I'm just an imposter, a mere clone.
Sooner or later, I'm bound to be gone, either by Laurel who might come back after I have settled with Luca here, successfully staying safe by Cassian.
Or directly by Cassian, for marrying him.
So isn't it better that I at least be a bit happy, when I don't know how long I have got to live.
I'm a doctor, I was a doctor, but I can't tell when I'm going to die because what I am diagnosed by is not some deadly illness but...
A curse, a curse of being unwanted, hated.
Tears began streaming down more quickly, the pain intensifying.
What did I had to say about myself? What was supposed to be my last wish if I were to die right now.
Happy life?
Happy end?
Or maybe a wanted soul?
The whole night I had spent in worry.
There was a weird kind of fear that had entered my heart, like I am going to die, like someone is coming to get me.
How time passed I had no idea, I only realised that I hadn't sleep the whole night when the sun rays touched my skin.
Emotionlessly I turned my face to the window, the sun shining bright, the first ray of the day.
Getting up from the bed, I washed my face, brushed my teeth, got a shower and then went to the kitchen after changing my clothes.
The guest room door was still closed, so I had presumed he was still sleeping.
I was making myself a cup of coffee when I looked over at the curtains on the balcony door.
I frowned, they weren't drawned last night, maybe Kalix had done them after I had went in my bedroom.
With the mug still in my hands I walked to it and slid them to the side.
Letting the beautiful morning shine in.
I was about to turn back to the kitchen when I saw a white envelope dropped on the floor, right near my feet.
Picking it up, I felt the thickness and heaviness of it as I walked to the kitchen and kept my mug there before opening the envelope.
My breath was froze in my lungs, staring at the message inside.
Watching...
Below the message paper were some pictures.
All of them belonged to me and Luca.
Him at the flower shop, us in the car, our pictures at the party when I was pushing him away, us at the abandoned farmhouse, when he was draping the coat over my shoulder.
And lastly, Cecily standing Infront of us with Ayla in her arms and me and Luca there... when he had came to hand her the gift, but walked away after announcing our relationship.
No...it... can't be.
I was taking deep breath calming myself down, when I saw someone get up from the couch.
It was Kalix, I quickly hid the pictures, the envelope in my sweatpants pocket.
"Why are sleeping here?"
"So where else was I supposed to sleep?"
"In the guest room of course."
"I would have if you had not sprayed too much perfume there."
I frowned.
"What perfume?"
"Go inside and you will know, it's reeking."
I quickly walked Infront of the room and opened the door, fresh floral scent hit my nostrils, the kind that used to feel pleasant.
But now, it was no longer pleasant, because I remembered the scent, the smell, I was familiar with it, I had smelled it.
Yesterday...in that room where there were my pictures...a lot of them...the walls covered in them...
I could smell this weird kind of scent that I couldn't determine at that time.
And now smelling the same scent once again, I was taken back to that moment.
It was here... here in my apartment.
I quickly closed the door with a loud thud, feeling nauseous.
My brain was fogging.
My eyes went around the living room, when my eyes stopped at Kalix who was standing at the kitchen's entrance and that's it.
A broken sob left my lips when my body fell on the floor with a loud slam.
And I slipped into my unconsciousness.
The last thing I felt was, my head slamming over the floor
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I was walking, until a snap of the twig that I had stepped on took my attention, alerting me.
I bit my lips and slowly removing my feet from there, and quickly turned around rushing towards the fence, that connected both Cassian's and the abandoned farmhouse together.
But just before I could touch the fence someone grabbed me by my arm and slammed my body on the ground.
The cemented porch stairs hitting my back bone, crushing it.
I winced as soon as my body collided with the hard floor.
"Please....let me go!"
I whimpered, crawling backwards while that man standing Infront of me, kept walking closer to me.
Adorned in a black hood, that black hood.
"Please let me go! I... I promise I won't tell anyone about you! Just let me...let me go!"
I was begging that man, scared, afraid of everything.
The knife in his hands became more visible as the moonlight hit the blade.
I sniffed staring at it horrified.
And within a few seconds he jumped onto me, stabbing the dagger until he couldn't do it anymore.
I groaned , screaming in pain, curled up in a ball and clutching my belly.
The hand that was pressing over the wound, I removed it away to take a look on the wound, and as soon as I removed my hand.
There was no longer any blood.
I raised my head, looking around the garden, but I was all alone. No one around me, no one there except for the laughter I could hear from everywhere.
I was still looking here and there when someone tapped on my back and when I turned around.
Everything changed.
I was no longer in thag abandoned farmhouse's garden, but in a house.
Cries of a woman hitting my ears from behind as I turned around again.
"Please love don't cry, I promise I will protect you, I'll kill her... I won't let her anywhere near you!"
It was Cassian, with Elodie.
She was crying looking at my direction in fear.
Cassian's expressions started turning weird, bloodshot eyes, veins on the forehead popping.
Marching towards me, he brought out a gun from his suit, pointing it at me and shot me then and there.
Right at my stomach, a painful heart retching scream left my lips and I once again held my stomach.
But then again there was no blood, no wound, no pain.
And I was pushed on the floor by someone. That person sat on my stomach punching me on my face.
And when I finally had gotten a chance I looked at her.
It was Elodie.
Before I could push her away from me, she began strangling me her arms tightly gripping over my neck in a bruising grip.
I gasped, trying to push her away.
"L-leave me... please!"
I begged, I could feel all the blood rushing to my brain.
Just when I was about to pass out, I heard a voice.
My voice.
"Wake up Sarah..."
I shot open my eyes, looking at the person in front of me who was Elodie a few moments ago but now...now it was none other Laurel.
"What happened? Why so scared? It's just the start."
Her voice slurred in my ears, and I pushed her away trying to stand up.
"Sarah...help me!"
I heard Luca's beg, as I with trembling steps slowly turned around, sniffing because I could expect to what he might do.
But no, perhaps I was wrong.
Luca was kneeling on his knees, blood oozing out from many sides of his body.
I was about to walk to him when a sudden force stunned me, and the metal rattled.
I was tied with metal cuffs on my hands and feet.
I was trying to get out of them, but failed.
I was looking at him, when from the side of my eyes I could see the hooded man walking close to Luca, with a sharp blade, the same he had used to stab me.
Luca was looking at me helplessly, not at the man coming to him with a weapon, but at me.
Wanting me to save him, I wriggled under the tight hold of the metal strangles, crying, screaming asking the hooded man to leave him.
"Please let him go! Leave him alone...you want to kill me, please kill me... Just let him go!"
I yelled at the top of my lungs.
My throat was sore from the loud scream.
The man turned to me.
"Leave him you say?"
"What if I say I don't want to?"
He snickered with his malicious voice.
"For god sake Franklin, let him go! It's me you want not him....Please... don't!"