Chapter 7
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Harrison didn’t bother to go home, he went straight to nighter’s bar.
“Why does every girl keep choosing Jason instead of me?”, he wondered.
When she mumbled Jason’s name in her sleep, he ignored it saying it wasn’t true.
The same thing happened between him and Sara.
*** Flashback ***
Ryan McCall mansion
** Greece **
5 years ago.
“Jason let’s go get ice cream”, Sara said to Jason who was studying in his room.
“I don’t feel like, I will go with you later”, he said and Sara frowned.
“Where is Harrison? I knocked in his room but there was no reply, do you know where he is?”, she asked.
“I don’t care…… I think he is in his room or somewhere”, Jason replied nonchalantly.
“You should care about him, he is your cousin”, she said. Hearing the word “cousin” annoyed Jason.
He hated to be called Harrison’s cousin.
“I hate him…… my dad is always caring for him more than me and he’s always talking about Harrison”, he said.
“You are just being jealous”, Sara said pulling Jason from his bed.
“Let’s go call Harrison for ice cream”
She knocked on his room again but this time there was a reply.
“Just leave, I am not interested in anything you want to do”
“You see---- we should just let him be and go without him”, Jason said and Sara glared at him.
“He’s my friend, I care about him”, she replied.
“What am I to you?”
“You are my friend of course”, she said turning her gaze on Harrison’s door.
“Just friends?”
“Yeah?”, Sara replied confused by his question.
“Harrison please open the door”, Sara said banging the door to the extent that Harrison was forced to open the door.
“What do you want?”
“Let’s go out”, she said but he declined.
“Let’s go please ----- please ---- please”, she said pouting.
“I won’t stay out for long okay?”, he said and Jason rolled his eyes.
“Thank you”, Sara said excitedly.
Since then Harrison has been hanging out with them but Jason doesn’t like it.
To him? Harrison is starting his friendship with Sara and he doesn’t like a bit of it.
As Harrison becomes closer to Sara, Jason became more and more jealous.
Jason couldn’t hold back his feelings for Sara anymore. The night he confessed to her was the same night he realized that Sara and Harrison were together.
Sara didn’t expect Jason to have feelings for her but there was nothing she could do because it was Harrison she liked.
Harrison became more and more fond of Sara. Probably because she was the only friend he had.
Jason started avoiding Sara but Sara didn’t want her friendship with Jason to end, she tried to sort things out with Jason but he was just too stubborn.
Apart from avoiding Sara, Jason’s hatred for Harrison grew.
Ryan(Jason’s father) noticed what was happening and he decided to end the fight because he didn’t want anything to separate Jason and Harrison.
“Let Jason have Sara, I don’t want any fight between you and Jason. Most especially because Jason is my son and I will do anything to give him anything he wants”, Ryan said to Harrison and he couldn’t believe his ears.
“You want me to let go of Sara because of Jason?”, he asked perplexed.
“Not because of Jason but because I said you should let go of her”, Ryan said icily.
“I have been doing everything you ask of me but I can’t leave Sara”, he said firmly.
“You won’t dare disobey me!”, he said strictly but Harrison didn’t care.
“I can’t leave Sara”, he repeated.
*
“Why did you lie to me?”, Sara said in tears and Harrison didn’t understand what was happening.
“I didn’t lie to you”, he defended.
“You don’t truly love me. I can’t believe that you are a gangster, you kill innocent people”, she said and Harrison was dumbfounded.
“How did she find out?”
“I don’t understand what you are saying?”, he lied.
“You don’t understand huh? Then explain this”, she said and showed him a video of him killing people.
“Explain this”, she said hitting him and he said nothing.
“Who sent this video to you?”
“Does that matter right now? I can’t believe that I was with a killer all this while”, she said.
“Sara please let me explain”, Harrison said but she cut him off.
“We are breaking up”
“Please just one chance to explain”, he pleaded.
“I am done with you and I will expose all your deeds to the cops”, she threatened.
“Please don’t let anyone know this, your like will be in danger”, he said but Sara was done listening to him.
“I can only be in danger when I am with you, I need to save everyone from people like you”, she fired and walked away.
Harrison realized that Sara’s life was in danger but she wouldn’t give him a chance to say anything.
After a week, Harrison didn’t hear from Sara until Jason talked about her?
“You are a total failure, you don’t deserve Sara. I am glad that she realized that you are not the right person for her but I am”, he said.
“Did Sara tell you anything?”, Harrison asked.
“She said she made a mistake by choosing you and she has chosen me”, Jason said.
“That’s all?”, he asked to confirm if Sara told him about the video.
“Are you expecting that she will come back to you? It’s not possible”
“Please tell me where Sara is, I want to see her. I went to her house, I didn’t see her”, Harrison pleaded not only pushing him.
“Stay away from Sara or else, you will regret coming here to Greece”, Jason threatened but it meant nothing to Harrison.
“Don’t you care about Sara? I need to see her”, Harrison shouted at Jason holding him by his collar.
