Chapter Eighteen
“What am I doing here, Jacob?” Rebeca asked. She was handcuffed to a chair in his dark basement. He didn’t answer. “Jacob, answer me!!!” she yelled. Still he didn’t answer. She stared at him with rage. What’s wrong with you, asshole?
“Just kiss me and you’re free to go.” Jacob was kneeling next her and stroking her hair.
“After what you did to me? Never!!” she yelled and snarled at him. She tried to bite him, but he was too fast. “Why can’t you just forget me? You’re married, for goodness sake. And still you try to get to me. What is it that you want from me?” She smiled and whispered, “I loved you, but you’ve gone too far this time.”
“But you love me, right?”
“No, I loved you and perhaps you haven’t noticed, but I’m engaged.”
“Oh congratulations, but I’m still in love with you.”
“Well, that’s different now. I won’t kiss you. We had something. But it’s over. Besides, I love Spencer and he loves me.”
“Well, why not just one kiss? That’s all I’m asking,” he asked, his face inches from hers.
“Oh sure, like I’m going to fall for that again.”
“You sure that I’m lying to you?”
“Of course. You’re nothing but a conniving dirty little cheat.”
“I’m not that bad of a guy, trust me.”
“Why should I trust you? You raped me in 8th grade.”
“That was 5 years ago, Rebeca. I’ve changed.”
“Oh sure, by taking me from the hospital, and bringing me here and handcuffing me to a chair. Yeah, I think that you’ve changed a lot,” she answered sarcastically.
“Why are you making this so difficult?” he asked. “I love you. Why can’t you just accept that?”
“Because we broke up, you broke up with me. I found Spencer and you found Lilly. And I can even still remember when she was ‘dying’ and a certain someone, didn’t want her gone, so he bit her and turned her into a vampire. Remind you of someone?”
He shook his head ‘no’. She laughed. “It’s you.”
“Yeah, well, if I really loved Lilly, then I wouldn’t have done this. But I love you. How many times do I have to say it for you to understand?”
“None. Because part of me loves you, too.”
“Then, kiss me and everything will be the way that it was.”
“What? You mean when we were going out?”
“Well, yeah. Or are you too scared?”
“I’m not scared, but part of me still hates and detests you from doing those things to me.”
He sighed and chuckled softly, “Then, why are you making this so difficult? All I want is you. That’s the only thing that I want.”
“Excuse me? But I don’t, OK? I hate you.”
Suddenly, he heard a crash from the living room. “What was that?” he asked.
“Probably my sister and my fiancée coming for me.”
“Well, I can take them.”
“No, you can’t Jacob.” someone said. The door was open but Jacob couldn’t see them, but Rebeca could. It was Hannah.
Thank goodness you’re here. Rebeca thought. I was getting worried.
“Let her go,” she growled. “Or there are going to be problems.”
“Oh, yeah? What are you going to do to me?”
“I’ll kill you.”
“Not if I kill Rebeca first.”
“You wouldn’t.” she snarled. He grabbed Rebeca by her hair and put a knife to her throat, threatening Hannah.
“I just wanted her for myself but no. She had to go to Spencer. What’s wrong with you people?”
“Look, Jacob, you don’t have to do this.”
“Yes, I do. Unless Rebeca agrees to kiss me.” Rebeca looked toward her sister, looking for an answer. Hannah answered, “OK. She’ll do it.”
What? Rebeca thought. What are you doing?
You’ll see, her sister explained. You’ll never have to see him again.
Really? How? she asked. Jacob let go of her hair. Rebeca looked sad and depressed. “What’s wrong?” Jacob leaned over to touch her but she scooted away. Rebeca suddenly fell to the floor. Hannah looked at Jacob.
“What did you do?” she asked. “Are you insane?” she screamed. Spencer came into the basement. “What’s wrong?” he asked. He looked toward Rebeca, who was lying on the floor, and then toward Jacob.
“What’s wrong with you? What are you, a deranged maniac?” He looked toward Rebeca, then toward Hannah. “We need to take her to the hospital. Lilly will know what to do.”
