Irresistible Love novel Chapter 29

It was the moment where you would realise that it was it. It was the moment where you would think that your life depends on it and you just have to do anything in your control to reach your goal. My goal, was Juliette. My destination was Juliette. My aim was to get Juliette back even though I knew where she was. I knew I had to do it clearly so that I could end the matter for once and for all and it was what led me to the situation where blood oozed out of my mouth as I huffed in exhaustion and watched a bloodied face of none other than Alex as he struggled to catch his breath after we had a nasty combat of fist fight.

All of a sudden, he laughed. The jackass laughed hysterically and got up holding his chin and wiped the blood out of his mouth.

“You asshole, do you think I am stupid?” he laughed and looked up towards the ceiling.

I got up from the floor and held myself stable as I huffed out blood and looked at him exhausted. The guy was laughing hysterically like a maniac and even though all I wanted was to just pull the gun out from my back and kill him, I couldn’t. I wasn’t supposed to kill him or else he would pull me down to end as well and being aware of that and thinking about Juliette, I restrained myself from doing such actions.

“I knew it! I knew there was something fishy going on and hell I tried to shrug it off,” he spat out blood and had his hands on his hips as he shook his head but then looked back at me.

“I fucking knew that both of you were together and she had not lost her memory,” he said and even though it surprised me, all I did was to stare at him as blank as I could. “Deep down, I knew I was just digging my own grave, but I did it. I did it to get you,” he said with rage filled in his voice and immediately he pulled a revolver out from his behind as he held it towards my direction. His bloodshot eyes looked murderous and his face contoured anger but amidst all that his hands trembled as he held the revolver before me.

“You! You are the root cause of everything! My life is miserable only because of you. I should’ve killed you back then when my sister Gina attempted suicide. It was all your fault.It was bloody all your fault!” he yelled and in a moment he leveled the revolver down, his fingers quaking as he pulled the trigger and shot me on my arm. At first, I didn’t really realise what happened but then as I felt the pain my right hand moved up to hold the wound on my left arm as I held it where it was shot.

A grim expression remained planted on my face and I staggered a few steps back but refused to sow weakness as I thought about it again and again on the plan to give up and just pull my revolver out and shoot him directly on his head.

“Look! What you have made me. You have turned me into a filthy monster. It’s all because of you!” his voice cracked at the end.

“Do you remember Gina?” he asked almost immediately as he looked at me with a dark expression on his face “Of course you do! How could you not know who Gina is oh! my bad! I must say who Gina was!” he said and that made me stand straight as I tried to forget the pain that I was feeling and stood on my ground.

“She- She was my sister. My younger sister and do know what happened to her? She died! Because of you!” pain etched his face as he said her name.

“She loved you. She had never loved anyone in her life and she loved you so much and it is why because of you bastard! She ended her life. What did she get for loving you? Huh?” he yelled pointing the revolver at me “What did she get? Death! You bastard abandoned her when she needed you and you made her feel worthless, finally my sister chose to end her life. Do you fucking know how much my dad and I suffered because of you? We couldn’t get the justice we wanted but I- I promised her that I will find you and make you pay for it and finally its the day!” he laughed as he spoke.

“Look!” I said but he yelled stopping me in the middle “Shut up! Nothing that you will say will make me change my mind.”

“I’m going to kill you today, here and right now!” he looked stubbornly determined but I couldn’t care less what he wanted. The fact was, I was standing quietly hearing and tolering him only because he was the brother of Gina and only for the sake of Juliette.

“Fine! Don’t listen to me. I know you had it tough because of me but the truth is I never abandoned Gina. I had wanted to meet you and sort things out but I could never do that due to certain circumstance,” I said and he narrowed his eyes before shouting “What do you mean?”

“What I mean is... you’ve been mistaken. It was not for me that Gina attempted suicide,” I told him and I watched as his eyes grew wider before he grew even more angrier than he already was.

