Husband With Benefits
Chapter 132: The Blast

Chapter 132: The Blast

"Did you hear about the loud blast at the lake house that we went to last week? Isn’t it great that the police discovered the bomb threat on time and had us evacuated?", a young student whispered in the freshman class.

"You bet. I mean I’d been cursing the officers from the moment they pulled me out of the room! Dam* it! I’d been about to go to the final base with my girlfriend and was caught literally with my pants down!"

"Ha! Imagine dying in that position! They saved your life."

As the students teased each other, another one added," But it’s too sad what happened with Nora."

"Hmm. It seems she was the nearest to the bomb when this happened."

"It should have been that Sara who should have been there! I can’t believe she was so vicious."

"What did Sara do?" another clueless classmate asked.

"Sara is the one who did everything! Do you remember that news about how Sara had jumped in front of that feral dog to save Nora? It was all fake."

"How can that be fake? Many of the students saw that..."

"No! That is the thing. Sara actually drenched her clothes in vinegar and moth, knowing it would irritate the dog. She then arranged for the dog to be brought here to school. And then she made it a point to stick close to Nora. When the dog smelled her and got agitated and aggressive, Sara was right behind Nora. The dog was running towards Sara. The plan was to not let Nora escape. If Nora had run away then the dog would have directly attacked Sara. But if she threw Nora in it’s path, then she would have had time to make her escape."

"You mean she was holding her tight not to protect her from the dog but so that she would not run away from the attack?", the horrified student asked.

"Yes. Sara was also responsible for Max’s death...And Sara is also the one who locked Nora in the old corridor that night. And then she messaged from Nora’s phone to say that she had returned to her room and not to await her. She wanted Nora to suffocate and die or be traumatized. So when the police arrived, they took us from there but Nora was left there. "

"I had no idea that her beauty held such cruelty. Is Nora... even alive?"

A moment of silence passed between the students and then someone spoke quietly, "From what I heard, she is not in a good state... We all know how bombs can disfigure and maim people..."

"Do you mean that she could have become handicapped or ugly?"

"We don’t know yet! I mean come on, it’s not like she has been coming to the university. And no one knows where she lives."

"Its a pity for her, isn’t it?"

"Hmmm... So where is Sara? Is she with the Police?"

"Uh huh. No one knows that too. But she should be punished for life after all the evil she has done."

As the others agreed, the professor entered the class, and the discussion was snuffed out.

***

"Who are you?" a young girl sat against the couch and looked up at the man who had just come through the door.

The man raised an eyebrow at her and slowly walked towards the girl, going to stand behind her. Demetri slowly caressed her head and started to comb through the long strands, tugging slightly.

"Are you the nurse here?" she asked carefully.

"You know that is not going to work, Nora. No matter how much you wish, you cannot give yourself amnesia."

Nora sighed and closed her eyes," But I want to Demetri. I want to forget what happened in that underground place. I want to forget what would have happened if you had not understood and rescued me in time..."

Nora thought back to those moments of desperation... She could still hear the man’s voice echoing in her head, "I won’t be as merciful as Lara and let you live or give you a chance to escape. This bomb will go off as soon as we are out of its range. And then you will be able to pass on quickly. In your next birth, don’t think of coming to my Lara."

The desperation that she had felt when the doors had started to close through. The pain when she had scrambled to stop the door from closing. How she had fought against the mechanism with every breath of her body until she had almost been crushed by the push of the heavy mechanism on the door...

Even as she’d fallen to the other side, she’d only turned to look behind her once. The remains of her father had been left there. She’d even had an older sister she had never known about...

Demetri gently tugged at her hair, bringing her back to the present and said," What is the point of forgetting? What you forget will make you weaker, Nora. Your memory will be your strength."

Nora looked down at bandaged hands. It was true what he said. In that dark bunker, she had almost given up on life and been willing to die when Demetri had dragged her out. In the past, her heart had been set on wanting to live a peaceful life. Naively, she had assumed that once she was away from her grasp, that woman would forget about her and let her live peacefully. But now she knew that this was not possible. In this world, either Lara Anderson could live or she could.

As long as Nora was alive, Lara would not rest peacefully and as long as Lara Anderson was alive, Nora would have no peace.

Demetri, who observed every micro-expression on Nora’s face sighed in his heart. He’d wanted to protect her from this fire of vengeance, knowing that it would only burn her from the inside, yet he had failed miserably... Something that he was not happy about...

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