“OK.” She went out to the others and told them everything, while Jacob took Spencer and, pushing him against a wall, starting fighting.
“You may have bionics, but you can’t stop me from having Rebeca. We loved each other.”
“That’s not what she told me. She hates you.”
“So? I love her.”
“But she doesn’t love you, she loves me.”
“Really? I don’t think so.” He grabbed Jacob and got him into a headlock.
Rotate my body, use my shoulder and place my arm in front of his body. Place my leg behind both of his legs. Fall backward and trip him over my leg. Push him off the ground and fight. Jacob thought. “OK. You asked for it.” He rotated his body, used his shoulder and placed his arm in front of his body, placing his leg behind Spencer’s legs and falling backward, tripped him. Rebeca opened her eyes and yelled out Spencer’s name.
Chapter Nineteen
She screamed in pain and her sister came to her. “Hey, hey, hey. What’s wrong?”
She looked toward her sister and removed her hand from her stomach. “Oh my God,” Hannah whispered under her breath. “Edward! Katherine! Alex!” she yelled. Edward looked at Hannah.
“Yeah? What wrong?” he asked.
“It’s Rebeca. She’s bleeding.” Rebeca groaned with pain. Spencer punched Jacob in the stomach and went to Rebeca.
“She’s what? How? I didn’t see Jacob go anywhere near Rebeca’s stomach. Did you?” Hannah shook her head ‘no’.
“Well, we have to take her to the hospital,” Edward said. “We can’t just leave her here. If we leave her, she can die.”
“Well, then, let’s go. I can’t stand this anymore.” Hannah replied. “I’ll stay with her.” As fast as lightning strikes, Katherine and Alex got to the hospital, but nobody was there except for Lilly and the girls. The girls, Jasmine, and Rachel ran to their mother. Their eyes were watery and running down their cheeks.
“Hey, hey, hey.” their mother soothed. “What’s wrong?” Alex came by his wife and daughters. He noticed that Rachel’s hand was bleeding.
“What’s happened?” He kneeled next to his daughter and looked toward her hand.
“I got cut,” she said in a low voice, afraid of getting yelled at. She slowly started crying.
“Hey, it’s OK. I can fix this. You probably don’t know this about me, but I’m a doctor.”
She sniffed back tears. “You are? Mom never told us that.”
“Well, that’s because I’m so busy with you and your sister that it slips my mind.”
“That’s true. And I have to help her because your dad is away a lot.”
“Why?” Jasmine asked.
“Well, he’s a doctor, so he has a lot of patients.” her mother replied.
“Remember when I met you as a patient?” Alex asked, putting his arm around her waist.
“Oh yeah.” She sighed emotionally as she hugged him. She wrapped her arms around his waist. “I’ll never forget that day.” She looked at her sister and smiled.
“Come here, girls.” their aunt Lilly said. They did and sat down with their cousin, Hadassah.
“What is it, Aunt Lilly?” Rachel asked.
“Just sit with me,” Lilly said. “Come on Katie, for old times’ sake. You never told your daughters how you both met.”
“OK. Sure.” Katherine said. They sat down, Katherine next to
Alex.
“Tell us.” the girls said in unison.
“What happened?” Hadassah asked.
“You girls weren’t born yet, but when I was in the hospital, it was in this very room. I had leukemia. It’s a type of cancer.” she said while looking at her daughters. “Anyway, your father worked here as a male nurse.”
“So I went to her room and just sat with her day after day until the day they released her. So I asked her out to dinner.” Alex said, hugging her tightly.
“No, no. Wait. What about Sam?” Lilly asked. “Sam was your mother’s boyfriend at the time,” she explained to the girls.
“Hey, he broke up with me, remember?” Katherine answered.
“Oh hey, what became of him?”
“I don’t even know,” Lilly said. “I think he’s a doctor or something.”
“Did you just say, doctor?” Alex asked.
“What kind? I mean, I’m a doctor too but I’m a cancer specialist.”
“Why do you ask? It’s Rebeca, isn’t it?”
“Yeah, she’s at your house right now, in the basement.”
“Well, let’s go now!!!!”
