Ch 13

After that night, Carmen kept her promise and didn’t want to push Shane anymore.  She was content to know that her feelings were not one way. 

Shane would from time to time show her affections but she could not bring herself to tell Carmen.  In her mind, admitting meant harder to say goodbye later, it was never meant to happen this way.   Her with a gangster’s sister, it was destined to be a disaster from the beginning and walking away would be the best option.

The final day for being Carmen’s bodyguard came. Shane could have her ‘normal’ life back when Ray came back from the airport.  However, she did not feel as happy as she should be.  This month had been very strange and she found herself falling for Carmen unintended – though as crazy as she was, there was a caring, kind hearted girl underneath that bad girl attitude. 

“Ray is on his way back from the airport, should be back any second now.  Congratulations, you will be free to go soon.”  Carmen brought her out of her thoughts.

“Thank you.  You know, it’s a miracle that I survived all your murder attempts.  I will treasure my life more.”  Shane tried to lighten the mood.

Carmen looked down, there was silence for a moment.

“Do you think there is a chance that you may be able to love me – under a different circumstances?” She asked quietly. Shane almost believed that she was shy. 

 “You know the answer… ”  Before Shane finished her sentence, Carmen fell to the floor suddenly, her body was convulsing.  Shane thought it was one her tricks again and did nothing.   But after a few seconds, white foam was coming out of her mouth!  It took Shane a few seconds to register that she could be having a real seizure, she quickly knee down but she did not know except watching her body shakes violently. 

After a minute or so, her body stopped shaking.   Shane held her in her arms gingerly.

“Hey, are you ok?”  She asked gently.  She wanted to know what’s causing it but she knew it could wait.  Right now, she wanted to make sure that she was fine first.  She wiped off the foam from her mouth before she regained consciousness.