Chapter Twenty
I flicker my eyes open and I am met with white all over. What does Wallace want to do with me. I couldn't help but shed a tear as I thought that as much as I am here Raul was probably clueless. I was not tied to the chair but there was no door either. It was like I was trapped in a white box. Like I was a psycho. The only thing that wasn't white was my eyes. I was pale and in a white dress. The mere thought of Wallace undressing me gave me angry shivers.
I wondered how Raul was now that I was taken away from him. I knew that he was slowly loosing his sanity and honestly so was I. Slowly I felt it escape me.
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I don't know for how long I've been here. What was great though was that Raul was here with me. Though he never talked, I talked to him. He just smiled at me. He hadn't come for a while though and those people left food there. I didn't touch it and being honest, it was the only thing that gave color to the room. Just then, the door was open and my happiness vanished. Of course Raul was never here.
I was losing my sanity, and fast.
In walked a doctor, who was holding a suitcase. I just gave him a deathly glare but he ignored me because he knew I was too weak to do anything. I sat on the floor and he sat next to me. He opened the suitcase and removed a syringe. I didn't even budge as he stuck it inside my arm. Then afterwards, I started feeling dizzy and lightheaded. I saw my memories float in the air and slowly vanish.
"Look at me." The doctor said and I look him straight in the eye "What is your name?" he asks me.
"Iris Raul Accardi." I say without hesitation. I had learnt this in med school and I knew the counter measure.
The doctor looks at me in awe.
"I don't think that there is anything dumber that trying to hypnotize a hypnotist. " I tell him with a smile. You left me in this room, so my first mind defense was to paint the whole room inside my head. Sorry, but it won't be that easy." I say.
"You are one of a kind indeed Mrs Accardi." he says leaving.
"Oh, while you're at it, call Wallace inside." I tell him.
He nods and leaves. Just then, Wallace walks in. Before we could even talk, my hand gets a mind of its own and slaps him hard across the face. He stood there speechless.
"I trusted you with my life. I have always respected you and I have even saved your life, and this is how you repay me? Betrayal? Did you see what Raul did to that man because you got hurt? And here you are going against the same family which has raised you and taken care of you and they have treated you as one of their own. But you betray them. Wow and normally I thought Raul was the one without a conscience." I snap at him.
I expected him to snap back but then he drew closer to me and touched my cheek. I grabbed his hand, but then he used it to turn me towards the opposite direction, and then he grabbed the other hand with the same hand and using the other, he rolled my hair into his fist and then pulled my head back. He shakily breathed on my neck and kissed it as he moved down. I tried to resist but honestly I wasn't even moving. Suddenly, when I wasn't expecting it, he bit into my neck. I grabbed his shirt tightly as pain surged through my body, until, of course, he soothes me with his tongue.
He releases me but I had lost the will power to fight him. What had he done to me.
"Why are you doing this to me Wallace." I ask, as I sink into the floor. He joins me and just stares at me for about five seconds and my quiet sobs filled the room, since that was the only sound. I couldn't even hear his heartbeat. Maybe it's because he had no heart. He then took a huge sigh and looked straight ahead.
"That day, when I saw you at the cathedral, I had fallen for you. But unfortunately, Raul was the one who was owed the money, so everything regarding father Agustus was his. So when I took you to him, I thought he would refuse you, but surprisingly he accepted you, and fell for you too. I decided that maybe it was better if I let you two be, until the night when you and Raul had something and you cried on my chest. I felt a strong urge to strangle Raul to death for making you cry, but I knew you were light hearted so you wouldn't make any rash decisions. Anyway, you slept in my room. I had come to check up on you, but you held on to me so tightly. You even pulled my arm to you and laid your head on it and purred so softly. Unfortunately, Raul walked in and took you away. But then the time I fell for you completely without concern for Raul was when you saved my life. I thought I was going to die, and in my opinion, that was better that watching you and Raul. But then, when I opened my eyes, you were the first person I saw. I had fallen so hard, I couldn't get back on my feet again. And I'm sorry I betrayed my family, but it's going to be worth it." he says, as he finalizes with a smile.
"I am in love with Raul alone..." I start and the doctor walks in.
"By the time he's done, you won't even remember a name like that." Wallace says, as he stretched my hand out to the doctor, who despite my protests, stuck his needle onto my arm again, but this time, I had no hope. All my memories flooded my mind as they slowly started to vanish.
"What is your name?" the doctor asks.
"Iris Phaneah." I respond as I try to overcoming my blurry sight.
"Are you married?" he asks.
"No." I respond.
"Yes." he says, starting a stopwatch. He repeats the words,"I am married" over and over untill it finally sticks in my head and I can clearly see myself in the wedding, getting married.
"Who are you married to?" he asks.
"I don't know." I say as I try to make out the face of the man I was marrying.
"Wallace. You are married to Wallace." he says over and over and finally I get the picture of Wallace on my man. Fits perfectly. I did marry Wallace.
"Does he have family?" he asks again.
"Yes, a brother and a father." I say, as I see them, but then they have no faces.
"No. His family died." the doctor repeats again and that piece of information escaped my mind.
"Who do you love?" he asks.
"I love.... I love..." I start but the name just doesn't come.
"You love Wallace, with all of your heart. And he loves you too." he repeats again and again until it finally sticks. I mean, he is my husband, so it's only right that I married him because I love him.
"You are very tired Iris. You want to sleep." he says.
I yawn. It is true, I am very tired. I nod and Wallace comes in, takes me in his arms and takes me to our room. It's a big beautiful room, with a silver theme. A king sized bed with grey duvets lied in the middle of the room. It had a golden chandelier handing from the floral white celling and a marble floor. There was a picture of me framed on the table. There was a huge walk in closet made of blackwood and a make up table mad of mahogany. There was a bathroom and shower inside and a tv facing the bed. I jump on the bed and laugh as it bounces up. Wallace then sits next to me and smiles at me as he caresses my cheek. I purr at his touch and smile back at him.
"I love you Iris." he says.
"I love you too Wallace." I say back. He presses his lips against mine and as soon as I let him in, he took control. I could tell he was resisting the urge to rip off my clothes and bang me right there. So I pulled out. Well, this was my dream life.