Where am I?

I wake to the beeping sound from a machine in the room. I stare around in confusion, I try to sit up, just then I feel a sharp pain at the spot he pierced the dagger in me, causing me to lay back almost immediately whilst groaning. A nurse walks in to replace the drip bag.

"What am I doing here?"

"Happened to be you were losing a lot of blood from the injury you sustained at the crime scene." She says while fixing the new drip bag on the drip stand.

I look at her puzzlingly.

"You lost blood and we needed to get you a donor. We were lucky enough to find a donor just in time."

"Who's the donor?" I ask.

"The donor chooses to remain anonymous and it's against my job to leak client's information to someone else."

I roll my eyes and lay back on the bed.

"I need to get out of here as soon as possible." I say.

"I'm sorry, you'll have to stay here a little longer so the doctors can be very much sure that you're getting better."

The voice sounds so familiar, I turn my head to the direction of the voice. There's only one person that can sound like that.....I gasp when it dawned on me. "Devan!"

"You got that right, milady." He says.

"How the fuck did you escape?"

"It remains a mystery, Marvlyn." He says while smoking his pipe.

"Where's my sister?"

"Oh, my puppet? Hmmm...let's just say she's in a place where she's been taken care of....in a good way." A wicked smile plays on his lips.

"If you ever hurt Amber, I'll make sure you fucking die this time."

"Try harder... Marvlyn." He says and walks away.

I lay there helplessly.

"Marvlyn....can you hear me? Please wake up." I hear someone sob while talking to me. I slowly open my eyes, everything is blurry at first.

"She's awake!" Someone yells.

"Call the doctor."

"Oh my.....you're awake....thank goodness. I don't what I'd have done without you." The person says and hugs me.

My vision is very much clear now and look around the place. I see Jason, a doctor but not Amber.

"Good Lord, where's Amber?!" I yell.

"I'm here sis." She says disengaging from the hug.

I cup her face with my hands and kiss her on her forehead, I gently pull her into a tight hug as a tear drop escapes my eyes.

"I'm glad you're fine Amber. I'm so sorry I shouldn't have left you in that house all alone. Move in with me." I say to her.

She looks at me with tears in her eyes without saying anything. I pull her into a tight hug assuring her it's gonna be fine.

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At the mansion

Jason helps me in as Amber tails behind us. I settle on the sofa and Amber leaves to get the first aid kit after Jason tells her where to get it.

"You didn't have to do all of this."

"Shut the fuck up! You've no idea what she's been going through." I say.

"I get it, he abused her.....constantly. But getting into a-"

"Hey, uh, please step aside so I can dress the injury." Amber says and Jason moves aside. She takes off my shirt and takes off the bandage.

"Turn around." She says looking at Jason. He looks at her quizzically and she yells it again. I place my hand ontop hers and nod. She looks at him from the corners of her eye before cleaning my injury.

"How did you two meet?"

"One night stand." Jason says and I roll my eyes.

"Seriously?!"

"What? That's true." He says.

"We fucking met a party in your damn hotel." I say.

"No we didn't."

"Wait, you had a one night stand with him? I thought you were done with all that?" Amber says.

"I can't believe you fell for that shit." Jason looks at me in shock when I say that.

"You're such a hard nut sis." Amber says.

"We met at a party!" I say.

She shrugs her shoulder before continuing the first aid treatment. There's silence in the room for another couple of minutes. Jason just kept staring at me as Amber dressed the injury.

"Amber?" I call out breaking the silence.

"Mmhmm." Came her reply as she bandaged the wound.

"What grade are you in now?"

You wouldn't blame me for asking such. Since I went to Miami, I haven't heard from her. The last time I spoke to her was a couple of months ago, before she got missing.

"Oh, I don't want to go to school."

"You're going to school and that's final. I'll put in college as a newbie. Jason, what about the business deal you went to Miami for? Did you get to do it?"

