Chapter 115 - If Only Nash Knew

An hour later Persephone reached Nico's house. She still didn't know why Ginevra had to invite her. With a sigh, she stepped inside the threshold of the Scuderi house. But the scene that she came upon shook Persephone to the core. 

"Gia, why don't you understand?" Nico was scowling at his sister. Never had Persephone ever seen him showing such grave expressions than this time. He was always indifferent and calm like nothing could ever touch him. But today she saw a very different scene. 

"It's not me who needs to understand but you bro!" Ginevra was not the one to back down easily. "She didn't want to marry you! Why are you forcing her?!''

Persephone felt as if Ginevra was taking her side. 

"She doesn't understand what's good for her," Nico told his sister. "I'm the best option for her. She can get out of that bloody haunted house if she marries me. What else does she want?!"

She wanted to ask what he meant by this! Bloody haunted house? What the hell was he talking about? 

"Really bro?"Ginevra scoffed. "She is not a kid who can't understand her good and bad. She is Persephone. She always knows what she wants and is quite vocal about it. As for getting out of one bloody haunted house to get stuck at another, she didn't need this." 

Persephone just stood at the door watching two people arguing over her. One was arguing about what was good for her as if he didn't understand and the other was well… 

"Gia, even you know her mental condition is not right! She doesn't even remember the majority of the things," said Nico as he rubbed his hand on his face in exasperation. It was clear from his posture that he was frustrated and angry. "Hell, she didn't even remember Sophia and Carina! She has forgotten how they used to love each other. She thinks she is some Cinderella getting bullied by her stepsister and stepmother. Tell me now Gia, does she know what's right or what's wrong about her?!"

"Nico…"Ginevra tried to say something bit Nico held up his hand to stop her from saying further. 

"No, let me finish. You must not forget she is my responsibility. I have given words to my late best friend that I will protect his sister. How can I not fulfill the promise that I have given to Lucien?"

So, Nicolas was doing this for his best friend, not because he felt something for her. No, it didn't break her heart but it sure hurt her to know that the man was marrying her for some kind of verbal promise. She would always be his responsibility, nothing more. This wasn't how relationships worked. 

"You are being selfish, Nico," Ginevra softly replied. "Just because of fulfilling some oral promise, you are hell-bent on destroying her life."

"It's not me who is destroying her life. But her father. And if I leave her at Marino house, he will kill her. Persephone is a liability for her now. And he is not very tolerant of his liabilities." He paused for a moment. The look on his face was that of utter devastation. His words not only hurt him and Ginevra but shook Persephone's woven world."He will kill her, Gia. Persephone will die at Don Marino's hand just like her brother, Lucien."

Everything had been a lie. She had been lying to herself all along. 

...

Persephone didn't know how she reached her home. But she had to thank Kale for it. From the last thirty minutes, she has been having one panic attack after another. 

*knock knock!*

Someone was knocking on her bedroom's door but she didn't have the energy to stand up and open it. The cold floor of the bathroom was making her legs numb. But it was the coldness seeping inside her heart like acid that was burning her insides. 

She suppressed a sob when she was haunted by Nico's words once again. 

Her papa will kill her. 

These words were ringing in her head. 

The door to the bathroom opened with this and an anxious Sophia emerged. 

"Percy!! What happened?!"She kneeled on the ground and hugged her wet and dishevelled sister. "Did Nico do this to you? I swear that I will kill that bastard!!"' She stood up to rush to Nico's house to cut off his head but stopped when she felt a tug on his hand. 

"Don't,"Persephone whispered before breaking into sobs. " Who am I, Sophia?"

"You are my sister, who else?!" Sophia replied, preventing the tears from falling. And after saying this, she hugged her tightly. 

"I don't know me at all, Soph," Persephone cried. "I don't know what or who I am anymore. Help me. I'm crying for help. Please save me before this darkness swallows me." 

.... 

Life Care hospital, New York. 

"Hey, you!" Valencia heard a masculine voice calling someone in the most rudest voice. When she turned back, she saw a tall hunk pointing his finger at her. "Yes! You! I'm talking to you!"

