Chapter 5 Zachary rushed out of the hospital and tried to call me. "The number you have dialed is currently unavailable..." The message he had sent me through WhatsApp failed to go through. He was stunned, his fingers feeling numb. He couldn't reach me on any other platform either. It was the first time he had been completely kicked out of my world. It tore a gaping hole in his heart. He had never felt so scared. He lost me. The realization stabbed into his heart like an icepick. The car was still filled with the sweet scent of Julia's perfume. As he sat in the driver's seat, memories he had forgotten flooded his head. When Julia broke up with him and went overseas, he drank himself into a stupor. I, who was a good friend of his back then, found him and said to him repeatedly, "Zachary, I'll stay with you." When his project failed and his team fell apart, I had given him all my savings and stayed up countless nights working alongside him. I didn't like pain. However, when he said he liked home-cooked food, I learned how to cook and burnt my hands multiple times. I wasn't even aware that he knew how to cook. I was the one who pulled him out of his depression. My warmth put his shattered dignity back together. He thought he hadn't gotten over Julia, but his feelings for her had faded after all the time he spent by my side. He had misread the feeling of abandonment he felt back then for affection. The one he loved had always been me, who always left a light on for him at night and made him hangover cures whenever he drank too much. "Zach?" Julia leaned into him from the passenger seat. "Is Queenie still angry at me? It's all my fault-" Suddenly, Zachary slammed the brakes. Julia almost hit her head on the windshield. As if he suddenly thought of something, he glared at her and asked, "Was the bag of blood in the kitchen real?" Julia's gaze flickered. Knowing that she had been exposed, she tried to feign ignorance. "What are you saying? I was so scared back then..." "Where did you get it?" Zachary snarled and grabbed her wrist in a vice grip. Julia frowned and tried to shake his hand off. "You're hurting me! I-It was just red paint... Queenie's always trying to gain your attention by acting pitiful. I just wanted you to see that..." Zachary's gaze on her turned frigid. "See what?" 1/2 Chapter 5 +25 Bonus Seeing that she could no longer avoid answering, she raised her chin and said self-righteously, "See that she doesn't deserve you at all! I'm the one who loves you most! "Besides, you're the one who didn't believe that she was pregnant. "You gave that necklace to me. You chose to leave with me and abandon her! So, what gives you the right to get mad at me now?" Each word she said felt like a blow to Zachary's face. He recalled my pale face, the bright red stain on my nightgown, and how my hand trembled when I grabbed his sleeve. I wasn't acting. Why didn't he believe me? It was because his ridiculous regret had blinded him! It was also because he was drunk on Julia's infatuation and took me for granted! "Get lost." His voice was raspy. Julia was stunned. "What did you say?" "I told you to get lost!" Shocked by his ferocity, she reluctantly got out of the car. Zachary immediately drove away after she closed the door. She was splashed with dirty water as the car drove past a puddle. As Zachary drove, his head was filled with my face. He recalled me smiling, me crying, and the devastating look in my eyes when I bled out on the floor. He wanted to strangle himself so badly.