“You liar! Don’t you fucking dare lie on my fa-”

“Look at this then!” I said as I pulled a paper out from my pocket and forwarded it towards him,” he looked at my hand and then back at me but still not putting the revolver down as in a confused state of mind he came forward and cautiously took the paper out of my hand.

I watched as he unfolded the paper and read it quietly before his eyes grew wider and his hands trembled in shock. I knew that he would definitely had this reaction when he gets to know about Gina. I knew he was never been told about this before and it was why he was so dead set for revenge but then I was also drowning with guilt as I was also somehow responsible for her death. What I did back then was purely stupid.

I remember when I had found about Gina’s medical condition when I was dating her and somehow I had skipped the part of the story from Juliette that Gina was a HIV positive patient. And the actual reason why she had attempted suicide was because of this and not me. I had her autopsy report back then and I was so filled with guilt for not being with her at least as a friend and I had wanted to let this report to her family but I couldn’t as I was immediately taken away from the case and I couldn’t contact them. And not wanting the situation to be known to media and as my name was into it too because I was the last person with Gina, Gale had this situation covered up and it was why her autopsy report was never handed to her family and as I had assumed everyone had blamed me for it.

“Th-This can’t be. My sister can’t-” Alex’s hand trembled as his eyes teared up as he read the old autopsy report again and again.

“What I had always wanted to let you know that I am not the one why Gina took that step,” I said and it was when he fell down on his knees.

“Ho-How could this be?” he mumbled as tears streamed down his face.

“Because of the blood transfusion she had three months ago before she started dating me. It was the fault of the hospital,” I said and he crumbled the report in his hands.

“You are fucking lying!” his voice broke at the end and he kept on mumbling the sentence again and again as he tried to digest the truth.

“I am really sorry for your loss and I agree am also to be held guilty as I had abandoned her when she had needed me. But I was not the reason why she killed herself. It was probably shock and fear for the disease that made her end her life and for which I am very guilty and ashamed for not being there for her,” I spoke with sincerity and all he did was sob on the ground.

“But you! You tried to kill my wife. You tried to take her away from me and you have kidnapped in hopes of getting me,” suddenly my voice turned serious as I looked at him dead serious.

“I-I didn’t want to do that but she- she made me-” I cut him in the middle “I know” as I said that his head throttled towards my direction.

“Y-You know?” he said and all I did was smirk in response.

“It looks like you are not aware of who I am. Trust me, I could’ve sorted this all out from the beginning but only for Gina and the sake of Juliette, I didn’t.”

“I- I was blinded with revenge,” he cried out nodding his head no as he dropped the revolver down and punched the ground ’I was so blinded by revenge that I couldn’t see anything.”

“Zac!” I heard Juliette and I turned around on my spot to find none other than Juliette herself with group of cops as she ran towards me and in a swift moment jumped on me to hug me.

“Mr. Lascar, we have the warrant to arrest you for plotting murder against Mrs. Sullivan, kidnapping, and attempt to kill Mr. Sullivan,” one of the cops said as he walked up towards Alex and held the handcuffs before him.

“Oh my god!” I heard Juliette shrieking and looked down to find her holding my arm and she had placed a hand over it tryin to stop the blood oozing out. “Someone please call the ambulance!” she sobbed and I watched as Kiara ran into the room with Kristiana and Willi and they looked horrified as they looked at my bloodied arm.

“Zachary!” Kristian was already in my side and he pulled out his handkerchief and tied it around me.

“What the heck! How could you let this happen to you!” Willi looked angry and he marched up to Alex wanting to punch him only to be held back by some of the cops.

“Let go!” he grimaced and thrashed the cops wanting to punch Alex.

“We have to take you to the hospital,” Juliette cried as she held my hand and I reached out for her head as I gave her a kiss on her forehead “Don’t worry about me. I am fine. Are you alright?” I asked and she nodded frantically with tears rolling down her face.

“We have also arrested the person who was with Mr. Lascar,” one of the officer told us and we watched as he signalled an officer to bring the culprit inside. I held Juliette’s hand tightly as I knew it would give a shock to her.