Martins' POV.
I smiled as I woke up after passing out at the end of our adult play which lasted hours on end.
I didn't think she would be able to hold on, but she did, and even softly kissed me at the end of it.
Her soft lips in mine. I fluttered my eyes open as the rays of sun hit me hard, but I wasn't mad, instead my smile widened as I felt the side of the bed for her.
"Good morning my queen," I called out as I reached for her, but even when I rolled to the other side of the bed, she wasn't there.
It's weekend and she usually sleeps in on weekends, so...
I got up with a start and looked around the room, but there was no trace of her, even her bedroom sleepers was nowhere to be found.
Maybe she's in the closet, I took a side glance at the alarm clock, 11:30am, before going in there, but she wasn't there and so was almost all of her clothes.
Was this a dream or a nightmare? I slapped myself hard across the face just in time for the door to be pushed open.
"I think we should wait until twelve, that was her only condition." I heard Selena's mother's voice and ran up to her.
"Where is my.. Selena?" I asked her but she avoided my gaze and Selena's grandmother came into view.
"There was no need for us to wait afterall, you woke up already. Take," she slammed a paper in my chest, "sign this!" She harshly demanded.
"What's going on? Where is Selena? Her stuff are missing?" I asked again.
"You this dumb head, as if you deserve to know. She has gone on a work trip, and she didn't even tell you?" She scoffed before continuing, "but then you are nothing to her. Sign the divorce papers already and get out of this place! We can finally be rid of you," she seemed genuinely happy as she smiled and leaned into Selena's dad's hold.
"Yes mom," he said in her support.
"Divorce papers? That doesn't make any sense!" I frowned as I looked at the papers.
"Why won't it make sense? She got tired of you and finally saw the good in marrying that rich ex of hers. I wonder why they broke up in the first place," her uncle muttered.
Single and shameless, never forgetting to get the family into trouble every week with his gambling debt, but I'd heard enough.
"Selena, I need to get to her," I pushed through the crowd at the door and hurried out, but just as I reached the stairs, I noticed Selena's uncle's leg extended forward in a bid to make me trip down the stairs, but I wouldn't let the same trick work on me twice.
I skipped over his leg, and that made me twist my ankle and hit my head on the wall as I landed on the wrong footing. But that wasn't going to stop me.
I kept dialing her number as I hurried out of the house with my bicycle.
I won't be signing any divorce papers! There's no way Selena would want to divorce me. Not after we finally consummated our marriage yesterday.
Not after we both lost our virginities to eachother, not now that I know that she loves me just as much as I love her. The tire was flat, but I continued to pedal it, falling and picking it up again.
It was weekend, but they always took off from the office whenever they went on work trips like that, so there was a chance that I would still find her there.
Even though it was a two percent chance, I would still take it as her phone was going to voicemail.
Why would she do that to me?
"Selena!" I called out in the middle of the road.
I would lose my mind if I didn't find her today.
"I heard a honk from behind me and turned to see her family's car with her father and uncle right in front.
"Just sign the damned thing!" They cursed right behind me.
Scared that they would catch up, I looked at the traffic sign which was on yellow.
Three seconds for it to turn green, but I would be able to gain on them if I moved now with Selena's office just three buildings from where I was.
I hit the pedal and cycled forward, ready to take that turn to the front of her office building when I felt a hard hit from the back.
A hard hit that sent me flying. I closed my eyes because I knew that the impact would hit hard and when I opened them, I was seeing my front through a bloodied screen and pain all over, but at least, I was in front of the company's building.
The company's bus was still in front and I felt hope surge through me except I couldn't feel my legs, but I felt willed and mentally fortified enough to crawl.
All this would stop if I reached Selena and asked for an explanation. I continued forward through the pain and in the pool of my own blood. In my peripheral vision, although they sounded distant, I heard an ambulance and also the sound of my in-laws.
No matter how I tried to get away from them though, they still got to me and I felt someone holding my hand for a thumbprint amidst the argument before everything turned blank.
"Selena!"
Martins' POV
I hated this smell, but a smile was on my face as I tried to open my eyes, because everytime I was in pain like this and in the hospital, she always came for me.
I decided to relax a bit and wait for her soft calling of my name, but no matter how long I waited nothing happened which was a situation that had never happened in the past.
I was aching all over, there was no part of my body that didn't hurt, so why?
"Selena," I wanted to call out except my lips seemed to have been stitched and I couldn't move them amidst the sharp pain that resonated from there.
"He's awake, doctor he's awake, but why isn't he opening his eyes? What's wrong with my son?" a masculine voice, but how?
I lamented and wanted to cry at the emptiness I felt. I remember those despicable people using my blood to sign my thumb print, but why wasn't Selena here yet?
"Nothing too bad, he had several fractures and internal bleeding and even one of his eyeballs almost bursted from the hard impact of the hit, but I can assure you that every surgery that we performed on him, although they were all emergency surgeries in this past seven days have been a success except one," the doctor's voice was forlorn as he mentioned the last part.
But since when did I have a father that cared about me.
I had to be in heaven. Without Selena, this had to be hell.
"What is it this time? You said he would need therapy to be able to walk again. What else did you so called best doctors do wrong?" The middle aged man who seemed to be expressing concern for me sounded agitated and there was some soft feminine voice placating him in the side.
"I'm sorry that although we flew in a doctor from Turkey to perform the spine surgery on your son, but like we mentioned the success rate was 30-70, the surgery ended up being successful but at the cost of his manhood." The doctor announced and I felt my heart drop.
No!!!
I wanted to have five children with Selena, all girls, so I could protect them and her as much as I wanted to protect Selena herself.
Slap! "How dare you cause such a loss. Do you know who he is?" My father was enraged and I was sure it was him who hit the doctor.
I had a family that could fly in doctors to treat me? What was going on? Did I transmigrate into some rich guy's body?
"Dear, calm down, I'm sure they will find a solution."
"He is the heir to the wealthiest family in this country, don't you know who I am?" He was screaming with rage and the woman kept saying soft words and reminding him of his high blood pressure.
"We know that he is the only son of Cartel Jewelers and that he was intentionally hidden from public eyes since birth and that's why we have contracted the top best hospital in Germany and they have found a doctor, but-"
"No buts! I don't want to hear anything! What do I pay you guys for?!" I passed out at that point and was told I remained in coma for three whole weeks.
While most of my injuries were healing and hurting less, I had to move with the wheelchair and there was still no traces of Selena.
My new life also was one I was yet to get used to as it turned out that the accident was something that made me find my real family who had lost me from birth.
The wealthiest in the country and after the DNA tests, they confirmed that I was truly their only son and sole heir.
But all that without Selena made me feel empty and worse which was why I was going to focus on my healing to find her and protect her and ask her why that happened.
But until then, I had to put on the regal air around me and take on the affairs of my family's company, because my dad needed to rest because of his high blood pressure.
And I was now on my way, albeit wheeled to the first board meeting of my life.
During my recuperation in the hospital, I had a tutor who was also the chief butler and my dad's most trusted aide to put me through the ways of the company so I wouldn't give out the fact that I used to be an ordinary house help for my in-laws just a month ago.