🤎💨PATH💨🤎 (WHY OUR PATH CROSSED)

CHAPTER THREE: PATH (Why our paths crossed)

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"Why did you ask me to join you in your room when I can just sleep elsewhere?" Ariel questioned Bryan, sitting beside him on the bed.

"Aren't you comfortable with me?" Bryan asked, loosening the laces of his shoes.

Ariel shook her head. "No! No! I'm comfortable. In fact, I'm happy," she grinned, glancing at him.

Bryan didn't say anything further and concentrated on pulling off his shoes, while Ariel's gaze remained on him as she admired every one of his moves.

After a while, he was done taking off his shoes and stood to his feet.

He ambled towards the shelf, and just when he was about to take off his hoodie, he heard Ariel say, "I will help with that."

She flushed, sprang to her feet, and walked towards him, helping to take off his hoodie.

Undoubtedly speaking, Bryan was truly a cute, well-built man.

He had baby lashes and big eyes that were as clear as the sky. His bushy eyebrows resembled the shape of a delicate crescent moon.

He had a sharp, straight nose, and his lips were plump but not too pink. And as for his skin-OMG!!

He was God's most exquisite work of art.

"What's on your mind?" she was disrupted from her thoughts by Bryan's voice.

She had already taken off his hoodie, leaving him in just a black singlet and trousers when she heard him ask.

He turned, facing the mirror as he pulled off his gold wristwatch, glancing at her through the mirror.

She smiled without reason and moved closer to him, hugging him from behind.

Bryan was taken aback by it but only for a moment as he adjusted to her move. He dropped the watch on the shelf, his eyes not leaving her reflection in the mirror.

"I want you, all of you..." she mumbled seductively and kissed his back.

He was stunned for a moment and turned to face her slowly, placing his lips near her ear.

"I'm going to give you what you want," he whispered into her ear, and Ariel could feel a sudden wave of emotion.

She felt shy yet happy to be in his arms-her online lover.

A smirk crept onto Bryan's lips as he claimed her lips for a hot kiss. It was a long, deep kiss, and next, he hoisted her into his arms and took her to his king-size bed. Trust me, the rest of the night was filled with lovemaking, and Ariel wouldn't deny how manly and good he was in bed.

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Nessa was rushed into Leo's hospital, and he attended to her immediately.

After taking proper care of her wounds, he stepped out of the room and approached Nadia and Dickson, who were walking to and fro in the passage.

On seeing Leo, Nadia rushed to him before he even got close.

"How's my baby?" she asked tearfully.

Leo sighed deeply, giving an expression that said, 'be calm.'

"Nessa is fine. Though she lost some blood, she's okay," he said, holding Nadia's hand firmly.

He shot Dickson a glance before walking up to his office.

Nadia fell to the floor and cried.

"Everything is my fault!!!"

{{LEO'S OFFICE}}

Leo walked to and fro in his office, looking troubled.

"Why is Diana not answering her phone?" Leo muttered nervously as he tried calling her again for the seventh time.

(Flashback~~~~~~~~)
City Hospital

"Are you sure you still want to go through with this abortion?" Leo asked Diana, his wife, both sitting in his office.

"Yes, Leo," Diana mumbled, looking downwards.

Diana had made up her mind to terminate her pregnancy, and Leo had done everything he could to stop her, but she still wanted to go ahead.

He was quiet for a while and exhaled sharply after a lot of rethinking.

"Okay, I will send one of the nurses to attend to you immediately," he said, phoning one of the nurses, and she walked...

He instructed her on what to do, and shortly after, she left with Diana.

A few minutes later, Dickson walked in with his wife and daughter, calling for a serious emergency.

What bothered him was the fact that Diana's ward was close to where Dickson and his wife were sitting.
What if she stepped out of the ward, and they came to realize Diana was pregnant?

Oh goodness!

That's why he had been trying to phone her-to prevent that from happening.

"I think I should go to her myself," Leo murmured to himself and walked out of the office.

Nadia stood up the moment she saw him approaching.
"How's she now?" Nadia asked, worried for her poor daughter.

He shook his head in a way that told her she was fine, then moved his gaze to Dickson, whose worry for Nessa seemed minimal.

With the scars on Nadia's skin, he began to doubt that Dickson was responsible for them.

He glared hard at him and then diverted his gaze back to Nadia.
"She's fine, like I said... but she hasn't woken up."

Nadia murmured, sneakily glancing at the abortion room beside her.
"I will be right back; I want to attend to a patient," he added, rushing his words.

"Okay, do that," Nadia inhaled and watched him walk past them toward the abortion ward.

Just when he was about to open the door, Diana stepped out, her eyes filled with millions of tears.

She stopped the moment she saw Leo, not noticing her brother and sister-in-law a mile away.
"I... I can't do it... I can't kill our baby," she burst into another round of tears.

She cried hysterically, leaning on him helplessly.
"It's fine, it's okay," Leo assured her, patting her back.

"What baby? Diana, are you pregnant?" Both heard Dickson's voice, uttered intimidatingly, and Diana lifted her head to see it was her brother.

She was puzzled, breathing rapidly in fear.
She tried to explain herself, but no words came out as she burst into helpless tears.

"Dickson, it's not what you're thinking... I can explain. Diana is not pregnant," Leo lied, holding onto the shivering Diana.

"So, if she is not pregnant, why is she stepping out of the abortion ward?" Dickson folded his arms.

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