Cassie POV

( Three months later ).

"Doctor, tell me what's going on?" My voice felt shaky. My whole body is not resting.

A few days ago, my daughter collapsed and since then, I haven't gotten the chance to see her or even know what was wrong with her.

What the doctor just tells me is that she's terminally ill and her lifespan is on the short side.

"Madam, I know you are a mother, but please calm down."

I let out a little laugh, a laugh filled with pain. I then looked back at the doctor and said, "Two days here and I don't know what's wrong with her. You guys just keep telling me one word, she's terminally ill and her lifespan is short. I need to know the major sickness. Yes, I know she has cancer but tell me what I need to hear."

He lifted his head and looked at me. From his expression, I think fear creeped in. "Madam" , he said, "your daughter has a fifth stage leukemia. Only a matching bone marrow or blood can help her now. " he paused for a split second, while I tried everything out to digest his words "we tried everything under our best possible, but the money you gave us is almost running out. That's all that could save her now, madam. "

Tears sprinkled at the corners of my eyes. Not Amanda, not this time around. She has been a fighter for close to ten years. Why now? I spent almost every dime I have on me each day just to help her overcome this pace of life.

"Doctor, what can we do?" I asked but it didn't make my voice shake. My voice was firm and strong.

"We need a matching blood as soon as possible."

Without double thoughts, I offered myself for the blood transfusion. Going to the lab, my mind was heavy, my chest was filled with tears and pain. I walked in there with just one exception, to save my daughter's life at all costs. My blood was tested and it was found negative. I was not sure about my daughter. And this only says that my ex-husband matches with that of my daughter.

"Your blood doesn't match madam. Where is your husband?" Those questions from the doctor brought back the past feelings, brought back the divorce pain I felt, brought back the betrayal.

I looked at him as the words rolled of my tongue "I'm a divorcee. My husband left me for another woman due to my daughter's health condition." The doctor gave a pitiful expression.

"Sorry ma'am about that, but now we don't have any matching blood with that of your child in the hospital." My face turned pale as he said the words.

"Who can you plead to donate the blood to your daughter?" The question stung in my chest. I knew no one. Nobody knew me to give me such an offer.

Then I smiled and looked at him. "I don't really know what to do."

He then looked at me for a split second, "Madam, you have to do something as soon as possible." Without another word, he left me standing in the lab all alone.

I walked out of the lab with tears dripping down from my eyes. My emotions now were strong and heavy. Tears clouded over my eyes nonstop. Then for a split second, a thought came into my mind. Call Alexandra and plead for favor. I immediately brought out my phone, searched for his number and got it as soon as I could. I dialed it without double thoughts. It rang once and then he picked. I said, "Hello Alex!"

A lot of laughing sounds came from the other end. It might be his mistress, because it didn't sound much like his voice. Then he said, "Why are you calling me?" I just smiled from my own end and replied without hesitation, "Please, we need you as soon as possible. Amanda is about to die and only you can save her. Only your blood can save her"

He laughed at my words, this time not only his mistress but him. I felt embarrassed and disgraced but there was nothing else I could do. I still had a better reply from him.

"You haven't gotten rid of that imbecile of a child yet." I just replied with the same attitude he offered.

"If she dies, Alexandra, she would regret."

He laughed again, this time louder than before. "You have always been threatening me with those same words of yours: regret, regret, regret." He laughed once more. "Cassie, I'm not regretting anything. You are just poor. You are poor and nothing without me!"

I did reply to his words and before cutting off the phone, I cried my eyes out. Pain filled my whole veins. Now, I'm about to lose my daughter, and the only person who could save her just abandoned me and took me as a fool.

The doctor approached me with a pitiful face. I stood up from where I was sitting and walked closer to him and asked, "Doctor, what is happening?" My voice was sharp.

He nodded negatively at my words and said, "Sorry, we lost your daughter." At this time, I wished the ground would split open and swallow me.

Everything I've ever suffered for has died, everything I always cried for has left me hanging.

I wanted to scream my lungs out. I wanted to cry like a newborn. I wanted to shed those tears that have been aching within. But none came. I just felt numb. I felt dumb. I felt like a fool. I paced back and forth, trying not to digest the words and believing the words he said to me was a lie. But it didn't feel like one. The doctor walked away from my side.

I collapsed onto the floor And said it on every heart, Alexandra, you shall regret this day.

