The Woman From Hell

Chapter 819

When it was over, I could not fall asleep for a very long time and looked at the moonlight outside the window while feeling a pang in my heart.

Just as I was finally about to fall asleep, I heard Theo moaning painfully beside me. I quickly turned on the bedside lamp and sat up to check on him.

His head was covered in sweat, his eyebrows were tightly furrowed together, and pain was written all over his face.

"What's wrong?” I was terribly anxious. "Where does it hurt?”

Theo opened his mouth slightly. "It hurts.”

"Where does it hurt?" I grabbed my phone while anxiously asking.

Theo's breathing quickened. "Wanda, don't. Don't—"

I finally realized that he was having a nightmare and quickly shook his arm. "Wake up, Theo. Wake up.”

Theo slowly opened his eyes and reacted for a few seconds before pulling me into a tight embrace. He was so strong that it hurt me. "Can you please don't go, Wanda? Please, I beg you, don't go."

I pursed my lips and could roughly guess what he had dreamt about. I put my hand on his head and comforted him softly, "I'm not leaving. I'm here."

"Don’t go!" He kept repeating these words as if he could not hear me.

When he had calmed down a little, I helped him to bed and drew out a piece of tissue at the bedside table to wipe the sweat on his forehead. "Go back to sleep.

Don't worry, I'll be here."

He nodded and pulled me into his arms. He took a deep breath. "You're my life, Wanda. You can’t leave m e or I'll die."

It was then I knew that I was not the only one struggling in pain. In the last three years, life was easier to get by with Munchkin by my side, but Theo could only suffer in the dark by himself.

I felt sorry for him and hugged him like an octopus." I'll not leave as long as you need me. I'll never leave."

He was not the only one who was lonely. Theo and I were like two puppets that had sunk down at the bottom of the ocean. We needed to hold each other to survive the darkness that was engulfing us.

empty and the space beside me would be cold, so cold it was as

didn't even have the courage to step into the house i n Salt City. Sometimes, I'd be put in a trance thinking that I was dreaming. There were many times I wondered if I could hold

felt a lump in my throat and

the business field and how to negotiate with people, but none of them taught me how to love someone. I was afraid of hurting you,

Theo, I don’t

these years, I probably had never truly

way of loving him

afraid he would not be able to hold onto me anymore once I

not been so bent on getting away from him and told him what I really thought, our child would not have died, Cecilia would not have died, and my biological parents would not be

this night, we embraced each other as each of us

another three years of that. It's too long and too

"There won't be another three years like that. We’ll be together for

me tighter. "Do

both certain and

the sentence, "I love you too.

time we confessed our true feelings

He suddenly

"Why are you

to love me. Thank you for still being willing to come back

in the north was very long. Munchkin had plenty of time to admire the

every day. This included a wake-up

to wake Munchkin up, only to see his flushed face and quickened breathing. He quickly knocked on my

morning. I rushed to Munchkin's room and

Lynch?" He

it and nodded.

be more than reliable to get him to

no time at all. He

come from?" I asked

the city, but he had arrived in 20 minutes. Did he fly

no reply. He sat by the bed and