She had to blink her eyes to realize that the handsome but rude man was talking to her. 

Although the man wasn't taught 'M' of the word manners, still she wasn't like him. 

"What can I do for you?" Valencia neutrally asked him. 

"Holy shit," he murmured as his gaze fell on her. "You are smoking hot, doc!"

"Excuse me, this is a hospital and I am a doctor here. So, I hope you know how to behave," Valencia said in a polite and formal tone. 

"Sure, doc," Nash grinned. "Stitch me up " 

Only when she heard him asking her to stitch him up, she placed at his bleeding leg. 

"Please sit here. I will call a nurse for you," Valencia could only do this for him. 

"Why a nurse? Am I not even worthy of requesting you to stitch me up?"Nash asked her. His devilish expression causing hard time for Valencia. She has seen all kind of patients in the hospital but never had she ever seen one as weird as this one. 

"I'm a gynecologist. And I have a patient waiting for me," Valencia calmly told him. 

"Doctor Reynolds?" A nurse appeared holding a file in her hand. "Mrs. Chance cancelled her appointment."

Valencia scrunched up brows as if she didn't understand. "I just saw Mrs. Chance at the reception?" She asked. 

The nurse hesitated for a moment but then she said,"She cancelled her appointment with you and then booked one with Doctor Harris." She wanted to say something else too but she stopped. 

"I get it," Valencia just smiled at her. "Mia, can you do his dressing? It will not need stitches. " 

"You are breaking my heart, Doc," Nash wailed like a kid. "How can you do this to me?!"

Right now, even he didn't know why he was behaving like this. Usually, girls would come running for his evil charms but look at this hot doctor, she not only not glanced at him second time, but informed his handsome existence too? 

"Sir,I told you previously too that I am a gynecologist. It doesn't come under my task assignment. The related doctor will check your wound and prescribe you medicine," Valencia once again calmly explained to him. 

"Tell me, doc, what will it take for me to convince you to treat my ailment?" Nash asked her in an exaggerated tone. 

"Female reproductive system," Valencia directly answered him. 

However, instead of getting offended, he gave her a panty dropping smile. Too bad it didn't work on her. 

"How can you break my heart when my leg is already broken?" Nash looked at her as if she had offended nine of his future generation. 

Before Valencia could retort him, she heard the voice of her life saver. 

"Val?"

"Doctor Simon?" Valencia smiled at the newcomer. "Can you please see this patient? He comes under your department." 

"Sure, why not!" James Simon said with a broad smile. "And please call me James. Doctor Simon sounds way too distant." 

"Thank you, James," Valencia said. "I will see you soon." 

"Doc,I will not let him treat me if you don't stand by my side. This is me compromising!!"Nash yelled. 

Valencia could only sigh. Not wanting to create a scene in the hospital lobby, she obliged with his stupid request! Only she knew what kind of consequences doctors had to face if they failed to do things according to their patient's will. 

Nash shouted when the son of the bitch aka the doctor was disinfecting his wounds. What kind of doctor this hospital had! How could they flirt with other doctors on duty?! Fuck, why must they flirt at all?! 

"Santiago, bastardo. Ti romperò la mascella nello stesso modo in cui mi rompono la gamba!!" Nash was shouting in pain when another bastard was disinfecting his wounds or more like tormenting him. 

[Santiago, you bastard. I will break your jaw in the same way they break my leg.]

Nash always cursed Italian. 

"Shut up," he blinked his eyes when she glared at him. "One more word and you are out!"

"What did I do?"Nash asked her in confusion. 

"Cursing is not allowed here," Valencia said. 

"You can understand Italian, doc?" Nash grinned, forgetting about the pain.

"Doctor Simon, I will be back," Before Nash could say anything else , she was gone. 

"What happened?!'Nash could only ask the bastard. 

"Her son's name is Santiago. I think she got offended by your comment,"James said. 

"She has a son?" Nash's eyes widened with this new information. "Thank God, Santiago guy is only a son not a brother!"

If only Nash knew….