Night Owl

Night Owl Ch. 27

Looking at her friend, "Lina, are you okay?" Alana said looking at the horror in her friend's eyes. Following her gaze, she saw the cause of her terror. "Who is that Lina?" Alana asked keeping her eyes on the frantic man.

"That fucking monster!" Lina began to shout. As she lunged toward Collin's direction, Alana grabbed Lina holding her back from making a mistake she couldn't come back from. "Let me go Alana!" Lina screamed as she writhed in her friends embrace.

"Lina, I can't let you do that. Please talk to me, who is that? Why are you ready to kill him?" Alana drug Lina around the corner to talk in private. Grabbing Lina's face between her palms she forced her to focus on her gaze.

"Lina, please calm down hunny, and talk to me. Who the hell is that man?" Lina's shoulders dropped as she looked in her dear friend's eyes, defeated and ashamed. "It's him Alana," Lina's voice was meek audibly. Resting her head on her friend's shoulder as Alana rubbed her back, "make it make sense for me Lina. What do you mean it's him?"

Pulling her back Alana looked in Lina's tear-filled eyes. Taking in a deep breath, "he's the doctor that gave my husband those fucking shots." As Alana's eyes widened, her head whipped around to look at Collin.

"Are you sure? You're sure that it's him?" Alana asked as she walked to get a better look at Collin. Lina nodded her head dropping to the floor as her back rested against the wall. Tilting her gaze up to look at the ceiling, she didn't know what to do.

"Wait, if he's here looking for that boy, that means, shit." Alana was quick to put everything together. The woman who was slain was his wife. "Fuck Lina, this is all so messed up. What do you want to do? Do you want to confront him?"

Quickly shaking her head, "no, not yet. I still need to figure out what's going on. He promised us that my husband would be okay. He told us that he would be healed. I need to find out what the fuck happened."

"Well, we won't find out anything hiding back here," Alana said as she began to walk towards him and his son. "Alana you can't," Lina shouted in a whisper. "He doesn't know me, he won't even pay attention to me, just stay here and out of sight."

Lina watched Collin fall to his knees, as he hugged Jungkook tightly. Alana walking past unseen, she sat in a chair near them so she could hear what Collin had to say.

"Son, are you okay?" Collin said looking over Jungkook from head to toe. Nodding his head yes, Collin smiled at his son, bringing him into his arms once again.

"Daddy," Jungkook said as Collin pulled him back to look down at his boy.

"Yes son," Collin said knowing what Jungkook's next question would be. "Is mommy going to be, okay? That lady said that she was sick." Staring up at his father, Collin's eyes filled with tears. Dropping his head he shook his head no.

Jungkook slumped to the ground, his little chest heaved, as the sorrow for his mother began to become a reality in his mind. "Where's mommy, daddy?" He said, barely able to form true words.

As the tears began to well in his small boba eyes, his father looked down at him unable to hold in his own tears. "I'm so sorry baby boy," he said leaning forward to hold his child. "Daddy, where's mommy, she's just sick right? Can you go make her feel better?" His little voice rang in Collin's ear as his own heart began to shatter.

How was he going to tell his son he'd never see his mother again? That she would never hold him? Never tell him she loved him? He was about to lose his favorite person in the entire world. All to be left with a father who was inattentive, and hardly showed any emotions outside of this moment.

Pushing his father away, Jungkook stood up. Frantically he ran from his father, his tiny head searched to the left and then to the right. "Who is he looking for?" Alana said as she watched the fragile boy run through the hospital.