Jason finally released himself but he punched Harrison in the face.
“Don’t you think of seeing Sara”, he said.
“Something bad might happen to Sara if I don’t see her”
“Stop this nonsense, Harrison!!! Just let go of Sara already, she doesn’t want to be with you”, Jason fired.
“Sara will die if you continue to prove stubborn, I will make sure I kill her personally”, Ryan said to Harrison.
“What?”
“You heard me right…… I won’t spare her life because of three reasons”, he said.
1. She’s the reason you are fighting with Jason and the reason you no longer listen to me
2. She knows your secret and had threatened to report you
3. She’s your weakness and I don’t like weaknesses.
“You are willing to kill your friend’s daughter because of all that?”, Harrison asked surprised.
“Am sure by now she should be dead”, he said checking his wrist watch and Harrison’s eyes widened.
“You asked someone to kill her?”
“I don’t like distractions and disturbance”, he replied nonchalantly.
“Why?”
“I like the cold Harrison, the one that doesn’t care about anything or anyone. I want you to be very cold, rude and notorious”, he replied.
Harrison tried calling Sara but she wasn’t picking up.
“Don’t waste your time, I just received a message that the person I sent there has gotten to her house”, he said and Harrison gritted his teeth trying to contain his anger.
Harrison rushed out of the house to go the Sara’s.
When he got there, she was lying helplessly on the floor in a pool of her own blood. She has been stabbed.
“Sara please hang in right there, please don’t die”, he pleaded
“H... Harrison”, she struggled to call.
Harrison called the ambulance and he saw the shadow of someone and he chased the person but before Harrison left the house, Jason saw him.
Jason came to check on Sara but meeting in almost died gave him the biggest shock in his life.
He ran to the place he saw Harrison but he was gone.
“What happened Sara?”, he asked but there was no reply.
“J…Jason, …... . Ha... a... rrison”, she called again with a weak voice.
“He did this to you? He stabbed you”, Jason said bitterly as he began to cry.
Just as he was about to call the ambulance, the ambulance arrived.
“Sara I won’t forgive Harrison for what he did to you”, he said to her but she was only shaking her head. She was unable to talk.
** End of flashback **
Harrison sat down thinking of what happened five years ago. How could he forget?
He can never forget that it was his uncle that was responsible for the death of the girl he ever loved.
He thought of Elena and he could see that what happened five years ago wants to repeat itself.
Harrison doesn’t love Elena but there’s an attraction he has towards her that he can’t explain himself
Elena is so different from Sara but Harrison could see Sara in her.
Apart from the pain, he went through when Sara died, Jason never stopped reminding him about her death.
He was accused of killing Sara. Jason took him to jail but he spent two years there.
Harrison was found guilty because all the evidence pointed to him and Jason testified against him.
Ryan was supposed to release him but he wanted to punish Harrison for going against him because of Sara.
Harrison hated himself for going to Greece but it was his parents that took him forcefully there.
From the bar, Harrison went to visit Sammy in the hospital, his condition was normal but he was still unconscious.
Harrison may lose everyone in the world but never Sammy.
Even when Harrison was in jail for two years, Sammy was the only one that was there for him. Sammy too was there when Sara left him.
Harrison prayed silently for Sammy’s health.
Sometimes Harrison would want to help Sammy to leave the red dragons because it is a place of hell but the rule is that if one decides to leave, he will die with his family.
From the hospital, he went home and he met Elena.
He passed her and he went to his room.
He didn’t want to talk to her because he saw how his presence made her very scared and afraid.
Seeing her this scared of him hurt him and made him what exactly Jason had said about him.
After a week of living with her, he will decide either to let her go or he should fight for her till his last breath.
He will ask for a divorce when he decides to let her go but for now, he has to keep her away from Ryan and Jason.
Elena sat on her bed, she couldn’t sleep not after what happened today.
Somehow she blamed herself for what happened. Either her marriage with Harrison was forced or not, Harrison is her husband.
Whatever thing she has for Jason was not supposed to be because it is called cheating.
She’s cheating on Harrison.
“I am no different from Josh. He cheated on me with my friend and I am cheating on Harrison with his cousin”, she muttered.
She was very hurt when she caught Josh cheating on her and she wondered how Harrison was feeling.
She touched her head and she was burning. She was having a terrible headache.
She closed her eyes to get some sleep but the headache didn’t allow her to. She rolled and rolled on the bed but it wasn’t the solution.
She thought of drinking milk. She prepared the milk inside water and drank it but there was no difference.
“what are you doing here?”, Harrison's cold voice sent shivers to her body.
“Am not feeling too well”, she replied trying to avoid his eyes which she did successfully.
He moved close to her and she moved back. He stopped seeing how afraid she was.
“I will take you to the hospital”, he offered.
She wanted to agree but she remembered Jason’s warning.
*stay away from him*
“No…. no I am fine thanks, I have almost gone”, she replied and he nodded tho he wasn’t convinced.
He looked at her one last time and went back to his room and Elena released a deep breath.
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