Falling For My Mysterious Saviour

ROAD OF REVENGE

Mariam's P.O.V.

"Thanks for closing all the accounts for me, Mr Harper. I appreciate your efforts", I thanked Mr Harper, the person in charge of managing my financial matters. Though Valerie was a freelancer interior designer, she mostly had contact referred to by me. She was too lazy to promote herself and get a stable career. Being a considerate sister, I helped her too to get a foot in this industry. Now, when she had shown her true colours, I had no reason to help her now and that was why I withdrew all the connections explaining my present medical condition. Mr Harper was also a smart person. He closed everything for me in such a way that I could come back in the future whenever I would be able to work again.

"It's my pleasure, Ms Lockhart. I am still managing your gallery and other things on your behalf. I hope it will not affect my salary", he joked in the end and I laughed with him. Though I didn't have any new work in the last one and a half months, the gallery was still doing well. It was an online platform and I must say that he was really managing everything well. "You are earning your salary on your own and I am really glad that you are with me", I praised his efforts while laughing with him. We hung up after discussing some more things. He got some orders too and wanted to discuss them with me. He also told me that he got a call from the company for the next trip but he politely refused by giving them the information about my exact medical condition after the accident.

I really missed my days in the forests. I wanted to go there again and breathe. I felt trapped inside this body surrounded by those walls. Demitry was right. I couldn’t give up like this. I needed to stand up again. I clearly remembered what happened that morning. I was in a daze or what I didn’t know, but I tried to sit up normally after waking up. I made so much movement that I screamed in pain. I fell back on the bed again as I had already lifted my almost half upper body up. The pain in my back was unbearable and I felt that I was going to die again. I somehow took the phone under my pillow and before I passed out, I managed to call Demitry. The thing was that I could move my upper body on sides a little bit but couldn’t sit straight. Later, Demitry told me that the guard who he had appointed out of our room heard me screaming when he was on the stairs. After Demitry left, he came inside to check on me as he was instructed. He heard me mumbling for water in a dream but there was no water inside the room. So, he went out of the room to the kitchen to get water. He was the one who reached into the room first. He saw me fainting and called the doctor immediately.

I was really glad that Walker, the guard was there and took care of me. With the help of the nurse, he straightened my body and then let the doctor examine me. Since that day, a nurse was assigned to stay with me inside the room after Demitry leaves for the day. I took a deep breath and looked out of the window. It was broad daylight and I really wanted to go out even if it is for a minute. “Uhh… Sarah”, I called the nurse who was sitting on the couch right now watching something on her phone. “Yes, ma’am”, she immediately replied and stood up. “Can you call Dr Reynolds? I want to talk to him”, I requested her and she nodded with a smile. She then called Dr Reynolds and asked him to come to my room. “He will be there soon, ma’am”, she said and I smiled. “Give me some water, please”, I requested her again as I was feeling thirsty.

She immediately came closer to the bed and poured a glass of water for me. She came near to me on the bed and lifted my head very carefully. She made me drink water as I put my all weight on my elbows to lift a little up. I was thirsty and it made me drink the whole glass. “Thanks”, I thanked her after finishing the glass. “If you are feeling hungry then I can ask the kitchen to prepare something for you”, she proposed and I shook my head in no. We heard a knock on the door and I was surprised to see Dexter coming inside with Dr Reynolds. I was really happy to see him. “You forgot me”, I complained while pouting before he could greet me. He gave me an apologetic look and I faked anger. “I am really sorry. You already know what’s going on in the company”, he tried to give me an explanation in an apologetic tone. I smiled this time. “I was only teasing you”, I said with a smile on my lips and he seemed relaxed now.

“You are asking for me, Mrs Davenport”, Dr Reynolds asked me in a polite tone this time. “Yes, Dr Reynolds…. I have a request”, I said and he ushered me to finish. “I want to stay in the balcony for a while. Can you make any arrangement there so that I can stay there during the daytime?” I requested him and he seemed surprised. “Well…. I guess we can make some arrangements here and it will be good for you too”, he said and I smiled again. “Please do whatever is necessary. I really fed up being on the bed and stuck inside the walls”, I whined and he nodded his head in understanding. “The injury in your back is almost healed and we will start physiotherapy soon. It may take more time than we anticipated before, but I am sure that you will be back on your feet again. You are a fighter and I know that you will not give up”, he said some encouraging words and I laughed. “Demitry also says the same words almost daily. It seems that it also a type of medicine to boost up my spirit”, I said again in a teasing tone and everyone laughed this time.

Dr Reynolds then excused himself and Dexter came near me. He was the brother that I never had and I was really glad that he was here with me and he was always beside me whenever I needed someone other than Demitry to clear my heart out. “How are you doing?” he asked me in a calm tone and I huffed. “I really felt like dying inside these walls now”, I complained while whining like a child. He pursed his lips into a thin line and stroked my head slowly. My hair had grown now but not that long to be on shoulders. “I am not going to say any encouraging words to you, Mariam, because I know you well”, he looked into my eyes and I smiled faintly. “Anyways… I came here because we need your help”, he said and I raised my brows.

