Love, Not War (Book 2)

Chapter 145⚠️⚠️

Felix stood there, speechless, his mouth opening and closing soundlessly as Aera's words pierced through him like shards of glass. Tears cascaded down his cheeks, mirroring the torrent of emotions raging within him. He felt utterly powerless, a mere shell of the person he once thought he was.

In that moment, he realized the depth of the pain he had caused Aera, and the weight of his own uselessness crushed him once again. He couldn't even muster a response, knowing deep down that Aera's anger and disappointment were justified.

"But there's one thing you haven't taken yet." She said, taking a few steps back from him. "And I'm going to gladly give it to you because I have no use for it now. Maybe you'll finally be at peace knowing I do not exist anymore."

Felix was confused. "What are you saying? What do you mean?"

Aera gave him a small smile. "Goodbye, Felix."

She pulled out a sharp knife which was concealed within her sleeve and directly slit her throat in front of him.

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"You killed her!" Felix screamed, kicking the wheelchair in front of him. "You fucking killed her! You killed her!"

He was raging and crying at the same time, throwing, kicking or breaking whatever was in front of him. He was scaring his parents and all the patients and doctors around.

"Felix!" His mother called, hoping to get him to calm down but she couldn't reach him because he had broken glass all over the floor. "Felix, sweetie please calm down!"

CRASH!!!

He toppled the water dispenser and uprooted the little plant by the corner, pouring sand all over the place. "You killed her!" He cried. "You took her away from me! The one person that saw me for who I am. The one person that didn't care about my stupid fucking surname. You killed her!"

Felix stepped over the sand and glass and stood in front of his father. Blood oozed from under his feet, the glass piercing deep into his flesh but he didn't feel any pain for the one within was greater than any other. He was a crying mess. His entire face was red. He was breathing laboriously as he stared at his father like he was the devil himself.

"Are you happy now?" he asked, sniffling. "You must feel great, don't you, Mr Lee? You won right? You just couldn't feel like a man until you killed a teenage girl."

Mr Lee was trying hard to control his anger in public. "Felix" he gritted out in a warning tone.

"What?" Felix asked, pushing his father back. "What? Are you gonna kill me too, Mr Lee?" He pushed him again.

His father stumbled backwards, afraid of what his son was becoming.

"Felix, stop this." His Mother said. "We're in a hospital. You're scaring everyone."

"To hell with everyone!!" He yelled, yanking his arm away. "To hell with you! To hell with him! To hell with everyone in this fucking hospital! You guys took her away from me. You killed her and now you're telling me that I'm scaring you?"

His Mother  stumbled backwards, afraid that Felix would hit her. She didn't even know what to do anymore. Likewise her husband. It was at that moment, they started regretting their actions.

"That's him. The blonde one" someone said, pointing at Felix.

Two security guards tackled Felix to the floor and a nurse quickly injected him with a sedative which weakened him. Despite that, he was struggling against the guards with the little strength he had. He was crying and shouting but his voice was slurry and no longer loud. It wasn't until he fell asleep that peace returned to the hospital.

News spread rapidly like wild fire.

The son of Mr Lee, owner of Lee Corps, Lee Felix, is a maniac!

Lee Felix accuses his parents, Mr and Mrs Lee of the death of his cheating Ex-girlfriend.

Lee Felix goes on a rampage after Ex-girlfriend's death.

Lee Felix suffers from a mental disorder!

Death of Ex-girlfriend causes Lee Felix to destroy a hospital.

The owners of Lee Corps are murderers! So says their son.!

Felix remained in the hospital for a month. He would go on a rampage every time he woke up and remembered that Aera was dead and the nurses would have to sedate him. It got to an extent that he had to be tied down to his bed and anything he could use to hurt himself or others were taken away from him.

Felix cried all day until his throat became sore and his eyes were bloodshot. He didn't want to speak to nor see anyone. He also did not eat and when he was forced to, he would bite the fingers of whoever was feeding him. He was assigned different therapists but none of them could get a word out of him and ended up quitting.

Tied to his bed, he would just stare at the ceiling, muttering away to himself. Sometimes he would laugh, sometimes he would cry and sometimes, he would just be silent. His mind was burdened with so many 'if onlys'. If only I did this, if only I did that then maybe she would have been alive today. He had conjured up so many ways he could have prevented her death. Right from when the video was released to the second she slit her throat in front of him. If only he had moved faster than her. If only he saw the knife in her hand. He should have seen the knife. How could he have missed the knife? He had failed her. He let her down.

In a span of weeks, striken by extreme grief, Felix became a shadow of what he once was.

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"Shhh, it's okay honey" Mrs Lee whispered, hugging her son. He was shivering and drenched in his own sweat. "It was just a dream okay? It wasn't real. It wasn't real."

"But it felt real mum." Felix cried. "I-I I touched her. She felt so warm at first, like she was alive and the next thing, I saw her on our school field, bleeding from her neck. There was blood all over my hands mum." He looked at his hands which were clean. "There was blood. I saw blood."

Mr Lee walked in with a glass of water which handed to his wife. "Is he okay?"

She shook her head and mouthed the words; 'He needs help.'

"Here honey, have some water." She said, putting the glass to his lips. "You'll feel better."

Felix took two sips and let out a deep sigh then he looked at his mum. "Can you sleep here with me? I don't think I can sleep alone."

"Of course honey." She replied, kissing him on the forehead. "But you should change first okay. You'll feel refreshed."

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