A Girl Nobody Wanted
Chapter 111

Sarah's POV Everything was ready for his arrival. I wore the dress, Jake asked me to wear and put my hair loose, just the way he likes.

We all were waiting in the living room for him to come. Dad and mom were reading newspapers on the sofa. Shane and I were sitting next to each other. Shane was doing something with his phone, but I was doing nothing. I was so damn excited, and I couldn't make up my mind to do anything else, other than waiting for him.

He came to the city by his helicopter. That saved his time a lot. So he could take some rest at his home here. He must be tired because of all the election work in the last few days.

He sent me a text saying he is leaving from his home to come here a short while ago.

I was just looking at the wall clock nervously while thinking about how I am going to react when Jake reveals our relationship with my parents. Anyway, I am pretty sure that mom would jump with happiness. She talked very high about him even before she knew that he is the only son of Victor McMiller. That day when she got to know about his family, she couldn't stop talking about Jake... She thought Shane is lucky because he got the opportunity to be on the same team with Jake. Now when she gets to know that Jake is going to be her son in law, she won't be even able to believe that.

Dad would also be excited. Having a son in law like my Jake guarantee that he is going to get his well deserved comfortable life very soon.

It is being more than half an hour since he told me that he is leaving, but he still didn't come. It doesn't take more than fifteen minutes to reach here. But it is raining heavily outside and thundering and lightning too. It is almost like a mild storm out there. Maybe that's why he is late...

Even though I waited this long patiently for this day, it is impossible to spend this few minutes until he comes here.

Time is running fast, but he is still not here... What the hell are you doing, Jake? God! This nervousness is going to kill me.

"Don't worry, it is raining heavily. You know how bad traffic can be in the rain..." Shane muttered, without me saying anything. He can understand me pretty well. It is surprising how fast he learned to read me like a book. Maybe because we are twins, it became easy for him.

We waited for some time more... Now it is more than an hour. Slowly, my nervousness is turning to fear. Why is he getting this late? No matter how bad the traffic, he can get here by now. "Give him a call..." Shane whispered again.

I wanted to give him a call for about thirty minutes now, but I didn't because I don't want him to lose focus when he is driving in this ugly weather. God! Why did you give us such nasty weather today? Don't you know how important today is for us? The call went straight to the voice mail... WTF!!!

Why your damn phone is not working, Jake?

I kept on trying to call him, but there was no success. It is nearly one and a half hours by now, and even if he just walked, he should have arrived here long before this.

I was so scared and almost crying, without knowing what to do.

Dad and mom asked for the fifth time why Shane's guest is late. Shane had to convince them and look after me at the same time.

Finally, we both thought it is better to take a call to Luke.

When I took my phone to dial his number, Shane's phone rang. The Caller Id said it is Luke...

My heart filled with some unknown coldness... I don't know why, but my heart says something serious has happened.

"Hello..." Shane answered the phone.

"What!!!" Shane almost screamed... Even mom and dad looked at him confusedly,

Yeah... What I thought was right, something critical has happened. My Jake!!!! I hold Shane's hand...

"Yes... I understand... Okay, I will..." Shane was looking down and still talking to Luke.

After he hung up the call, he raised his head and looked at me. The situation is worst than I imagined, that's what I felt when I saw his face... Without saying anything, Shane hugged me tightly...

Though I didn't know what has happened, his warm hug gave me relief for a second.

"Don't get panic, we will get through this okay..." he whispered to my ear...

My heart was thumping in my chest... I had even forgotten to breathe...

"Jake's car was hit by a truck. He is now in ICU..." Shane said.

ICU... My love is in the ICU... His car was hit by a truck...

"I don't want to lie to you, sis... His condition is pretty serious," Shane said, tightening his hands around me and cuddled me more to his chest...

My face was buried in his chest... So when I started to cry like crazy, it didn't make much noise...

I couldn't even believe what I heard... We were so close to getting our happiness, and everything got ruined like this. My Jake... My poor baby... He is fighting for his life now... Why God? Why are you so cruel? What wrong have we done to deserve this?

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Shane took me to the hospital, but we were not allowed to even go near the ICU. The whole hospital was filled with police officers and guards...

"President McMiller's son is in the ICU. Other than the family, no one is allowed to go after this corridor." two police officers were restricting people even enter the corridor that leads to the ICU.

I am his fiancee... He is engaged to me... So I am his family... I wanted to say... But how can I?

Shane made a call to Luke... Luke said he would come to us...

I was crying since I got the news, and by that time, I had no energy left to even stand up straight. My heart was like it has shattered to pieces... My head was going to explode... Shane made me sit on a chair, and I leaned on to the wall to rest my aching head... Luke came to us with a few minutes...

He sat next to me and hugged me... His hug made me cry even louder... I felt like I am going to get mad...

We both love Jake more than our lives... Jake loves us more than his life too. The only difference is he loves me as his girlfriend while he loves Luke as his brother and best friend...

