Curse Of The Dragon

I am running

Kate's POV

I walked in a blonde wig with a suitcase that had nothing. I had another man accompanying me. I did have some beads of sweat coming onto my forehead after every few minutes and couldn’t help but pray harder for us to get clear from the airport.

Tom had managed a jet for me. Maybe he was trying hard to earn an apology from me. Once the plane took off I couldn’t help but think about Tom. He…he was different. I was mad at him that he let my name get the mud to save his uncle but I couldn’t help but see how he didn’t abandon me when doing it was far easier for him.

I had spent all my life thinking I didn’t have anyone beside me but having someone who will stay by my side was comforting. But marrying him or not was a question that I knew was meant to reconsider.

Who I was kidding? Who will it be if it won’t be Tom? How I will ever move on from this scandal was all my mind could think of.

“Where are we supposed to go from here?” I asked the guy who was accompanying me to the US.

“I am asked to leave you to a church in LA. My work will be done there. I will leave. I think Tom will be there to receive you.” He replied making me recall Tom’s promise of getting married the moment I will land in the US. So, the church does make sense.

“Thank you,” I said genuinely and went into the room to sleep.

I woke up the moment I found someone knocking on my door. “We are here,” The man told me. I didn’t ask for his name. I liked how he wasn’t very talkative. We went into a limousine that was pulled over in front of a very little church after two hours. LA made sense. Tom and I had brought a very expensive mansion here to live our lives together. And, this place wasn’t very far from here.

I went into the church to find two or three people there. I sat on one of the benches and started prying. My wedding day, the nights in the jail or how that officer would do creepy things…everything came back at me making me sob. I don’t know for how long I sat there praying or shedding tears.

I straightened the moment I felt a presence beside me. She was a brunette girl wearing a grey leather jacket and a cap. She had her hands bound too and seemed quite absorbed. I leaned in my seat and wiped off my cheeks once more. I wonder if I had felt this low ever in my life.

I didn’t have my cell phone but without checking the news, I knew people were talking bad about me. I had lost everything I worked hard for. I lost my sleep, my comfort zone, and always worked extra to get where I was today. I never aimed low in my life. It was always about having everything best. And, now seeing where I have ended up was cutting me deep. I loved Tom but the mere thought that I will be depending on him was enough to mortify me.

I looked at my back for the hundredth time. On every little sound, I would look back wondering if it was him. It had been one hour since I was sitting here. The place we two bought wasn’t too far but not near enough for me to walk there in my heels. Tired of waiting I got out and started walking on the lawn of the church. I went in after an hour more to see if he had arrived but he was nowhere. I walk on the aisle and was walking to the same bench I was sitting on a few moments ago. The girl wasn’t there and the church was now empty. I was still walking to my old place when I heard a voice.

“It is just the start of your miseries.” I looked at my back and realizing the eyes of the girl at me made me feels a chill. It was the same girl who was sitting beside me a few moments ago.

For a moment I thought I heard wrong and looked here and there but that girl was looking right at me.

“Excuse me,” I asked but she was quick to reply.

“We need to talk.” She told me.

My first guess? She could be a creepy follower and was trying to get some information.

“I am sorry. I think you have got the wrong person.” The moment I recalled I have the fake hair on and had shades I tried to move smart.

“Don’t wait for him. And, police will be arriving here in less than an hour. I can…see things.” Saying that I was crept out was an understatement. “Excuse me…” I said now a little alerted. And, shaking my head in disappointment started walking to her. I didn’t have any other option. She was standing midway to the door.

I jumped only after two steps when I found the huge doors getting shut with a loud voice. It wasn’t windy outside. I stared at the girl now. She gave me a disappointing look before looking at the statue behind me.

“You can’t marry…drop the idea of ever getting happy and he will let you be…or you will make things only harder for you.”

“Who are you?” I took a step back and was hyperventilating at this moment.

“How did you…?” I tried to speak but she looked at me for two minutes before starting.

“There is no easy way to break it to you.”

“What are you talking about?” I said at this moment hysterical and looked here and there to find something to protect myself with but there was nothing.

