Chapter 183: Eleanor, you're sick

Terrible anguish struck my heart accompanied by a dreadful ache that something had been taken from me. My hands fell to my sides and I gradually clenched my fists in frustration. In that moment, it was clear to me that I was in distress with nothing to lose. I made up my mind and decided I would not be to blame for what happens next. The officers would sure have a good time unraveling betrayal, greed and obsession in this love triangle murder plot.

I could feel the veins on my neck become prominent like cords. Within a fit of rage, I span around and burst into the room unannounced.

"No! No I will not be okay!!!!" I screeched and they all spun around to look at me. Their faces spelled guilty and I could tell they had it in mind that I should not know about this.

I looked at Iridessa and she looked back at me. Beautiful as usual; white skin, expensive cloths, blonde hair in check. She was quiet the drama queen. Literally.

I shifted my attention to Adam who was the man I had to talk to. Only he had the answers I wanted.

"So this is how you repay me? For all the love that we had this is how I get paid back? Huh?" I asked in shock. Seeing them together turned my shock into indeference. I laughed in the air and it quickly turned to crying.

"Eleanor, you're sick...." He reasoned.

"No...no am not.... You're driving me insane Adam. Why did you block my number?? Why would you do that to me Adam? Is our love really over?? All those little things that we did, we did for us , didn't we??? What has she offered you that I never did???"

"Eleanor listen to me ....." Adam tried to get through to me but I didn't give him the chance.

"What do you have to say Adam?? What do you have to say?? Why are you breaking my heart??? What did I do to deserve this Adam... ?? We were the hot couple on Netflix and we were so much in love....where did it all go???" I went down to my knees and cried like a baby. "If I did something wrong I apologize for it but I can't live like this.....won't you come back to me Adam?"

"Ms. Eleanor....." Iridessa tried to talk but I got angry. I pushed Adam out of the way and clawed my fingers, with them landing in her neck. My lips twitched as I lifted my eyebrow. A wry smile appeared on the corner of my mouth and I tightened my grip. She struggled to let me let her go but I was too strong.

Voices echoed in my head telling me to stop. Screaming and shouting and yelling and begging. I gave them no hint of my attention. They called me insane so maybe I was hallucinating. Yes. I was. I looked at Iridessa and her eyes turned white. Her nose and mouth were a shade of blue. Signs that life was slipping away. She gave up on stopping me and savoured her last breath. I knew then that her lungs were filled with one last gulp of air and soon she would die.

"Eleanor stop this nonsense! You're going to kill her!!!" The voice that seemed like Adam's echoed in my ears.

"I don't care. Without Adam am as good as dead. So if she does so will I. I won't let her or any girl get close to Adam. If I can't have him, then no one else will...." I made it clear while wondering if Iridessa was still alive. She messed with the wrong girl. I widened my eyes and squeezed her neck even further.

"There's less air in her lungs! Her brain's starved of oxygen...she needs urgent attention or she will really die....."

I turned my head and saw the team of nurses and the doctor I came along with. Lauren was standing at the door looking more shocked that the rest of them. I looked at her and she looked back at me. She uttered no word and still I could hear her very loudly. Her heart spoke to me.

I blinked back and the tears I had been withholding gushed out like water from a rock. I was still looking at Lauren and she was still looking at me: tears also falling down her face. I felt paralysed. What was I doing?? What was wrong with me? How could I even think of killing someone?

I felt a pain that resembled a million mosquito bites on throughout my entire body. In less than a minute, my whole body became paralysed and I couldn't move even an inch. My hands were still on Iridessa's throat and I fought had to remove them. I wasn't a murderer. I was just a girl who had fallen in love and was doing all she could to keep her happily ever after. A small town girl with big city dreams. That was who I was....

Then, as though from a dream, I seemed to have woken up. Adam was on my right struggling with my hand forcing me to let go of Iridessa. Lauren was still in the same position. Standing against the door with tears flowing from her eyes which were still fixed on me. The team of medics had come in with a bunch of first aid kits and were assembling then to get ready for work. Then there was me, standing in the centre of the room with my hands on Iridessa who at this point seemed to have been dead.

Frightened, I suddenly got the power of superman and threw her body against the wall which fell like a plastic doll. She hit her head against the sharp edge saving a huge cut. As the crimson fluid flowed from her, my heartbeat galloped.

I backed away until my back hit a wall. I was too scared to move and even blink. I kept my eyes open and on Iridessa. The nurses crowded around her with each one attending to a part of her. Some where rubbing her hands, some were shining a light into her eyes. Others tried to control the bleeding and pulled her on the floor.

In a second, she had a lot of gadgets connected to her and I couldn't help but get more frightened.

Adam didn't even look at me. He rushed to Iridessa and my heart sank. He never loved me.

"How is she????" He asked the doctor seemed too busy to hear him. He was busy fetching his stethoscope.

"Pulse???" The doctor asked.

"Not detectable...." A nurse replied. I had no idea what that means but from her expression I knew it meant something was wrong.

"Blood pressure...."

" Critically low...."

"...and the pupils are dilated doc...."

"Chest exam....??"

"Absent breath sounds....." The moment the last nurse replied, the room was filled with an odd silence. I felt as though time had been wrinkled to a minute and then stretched to a billion years in the same moment.

"Am sorry sir....." The doctor turned to Adam. "She's....well...we've lost her..."