Last one was a bit short...... I hope this one is of desirable length.....

Chapter : 40

Dear Diary,

Horrors of the past had finally come to claim me while I am defenseless. The irony in love and war tangles any man in the web of desires, most of who, have a dreadful ending. People who suffer the wrath of nature are devoid of emotions and those who have em.... are the ones who are on the checklist of destruction. Hidden in the five elements of life are the five emotions of death.

A slow and subtle stab is more painful than a gunshot. Though these stabs have scarred me a lot but I feel another coming in my direction. And the thought of it still terrifies me to the core. And I guess...... It will always terrify me till I become numb, devoid of life.....devoid of existence... Devoid of any chance of revival....

Third Person's POV

"I met Harry in college. That's where our whole thing began. He was an introvert type of person and had gone through a lot. He's probably told you all this before but today, I'm tellin' you my side of the story. As our bond grew stronger, he started opening up to me about his father and brother and his broken family. I tried my best to make him forget about the bad times." I know all this. Jane thought to herself as Emily sniffled her cries.  Wait, didn't she have a memory loss? Jane's eyes budged out at the realisation.

"Wait, you remember everything!?" Jane asked in utter shock to which Emily's face turned white and her shoulders slumped giving Jane her answer. "Do you even know you lied to the hospital,  you lied to Harry. How could you?" Anger boiled inside her.

"You need to listen to me!" She pleaded which calmed Jane a tiny bit. "As far as I know, I've seen him struggle everyday. He tried to keep you alive in his mind and heart. How am I supposed to believe you?" She blared surprised and stocked.. and sort of angrily.

"Please, just hear me out. Just please." By now, Emily was practically begging to be heard. Jane felt pity for her and sat down quietly and patiently waiting for her to begin.

"We got married. Our.... I mean my parents didn't like Harry because of his family issues. They are traditional. But they didn't object because of me. It was the third month of our new married life. I remember when my boss handed me Calum's case not knowing the fact that he was my brother-in-law. He was in prison because of drug dealing and several murders and he had broke out a day ago. He was a known psychopath whose case was handled by FBI once. The file said that he had killed three blondes brutally after he got out for contempt of court during Harry's trial. All this had nothing to do with Harry. He didn't even have a clue about this. That case could be a boom for my career. I decided not to tell Harry about it. I didn't know my selfishness would take such a big toll on Harry and our life." She paused sniffled  her cries and wiped her tears away.

"It was almost a week later, when the special task force caught him carrying out another drug deal. Beside him, lay a man dead and two injured. While I performed the arrest, an officer brought him to me. He smirked at me which made me glare at him while I handed him the report." Her face contorted in disgust.

"So you are the one. He said to me. I just didn't want to look at him. When I didn't react he just giggled and threatened me that he'd been just practicing the whole time. An.... And now he'd come for me." With this Emily broke down crying like anything. Jane rubbed her shoulder reassuringly to calm her down as it wasn't good for her since she had just been it of surgery. After few moments of peace and few gulps of water she pursed her lips.

"That was the most horrifying day for me. Few days later I found that I was pregnant. Harry was just so happy about it. He couldn't even see what I was going through. Calum's words had shaken me from the inside. I was so terrified that I dyed my hair brown. .. I got a threat text message from some unknown number. It said that if I didn't meet some person named Shawn at some place he'd hurt Harry. I didn't bother to do anything about it considering it a mere hoax. But the next week, he broke his arm. I was deeply worried even though Harry described it as some accident." She stiffened up against the pillow. "I knew it was no accident. So I went to that man, Shawn. He threatened me to join some cult or he'll kill Harry."

"So what did you do?" Jane asked her nervously and impatiently.

"I found out about all the cults related to Shawn and Calum and there was one match. The FBI records said that those blondes were picked up from that cult. I knew I'd be penalized severely for looking into unauthorized information but our family's safety was all I wanted. And there it was.... What I feared the most.... Calum was doing all this without any reason. It was like he was some psychopath. His mom was also mentally unstable. Was it in the blood? I didn't know."

She sighed deeply before starting again,"I had no choice. I had a life inside me. I couldn't risk it. Nor I could imagine losing Harry. So I staged my death. I thought Harry would be better off without me."

At this point Jane's mouth hung open and her jaw almost touched the floor. Never in her wildest dreams had she thought that this would be the reality. She had no idea that Harry's life was so messed up. And Emily was not the villain here. "I made it look like I had died but I lived. Sam found me a year ago. She somehow had settled in her mind that Harry was the cause. I had to fake that I had lost my memory. I made everything look like an accident. Calum's men found me. They kidnapped me few weeks ago and forced me to work for him and get to you or they'll kill Jack." She wept.

Jack? Who could be this Jack now? Jane thought but she decided to keep her mouth for now. "That's when I called you... At midnight. They have Harry, Jane . You need to help him out. They'll kill him. He doesn't know about anything." Emily begged.

"Do you have any idea where he could be?" Jane asked Emily.

"I heard them talking about the closed factory outside the city in the east." She sounded a bit unsure but a clue is a clue. Jane felt a sudden rush surge inside her. It was a mixture bravery, nervously, worry and thousand more unsure emotions.   I'll save him. He deserves a family,a good life and a loving wife. I'll do everything I can to make sure he gets it. That's what best friends are for. She nodded and got up leaving the room. Before she got to the door knob, she turned with a questioning look on her face.

"Who is Jack, anyways?"

"Our son." A whisper broke the silence of the room. "He's safe, Don't worry. "

Jane silently walked out of the room tying to absorb the truth. Her head was pounding.

She was speechless and confused!

What was she supposed to do now? She was running out of time.