My body was in immense pain and I couldn't move, I couldn't breathe. But I could hear everything that was going on around me. I tried to lift my fingers but I couldn’t.

The hushed chatters continued and I heard the words incoherently, it started feeling more audible and I recognized his voice. My Nate, “Quick do something, she's losing blood’ he says.

I feel my body leaving the ground and he scoops me in his arms, moving swiftly. I felt drops of liquid on me yet I couldn't keep my eyes open. I tried to groan, to scream but to no avail. I heard sniffling sounds come out of him. ‘Please baby, don’t die on me.”

I felt I was placed on the bed. “Call the doctor, hurry” he barks at Claire while rubbing my hands and applying pressure on my stomach. He raised my blouse and tried cleaning the blood off, the cramps were unbearable.

“Doctor, you are here, do anything you can to help. This isn’t a request, it is a command”

I felt something prick my hand like an injection, and I inhaled hard, the effect of the medication working almost immediately. I couldn't breathe on my own, so I was strapped with an oxygen mask.

The doctor got to work and I heard him prescribe medicine for Nate to go and get.

After Nate left, I heard them speaking. “I have talked to you about it earlier on the phone, don't you dare double-cross me” she threatens him.

“Yes, I have heard you but you have to hold the stakes high”

They argued about doubling up the price, that she wanted me to die slowly, a death that would look ‘natural’ Then after Nate came back, the doctor injected me with something.

Time moved slowly, I could hear the tic and tic of every second of Nate's watch, it was dead silent, except for the manipulative cries of Claire, like how she never wanted this to happen.

She sniffed “I never should’ve…. *sniffs*, but.. what was I to do? She fucking attacked me., Oh God Daphne please wake up, I… *sniffs* Nate.. I never knew she was pregnant… had I known I wouldn't have retaliated.’’"What could I do…I was only protecting my child.”

‘Shhh, I know hunny, I know! ‘ he calms her down. Her cries filled the room alongside the thunderstorm. Ironic

“I think we should transfer her to the hospital,” he says

“And say what Nate? And spill our darkest secrets? That the highly reputable Sinclair family are not who they seem? And what would they say about you? That you are careless? Some might say you abused her.”

‘You’re right, let's just trust Dr. Williams. I believe, If there is a complication he would suggest transferring her.”

My throat starts constricting. It became very itchy and dry. I tried to swallow but I couldn't, my ears started ringing with a piercing sound. arghhh why does everything hurt so bad? My head hurt so bad and my chest was beating so painfully hard. Help me please, somebody help me, the heart rate machine was beeping wildly, I couldn’t breathe.

“Doctor doctor” Nate shouted with utmost urgency. The Doctor ran to my side to ‘stabilize’ me but I know better. I know this was their plan since the very beginning. I am going to die and I hope karma comes for them. I will never forgive any of them and I will come for them. Every one of them. From my family that replaced me, kept me hidden in the shadows, to the cunning doppelganger that replaced me, my half-sister. That always tormented me since I came back.

She thought I was going to snatch back my spot but no one does it better than her, she is their standard of a daughter because of the eyes of people. I would say they deserved each other. She believed that I would take away the luxurious life she had become accustomed to. I never intended to.

Unfortunately for me, they had already raised her to their fucking standards. And most especially Nate. What he did to me is unredeemable, I'm leaving this world for them, they should do as they please.

“She's going, we need to retrieve her, pass me the drug I sent you to get, we need to stabilize her! Quick!”

“Doctor, you have to do anything in your power to bring her back! Please” Nate voices and I hear the crying sounds of pretentious Claire. She deserves an accolade for her Oscar acting.

‘Ahh’ I inhaled one last sharp breath and my eyes immediately snapped open and landed on Nate’s red and teary own. ‘Daphne” he whispers. His hair was disheveled.

For me, living life started when I met him when I opened my eyes to the kindness of the world, his green eyes were the first I saw, and on my deathbed, me leaving life, his were the last.

Those forest green eyes, the eyes of the man I loved. The eyes that showed me kindness, the eyes that loved me, and the eyes that taught me deceit. Green…. The last thing I saw before darkness…..

*beep, beep, beep……. Flatline*