Survived

Joy slowly opened her eyes. She was inside a room, looking around and seeing Gerald on the couch sleeping.

She moved and groaned in pain, waking up Gerald who rushed to her side.

"What's wrong love?" he asked.

She looked up at him not saying a word. , his

moved to hold hers.

"What hurts, should I go call the doctor?" he asked.

She smiled, "Just hug me "

He chuckled and held her in his arms, "Am sorry I hurt you"

"It's okay, you proved how much you care when you ran into that fire for me " she muttered. "How is Liana?"

He sighed, "Still unconscious, the injury on her head caused a lot of internal bleeding and she took in a lot of smoke "

"It's all my fault, I should have helped her up from the floor or shielded her from that bottle but I failed," said Joy.

"Don't blame yourself again, this all turned out this way cause of Lucian, who is going to pay for what he did " Gerald held her.

"Can I go see her?" she asked. After talking to the nurse, he helped her up and slowly walked to Liana's room.

They stopped at the door, she could see Xavier sitting next to her friend's bed through the glass.

"How long has she been like this?" she asked.

"Getting to a week now," he said. He opened the door and they walked in.

Xavier turned to see them walk in, he gave Joy a slight smile and moved away.

Joy taking his place sat down and held Liana's hand.

She sniffed looking at the pale face with the healing burns on her body. Her friend had come to rescue her but fail in Lucian's trap, he wanted to kill them both, the people who had been there for him.

She turned to the two men next to her, "How did you know it was Lucian who did this?" she asked.

"The police found the lighter that started the fire at your place and it had his initials on it. When they questioned him he denied it " Gerald said.

"Since they are customized, we contacted the manufacturer& he confirmed it was made for Lucian ".

" Did you get him then? "

"No, he ran off before they could get there," Xavier said.

"We need to find and make him pay for doing this to me and his sister " Joy cried. , "He didn't show any mercy when he hit her with that bottle or tied us up and left us to die in that fire. He has lost his mind "

...

Gerald took Joy back to her room and Xavier left to see the doctor.

Liana's door opened and a doctor walked in. Moving close to her bed.

"You look well for a person I tried to kill " he chuckled.

His hand moved to her head, gently caressing her.