✿ CHAPTER 28 ✿
What a sexy-looking girl"
"I bet she'll be as delicious as she looks"
I felt the men coming very close to me like a lion ready to devour its prey...I could feel their breath on my skin...
"Please!, don't!" I tried shifting away but they were so close, tears rolling down my eyes...
"Amelia!... Amelia wake up!"
"No!, No!, No!" I woke up panting, my clothes drenched with sweat...my heart racing...I turned to look beside me and saw Leonard by the side of my bed with a worried expression on his face.
"where- where am I?" I looked around.
"You're in the hospital Amelia"
he took out a face towel from his pocket and wiped the sweat on my forehead.
"Hospital? Sofiya!...where's sofiya?" I panicked
"She, she was in that room...where is she!!" I stood up abruptly throwing the sheets away.
"Amelia wait!"
"Don't tell me to wait! I need to see her!" I raised my voice
"You just woke up!... I can't let you walk around in this condition Amelia!" he held my shoulders
"Your cousin is fine...now, I want you to go back to that bed and rest,"
"But-" tears in my eyes
He carried me in his arms as he gently lay me down on the bed...I just sat on the bed sniffling.
"Tell me!...was I raped? I want to know, Leonard" tears rolling down my eyes as I looked at him.
"Amelia-"
"Don't lie to me!...tell me the truth please!" I begged him...I needed to know if I was truly raped back in that room, then I'll know my life is done for.
"No, you weren't...you're clean, so is your cousin"
"What?" I was stunned
"You mean, we- we weren't raped?"
"Yes...luckily I came on time...I wonder what would have happened if I hadn't come on time, Amelia," he clenched his fists.
"What happened to sofiya?"
"She was drugged... those men spiked her drink...and it affected her deeply"
"But she's fine now" he gently held my hands again.
Tears fell down my eyes...
"I can't believe this happened" I buried my face in my hands as I cried
He pulled me into a hug, his arms tightening around me. Heat radiated between us, our bodies pressed together.
His hug was firm, unwavering, the kind that whispered 'I've got you'. I closed my eyes and let myself sink into it, letting the weight in my heart fade away for just a little while.
"I won't let anything happen to you, Amelia" he whispered in my ears that made my soul tingle.
I buried my face in his chest as I sniffled.
A few hours later I was finally taken to Sofiya's ward...but when I got there I could see many packs of chips scattered on the bed...I caught her eating like a rat.
"Oh, Amelia!" she jumped off the bed, I was shocked.
"Be careful!"
"Don't worry, I'm fine!" she hugged me.
"Are you ok? Do you feel any pains anywhere?" I was worried, but I was anxious for nothing.
"I'm fine girl, as far as they did nothing to me, I'm very energetic!" she smiled while stuffing her mouth with chips.
"But, you- you were drugged, you were-"
"Come on!, I said I'm fine" She jumped back on the bed.
"You don't look like someone who was about to be sexually assaulted" I rolled my eyes.
"Well, I don't have to be acting all weak and pitiful now" she munched on her chips.
I walked towards her with a stern expression.
"What?, what's with that look now?"
I grabbed her pillow and began hitting her with it.
"What the hell were you thinking last night, huh!!"
"I was so worried about you that I almost got raped!"
"I'm sorry!, I've been a foolish cousin, okay? !"
I stopped hitting her as I ran my hand through my hair.
"What would I do!, what would I have done Sofiya!" I raised my voice, little tears in my eyes.
"I didn't know this was bound to happen, they just said they would love to buy me a drink and then in the next second I didn't feel like myself anymore, that was when I called you"
"Amelia, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to drag you into this" She grabbed my hand as she pleaded.
"I'm not mad at you, I'm mad at myself for not protecting you when I had the chance" I hugged her.
"So you're saying you're not mad at me anymore?" she smiled
"I can never be mad at my cousin, never" I chuckled between tears.
"That's great!, right...Uncle and Aunty called"
"They did?"
"They were so worried about you because you didn't sleep at home at home last night"
"So what did you tell them?"
"I didn't tell them anything, your boyfriend told them you were with him" Sofiya smirked at me as she ate her chips
"You didn't even tell me you were dating now" she held her chest as she gasped.
"Boyfriend? What boyfriend?" I raised an eyebrow
"Your Mr. fling of course"
"Leo-Leonard!!, he isn't my boyfriend!!"
"Well that's not what he told the doctors" she chuckled as she ate her chips.
At this moment Leonard walked into the room with his assistant behind him, both I and Sofiya turned our heads.
"What a handsome boyfriend you got there Amelia" Sofiya whispered while eating her chips as her eyes were now glued to Leonard.