So whatever the pain I am going through, Luke is going through the same.

How is he? I wanted to ask, but I was afraid.

However, Shane asked that for me...

"He got badly injured, the injury in his head is serious... Doctors are performing an operation..." Luke said, still hugging me...

What a cursed woman I am? Since I was born, my parents and brother had to suffer because of me. Since I entered Jake's life, he had to face so many troubles. Now his life is also at risk. I am not getting any happiness in my entire life, and I am just making other people's lives miserable. It is better if I wasn't born in the first place...

Please, God!!! Please kill me!!! But please don't do any harm to the people I love...

Shane's POV

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I walked with Luke a bit away from Sarah...

Jake's condition is serious than Luke said in front of Sarah... I could read it from Luke's face... I have never seen his handsome face filled with so much pain and distress... His eyes were blood red, and he couldn't talk even two words without his voice shaking and making him cry...

"His life depends on this operation..." Luke said before I asked anything.

"Probability of this operation getting succeed is very low..." he then added...

I felt like my heart stopped for a second... It was like I got hit by a car... I can't even explain the pain I got... I can't even imagine the pain Luke has, given that he is Jake's best friend and they are like brothers...

I don't really know how Sarah would be able to stand this... She is one of the strongest girls I have ever seen, but I don't think she is strong enough to hear this...

I didn't know what to say or how to react...

Luke turned to me and looked right into my eyes...

"I am going to kill that bastard..." he said, angrily...

There was no need to ask who he referred to...

"Do you think, Mr. Patterson is behind this," I asked. Though Mr. Patterson warned Sarah that he would hurt one of us, I never thought he would do something this dangerous.

"Of course... There is an eye witness. According to him, that truck purposefully drove to Jake's car..."

"He may not have kept any trails behind, so the police won't be able to catch him, but this time he is not going to escape from me. I will finish him and go to jail happily," Luke said.

When I was about to talk, police officers started to run here and there clearing the way...

I saw Victor McMiller was walking towards us. Mrs. McMiller was also coming behind him, in her wheelchair. There was a woman to push her wheelchair... Mrs. McMiller was just sitting in the wheelchair lifelessly. The pain and worry in her face remind me about my poor sister... I quickly turned around to see where I left Sarah to sit...

She was barely standing up, leaning to the wall... She was staring at the way Jake's parents were going towards the ICU... No matter how much she loves Jake, she is not his family yet. Maybe she loves Jake more than his mom and dad love him, but she is not allowed to even go near the ICU. She is not allowed to walk to the doctors and ask how his condition is...

Jake's parents are getting everyone's sympathy, and the whole country may stand with them to help them and share their sadness... But for my poor sister, she will just have Luke and me by her side...

My heart filled with so much love and sadness for my twin, leaving Luke there I ran to her and hugged her cold, trembling body...

Luke's POV

The only way to show the pain I am going through right now is to take my heart out and show... Other than that, I don't know the words to explain my pain.

Indeed I have one-sided love, but that doesn't mean I love him any less... Maybe I love him more than his parents or Sarah loves him...

Though I stood up straight and talked with people, I did all of those automatically... I was dying inside.

Uncle Victor wanted to take Jake to the best hospital in the capital, but according to his condition, it was not possible. So he got all the best doctors here to treat Jake...

No matter how good the doctors are, there is a very low probability of this operation go well... Even if it goes well, there can be so many side effects...

I was waiting in front of the ICU with Jake's parents... I felt sad about Sarah... She must be here with us... But what can I do?

We have so many people around us, but poor Sarah has just her brother with her...

But my Jake got into this trouble because of her. If she didn't make him come today, this wouldn't happen... Then my Jake may still at uncle Victor's celebration... After she entered Jake's life, he had to go through a hell lot... He was always worried because of her... He had to make so many sacrifices, she is not even aware of. After everything, when he was going to get his happiness, he had to fight for his life just because of her bad luck... What the hell am I thinking? Am I going completely insane? I am thinking like an uneducated countryside woman...

Sarah will happily sacrifice her own life for Jake's happiness... She is never doing anything that would bring any harm to my Jake...

I know it exactly...

But my obsessive love for Jake is making me hate her right now...

"Luke..." I came back to reality when uncle Victor talked to me.

"Yes, uncle..."

"Why Jake came here today, even skipping the celebration?" he asked, looking right into my eyes.

"Uncle, we have this training session with..." I was trying to tell... But he stopped me.

"I have already called Mr. Rafel, Luke, even before Jake leaves home. I let him leave even when I know he is lying because I didn't want to put so many restrictions on him. But see what he has got into because he lied to us and come here..." he said. He seemed to be angry, and from his side, he is right.

I looked down without saying anything... How can I tell he came here to meet his girlfriend's parents... No matter what happened, Sarah is Jake's soulmate... His true happiness is within his relationship with Sarah... I can't destroy it.

"If you are not telling me, that's okay... But I will replace out... You know, there is nothing I can't replace out..." he then said in a firm voice...