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Chapter 40 - Remembrance

As Anna arrived at the office, the security tried to hold her back but Sam's approval allowed them to let her through as she was stunned to see him shirtless and sweaty. He was on the floor flat with his head paining and his veins exposed. Anna quickly rushed to him as she showed her concern.

"Oh my, Sam. Is there anything to do to help?" she asked, worryingly. Anna's focus was hindered by Sam's bold chest as the sunlight reflected off his abs and she remembered why she was head over heels for this boy. "Just sit down, please," he said, holding her hand and pulling it close to him.

"I've been having flashbacks. I believe it's the process of my memories returning... And the majority of them are you, Anna," Sam said, Anna speechless. "Why do you mean?"

Sam then went on to explain all the experiences and moments they shared with him interviewing her and getting mesmerised by how she held authority and her courage where Sam continues to describe Anna in the most lustrous and dreamy way that she even becomes admired with the perception he had of her. "And they just keep repeating in my head, over and over again..." "Maybe, it's for a specific reason - like seeing me will allow you to see your siblings and even your family. It might just be" "-No, Anna. That's not the reason at all," Sam said, the sweat of his body drying up as his nerves calmed down.

"I saw you and me get intimate. All I could think of was your body and your lips, your smile, your chuckle..." Sam said, Anna's mouth opening. "I had a dream where after a party or event, we ended up in the same bed and I got to make love to you. I got to touch you. I got to feel you," Sam said as Anna almost forgot to breathe. She knew. She knew that it wasn't a dream and tried to bury the fact that they had slept together.

"Sam, that wasn't a dream. It actually happened. I didn't know how to process it and thought since you hadn't said anything, we could move on and act as if that never happened. Continue with our lives..." "But the more you think about it-" "-the more my heart beats exceedingly to a point-" "YOU CAN'T BREATH" they both say in unison.

They chuckled as Sam began to get himself together. Staring at his chest, Sam told Anna to look up at his eyes as he pulled her in for a kiss and cupped her face. She moaned as she hadn't been kissed so passionately in a long time. Sam moved his body closer as he kept kissing her now wet lips. About to go in with his tongue, Anna instantly pushed him back and began to breathe heavily, trying to understand what had just happened.

The ambulance came running in as Angela kept screaming in pain. Lance panicked crazily as he held her hand while they dragged the bed back into the truck. While they were checking her heartbeat and the baby, Angela's scream worsened as the doctor's facial expression turned dim. "Is she going to be alright?" Lance asked, and the female answered him. "Not sure but we have to get her to the hospital as soon as possible. I would tell you it's a contraction but if we don't get that baby out immediately, we could face serious threats," she said, Lance struggling to cope with the situation as Angela's scream worsened.

Arriving at the hospital, they chased for the nearest emergency room as Lance got held back by one of the nurses. He yelled out Angela's name as she went through the doors and her screams went faint. Lance started shaking as all he could do was just blame himself and no one else.

Jessica searched the aisles for the medication section as she started making a mess by throwing the pills that didn't match the prescription on the floor. Just when she saw the right one, she jerked back when the sight of her mother scared the living life out of her. "What the fuck are you doing here?" she asked, Ponda grinning.

Jessica immediately felt uncomfortable as she called out for security. When she tried again, Ponda took out her gun and placed it right in front of Jessica's heart. "You know damn well not to piss me off now, do you?" thrusting the gun into Jessica's chest, who was frozen in her position. "You are going to leave with me through the back door and act as if nothing happened. Am I clear?" she said, Jessica nodding in fear.

Putting her gun back between her ass, they left the store as one of the employees expressed anger as they witnessed the mess made by Jessica. Once they exited, Ponda got her gun back out, this time facing Jessica's leg. "What do you want with me, you lying slank!" "Oh, I missed you too dear," "I said What do you want with me, hoe," "You and me are leaving the city, now." "I'm not going anywhere with you, Satan," Jessica said, standing her ground.

"I will shoot your leg and kidnap you should you decide to disobey your mother," "The same mother that abandoned her child in the midst of their plan that almost came to fruition?" "Listen here, bitch!" Ponda exclaimed, furious. "Your little hubby is with your ex-bestie as we speak in his office and the main reason he called her is because his fucking memory is coming back and that whore is all he can think about, thus the main freaking reason why she is there in the first place!" Ponda taking a breather.

"Once his memory comes back fully, his going to throw your flat ass back in prison and get his revenge, oh, and finally fuck that slut he's been drooling over that's going to help him retain his memory," "How do you know that?" Jessica asked, and Ponda took out her phone with a video of both of them. "I had to keep an eye on my daughter even if I wasn't with you," Ponda said, Jessica falling back with the sight of Sam, not Anna, going in for a kiss.

She began to contemplate a plan to get them back as her mother smacked sense back into her head. "So, do you want me to kidnap you or will you come with mommy and avoid fucking prison?" She said, Jessica ultimately agreed to Ponda's demand as she went in the van but took out her phone to make one more phone call - throwing it under the wheel and driving over it.

Sam followed Anna as they stood up.

"What's wrong?" he asked, embarrassingly. "Sam, I have a boyfriend. You have a wife. This-This is wrong for so many reasons," Anna explained, Sam's tears bursting out of his eyes. "I know, I'm so sorry Anna. I just don't know what's going on anymore. You're all I can think about, you're everything my mind wants to focus on and I'm positive that I am in love with you but I don't know why or how, I-I just can't stop thinking of you, even if I try not to," Sam said, Anna wiping his tears.