“Wait, what about Jacob?”
“Let me call Spencer and ask.” Katherine picked up her phone and dialed his number. “Hey, Spencer, are you still at Lilly’s house?”
“Yeah, why?”
“Well, because we found a doctor that could help us.”
“OK, who?”
“He’s a friend of mine, named Sam Palacio.”
“Well, OK. Hurry, please. She’s dying.”
“OK, OK. We’ll be right there. Oh wait, Spencer, one more thing.”
“Sure, ask away.”
“Is Jacob there?”
“Um, yeah, why?” Katherine looked toward her sister and niece and mouthed, He’s there. Lilly took her daughter into her arms and held her protectively. She shook her head signaling to her sister that she wasn’t going.
“Well, thanks anyway.” she said to Spencer.
“OK. Sure. No problem. Bye.”
“Bye.” She hung up. “We need to go, she’s dying. Now!!!” she said to Alex. They got up and went to the door. “Lilly needs to stay here. I don’t want the girls to get hurt.”
“Yeah,” Alex said. He kissed the girls foreheads. “We’ll be back before you know it,” he whispered into their ears.
“OK, thanks, Daddy,” Jasmine said to Alex. He looked at Rachel.
“Hey, pumpkin how’s the hand? Better?”
“Yeah. Thanks. You’re the best, Dad.” He kissed her forehead again.
“I love you both and so does your mother.”
“OK, then. Go.” Jasmine whispered to her father. Alex walked to the front door, but then Rachel said, “Hey, Daddy?”
“Yeah, baby?”
“Be careful. He’s dangerous.”
“OK. Thanks, honey pie.” He, then, left and followed his wife.
Chapter Twenty
As soon as they got to the house, Rebeca was almost without blood. “Oh good, you’re here. What took you so long?” Hannah asked.
“Sorry, we just saw our daughters and got off track, but we’re here now.”
“Well, good. I was getting worried.” Spencer said.
“Guys, this is Dr. Sam Palacio. He’s going to help Rebeca by taking her to the hospital and give her blood transfusions.”
“No, don’t.” her sister yelled.
“Why not?”
“I’m her sister and I said no.”
“Why, though?”
“I don’t want her to die, but I’m not giving her blood,” she yelled. She looked at the doctor and asked, “Can’t there be any other way?”
“Well, yeah, there is the cell saver.” She looked toward Spencer and Rebeca, who was struggling to keep her eyes open.
“Let’s do it,” Spencer said. He looked toward Rebeca and kissed her forehead.
“Will the procedure take long?” Katherine asked.
“Well, no. She’ll just be in a room with the machine on.”
“How many days with the machine?” Spencer asked.
“Well, I’d say about a week to two weeks.”
“Well, we’re going to take her to the hospital,” Hannah said. “We’re wasting time.”
“Yeah, sorry,” Sam said.
“You don’t have to be sorry.”
“Hey, where’s Edward?” Katherine asked.
“He went to the police department and turned Jacob in.”
“Well, are you sure that that’ll help? I mean, he escaped jail last time.” Alex asked.
“He’s sure. They put him in a remote facility.”
“Well, that’s good.” They loaded Rebeca into the ambulance and headed toward the hospital. Hannah and Spencer were inside the ambulance with Rebeca, Alex and Katherine behind in their own car.
Rebeca, you’re going to be fine, OK? her mind said. She looked toward her fiancée and grabbed his hand, squeezing it. “I love you both,” she whispered. They finally got to the hospital. “Hey, baby,” Edward said, as soon as he opened the ambulance door and helped her down by grabbing her waist.
“Hey, Spencer. Jacob’s finally out of our lives. He’s in going to a level five maximum-security prison. So, don’t worry. We’re in good hands. He’s flying to Illinois as we speak.”
“Illinois?” Hannah asked.
“That’s too far away,” Spencer said. “But at least he’s out of our hair.”
“Yeah. For good.”
“So?” Hannah asked. She took Edward’s hand and said, “Come on. I want to take you somewhere.”
“Your sister’s in the hospital. We can’t just leave her.”
