FLASHBACK - Is he your lover?

The police was still investigating Susie's case. Even though it looked like a clear case of suicide, they still weren't closing her case. It had been one month already and Kate had gone to the police station 7 times now. In this one month, Ashton and Kate met less and less. This was again Ashton's suggestion, to meet less as the police might be keeping a track on both of them. For the same reason they barely talked on the phone. Initially this sounded convincing but as time passed Kate realized Ashton was not behaving like himself anymore, or she never knew the real Ashton. He would even avoid her in the middle of the day. One day Kate was at the grocery shop buying some fruits when she overheard a very weird conversation of a woman with someone on the call.

"It's been one month since she died, do you still think the police will get anything now? And even if they do get to know, you didn't tell her to kill herself did you?"

"Then why are you worried? Even that little stupid so called girlfriend of yours believes in you blindly. What are you worried about? She will even take the blame if you told her to. Anyways you were using her from the beginning. How was her body?"

Kate couldn't understand the conversation, but when she saw the woman's face, her heart almost stopped beating and her brain stopped working.

The next thing she saw was a white ceiling. Towards her left was a table with some medicines and a glass of water and towards her right was a glucose pouch. She tried getting up but her whole body as well as her head was hurting.

She tried remembering, and suddenly started crying. She had overheard the conversation of a woman on the phone and she when she saw her face, she fainted. It was Ashton's sister.

'What did she mean? Ashton was using me from the start? Then what about all those times we spend together? No, there must be something wrong.' But however Kate thought, she couldn't forget the fact that Ashton was using her, he was even avoiding her now. She started crying loudly making the nurse come inside in a rush.

The nurse immediately gave her some water with her medicines. She then laid her on the bed and gave on sedatives while explaining how she got there.

"A man came to this hospital with you in his arms, you had fainted. He looked as if he was horrified, as if he had seen a ghost, the aura around him was very scary. He paid for all your medical bills, and said if anything happens to you he'll ensure that our hospital would be closed down. You are having hormonal imbalance, don't cry so much. By the way that man was very good looking and handsome and seemed extremely rich. Is he your lover?"

The nurse waited for an answer but Kate didn't. She looked and Kate and saw she had fallen asleep already, the sedatives were doing their work.