Chapter 321 - He was dying (2/2)
That caught her attention. ”What man?”
”The one in the ICU, from Revon's army,” he replied dismissively. ”He is guarding him day and night, without moving an inch outside his room.” James rolled the hem on T-shirt and then unrolling it, repeating the procedure absentmindedly. ”I know he's from El Sandrios. That man must be his old lover or something that's why I'm no more wanted.”
She straightened. Something's a miss. She shook his shoulder and made him look at her, ”How do you know Evan is from El Sandrios? Why did you and Zeng went to France? What is it that I don't know? Tell me everything.”
He blinked a tear from his reddened eyes, ”Evan's real name is Lucian..... His mother Romana was the daughter of the Ricci family who fell in love with someone her family doesn't approve of.....” slowly James narrated everything, ”..... in the fire it was Romana's friend and son that got burned while she managed to escape to El Sandrios safely... Evan killed the entire Ricci family to avenge his father's death....”
Suyin's brain ran at a lightning speed, putting together the jumbled pieces. The word Lucian echoing. 'Romana- Ma Roma, Lucian- Evan- Luo's lost brother....'
”What is the name of the man in ICU?” Her heartbeat raced.
”L-Luo?”
Her shoulders sagged. The next moment she pushed herself up from the floor, grunting at the pain traveled to her spine.
”What are you doing?”
”Take me there.”
”Where?”
”ICU!”
”But...”
”JUST DO IT!”
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Evan was sitting on the floor outside ICU, in and out of sleep, head swaying. James's lips pursed into a thin line, but Suyin pointed at the door, unmoving.
”You have no right to stop me. I know it's Luo inside.” Suyin eyed Evan.
Evan folded his hands and mouthed, 'Sleeping. Please.'
A thin silence fell between them and for the first time she saw an emotion on Evan's face for someone else other than James. ”Let me see him once. Promise I won't disturb his sleep.” Evan moved aside and opened the door for her.
A gasp escaping Suyin's mouth. She couldn't hold back the tear that slides down her cheek.
It was not the bandages on Luo's body that pulled the earth beneath her wheels, but the scary numbers on the monitor and the number of machines hooked to his body.
He was dying.
”What have you done to him?” unstoppable tears rolled down, confusing James as he looked between Evan and Suyin.
Evan closed the door, kneeled down at Suyin's feet. His hands folded, tears came as if acc.u.mulated pain flowing through guilt, eroding him. He pointed at the closed door and then to him, made a gun with hand and then pointed at his heart and then at the closed door...
his head dropping low in shame.
”H-he took the bullet in heart to save you.” Evan sobbed, but no sound came from his lips at her sharply accusing voice. He understood, she knows. ”Bastard! You were never kidnapped, didn't you?”
Evan's eyes pinched. He shook his head.
*SL.A.P