"No, it's passed now. I already lost that contract. I couldn't go on knowing fully well that you were missing, the contract didn't matter much to me than you do." He says. I gently hit him with a pillow.

"Asshole! You could've just gone ahead with it! I told you I was coming back to New York!" I yell.

"Well, it's past now. Yelling won't bring it back."

"Well, thanks for the sacrifice." I say smiling at him. I rest my head on his lap and he smoothens out my hair, Amber was massaging my feet as it was ontop her laps.

"Just tell me when you need something." Amber says.

"You're not that familiar with this place, I'll just tell Jason."

Amber glares at Jason and he laughs it off.

"Amy, what happened all the while I was away?"

"Yeah...about that. I met a guy."

"You what?" I ask sitting up immediately.

"Relax sis, he's just my friend. Nothing more." She says.

"Oh, there better be nothing more." I say to her. She taps me and give me signs using her hands. I quickly understood that she wanted to tell me stuffs but when we're alone so I excused myself from Jason.

Once in the room, we get on talking.

"So, this guy's name is Jason....Jason Fernandez." Amber says.

"Oh, my guy's name's Jason too." I say.

"Yeah, I realized. So, he's 18....in college, he's tall and cute. I k ow you'd be mad at me for what I'm about telling you." She says with a puppy look on her face.

"I won't, I promise."

"Okay, he kissed me."

"What?!" I ask in excitement.

I'm really happy she got to kiss a guy that's not the devil Devan. Ever since Devan started abusing and harassing her sexually, she hasn't gotten close to any guy because she hates them. I'm guessing she likes this Fernandez guy, I'll be really happy if she does.

"I think I like him." She burst the bubble of curiosity.

I pull her into a warm embrace telling her how happy I am for her.

"I'm sort of hungry. I haven't had anything to eat since last night." She says.

I take out my phone and order a large pack of pizza, rosé and some grilled chicken for her as I'm very weak to cook.

"I ordered you some food and it would arrive shortly. I should check on Jason, this...is your room." I say to her.

"Isn't it supposed to be ours?"

I narrow my eyes at her whole smiling, I gently shake my head. "No."

"No? Wait what? You sleep with Jason in his room?"

"Okay, I should tell you everything. Sit." I say to her and she settles down.

"You see, Jason and I met at a party, that night I had a one night stand with him. It wasn't all that intentional though as we were both drunk. After that, he offered me a contract relationship. I'm to pretend to his parents that we're in a relationship so his dad won't cut him off for deciding not to marry. You see, I've fallen in love with him already and I think he has too. I lived in the ghetto, made dirty cash and I'm not poor sis. I'm very much rich." I say to her.

"Wait what?! The Jason part isn't all that surprising. It's obvious he likes you. You're actually rich? Like filthy rich?"

I smile while nodding my head in approval. " Yes Amy."

"Wow. I'm so happy for you but you hid it from me all this while. You owe me a whole lot!" She says in excitement.

"I'm sorry I hid it from you. It's just that Devan was always with you and I didn't want him to know about my wealth."

"Okay, it's fine. You said dirty cash. You killed for it?"

"Hell no sis, how could you even think that?!" I say.

"You kidnapped? Drug trafficking? Human trafficking? Robbery? Stealing?"

"The last one. But I wouldn't call it stealing, I'd call it appreciation fee. I crack safes for wealthy people and take a huge amount of money before giving it to the person. Once they get it, they pay me for my work." I say.

"But that's greed sis. I hope you're not into it anymore and I hope the cops don't get you."

"Well, I'm not into it and the cops have already gotten me multiple times but I broke out of prison. The last time I went to prison, I just decided to wait for a bail and one of my friends bailed me out the next day and ever since then, I haven't gone to prison or done anything illegal." I say.

"Oh, I'm so sorry."

"Yeah, it's fine. So, I'm doing all this for the money okay?! I've a lot but I need to make sure I've more than enough to cater for us both. I should see Jason now." I say and kiss her on the cheek before leaving the room.