THE MAFIA'S PENANCE

I'LL THROW YOU AWAY

Hearing Vegard's words, Alec snorted with a small laugh. But it made me feel weird because Alec didn't seem afraid that Vegard would leak it to Vernon.

"I think you're gonna shut up, aren't you, Veg?" Alec's cold gaze at Vegard made me feel a little surprised at Alec. For the first time I saw such gazes from a person like Alec.

Surprisingly, Vegard only snorted with a laugh staring at Alec, then he held onto Alec's shoulder while walking out of this room.

I don't understand why Vegard seemed to be unable to say anything to Alec after Alec's words with a cold glare emanated on him.

"You okay, Viv?" Alec asked, holding my right hand.

"Alec, is that okay? Is Vegard not going to tell Vernon? I'm afraid if he tells me that. Vernon's gonna be mad, I'm afraid he's gonna kill you." I said with a worried look.

"You take it easy, Vernon won't kill me because Vegard won't tell you about both of our secrets. You don't have to worry." Alec replied as he stroked my hair with his left hand. "How are you doing? I was so worried about you when I heard you got shot."

"I thought I'd die yesterday too." My speech.

"No, don't say that." Alec shouted after that bending his body to kiss my lips.

"I'm so glad you're worried about me, Alec."

"Repeat healing, Viv. I don't like seeing you like this." Alec stroked my head gently.

Alec instantly pulled both of his hands as the door of the room opened. Vernon came in from the outside, for a moment he silently looked at the two of us.

"You here, Alec?" Vernon said as he walked up to us.

"Yes, I haven't been to Vivian for a long time, so I came back. But I'm going home now, too." Alec replied, stepping away.

"We'll also be home." Vernon said with a look at me.

"Come home?" I asked because my condition was still not good, but Vernon said we were going home.

"You know I don't like the smell of the hospital? You'll be treated at home." Said Vernon who stood close to me.

"You can go home and let me be treated here." My answer. "You don't have to accompany me here."

"I can't leave you alone here. Care here is minimal, it will be very dangerous." Vernon.

"Can you get some people to stand guard outside?!"

"You better take care of it at home, Viv. Right what Vernon said, it's gonna be very dangerous for you to be here." Alec.

If Alec were to say that, I would obey him. I didn't answer anything else to agree to that.

Not long after a nurse came in a wheelchair to take me. Vernon told the nurse to remove the infusion tube in my hand, even though the needle was still stuck in my left hand because when I was at home, the infusion hose would be reattached.

"Everything's done, sir, please help the lady into this wheelchair." The nurse told Vernon.

"No need, we don't need a wheelchair." Vernon said as he lifted myself up with both hands.

I was shocked when Vernon carried me to take me home. And so did Alec, who was just watching us. Alec only smiled when I looked at him as Vernon walked to the door to get out.

"I should have been treated here so that this wound would heal immediately." I muttered while I was in Vernon's arms. "Oh yeah, how's your gunshot wound?"

I looked at Vernon because I remembered that he also had a gunshot wound to the upper left shoulder.

"Get your hands off!!" Vernon cried to see me cold.

I held my laugh because it turned out that Vernon was still human. Even though he looked no longer sick but actually his gunshot wound was still painful for him, he only endured the pain.

"I won't forgive you if my wounds don't heal soon." Threatened me to squint my eyes at Vernon who was still holding me. "You heard me, right?"

"What can you do to me now?" Vernon answered without looking at me. We were both in the elevator. "You're just a woman who's hurt." Vernon lowered his gaze at me.

"Even the hardest woman can do whatever she wants right now." I answered withholding a smile on my lips and immediately pulled Vernon's nape.

I pulled Vernon's head closer to me with my left hand to kiss him. I don't know what I was thinking, but seeing her now I'm going to want to kiss her.

"What are you doing?" Look at Vernon with a grouchy face. "How dare you kiss me?!"

"I think you like it too." My words still held my smile back at Vernon. "If you didn't like it, you'd have dropped me."

"I let him understand." Vernon said, as the elevator doors opened.

"Understanding what?"

"If you love me." Vernon replied as he stepped out of the elevator.

Hearing her answer made me laugh in disbelief. Even if I kiss her doesn't mean I love her. It seems that Vernon had mistaken that.

"You're overconfident, Vern."

"We'll see." Vernon glanced at me. "When you realize it, I'll throw you out. I'll leave you as soon as you ask time."

Vernon's cold gaze made me stunned in his carrier. I think back to what I said when I wanted to end my life because Alec was getting married to Olivia. I wanted to forget about Alec but not anymore. Alec and I have decided to be together despite having to hide our relationship forever.

"Yes, I think you can try to make me love you but it looks like it's going to be really hard." My word.

"really?" Missed Vernon's confident smile at me. "We'll see later. You have to remember what you said just now so that when it happens you'll feel ashamed of yourself."

"You're overconfident." I laughed a little because I thought Vernon's words were ridiculous. "Men like you can't make a woman love you. Do you know that?"

"You're gonna laugh at yourself when you remember how crazy you were about me." Vernon Mumbled.

His words reminded me of what Olivia said yesterday. The girl also said that I loved Vernon very much. Is that true? Is that possible? The dream I had crossed my mind.

The person in front of me is that Vernon? Was that not a dream? Is that really a memory I've forgotten? Did I love Vernon?

"Vern, is that possible?" I looked at Vernon who was focusing on his path. "What did you say just now is true?"

We arrived in front of the hospital lobby. Vernon's men opened the car door for us.

"Did I really love you?" I asked in the hope that Vernon would answer me seriously. "Did I kill Wynetta because of how I felt about you?"

Vernon looked at me as I asked the question. I was hoping to get an answer.

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