“First, don’t be scared of me. I only mean help…and, you are lucky that you got someone who can explain this to you…I mean…unlike your mother.” My throat was now dry. I know she mentioned something about my mother but there was something on her face that tells me she doesn’t bear good news. But what left my mouth was unfiltered.

“No one knows anything about my parents. No one…I know you want money. And…I can give you that…just let me go. My…my fiance is a very rich man…and I… too have a lot of money to offer you.”

“You don’t have anything. And, only you don’t know this. You…will end up like your mother, like your grandmother…and like everyone else…you will end very badly, Kate.” She didn’t make sense. Was she out of her mind? Or…she was a thug. Only this explains things…and I was sure she got help or…or a whole gang with her.

“It doesn’t matter that I have nothing or not. You…you will be paid handsomely. Just let me go.” I said but she removed her cap and freed her very long hair. I wonder if I had ever seen such beautiful and long hair.

“I am not a thug, Kate. I am someone who is here so…you don’t suffer much. I had tracked you to have some words with you…I…I really mean to help.”

Or she could be someone who escaped from a mental asylum but how she knew my name I wonder.

“You are not helping,” I stated.

“You are not listening.” The girl shrugged her shoulders. “…I only want to tell you so…you know better.”

“What is it?” I asked,

“Not like this now…you didn’t believe me. So, I will show how it will go.” She said with a little smile on her face and then shoved her hands in her jacket and I literally saw her eyes turning to white.

“He will come after more forty-five minutes….” I cried realizing how I was seeing things standing just right here. “…He will say we can’t marry today.” I could feel Tom’s hand over mine. “…Then, in a few minutes, he will make you understand how it is better for you to give yourself to the police here. But in reality, he slept with Tania in Russia. She is pregnant with his child and you know Tom…he cares about nothing but his family.” I could feel my heart breaking into pieces seeing them two in the same bed.

“Tom loves me…” I tried to say louder to break this hallucination but I was pulled to my knees. “Yes, he loves you. He will get you back after a year from the jail.” I saw how weak I looked, walking out of the cell.

“…and, let me tell you that year wasn’t good in the jail. And, he will keep you in a home. He will never marry you but…cage you in his lies while he is already married to Tania. You will have a daughter with him that you will never get to raise. She will find the peaks of wealth, fame and success but she will be destroyed just like you.”

I was wailing with my hands on the floor and cried feeling all the emotions. I straightened to find that girl standing right there.

I tried to drag myself back. I wanted to distance myself from her at all costs. I don’t know how she managed to do what she did but there has to be a reason or technology used. It can’t be magic.

“Five minutes remain before his arrival. If you want to try him you can. I will be waiting in my minivan right behind him. You can decide.” She walked out of the church making me shiver.

I hardly managed to get myself up and took a seat on the bench. It wasn’t just seeing things. I felt all that pain. And, my hands were shivering.

The moment I felt a tap on my shoulder I startled. “I am so sorry I took long. Are you fine?” I heard Tom ask and looked at my back to find him wearing the same shirt he was wearing in my hallucinations.

“Did you…did you sleep with Tania?” I had to ask and see how his expressions changed I knew what the truth was.

“Look, I can explain…you know I love you…I will never lose you. Please,…” His confession was like a punch in my guts.

“Save it, Tom.” I walked out of the church but felt a pull on my arm and there was Tom standing. “Leave me,” I spat.

“You have to listen to me first, you can’t leave me.” He seethed making me push him away.

“Leave me,” I demanded but felt his grip going stronger on my arm and recalling all of what I have seen and felt made me so weak.

“Need some help?” I heard and found Tom lying on the floor the next moment.

I found the same girl before who was quick to say. “We only have three minutes. The police will arrive.” She said and I too noticed a minivan parked ahead. I don’t know why I trusted the girl who did something so cruel to me just a moment ago. But the moment that minivan started and I found Tom stirring. I knew I was leaving behind what I thought was the best chapter of my life. I was running away from everything that once mattered most.

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