Gazing into each other's eyes, Sam tried to go in for another kiss but hesitated as his veins reappeared on his head. Anna didn't want to but with how much Sam meant to her and the way Javier had been treating her, this time she went in for the kiss and didn't hold back. Sam's heart went crazy as Anna pushed her tongue in and he accepted without thought. Lost in the moment, Sam grabbed Anna and threw her on the table where his memories came flooding in.

Each time he pressed his lips on hers, he saw the flashbacks more clearly as more moments made their way back in his brain. By the time Sam had regained his memory, he deepened the kiss as he realised why he fell in love with Anna. Why couldn't he resist her? Why did he desperately want her and the touch of her made his body react insane way.

He didn't want to lose this moment. He wanted to remember it forever with no interference just as someone barged in and they separated, Sam holding Anna in his bare chest.

"Anna?" Javier said, Anger fueling his rage. "What are you doing here... With him?" He asked, Anna trying to respond but Sam stood in front and said, "She's here with me because she loves me. Because I love her and because you haven't given her the love she deserves. Because you used her to maintain your status of being in a relationship even though you're a horrible person Javier and that you treat your partners badly."

Javier stood in shock as Sam held Anna back, protecting her made him furious. Without thinking, Javier jumped towards Sam as he punched him in the desk. Anna gasped hard as she witnessed Javier grab Sam by his back and repeatedly punch him till his face got bruised. Anna tried to stop the fight but Javier pushed her so hard, she hit her head and lost consciousness. Sam then got the opportunity to attack Javier, tackling him to the ground as he started punching Javier, purposefully breaking his nose. Attempting to give him one more punch, Javier kicked Sam's ball sack as he punched him off him and reached for his pocket where he took his knife out. "You want to see how bad I am, huh? You wanna see why I don't like it when other people enjoy the happiness of my own? Oh, I'll show you Mr Lopez." he said, Sam trying to process the pain from his genitals.

With the screaming increasing and the load of nurses flooding into the room, Lance got more stressed when Angela's mother arrived and started crying with the sound of her daughter aching in pain. "You, what did you do!" she yelled, pushing him to the wall. "I didn't do anything bad, I swear," Lance wallows in sorrow. Just as her mother tried to push him again, a doctor came out of the room where silence entered the atmosphere.

"Who is Lance Miller?" he asked, searching the hallway. "That would be me," "As stated by the mother, you are chosen as the primary beneficiary to decide whether or not we should save the baby or the mother?" "What are you saying, Doctor?" "I'm saying, Mr Miller. You have to choose to either save the child or the mother. Unfortunately, only one of them can live," the doctor responded, Lance facing a huge dilemma.

He couldn't focus as her mother kept on saying her name, indicating that he should choose her but Lance remembered how Angela always wanted the baby to be born and not even desire to exist if anything happened to the baby as he knew exactly what was the right and sensible thing to do and told the doctor his decision.

Sam was moving his body in every direction as he tried his best to avoid Javier who was close to ending Sam's life. With the sweat on his chest, Javier cut his arm as Sam managed to hit it out of his hand and tackle Javier again, this time smashing him on the table. "Why are you doing this? Why don't you just leave!" Sam cried, trying to stand up. "I can't lose Anna. Not after what I did. Not when I'm close to asking her to marry me so I can keep up to my word of being wedded. Not losing," As Javier got back on his feet and kicked Sam that he fell and slid across the office, grabbing the knife and almost stabbing it in Sam's chest.

The sweat was making it hard for Sam to hold the knife back as he was losing grip and the face on Javier who was happy because he was close to ending Sam's life made it hard just as Anna woke up and when Javier pushed the knife harder, Anna screamed where Sam accidentally pushed him over and the knife slipped out his sweaty hands, landing right in Javier's chest as Bella barged in with security right behind her.

The nurse allowed Lance and Angela's mom in as Angela began to open her eyes. She rubbed her eyelids as she scanned for the baby but couldn't see it anywhere. The nurse then whispered in her ear as she broke down in tears and this time, screamed in anger. "WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU SAVE ME! HUH? YOU KNEW THAT I WANTED TO CHILD TO LIVE BECAUSE I HAD ALREADY LIVED, YOU MOTHERFU-" as the nurse told Angela to calm down but she was too angered as Lance looked to the floor and apologised, he headed for the door and understood that he wasn't needed, hearing Angela's sorrow echo in his ear as he wiped his tears and ordered a ride.

The cops dragged Bella to the car as she screamed against the murder she didn't commit. "I didn't do the fucking murder okay! You're arresting the wrong person. LET ME FUCKING GO!" she shouted, making it harder for the police to place her in a car, closing the door and she went as far as to hit her head against the door window.

Amidst this, Sam held Anna in his arms as his muscles locked around her. She then layed her head back on his chest as they eyed this situation. He kissed her head as she smiled a bit but when Javier's body went in the ambulance, she felt guilt-ridden as Sam turned her around and said, "You didn't do anything. He was trying to kill me and as I defended myself, it resulted in him killing himself. Please, the last thing I want to see is you cry - it will burden me," Sam said, Anna falling on his body as she couldn't grasp the fact that after so long, she was finally his and he was finally hers.

Her phone then rang as she took it out and saw Steve's name.

"Should I break the news to him?" "Definitely," Sam agreed, smiling.

'Hey, Steve. I wanted to tel-'

'Anna, Anna can you hear me?' Steve said, breathing heavily.

'Yeah, I can hear you. What's wrong?'

'It-it's Michael. He left, Anna. Michael left,' tears changing the tone of Steve's voice.

'What are you saying, Steve?'

'Michael left with grandma. They left a note on the table. They left an hour ago, for good,' Steve said, Anna and Sam speechless.

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