“Oh, come on,” she whined. “We never have time for us. Can’t we just go and have fun for a few hours?”
Seeing it was getting dark, he looked at her, winked, smiled and whispered, “OK. Sure, whatever you want.”
“Thanks, babe. I love you so much. You’ll never forget this.”
“OK. So where are we going?”
“You’ll see. Somewhere away from here.”
“OK.” Without saying anything, he went to Spencer, and asked, “Hey, bro. Can you do me a favor?”
“Sure name it.”
“Set a date for Hillsborough Courthouse for Hannah and me.”
“Sure, but why?”
“I need to legalize the marriage. We got married but we had a secret wedding.”
“Oh, really?”
“Yeah. I mean, look at her. She thinks that we’re actually married.”
“Well, why don’t you tell her the truth?”
“Are you crazy?”
“Hey, she’s your wife. Besides, I have to help with Rebeca. I have to go.” He then went inside to help Dr. Palacio, Katherine and Alex were with him.
“What’s wrong?” Katherine asked. They entered the hospital.
“Oh, it’s just that Edward and Hannah aren’t really married and Edward asked me to make an appointment for them at the Hillsborough Courthouse.”
“Ouch,” Alex said. “So what now?”
“Well, he said that they’re going to legalize it. So then, I told Edward to tell Hannah the truth and that if he didn’t that he could break her heart.”
“So he’s going to do it?” he asked.
“I guess. If he doesn’t, he could go to jail. Look at what I looked up on my phone. It says: That wedding will not be recognized as legal or official for civil purposes. They will need to purchase a marriage license and have another ceremony within the validity dates of the license, and for civil purposes, this date will be they’re official wedding date.”
“So they need to have another wedding?”
“Yeah.”
“So, we should tell him,” Katherine said.
“Well, I’m going to go see Rebeca. You guys go ahead. I’ll catch up.” Spencer said.
“Well, OK. Come on, babe.” Alex said, taking her hand.
Chapter Tw
enty-One
As soon as they left, Spencer went to the 5th floor to see Rebeca in ICU. “What is she doing there?” Spencer whispered to himself. He went to a nearby nurse and asked, “Excuse me?”
The nurse looked up. “Yes?”
“Where’s Karina?”
“She’s gone. She went with Catalina and her husband to Bora Bora.”
“Why? I need someone to take care of my fiancée.”
“Well, I could take care of her. There’s no one here, anyway.”
“Where’s Dr. Granger?”
“I’m not sure, let me check.” She grabbed the wall phone and dialed Dr. Granger’s number but no one answered. “Hmm . . . the phone must be jammed,” she said. “I’ll be right back, stay with your girl, I’ll be right back.”
“OK.” He raced to Rebeca’s room, but as soon as he got there, he found Jacob and the girls’ dead, except for Rebeca. Jacob was right next to Rebeca, stroking her hair.
“Don’t you lay a hand on her!!!” Spencer yelled. He was ready to attack but Rebeca looked at him, her eyes saying, “Don’t do it. Just let him take me”
Rebeca, what are you doing? Spencer asked, thinking.
I’m just doing what’s better for us, both you and me. If I stay with you, he’s just going to try to get to me every chance he gets.
“Why would you kill your own wife and daughter? You’re being paranoid.”
“Because I love her, and she loves me.”
“No, I hate you,” Rebeca said. “Jacob, why are doing this?”
“Because you’re my obsession.”
“You’re insane!!”
“Insanely crazy about you.”
“That’s it!!!” Spencer yelled. He couldn’t take it anymore. “You’re going to die.” He ran toward Jacob and pushed him against a mirror, scarring his back and spine. Jacob pushed Spencer so hard that he pushed Rebeca out of her bed and off the cell saver, spilling blood everywhere.
“What did you do?” Rebeca suddenly started shaking violently. He quickly grabbed his phone and dialed Katherine’s number.
“Hello?” she asked.
“Hey, it’s me. Where are you?”
“I’m with Alex, Edward, and Hannah. Why?”
“It’s Rebeca. She’s turning into a vampire.”
“OK. We’ll be right there.”
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