Chapter 67

Sarah stared at Dawn wondering if she was going to recover soon, Gustavo had brought in their personal nurse to examine her and from the look of things she was only getting worst.

 Dawn had managed to explain that the last thing she remembered taking was water and it was from her own bottle and this same bottle Sarah had also taken water from but how come she wasn't poisoned or at least show any symptoms.

"This doesn't look good at all, especially with the fact that she is pregnant," Sarah explained to Matteo as they stood in the side staring at Stephan sited next to Dawn and holding her hand tightly. 

He had been in this position for some while now and with the look of things it didn't seem like he was going to leave this room till Dawn woke up.

Gustavo explained to them that Gonzales was busy at the moment but would attend to them shortly, he showed them to their respective room and Sarah would have sworn she saw Dawn walking the other direction with a man.

She didn't know if she was hallucinating from the shock that Dawn's life was in danger or she was just dehydrated and thus hallucinating things that weren't true.

She had nudged Matteo and whispered it into his ear regardless and he had told her something that made her uneasy even till now.

Dawn had a twin.

How was this possible? She didn't know much about Dawn's background as they had just started their friendship but she knew a bit from when she and Olivia were really close.

 Olivia always talked about her baby sister that she loved so much and how it was just two of them. So how was it possible? 

The main purpose of coming to see Gonzales was because they suspected that he was in one way or the other Dawn's biological father but Sarah didn't exactly believe that Dawn could be Gonzales daughter because she didn't posses any of his qualities.

She stared at the door where Travis and Olivia were sited, Olivia head resting on Travis. She looked really ill but Sarah wasn't fully buying into it. The only person who she suspected could harm Dawn was Olivia but yet again Olivia was in her room all through as Travis had locked her in so she could rest but what of Shannon?

That cunning snake.

She wasn't a fan of Dawn and her intention to seduce Stephan wasn't hidden, she could have put something into Dawn's water when no one was looking or she was working with Anna.

Second cunning snake.

 It was a good thing they didn't tag along and were back in the house with Ivy and Scar because if they had Sarah was sure she would have injured one of them. 

It had to be them and she was sure Stephan was going to fish out who the person was but right now he seemed more focused on Dawn recovering than killing anyone, it was not a new thing to watch him stare at Dawn like she was his life because honestly she was even though his ego wouldn't allow him to admit it already. 

Maybe this would be the opportunity to finally tell Dawn how he truly felt for her and how he felt about them having a child the least Dawn could do is fight hard and overcome this.

She was about to ask Matteo if he had heard from Ivy when Gustavo walked in without knocking, he paid no attention to all of them as he headed straight to Stephan. He bent down and whispered something into his ear as Stephan nodded afterwards rising to his feet immediately.

Stephan stared at Dawn for a while and lean in to place a kiss on her forehead, it was a good thing they had been able to stop her from coughing blood but now he feared that she would not wake up soon, the nurse and even Sarah had reassured him that his child was okay and that they just needed to keep watch on her for the main time.

He didn't know what to do to help her, his mind was blank and it was unusual of him. It felt like the more she was around him the more danger she always seemed to find herself in and it wasn't her, it was people who were after him that saw it fit to hurt her. 

"Watch over her," he ordered staring at Sarah, he knew Sarah was going to watch over her like her life depended on it and he was grateful. He stared at Matteo as Matteo seemed to be aware of why Gustavo had come in. Gonzales had sent for them.

Matteo turned to Sarah, planted a kiss on her forehead and gave her a hug muttering something into her ear that went unnoticed by the rest.

"Just in case," he said sliding something into her back pocket as he followed Stephan, Travis and Gustavo out of the room.

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"Happy birthday Maya," Jake said as they both walked out the back of the house staring at the lake.

The lake was made by her father for her mother, well that was what she was told.

Maya loved here especially in the early morning when the water was really cold and the wind blew her hair in different directions, she loved the quietness and the peace. No one really came here not like they would ever have anything to do at the back of the house.

'Thank you," she appreciated as Jake motioned her to the chair close to the lake, she took her seat as Jake sat next to her with a smirk. 

"And how old are we now?"

"You tell me Jake?"

"So you are admitting to actually waiting for me?" Jake teased.

"What?"

"You are a beautiful woman," Jake praised her.

Why was he praising her Maya thought, she stared at him but he seemed occupied with taking in the serenity of the environment than actually staring at the beautiful woman he just said sitting next to him. What was he truly up to?

The last time someone had called her beautiful was when she was staying with her uncle, she had always been home schooled but her uncle thought it wouldn't be a bad idea if she actually went to school.

It was the first term and it had been hard for her to socialize, she wasn't used to people and the school happened to have a lot of people and half of them turned out to be bullies who believed that she was a weirdo.

The idiot who had called her beautiful was her close friend he tried to kiss her afterwards but reflex action had come first before the shock that he was actually trying to kiss her and not harm her. she had ended up scarring the boy across the face with her dagger.

Luckily for him, it had gone across one of his eye, drawing a connecting line from the eyebrow to the bottom lid as he had closed his eye from shock. It was a miracle that his eyes was still intact.

She had felt really bad for him when she went to the hospital and saw his face was all stitched up but she had wished she had stabbed him instead when she found out he wasn't actually interested in her but had made a bet with some of his friends that he was going to kiss the new girl in school.

She was grateful the scar didn't heal up, it was going to be a constant reminder to him to never try to play with people's feelings or use ladies to bet.

She didn't know why that memory had come to her head or why she had thought that Jake would kiss her.

"Thank you," she managed to reply.

"I want to kiss you."

She knew it, all these men were the same and her instincts would never fail her.

"but i fear that we might hurt ourselves with that gun strapped into your pants."

"...." how did he know their was a gun strapped to her pants? 

"Your father has developed a lot of enemies."

Her father? was he not just interested in kissing her? why was he suddenly talking about her father? She didn't care about her father or his stupid enemies. Maybe they could all meet up for once and kill themselves.

"He believes the right thing to do is to keep you safe," Jake continued.

"I am safe, i can protect myself."

"I thought when i informed you about your gun, you would check it but it seemed your fear of me finding out you are carrying a gun over shadowed the fact that i might actually have taken your gun," Jake smirked bringing out her gun from his side and placing it on her laps.

How did he take the gun? When did he take the gun? She stared at the gun then back at him in astonishment.