🌹R O S E III🌹

🌹CHAPTER TWELVE🌹

A groan escapes past my mouth when I wake up. My eyes open but the room is dark making it believe that the night has arrived. I look around myself and see that I'm in the room that I've been staying in for the last couple of days and not the room that I last remember myself to have been in.

I look over the room in confusion as I have no idea how I got here. The last thing I remember is the surrendering myself to the darkness after Lena had left the room and I was all alone. I'm lying down on the bed and I notice that unlike what has been happening the last few days there are needles stuck in my arm, almost as if I were still in the hospital.

I'm confused on how I got here since I clearly remember being in the other room when I passed out. Could Lena have carried me all this way? She isn't here as I'm all alone in the room now. I don't dare move my body as I remember how I moved and I realize that there is a possibility that I might have damaged something.

The door then opens and Lena steps into the room. She's wearing a sweater that covers her wrist but I can see that there are clean and fresh bandages around her arms, leaving me to believe that what happened in that room actually took place.

"I'm so glad you're awake, I was so afraid when I found you lying on the floor. I thought something terrible had happened to you and I could not bear to think of anything happening to you" She says. I notice that she's holding a tray with food but it's only fruit and vegetables.

"I'm fine, actually I'm more than fine" I tell her, I am fine and I am speaking the truth. Ever since I woke up just now I've been feeling too calm and relaxed. "I was hoping for that. You see, I gave you a double of the dose. I knew it would help with what is about to come" She tells me and I give her a confused look.

I'm not sure what she's talking about but lately that is something that is usual for me. "What are you talking about?" I ask her when she doesn't understand my look nor says anything. She had sat down and put the tray on her lap before she smiles at me.

"Well, you wanted the truth and I intend to... give it to you" She says but she did hesitate for some reason that I don't know yet but I get the feeling that I will not understand. I'm not sure if I do want to hear the truth but there is a part inside me that screams at me that I need to know the truth about this whole thing because I can't bear any more secrets and lies and betrayals. It's too much.

"Also I didn't want you to panic too much or try to attack me because the things that I'm about to tell you might be hurtful and I would not want you to harm yourself" She says and there is bitterness inside her voice even when she tries to hide it, she can't hide it from me.

She hands me a strawberry and I take it and bring it to my mouth to eat. I hadn't realized that I was so hungry until I taste the strawberry on my tongue. "Why would I try to harm myself?" I ask her without meaning to. I just need the truth and all this would be over.

Everything would make sense to me and that's all I need. "No reason, it's just might not be information that you would want to get" She tells me as she hands me anther strawberry. "Before you tell me, I need you to tell me if you are all right" I say to her.

I'm so worried about her because she tried to hurt herself and I keep worrying that she might hurt herself again or if she has done it before. It hurts to know what she did that to herself and I did not see how she felt but I will do right by her now.

"I'm fine. Believe me, I am. I was just in a bad place and there was so much on my mind and I couldn't think of another way of getting rid of the pain" She tells me but I get the impression that she is not entirely speaking the truth about this but I need to trust her and trust that she will someday open up more to me. "But what about that noise?" I ask her.

I had forgotten about the bang noise but I remember it now and I need to know what it was because I truly believe that she knows as the look on her face when we heard that told me all that there was to know about it. Lena doesn't look at me.

She only gives me an apple that I take into my hands. My stomach is grumbling and asking for more food and I'm pretty sure she heard it. "It was just something from my past. You would not understand, Rose. He's going to kill me" She tells me and I gasp.

"Who? Who will kill you? Lena, you have to tell me. I can help protect you" I ask her, I need to help her. She is in danger and I need to keep her safe. Even through all of this I remain calm and I know it's because of what she has given me but I do feel that I want to panic, especially now.

Lena shakes her head. "It doesn't matter. We are safe here and I he's not coming here. I made sure to take us where no one can find us" She tells me and I furrow my eyebrows at her. "Where exactly are we?" I ask her. I need to know that because that question has been running through my mind since the moment I woke up here for the first time.

"This is an abandoned building but don't worry it's far away from home and no one can track us here. We are safe, believe me, we are. I won't let anything come and find you and take you away from me" She tells me and she takes my hand into hers and holds it.

Her grip is slightly tight on my hand but it doesn't bother me that much. "When you say far away, what does that mean exactly?" I ask her though I am a bit afraid to ask this. "It means we are in another country, so far away that none would even think of looking here. Besides no one beside us has stepped foot in this building for over a century" She tells me and grins at me.

There is something about her grin that unsettles me and I'm not sure what it means yet but I get the feeling that I will soon find out. "But you shouldn't be worrying about it now, we are safe and that is all you should be thinking about. Besides, I still have to tell you and I'd rather you eat before because I think you will not want to see me once you learn the full truth" She tells me.

I can see her tears start to water and I feel bad for her. "Lena, I don't care what you have done in the past, and nothing will ever change the fact that I care so much about you and no truth bad or not will ever make me think badly of you" I tell her as I hold her hand.

My strength isn't that much but I still hold her hand while in my other hand I hold the half-eaten apple that she had given me before. "Thank you. Now, let's get started" She says and sets the tray down on the bed and comes closer to me. "Like I had told you before, I planned all of it, the things that he did it was my plan" She says.

I had forgotten about that part. With everything that has been going on it has slipped past my mind and I've not had much time to dwell on it. "I did it to drive him away from you because I wanted to grow closer to you and it worked. I could not believe it myself that it was a actually working" She then says to me.

"I was with you and I held you in my hands while you cried and I was there for you when no one else was. It felt amazing to have you in my arms, it made me feel things I've never felt before. Of course those feelings had been gathering since the moment we met" She tells me.

The confusion inside me just keeps building up as she continues on with her story. "The first time we met I started feeling things for you but I didn't understand them so I just hid them from you. But, I did make sure that I was always there with you and for you. I did everything to make sure I was near you" Lena says.

"But then my feelings became too much for you and I was going to confess but I didn't want you to reject me and then you met him and I hid the things that I was feeling even more and it was a foolish mistake but I kept pushing you to him" She continues.

"But after I dug a little to see what he was hiding I knew that he wasn't with you because he loved you but because of the deal his parents and your mother did and when I confronted him about it, he said that he would give me money for my silence" She says and I gasp when I hear her speak those words.

I had no idea about that. "It was then that I realized that he was no good for you and I had to take matters into my own hands and like I told you before I bribed someone to show you the contract when I found him and then hours went running straight to me" She says and I can see a smile on her face.

"When he came back into your life I was desperate and it were not my finest moments but I had to drive him away and I planning it all. Told him that it would get him you but it was all lies because I only wanted you for myself" She tells me and I don't even know what to say to that or if I can even speak at all.

"But, I didn't plan on him giving you that ring and I didn't plan on that bastard Killian to tell you the truth and it drove you away from me and I was planning on killing myself but your mother told me that you were hosting the gala and I came up with another plan" She says and I'm beyond shock.

"I knew you'd never see me until you heart was mended so I talked to him and told him on how he can propose to you at the gala but I only did that so you'd speak to me" She continues. "But I thought you'd say no to him and we'd live happily so I had to do something else. I needed to get you away from him" Lena says and I can see how angry she's getting.

"And I wanted him gone and out of the way so the last plan had formed in my mind and it was wicked" She says and giggles. "Killing him and taking you for myself" Lena then says and I gape at her.