Kapitel 97: You're Good in Acting
Sheen's voice echoed around the room, Major stepped back while looking at Sheen with the confusion of what is happening.
"Harsh," he said with a smile.
He still wears the same clothes he wore earlier.
Sheen can't believe she held his hand for comfort while she was having a panic attack, even telling him everything she knows about what Aria was doing.
"How could you do this, Luke?" Sheen asks with anger and sadness.
Luke just clicked his tongue in disappointment and slowly shakes his head, "Why? Isn't obvious? To have the company!"
Sheen rolled her eyes, "I know. But why?"
Luke raised his brows, "First. My fiancee embarrassed me by calling off the engagement," he said and pointed at Sheen.
It's true, she called off the engagement because she's just a kid! And they were still young back then, how could it leave a great impact on Luke that pushed him to do this?
"Second," Luke counted on his finger, "I met Clark. He's a cold, independent and strong guy, a rich man who owns a company. I befriended him and thought I can have a part in the company without doing anything but no, I only became his doctor. It sucks, to be honest."
Luke started walking towards Sheen and stops in front of her, the light's that are coming from a few bulbs lights made his shadow cover Sheen's shadow.
"Third. I met the sister. She was sick and a key to getting the company. She hated Clark that time and as she gets better, she's becoming more human. She wants to be a sister to everyone and forgot her hidden anger. So..." Luke smirked and sighed with gladness, "I let her be herself for a while. Then I gave the medicines that won't even help her get better. As a husband, she trusted me."
Sheen's heart broke. Aria, really do think this way. But with her sickness, it worsened and with Luke's doing, she's losing control.
She trusted Luke. She loved Luke.
Aria...is both a victim and assailant while Luke is a monster.
"I was too devastated to see that my wife's reacting to the medicine slowly like she doesn't want to return to who she is until I found a woman in Clark's condo!" Luke gasped in amazement and clapped his hands, "I asked CJ about you, remember? When Clark was sick? I wanted to know if I can use you against him," he smiled like a jerk and crouches in front of Sheen to see her angry face.
"Who are you, why are you here, what's your relationship to Clark, can I use you?" Luke nodded, "At first, you were useless. But here you are now! Look at you," he stood up and laughed.
Sheen just glares at Luke, she can't find words to throw at him. She's too overwhelmed with what is happening.
It was true, Cj didn't like him and if Sheen only took note of that, then they might've dug deeper. But with Clark and Aria's past, it was impossible to see something like this.
Even Clark will be shocked to see this.
"Why aren't you speaking? Huh? Why don't you run your pretty mouth now? You were angry and sad and scared earlier as you speak about Aria, now that you're facing her puppeteer, why not talk?" Luke took a piece of wood on the floor and drags it as he walks to Sheen.
"Remember I said, I won't stand for Aria? It's because I'm not even asking her to do this. I just woke her real self and she did her thing, but of course, as her husband, I'll benefit from this," Luke pointed the wood at Sheen's face.
Not fear. Not sadness. Not anger. Sheen feels pity for Luke. How can humans feel this intensity of jealousy that they're willing to hurt, use and destroy other people around them just to have the things they want. Sheen kept her sharp glare at Luke. She wants to shout at him for being too selfish and jealous. Aria was still nice even though she's weird in the beginning. Luke's too blinded by his own desire to see that he's lucky.
"I don't want to hurt you... but I feel this eagerness to see what Clark will look like when he's angry," Luke swayed the wood and hit her face.
"He's always wearing this cool and relaxed face and it's annoying me," Luke added and took a deep breath.
Sheen can only groan from the pain. It was not a hard hit but it still hurts. Her face began to sting as her cheek that was hit began to bleed and turn hot. She can feel it swelling and a warm drop of blood fell on her lap, staining the white hospital gown.
She moves her jaw to be sure she's fine and that it did not cause big damage. Although scar and bruises may form after.
Luke pouted, "You're not screaming or crying... Did I hit your head?" he asked and laughed.
"Why should I cry?" Sheen asks with pride on her voice, she can feel the inside of her mouth swell as well, "I've been through a lot and this pain is nothing like what I experienced."
Luke's eyes widen, "Oh," his lips curl up and form a devilish smile, "Then, let's give you a new brand of pain."
Major and the others can't do anything. He has a gun on his back and if they move in the wrong direction anyone of them can turn up dead.
Luke raised the wood, Sheen closed her eyes.
She felt her stomach curl in as the wood hits her, it touched her ribs and her gut. Making her choke and gasp for air.
Luke laughed when he saw Sheen's expression.
"F*ck," Sheen cursed and took a deep breath and kept it in for a few seconds to ease the pain she felt.
"You're cursing! I never thought Clark would love a girl who has a dirty mouth."
"Says the guy with a dirty mind and heart," Sheen whispers lightly.
Luke walks around her while holding the wood on his hand.
"Just a few minutes more and the company's mine."
"You think that giving a company's that easy?"
"You think winning that book competition's easy as climbing a publishing company's president's bed?"
Sheen looked at Luke, "What?"
"You think they'll believe that the number of sold books came from fans and not from a publishing company?"
"What do you mean?"
"You don't have a chance to win as the Romance Novelist of the Year because you're engaged to a publishing company's president. Anyone would think that the company's buying your books."