Cassie POV

My chest ached. My heart was strong as tears streamed down my eyes. I slowly touched my daughter's cold hands. I couldn't believe this was finally happening. My ten year old, dying right before my eyes. I couldn't control my emotions anymore. The tears kept streaming down my eyes, faster than I could even control. I just went on to scream my lungs out. I wanted to shout her name so she could come back to me. The nurses came behind, dragging me away from her. But I cried harder.

"Alexandra, you shall pay for this pain you caused me!" I curse under my breath.

Now, no daughter, no husband, no mother, no father. Just me alone in this world. I never expected things to escalate this fast. Just three months ago, I left a marriage I suffered for. And just a few hours ago, I lost my daughter, the one who made me happy.

I picked myself up after telling the nurses to put my daughter in the morgue. I walked out the hospital gates, my chest heaving, but this time there weren't tears hanging under my eyes, just a woman in this lonely and evil world. I walked down into the streets, chest racing, but I didn't know where else to go. I didn't know where to stay now. I spent almost everything on me. I sold my house for my daughter's treatment. Now I'm alone in this empty world.

Each step I took in the lonely streets just reminds me of pain and betrayal. I walked alone, the night lights sweeping over the city walls. No one was there, not even a shadow was there.

Soon, I saw a large and flashy beam of light towards me, the kind of light that almost sent me blind. I collapsed onto the floor and boom, everywhere turned black.

*******

"Mommy!" The place was just filled with lots of beautiful flowers, and my daughter was close to me in a white dress but this time looking older than before. She smiled at me. I stretched my hands trying to grab her. A smile filled my face.

"Amanda, come to mommy." Her drained of color with my words.

" I'm safe here, mother. Don't you come looking for me."

She started vanishing like smoke. I screamed out in my highest tone, Amanda no! But she vanished, I collapsed onto the ground, crying out my soul and body. My whole body was drained with pain. My whole body was drained with betrayal. This wasn't happening to me, not again. I thought I was finally going to see her one more time, but it all felt like a dream.

Soon, what I could hear was only the loud beep of machines.

My chest rises and falls. The loud beeps of the machine grab my attention. A lady walked up to me. "Are you okay, miss?" I looked at her slowly.

My chest is heavy. I couldn't describe where I was. I couldn't remember anything. My mind felt blank, just like a white sheet of paper.

I looked around, fear gripped my soul. The last thing I could remember was the large beam of lights affixed on my eye and then I blacked out. Not where was I? My hands kept scanning around to recognize this place. It's a hospital. What's that doing in a hospital?

"Hello, madam." The lady in white looked more like a nurse, I looked into her eyes calmly.

Where am I? I asked. She gave a blunt smile.

"You have been here for days now and you have been in a coma. So, I really don't expect you to remember much."

I couldn't believe her words at first. I have been here for days, sounds so unreal to my ears.

I just laid still, mind racing. I was involved in an accident? How was that even possible? Fear filled my whole soul and body.

She walked out after a few minutes. I lay there, my eyes scanning the ceiling. My head felt really heavy. There was this kind of pressure that laid on my chest that I haven't felt in a very long time. Soon, I heard a voice.

I looked towards the door. A man on black chinos trousers with a black jacket walked closer. His aura filled the whole room. His skin appearance sent chills down my spine. His broad chest, his muscled filled arms, his brown glistening eyes, the veins on his arms, his skin tone, everything sent chills down my spine. His appearance was over the moon.

"How are you doing?" I almost collapsed. He has this thick masculine voice.

"I'm doing quite well. I still have to work out." I composed myself even though my lips moved before my brain sent a signal.

He walked closer, sitting close to my head. His hands held mine.

" I'm sorry, I was drunk that night," he said.

Killing me that night would have been better. It should have saved me from the stress of remembering the past. It should've saved me from remembering my daughter, the way she died and the way I left a ten-year-old marriage.

I looked him directly into his eyes. He seemed very calm and more like a good person to me.

"There isn't any problem with that. At least, I'm alive." I lied even though I wished to be dead at this moment of my life.

Everything happened faster than how it is usually written in a novel. A few hours or days ago I was dreaming about my daughter and now I'm in the land of the living with this man close to me. The man who claims to be the one that almost took my life.

The man immediately gave me a smile in acknowledgement of the words. Then he stood up-almost immediately.

"Your treatment is over so can I take you back to your house?."

Then it dawned on me, I have nowhere to go from here. I was living in my own shadows already, no house, no family, nothing was left of me.

