Bound To The Seduction

Chapter 48: Too Deep

Sarah sat the rest of the night with headphones and some random song playing in the background. On repeat. Tears streamed down her face, and long enough to make two visible marks running all the way to her chin. She sat on the cold floor with her back against the wall and her knees folded to her chest level. She tilted her head backwards against the wall, letting another fresh set of tears run down her face and formed a droplet on her chin, lingered a little before dropping on her now soaked shirt. Her bottom lip quivered and she gasped for air, trying her best to hold in the emotion.

She felt tired. Really tired. And lost. The feeling like she's drowning in a sea of emotion and couldn't get to shore. This vicious cycle of trust, loving, having expectations, getting hurt and then starting again. God, starting again is hard and scary. Only one question replayed in her head. Why? Why does no one want her? What did she do wrong? Why does life have to be this hard. Complicated. God knows how many times she thought of giving up.

No. She couldn't give up. Glen still needed her and she couldn't leave mom all alone like that. She had to pull herself together for the sake of the two most important people in her life. Sarah took a deep breath and exhaled all the stale air from her lungs, letting out as much frustration as she could. She sat up and, without bothering to look, she tried to reach out for her phone. Her hand blindly patted the hard floor several times before she managed to find her phone somewhere against the wall. She placed her finger on the fingerprint sensor and the phone unlocked. She tapped the messaging icon and noticed quite a number of unread messages. She scrolled past that. She went straight to that one unanswered message she sent Henry ages ago. A sick feeling arose in her stomach, a feeling that reminded her of her childhood and how her favourite parent had abandoned her.

Again, her finger hovered over the keyboard, wanting to send him another message but she stopped herself in time. She stared at the unanswered message a little longer than necessary. God, why did it hurt so much? It hurt more than when he found out Brandon was cheating on her. The pain was so intense that she clutched her chest and gasped. Another tear rolled down her face and she wiped it with the back of her hand and sniffled hard. "What's the point?" she mumbled before laughing at her pathetic self.

She closed her eyes for a second, leaned her head back against the wall and sighed. When she reopened her eyes again, something had changed; it had that unmistakable apathy present years ago when her father left. She unlocked her phone again and tapped Henry's number. She bit her bottom lip, seemingly fighting with herself, and moved the contact to the 'blocked' list. She followed up with deleting all their conversations and call logs before she had a chance to rethink her decision. Perhaps cutting ties with him completely would save her the heartache. Hopefully.

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At Sidian private hospital.

2 days later.

Henry's roused from the deepest slumber head ever had and the antiseptic smell of a hospital assaulted his nose. This room had two arm chairs, a couch, a coffee table, a flower vase with fresh flowers, and he would have thought he was in a hotel room if not for the light green walls that made the room feel cold. He was lying on a fancier hospital bed, typical of a private room, but still a hospital bed nonetheless. A bed he had no clue how got there. He did a quick body scan and heaved a sigh of relief when he found everything was intact aside from an IV on his left hand. He actually felt well rested and juvenated which puzzled him even more.

Just as his mind was going a mile a minute, the door opened and a petite nurse walked in with a file in her hand, followed by two people he never expected to see. His father and Cindy.

"Welcome back to earth sir," the nurse said jovially and unhooked this IV. She proceeded to do other hospital stuff that nurses do. A few minutes, later she scribbled something in one of the files and smiled. "All good, sir. If nothing unusual happens within the next three hours, you free to go."