THE PATHS CONNECTED

CHAPTER 9

KHALIL'S POV

Her actions today seem suspicious. Why did she go outside with me? Up until now, she has been nervous since she saw me wore the necklace.

"Nice necklace. Where did you buy it?" he asked. Nervously, I looked at him.

"My brother... uh... I didn't buy it. It was given to me," I stuttered answering her nonsense.

He looked at me suspiciously, so I had to change the subject. What's her problem?

I suddenly saw her wearing the same necklace I had given her when we were together. How could she have that? Does she remember now? Damn, this is not the right time.

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IRVINES POV

Khalil had already dropped me off back home. Little did he know that I had secretly followed him and found out where he lived.

"Wow, huge house!"

I sneak inside the house and found him wearing a lab coat. I didn't think twice about it until I noticed something in the living room.

"Why am I here? With him?" I asked as I stared at the photographs on the wall, confusion clouding my mind.

"Is this... the guy from my flashbacks?Its him?" I mumbled, utterly puzzled.

"Irvine..." At the sound of his voice behind me, I froze.

"You-Khalil! Who the hell are you?! What is all this?! How do I know you?!" I questioned him immediately with a lot of questions.

"Irvine, I can explain," he said slowly moving toward me.

"Don't come any closer, or I'll hurt you!" I warned grabing the vase and smashing it , holding the broken pieces to him. I was terrified of what he would do to me.

"Put that down. I won't hurt you. Just listen to me and follow me," he said as he moved toward a door. I hesitated, but I followed him. We entered a laboratory. My mind could hardly grasp the situation.

"Tell me, Khalil, who are you? What is this?" I demanded of him, but he only sighed.

"Just sit," was his brief reply.

"I will tell you everything."
I was nervous.

"Long ago, we were together. Five years almost, but things were getting too complicated. I was an actor and your my wife. But my family did not want us to be together, my family wanted Clea. Even Mr. Choi did not want us together, since my career would be ruined. We used a machine so that we could forget each other... but it did not work on me. You had an accident and it was Clea's fault. Your brother saw everything and he demanded that I should stay away from you. Still, every moment lives in me. I could not stay away from you," Khalil explained.

"I.. I do not believe you. I don't even have a brother or a family," I said, shaking my head.
Khalil suddenly pulled out a camera with pictures and video clips of us together.

"You can't remember them because those memories were erased too. " he said.

Before I could process everything, a gunshot rang out and pain tore through my stomach. My vision blurred as my own blood pooled around, and in the distance I saw Khalil grabing his gun, aimed to shot the person who shot me

"Hold on, Irvine!"
That was the last thing I heard of the man, I now remembered everything.
Khalil... my love.