she held her head with her two hands like it was heavy and her vision blurred, soon she fell to the ground and everything became pitch black.
Jimmy looked at Triffany who was laying on the floor with her eyes close, he thought it was all an act. "Hey!" He shouted but she didn't move."
"You shouldn't act this way Triffany." He said again, but this time he was getting a bit scared, he leans close and touch her. "Triffany."
He held her hands and felt he pulse, they were weak, but she was still breathing, which means she was still alive.
He picked her up immediately and walked out of the room, then head into another room where he lay her down on a soft comfortable bed that was different from the one his fiancée lay.
He put the quilt over her shoulder and stare at her for a long time, she was okay, she was going to be okay, but he won't let her go no matter how many times she fainted or act this way.
He pulled a chair over and sat next to her and stare down at her face, she was okay for him, a better replacement, he had studied almost everything about Triffany for two years after he discussed his wife to be was dead.
That was right, the lady laying on the other room was life less, getting brain dead, he had not agreed with the doctor when they told him all this.
So he had to move her here and administered treatment to her himself, he had never want to let her go, she was the person who have help him, she was like his treasure.
But, she was dead. He rubs his eyes as tears filled it, he look at Triffany again, he didn't want to torture her this way, but what about him.
What about the other woman who was laying on the bed at tye other room, that night, that night of the accident he had called her, he was speaking to her then.
He buried his face in his hands, she had told him how much she loved him, and it was just two days to their wedding, just two days and they would be happily married.
He sniffle and his eyes glance at Triffany’s finger and his brow furrowed when he saw the ring she was wearing on her hands, his eyes were aflame and his lips twitched.
He took her hands to his and then look at her face, a line of sympathy crossed him face, but soon his eyes turned cold again and he dropped her hands.
He got up from the chair and walked out of the room to where his fiancée was, he smiled softly but the smile didn't reach his eyes as he approached her.
"Suzy..." He called her name as he held her hands and lift the cold hands to his lips. "It is hard Suzy."
He pressed his lips tight and closed his eyes as tears rolled down his cheek. "Am so sorry Suzy."
He open his eyes and took her hair, caressing it slowly. "Am so sorry Suzy, but I should let you go now."
He swallowed hard and wipe off his tears but his eyes were still wet and his voice were hoarse. "I want you to be at peace now Suzy."
"I know you are in pains, I know I should let you go now, it should for the best, for us." He leans in and kissed her forehead. "I love you Suzy."
He exhaled sharply and took off her life support, he turn his eyes to the monitor and more uncontrollably teats feel from his eyes as it went off after a long straight line.
He covered his face with his hands and sobbed, his lips open as he takes in air. "Suzy!" He shouted and buried his face on her arms.
Her body was cold and she was now lifeless, as memories of their past times came rushing into his mind, when they were in love, when she first confessed her love to him.
When they promised to get married, their laughter when they got engaged, their trips together, the moment when they brought their couple plate and spoon and all their plans about babies.
And then the last moment, that evening when he had asked her to come over to pick a couple wear with him, she was just few kilometres away, now she was gone forever.
Carlos rushed into the building. "Triffany!" He called out, he had stopped at few building, but she wasn't in any.
He had discovered this one and went in to check. "Triffany!" He called out again, opening doors and banging them back as he kept calling her name.
"Triffany!" He called out again and open up another door by the left. "Triffany!" He shouted when he saw her laying on the bed and rush over to her.
It had taken him two hours to find her. "Triffany." He called out again as he held her hands. "Triff. Are you okay?" His eyes were wet and his lips were dry.
Triffany gently up her eyes as her long eyelashes fluttered up, what came in her view was the face of Carlos in tears and looking at her intensely.
"Are you okay?" He asked her again and Triffany immediately sat up and look around.
"Jimmy." She muttered. "Where is Jimmy?" She asked him as she tries to stand up.
Carlos held her hands and look her over. "Did he hurt you?" He asked her, still scanning her with his eyes.
"No Carlos, he didn't, Jimmy is the one who is hurt, he is more hurt than anyone of us." She pushed Carlos hands away and ran out of the room as Carlos went after her.
"Triffany Stop!" He called out and held her hands. "Stop." He twirls her around and held her shoulder to stop her. "How are you doing?" His brow wrinkled with worry.
"Am fine!" She shouted and Carlos was taken aback. "I told you am fine." She said in a hoarse voice as tears rolled down her cheek.