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Chapter Twenty

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"Reece honey?" Victoria's voice called through from the doorway.

"In here." I called back feeling proud my emotions didn't carry along with my voice.

"Hey sweetie?" Gabby cooed.

"What are you doing?" Gwen asked just as Victoria said,

"Why are you packing?"

"I need to go home?" I said in a rush as I continued to move around grabbing things.
"When?" Victoria asked.

"Now!"

"Why? Is something wrong?"

I ignored them and continued packing until Gabby walked over to me and stood in my way. Placing her hands on my shoulders she asked, "What's wrong sweetie?"

I let out a deep breath before looking up and saying, "My sister is in the hospital."

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I stood at the window of my sister's hospital room while she slept. I couldn't bear to look at her too long. It broke my heart. And I couldn't bear to think of how I had left things at home.

Victoria was pissed cause she's the only one who didn't know I had a twin sister. It was yet another secret one of us had kept from her. Though right now, I couldn't care less.

It turns out my sister got pregnant a little over a month after Gabby. Less than two months after we'd fallen out. As you would've guessed, Justin was the father.

She'd found out when she was four weeks along and had been so excited as she shared the news with Justin. He didn't take it well.

He had gone ahead to reveal his plans of drying out her accounts and had already siphoned half of her business's money for his own. She didn't have a contract that held him from doing this and she had pretty much given away her money. Now all she could do was try and salvage what was left and by the help of her lawyers she had done it.

Lucky for her, she'd not allowed him to manage her personal accounts and she'd had wisely channelled that into her business to keep it afloat. Now she didn't have any money but was lucky that our family home was in my name and our loyal employees, Shem and Fran were in my payroll. She'd moved back home soon after Justin left her then made Fran and Shem promise not to say anything.

When she'd finally gotten to the hospital, she'd called me.

Riley gave birth prematurely to a beautiful baby girl who was currently in an incubator where Riley and I had visited her as often as Riley could be allowed to move.

There had been complications during birth and Riley had lost a lot blood. She had to stay in the hospital since chances of another haemorrhage were still high.

"Sweetie?" A voice called from the door pulling me away from my thoughts and I followed it to see a worried Fran.

I went over and kissed Riley on the forehead before stepping out of the room.

"I brought you some fresh clothes and toiletries. A sweet nurse said she could run you a shower in one of the other private rooms."

"Thank you Fran."

"I'm truly sorry child. If I had known it would get this bad I would have told you." Fran said as she toyed with her hands.

"I know Fran. It's okay." I said placing my hands around hers. She looked up and I gave her a small smile which she returned.

I left Fran with Riley while I took up that offer for a shower. I finally checked my phone and saw the several texts and calls from Gabby, Gwen, Vincent and mostly Alec.

I ignored all of them as I packed up my stuff and was just about to go into Riley's room when a panicked Fran met me at the door.

"She's insisting on seeing you. She was about to go into hysteria when she woke up and couldn't find you."

"Okay thank you." I said as I handed her my bag and headed inside. Fran chose to stay outside. Riley was sitted up, crying. I hurried over to her.

"Riley? Baby? What's wrong?"

She moved her hands away from her face and looked up at me before quickly looking down at her lap. She wiped at her wet cheeks.

"I ...... I thought you'd left."

"Why would I do that?"

"Why not? I'm wondering why you stayed." She sobbed.

"Cause you're my sister and you need me." I pulled her to me and hugged her. She went on to cry as I held her. When she finally fell asleep we we're both emotionally exhausted.

She begged me repeatedly to promise that if anything were to happen to her I'd take care of her little girl. Which I did.

She went on to tell me how she'd always been envious of me.

Well, who would've thought!

She had always craved more of our dad's attention but I always got it since I was the one being groomed for the business. She hated that I was smarter, more responsible, 'untarnished', as she had put it, by broken hearts and meaningless relationships.

She'd always wished she could be like me but since she couldn't, she begun taking my things. Like Justin.

She begged for forgiveness and if she had not been on a hospital bed she'd have knelt before me. I've never seen her so broken. I hated Justin even more for this.

Yet I couldn't put all the blame on him.

I must have fallen asleep beside her cause I was awakened by the loud blaring of the machines monitoring her.

"Riley?" I screamed trying to wake her up. I shook her and it was then that I saw it.

My sleeves were soaked in blood. I looked over at the bed around her lap and there was blood all over her.

I couldn't begin to try and make sense of what I was seeing before her doctor and nurses burst through the door. One of the nurses pushed me out of the room and into Fran and Shem's arms as they attended to her.

I was losing her. I could feel it.

All I could hear was my scream when the doctor confirmed it. She was gone.

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So that was what happens to Riley. Though she was evil it's still so sad.
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