With her adrenaline racing as fast as lightning, Ariel could feel her breaths getting shorter and faster as she inhaled the over powering black smoke.
Her dazed senses quickly returned on realizing that she was actually suffocating, she coughed black phlegm to clear her slightly blocked airway.
The black smoke capped her eyes somewhat blinding her vision while the fierce blaze filled her lungs. The smoke was too thick and dominating that it hard become odorless.
'My God!' She panicked as she watched the flames and shadows dance like demons of the night and she couldn't fathom whether she was hallucinating or if it was reality.
The ceiling and the walls were engulfed in burning flames as doors and floors of the once magnificent Robinson villa collapsed almost hitting her fragile body that was still laying on the floor.
'What's happening?' Her head was spinning because she was getting asphyxiated. She covered her mouth with her wet dress which tasted odd so she squinted her eyes taking a closer look, only to realize that what she thought was water was actually blood.
Spooked like she had seen a ghost, Ariel frantically gaped at the pool of blood that she had been lying.
'Am I dead?' Quickly checking her self for injuries but couldn't find any.
'So whose blood is this' her thoughts we running berserk.
She lifted her head tracing it to its point of origin, that's when she spotted someone else lying on the floor not far from where she was.
Crawling closer, she discovered that it was the Mr Herbert Robinson,the president of the King's group of companies and her father in law.
She quickly flipped him despite of the fact that he was as heavy as lead, laying him on his back.
Her twitching half lidded eyes landed on a knife that was plunged deep into his chest, she flew back gasping as her bloody hand covered her mouth
"Mr Robinson?" She barely tried to call him as she quickly crawled back to where he laid unconscious.
Tears sprouted from her eyes as she unintentionally removed the knife and threw it far across the living room and checked for a pulse.
He was non responsive nomatter how many times she called out to him and blood just kept oozing from his body. She listened to his heart beat again and heard nothing
'He's dead!'
**
Ariel suddenly woke up from the tedious nightmare only this time it was extremely intense,wheezing and breathing like a fish out of water.
She yanked off the oxygen mask and plucked off her infusion, rolled to the side and fought for oxygen it's like she had forgotten how to breathe.
Nurses and doctors rushed to her aid after they heard a code blue alarm.
They pinned her back to the bed as they rushed to put the oxygen mask back on "calm down Ms Grey" they urged
She was too befuddled to understand what they were talking about, bitting one of the nurses in the process.
'Who the fuck is Ms Grey?' She wondered as she was given a shot that put her back to sleep.
**
"Thank God you didn't pull the plug Sir, how were we going to elucidate that the white witch of Euphoria was stabbed to death."
Ariel heard as she slowly begun to regain
consciousness
'White witch? Euphoria? Dead?' She gently opened her eyes.
A middle aged man with thining hair probably in his late 30's was pacing back and forth chatting excitedly on the phone.
He hungup and shrunk when he notted that she was watching him, afraid that she would pounce on him like a rabid dog.
"Luna...Luna can you hear me?" He gradually moved closer so she could see his face.
'Luna? Who the hell is that? Why is he calling me that?' She blinked rapidly but remained calm
The delirious look she gave him made him rush out and bring the doctor who examined her and ordered for some tests.
"Am going to gently take this off." He slowly removed the oxygen mask. " I've never seen this in my life. This is a miracle" He looked astonished
"No one will believe me on this." His comment forced the man clad in a black suit to remind him that he had signed a confidentiality agreement.
"She's not an ordinary person." A young thin woman dressed in a skimpy out fit and thigh high boots walked in, forcefully by passing the burly men that were standing by the door.
"I thought I told you not to let anyone in." The man shouted at the men who looked defeated.
"How were they supposed to stop me?" The woman spoke curtly while taking Ariel's hand into hers
"Oohh Luna, I knew a super psychic like you can't give up the ghost just like that, am glad you came back." Her brown eyes flashed red
'Great! am hallucinating, wait did she say super psychic, where the hell am I?' She thought as she stared blankly at her finally getting the urge to speak
"Why do you people referring to me Luna?" She asked.
Slaw jawed, they all looked at her with a mixture of confusion and amusement.
"Doctor you just said she was good, what the hell is this? The shocked man asked impatiently
Shaking he's head the doctor informed them that according to all tests that had been performed on her, she was perfectly healthy.
"I don't understand this either because a while ago she was brain dead. Science can't explain this either however according to the symptoms she's displaying it could be having amnesia."
"Sweetie,do you recognize me?" The young woman asked waving her hand so close to her face.
"No, am I supposed to? And which hospital is this." Ariel assumed that probably the prison doctor had sent her to the hospital for better treatment but who were these clowns and her memory was still very much intact.
"Shay! And honey am unforgettable?" She snapped her well manicured fingers and pouted her lips.
Ariel looked at the somewhat pretty girl if not for her prolonged forehead which was the only unforgettable thing about her.
However she quelled her agitated nerves because she was getting nervous about the entire situation.
"We don't have time for this, when can she get back to work? We have a line of impatient clients with already booked consultations." the man spoke with frustration
"Can she still access the spirit realm or see any roaming around?" Shay asked nonchalantly enjoying the show.
There was dead silence in the room, the man rushed to Ariel's side and asked "Luna can you predict anything about me better still do you see any loitering spirits?"
Ariel looked at the man like he was talking crazy 'what are these people talking about....what? Spirits?' She wondered before confirming that she saw nothing, not even when he stretched his palm and asked her to focus and read it.
"This is bad." He panicked as he jolted and demanded for the doctor to do something about her condition.
To his dismay, the doctor assured him that he couldn't do anything, "let her rest maybe that will revive her abilities or whatever you want revived."
"Don, calm down and let's do what the doctor has advised meanwhile I'll deal with the clients since she's useless now....I mean since her abilities are depleted." Shay was indifferent about the entire situation.
"Bullshit! What can you do apart from tarot reading? You've always been envious of Luna, what a great shame!"
"Me! Why would I be envious of her, she's my friend." Shays eyes flashed red, Ariel couldn't put a pin on it, that was the second time.
"Friend my foot." He blurted out as he walked out of the room.
From the moment Shay had rejected Don's advances, he's attitude towards her had changed drastically.
"Don't mind him. We are good....no very good friends and am at you're service until you fully recover."
Shay assured her while thanking the heavens for this miracle, now that she'll be useless to Logan he'll discard her and she'll probably have a shot at winning his heart.
Ariel notted that Shay's eyes changed color from brown to red, only when she was trying so hard to make her lies believable.