I slowly brought my head down in embarrassment, but I seem to notice it.

"What's wrong?" He asked one more time.

"I have nowhere to go, I have no house, I have no family, I have nothing left of myself." I confessed the words.

He cleared his throat almost immediately. "You can come with me, I have enough space to share!" A smile immediately spread through my pale face.

This was a gracious blessing.

I managed to stand and gave him a hug.

"Thanks alot."

He smiled.

"Let's go then."

Cassie POV

The trip from the hospital to his mansion, blur out in a few minutes. Soon I was standing in his opulent mansion. Each piece of furniture was glistening under the dim lights. He held onto a bag he proclaimed he stored a few of my important items in.

My eyes glistened through, everywhere screamed luxury.

While sitting there, two ladies approached us with a smile on their faces. They both gradually assisted in carrying the bag he was holding. I smiled and waved at them and they did the same at me. They walked in. Myself and him stood there before he finally said, "You can sit."

I didn't hesitate to do what he had said-my both feet ached badly already.

My eyes still glanced around, while he stood there looking at me. I didn't care about the way he looked at me.

"So..." I dragged his attention away from whatever he was thinking about.

"Please, can I get a bottle of water? I'm thirsty," he smiled at me. He recalled back to one of the ladies to get me a bottle of water.

He stood by my side, just smiling at himself. I couldn't tell exactly why he was smiling and happy. But nevertheless, I think this is God giving him an opportunity for a new life and a new chance. But I won't forget the promise I gave to Alexandra before leaving his house. He shall regret this pain he had caused me and my child.

The lady on white apron walked back to me, giving me a bottle of water. I smiled and I accepted it. I gulped it down my throat. Then I looked back up at him.

"You can sit, I feel suffocated already."

"Oh, I'm sorry about that."

He walked across and finally sat down. I took a deep breath , in and out.

"So...." He dragged my attention back to him. "Miss Cassie, can I know a little better about you?"

I didn't hesitate to give him the full details he needed, running down from my experience with my ex-husband and to the death of my child. He gave a pitiful look at each sentence I made while tears streamed down my eyes-remembering my daughter and how she left me hanging.

"I wish to meet your husband one on one and tell him it should never break the heart of a woman."

I laughed and scoffed at his words at the same time. To him, I might look foolish due to my reaction to his words, but to me, I deeply know that Alexandra wouldn't even care if he does anything to him, besides, Alexandra was a man of power.

Alexandra is a stone-hearted man, wicked to the core, but I thought getting into his life made him a little less soft-hearted. But then he returned back to his old self, a strong-hearted cheat, a man that doesn't value anything called love, but just eats you and dumps you.

Now, I just didn't care about him at this time. What I just wanted to do is get an opportunity that would make him come to my feet and plead for my forgiveness, which I would accomplish. I will make sure he suffers deeply at the hands of his mistress.

"Alexandra my ex husband doesn't give a fuck about anything someone does." His face drained of colors at the mention of the name.

It felt like the name sent warnings to him.

Alexandra, was famous and one of the top billionaires in the city, so knowing Alexandra was more expected.

Billionaires deal with billionaires.

" Do you know Alexandra?" I asked because the way he looked at me screamed warning that he knew him much better.

He nodded, in response to him knowing him.

Then a chill ran down my spine. Maybe they might be enemies or rival.

I knew everyone of Alexandra's friends but this one, no no no, I don't.

"Yes, I do but in a negative way." The echo of his words rang a bell within me. This would be an opportunity for me to get my revenge on him, and this might also be an opportunity for him to get revenge on him.

Yes, he's his rival from the little explanation he gave to me. I was smart enough to grab that in one sentence. Now, this is an opportunity to show Alexandra I wasn't the kind of woman he could joke around with.

I dragged myself closer to him, looking at him eyeball to eyeball. "Can you offer me a favor?" I asked, with a sly smile spreading around my face.

He chuckled at my words, relaxing well on his chair. "No, I can't. You stay here till you get better, then you leave." He immediately stood up, his face that was filled with a smile and a joyful expression just turned against me.

Was he hating me? I asked myself. Why did he walk out on me?

Nevertheless, that wasn't a focus now. I just have to focus on regaining my strength and also getting a better life. But one of the main goals is getting him to play the same game as me, to be in my own lane. Even though this would make me go the extra mile, I was ready to pay every debt for this.

I scoffed out once more.