Chapter 57: Side Story-09
RUTH
"Leo, what are you doing here?" I rub my face frustratedly, lying in my bed like a living corpse. "You didn’t have work today?"
"I am here to see you asshole." Leo is sitting beside my bed on a chair with his one leg resting over his other and arms crossed over his chest. He is wearing a stern expression on his face. His pink suit is pricking my sensitive vision. "You took off from the hospital. Why?"
"I was making so many damn mistakes and was really out of it." I scoff, "Why do you even care? Go to your husband, Leo."
"Stop sweeping bullshits, Ruth." Leo barks, "You are looking like you are in drugs. What the fuck are you even doing?"
"Fuck off, Leo." I roar, losing all my damned composure that I have been living since the day John stormed out of my office with teary eyes. I think he left with my heart too that day. I feel so empty... "Isn’t it all because of you? Aren’t you the one who forced me to cut ties with John?"
"What the fuck, Ruth?" He bellows, "You are the one who is at the fault for all this mess! You are the one who started all of this shit and now blaming me for the outcome? You are the one who made John fall for you and then you backed off."
"Yes." I roar. "It’s all my fault that Alice died. It was all my fault that I broke John’s heart. All of it is my fault!" Grief and guilt fists my heart and tears stream down my face, my teeth gritted as I face the blank ceiling.
There is the sudden plop beside me and a presence of another person laying beside me engulfs me. I sniff.