I WAS STRUGGLING to come to terms with the events that had recently occurred. Even more so the fact that I have lost four months of my life due to being in a medically induced coma.

I sadly wasn't able to hear what anyone had to say unlike some people do. It was quite annoying actually, not knowing what was said or who was in this room for four months. Just people coming and going, staring at my lifeless body which resembled a corpse.

Vanessa was the one present when I woke up. She called in the doctors and nurses and left the room claiming by to give me some time to get checked out. She came back about five minutes later, saying my family and friends were on their way.

Lucas and Natalia came in first with two little bundles of joy in each of their arms.

"Are these my niece and nephew?" I asked them in a groggy voice from not talking for four months. Lucas nodded and moved over to me quickly, placing a kiss on my forehead and saying how glad he is that I'm okay. Natalia repeated the same actions before they both handed over the babies to me.

I smiled down at my niece and nephew, my tears pouring down my face slowly. I whispered 'hi' to them, giving them both a kiss on their tiny heads.

"This is Atlas and Astrid," Natalia smiled knowingly at me since she knows that I suggested these names to her.

Atlas and Astrid. Wow.

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The next day, I had a lot more visitors. My  mother decided to stay the night with me to make sure I wasn't too lonely.

Evie and Nicolas came to visit me, even Zachary did, Nicolas's older brother. He brought me a bouquet of sunflowers to add to my collection on the desk next to me.

It was a lovely feeling seeing everyone I love. But there was this aching feeling in my chest every time someone walked through the door, but it was never the person I truly wanted to see.

Right now, I was sitting in my bed with Evie beside me. We were in the middle of watching The Lizzie McGuire movie because we were both in desperate need of a girls night.

"How are you, Al?" She asked me quietly.

"I'm okay, just a little sore around my ribs b-," I was cut off when she paused the movie and turned to face me fully.

"Not with the injuries. How are you about Sebastian?" She asked me with a worried glance. I visibly stilled at her question, not exactly knowing how to respond.

"He made his decision, Evie. He never loved me, not that he told me any different," I told her sadly, willing myself not to cry over him.

"I don't think it was his choice if you get what I mean," she whispered to me. I furrowed my brows and asked her to explain.

"Last month, there was this thing on the news about a pretty familiar car crash," I gasped in realisation at her implied words.

"Damien and his goons, Robert Kingsley, and Jackson Collins all got arrested for attempted murder, dealing illegal drugs to underaged children, and sexual assault," it felt as if the air had left my lungs as she said that last one.

"W-what?" I managed to stutter out.

"They're all arrested. Vanessa and a few other girls came forward about Jackson sexually assaulting them. I guess he knew that there was no way of getting out of jail since he was done for attempted murder, so he confessed everything," she told me with a small smile. A smile also began to form on my lips as I finally felt free.

"Wait! Robert Kingsley as in Sebastian's father?!?" I whisper yelled to Evie as she began nodding frantically.

"This will probably be hard to hear for you, but he thought that you were holding Sebastian back from achieving his full potential, even if he did disown his own son. He also admitted to the police that it was originally his idea to get rid of you in order to make the Kingsley name triumph," Evie chuckled humourlessly. "He agreed to pay Damien back Sebastian's debt, if he followed along with his gruesome plan. So, Damien decided to recruit one of his members, Jackson Collins," I gasped in shock yet again as I learnt that Jackson was the one driving the car that killed Jeffrey.

I was beyond saddened when I learnt of the death of my trusted driver, Jeffrey. My heart bleeds for his family.

"What about Sebastian? Wouldn't he be in trouble for taking hardcore drugs?" I asked Evie quickly, worried about the boy who had broken my heart in two.

"No, he's still underage, I mean he's 17. The police said that Damien was targeting vulnerable children, and he happens to fall under that category," she shrugged with a disbelieving laugh.

"But why did he say all of those hurtful things to me?" I asked her with sadness dripping plainly visible in my tone.

"My guess is, his father told him to break up with you and in return he'll pay Damien. He left for London on January 13th, but no one has heard from him since, I'm sorry," I sighed in realisation that Sebastian has now gone AWOL.

Perhaps it's true, perhaps he really never wanted to hurt me. I just hope he comes back soon to explain what happened to me.

Maybe someday we'll be able to finally be happy without our pasts catching up to us.

Maybe someday we could leave this world of upper class society and be free.

Maybe someday we could just be us.

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Okay this is the final chapter being uploaded today! There will most likely be one or two tomorrow lol.

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- Addy :)