The Billionaire's accomplice

Love is a sacrifice...

GABRIEL

GLENDALE

The moment we entered Jeremy's hospital suite, I saw my bother leaped with joy, I glimpsed the color of life instantly returned to his haggard and forlorn face. The moment Kelsey approached him in his bed, he sprung into life and enclosed her in a very tight embrace. He was crying and sobbing...

"Where have you been 'Kel?"

"Oh God, I missed you so much, I love you so much!"

"Please, don't leave me ever again, please, promise me..."

"Did i do something wrong? Please tell me...I'm so sorry...

"I can't breathe without you...."

"No one can take you away from me...."

Those were the words Jeremy said to Kelsey over and over again, as he hid his face against her hair, and cried like a small child, oblivious from his surroundings,  while we were witnessing everything from behind the glass partition that separated them from us, he didn't care that we were all there to see...myself, Jacob, Sarah, Nana and Aunt Beatrice.

It was the same scene that Helene and Miguel witnessed as they entered the room a moment later. Helene's stunned face had made it clear that she realized the graveness of what she had done.

I saw Kelsey hugged him back, with tears in her eyes, one of her hand patted Jeremy's back gently as she allowed him to hold her tight. My brother looked more frail and tired,  but  was suddenly and extremely  happy.

I was speechless and in shocked. I never really realized the impact of Kelsey's existence in Jeremy's life until that moment. I haven't given it a real thought before, all that I had in mind when I asked Kelsey to be with Jeremy was to give him even a temporary sense of bliss and emotional comfort during his fight for survival, because I knew how besotted he was with Kelsey even before his illness.

My decision may have been selfish, but I just wanted to make him happy during his remaining days.  I did not realize that Kelsey was the one who  actually gave him the reason to continue to fight and live. And if not for Kelsey, I could have lost him a long time ago. He almost passed the period the Doctors have predicted  him to live. And as for Kelsey, she may have loved and truly cared for Jeremy for allowing him to clung to her and made herself enter in an agreement with me. If I have not imposed to her to marry me but Jeremy instead, would she have given her consent to it? Something inside me didn't want to know the answer.

All of a sudden, a feeling that I could not dare to deny came piercing right into my heart, while I looked at the scene in front of me. Both of them were locked in each other's arms, while a few hours have just passed, when Kelsey was just in my arms, I could still feel the softness of her body moulded into mine, the taste of her mouth, and the lingering scent of her hair and skin. While it evoked all of my senses, my thirst could not be quenched, I wanted more of her, and it felt like it was just moments ago.

But as I looked at the two of them, my intense desire and the memories  of our intimate moments together have just turned into a bitter reality. How i wished that It was not Jeremy, so that I could easily snatch Kelsey away from him. How I wished that Kelsey would not dare touch any other man but me and only me. I would be more than willing to pay any price. But why is it to be Jeremy? Why is it to be my own brother?

The realization hit me in the gut like crazy, and it was hurting my pride, and my sense of loyalty to my own brother. I felt a taste of bile in my mouth.  It came as a blow as I felt a sudden pang of jealousy started to build up inside my dormant self that instant. Jealousy was never an issue with my emotions ever before, it was never with me, It just came, and it just happened.