Sheen went silent. She was beaten and now they're talking about her books. She coughed a few times due to the hit she took on her stomach and has to do a few deep inhale and exhale to remove the pain.
Luke was busy talking and walking around the room. He's only waiting for Clark to show up.
"Where's Aria?" Sheen asks.
Luke looked at her and shrugged his shoulders, "Knocked out. She said she's tired so I took her place."
"You're good in acting," Sheen applaud his whole act since the beginning.
Luke bowed, "I know. When you grow up as a Guandemo, you'll learn how to manipulate and fool everyone around you. Sadly, you gave up your chance to be one."
Sheen looks away wearing a sharp stare.
They were all quiet except for the guys who were sleeping earlier on the couch, their laughs and voice echoes around the room as they talk with Luke. They seem to be his men.
Sheen's cheeks became heavy as it swells up and her stomach even feels hard. Like she's going to puke but she can't because it's painful.
Her eyes are beginning to grow tired as well, but if she closes her eyes, even just for a moment, she'll be in danger.
'Clark...' she called in her thought, 'I'm tired and scared and hurt and angry,' her vision's becoming blurry as she feels drowsy, 'I'm hurt. For everyone. For you. Why did it turn out like this? We were happy just a few months ago. I was beginning to be happy. I was.'
Slumber welcomed her as everything around her continues to move.
Even in her sleep, she's talking to Clark.
'I just want to have a job and start a new life. You gave me one. You even gave me happiness and love. But what have I given you? I didn't even know you had a family. That Aria went through a lot. That you went through a lot.'
While sleeping, Clark arrived with Kady and their guards. Luke, who was about to take out his gun was attacked by Major and his men took down the guys on the couch.
Clark and Kady, who's watching from the back, wrinkled their brows, "What is happening?"
"It seems like Miss Sheen gain accomplice during her short stay," Mr. Rogers said with a smile and went to order the guards to enter the room.
Major and everyone else raised their hands while Luke's beaten down on the floor.
The noise didn't even harm Sheen's sleep. She's too tired to wake up.
The police just came as Clark and Kady ran to Sheen while everyone fixes things, talking and surrendering.
"SHEEN!" Clark shouted when he saw blood dripping from her cheek.
Kady called an ambulance and reported what happened, "Is she okay?" he asks as he put the phone down.
Clark clenched his fist and went to Luke, "YOU ASSH*LE!" he shouted and pulled him by his collar.
Luke's face is black and blue with a black eye and swelling lips and bleeding nose but he still smiled, "So that's how you looked like..." he coughed blood, "You're scary."
Clark's veins were popping on his forehead, his eyebrows were narrowed, his jaw's locked, and his eyes are looking deep in Luke's like he's digging a grave for Luke's soul inside.
The police stopped Clark as he was about to punch Luke's face.
Never, not even once, not even a thought, that Clark wants to physically, emotionally, and mentally destroy someone. That he wants to create his form of prison. He always let the law to be the judge and punishment. Yet for this moment, he wants to be the law.
His anger overflowed that he doesn't care if he's against the law.
"Mr. White, Sheen's calling you," Kady called while carrying Sheen on his arms.
Clark immediately lets go of Luke and gave him to the police, he ran to Kady and brushes Sheen's hair off of her face, "Hey..." his voice was different from earlier.
It's soft. Comforting. Warm. And sad.
"Clark..." Sheen whispers in her dreams.
'Clark, let's get married as soon as I wake up,' she said in her thoughts.
"I'll bring her to the ambulance," Kady said.
He's angry that Clark let this happen to Sheen. She's hurt. And that's what he's afraid of. But there's no trace of tears on Sheen's cheek. No trace that she was afraid and was begging for safety.
Clark nodded and remembered he has to take care of Luke and Aria. He has to know what happened. How things turned upside down. How Luke became the mastermind.
"Can I leave you?" Kady whispers as he put Sheen on the stretcher.
Blue, Elgeen, and Dan arrived.
"Luke! It's Luke!" Dan shouted while running but he stopped when he saw the police cars and ambulance, "What happened?"
Kady looks at him, "It's done. Where have you been?"
"Aria... I got her. She's arrested. She said it was Luke who keeps on pushing her to follow what she wants," Dan explained.
Clark asked him to investigate more into what was happening but since Clark can't wait, Dan wasn't able to tell him first.
"How's Sheen?" Blue asks.
After hearing Kady's conversation with Clark, he immediately followed them but Elgeen kept on bugging him to tag her along.
"Oh my god, who did this?" Elgeen asks when she saw Sheen. She covered her mouth in shock.
Blue clenched his fist and entered the building followed by Dan.
Kady went with the ambulance, leaving Elgeen.
"I hope she's okay," surrounded by police cars and ambulance, Elgeen's phone rang.
"Bea," she greeted, "Sheen..."
"I know. I know. Dan just told me. I'm in the hospital. Wyn's with me," Bea said in a hoarse voice since she just woke up.
"Wyn?! Oh my god! I'm telling the police!!"
"NO! NO!"
Elgeen was about to tap a police's shoulder when Bea begged her not to.
"Wyn's on our side. He's fine, he's guarding me."
"What? How?"
"Sheen. Anyways, I think she arrived. I'll check on her."
"Okay. We'll go there after they finish here."
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