“I know that it should be Mr Davenport who should tell you everything but he is busy with something and that’s why he asked me to talk with you”, he said and I nodded. I knew that Demitry was dealing with some stuff with the Dubai project and also a few ongoing projects. “Someone has contacted Warrick”, he paused and I raised my brow here. “We didn’t get any information on this mysterious person. It seems that he knows something about Warrick and is blackmailing Warrick now”, he stopped again and I signalled him by my head to continue. He cleared his throat and then spoke again. “He wants Warrick to do something but what…. We have no idea. The thing is that Warrick is trying to contact you ever since this person has approached him. He even called your mother too”, he stopped again and I chewed my internal cheeks. “So you want me to talk to him and try to find out what that man wants from him?” I asked him and he nodded.

“The strange thing is that this man disguised as Oliver Davenport”, his next words took me off guard. “What?” I immediately asked him in shock and he nodded again. “You heard me. He disguised Oliver Davenport so well that at first glance all of us thought that it was him who was trying to blackmail Warrick and also he is the one involved in your accident but Mr Davenport has something that ensure that he is not Oliver”, he said and I was really shocked. It meant only one thing that someone was trying to deepen the grudges between the brothers. “Did Demitry talk with Oliver?” I asked him in a low tone and he nodded again. “They talked and you won’t believe how pissed Oliver was when we showed him the footage that our man managed to get”, he said with a chuckle and I smiled too. I could imagine his pissed face.

“You see….(he cleared his throat again before speaking)…. You are not the only one who is trying to get revenge on whom those have done wrong with you. There are some sick minds who are also trying to harm others in the name of revenge. This road of revenge is not the same for everyone. All of us have different motives”, he said the last line in a very serious tone. Both of them stay silent for a while. He was stroking my hair all the time. He was right here though. “Let me talk with Warrick then”, I said and he nodded. He took out a phone from his pocket and opened it. I immediately recognized the phone. “It’s mine”, I said in surprise, and he nodded. “This also has the same number that you have right now”, he told me, and I was now completely confused.

We both were surprised when the phone started ringing as soon as he opened the phone. “It’s Warrick”, he informed me and I was really surprised. “Let me talk to him then”, I said and he nodded. He put the phone on the speaker and I had no objection on his action. “What do you want, Warrick?” I asked in a flat tone as soon as I picked up the call. “Mariam???? Is that you?” he asked me in a shock tone and I narrowed my eyes. “Did you have someone else instead of me?” I asked him mockingly. “No… I mean…. I am calling you for the last fifteen days but your phone was switched off and …. And… even… mom refused to talk to me”, he complained immediately like old days taking me off guard. “Last I checked, Warrick then we have no business together and also we already have parted our ways. Then… why bothering to call me”, I was harsh and the sarcasm was dripping from my tone.

“You are still angry with me, Mariam?” he said in a low tone this time and I scoffed. “Come to the point, Warrick. I have no time to listen to your banter”, I said in a bitter tone this time. “Please forgive me, Mariam. I …. I …. Really … I… know … what I did was unforgivable, but I know you. We love each other so much and deep in your heart, you know that you still love me”, I looked at Dexter in shock and he also looked confused this time. “Wait, Warrick….. I already have cleared my heart and my mind to you when we met the last time at my home. I am already married and the love and care that I had for you before was already replaced by my husband’s love”, I said in a firm tone, making clear my thoughts to him. I heard him scoff. “I know you, Mariam. You are doing this only to make me feel guilty and ashamed and I am really regretting what I did to you. But… both of us know that you don’t love your husband. I don’t know for what reasons you are with him but it’s definitely not love. I … I mean look at him”, his words made me lose my temper and I cut him off in the middle of his sentence. “I dare you, Warrick to speak one ill word against my husband and I will show you what I can do to you. If I am not taking any legal action against you and Valerie then it doesn’t mean that I can’t”, I threatened him in a pissed tone.

There was silence on another side for a few seconds. “I didn’t mean to offend him, Mariam. Is he listening to our conversation?” he asked me and I scoffed. “You are really lucky, Warrick that he is not here or else I don’t know what he would do to you”, I spoke again in a pissed tone. “Let me clear you one more time, Warrick. Enjoy your free life as much as you can and don’t try to piss me again or else you know me better than anyone else”, I said and before he could say anything else, Dexter cut the call. “Hey.. hey… girl.. calm down”, he immediately came near to me and pulled me in his embrace. That was when I realized that I was breathing harshly and my heart was now beating rapidly. I closed my eyes and tried to calm my breathing down. “Why did I feel that he was trying to reconcile with me?” I asked Dexter after calming myself down. He pursed his lips into a thin line as if he was thinking the same as mine.