The Traps of Black Swan

Chapter 156 - Barbaric

When Shawn desperately needed emotional strength and waited for Aaron, Aaron's mother, who sneakily left the mansion to see her daughter in the hospital, was weeping and driving by herself without considering her sensitive mood and emotional imbalance.

She had a cruel fate, she met in a brutal accident and spot death.

As though one wasn't enough, the Rivas family lost two lives in a row. Grandmother Rivas and Megan had fainted, unable to bear the shock, and hospitalized.

Shawn was clueless, he didn't know what to do, he wanted to leave everything, run far away just to check he was just imagining everything. Those were too much to handle for him and he was afraid by the thought of what if another one dies.

His life turned upside down in just a week, his life of placid lake with the fun on top of it suddenly changed to a dangerous water vortex taking away his happiness filling with unbearable agony.

Aaron, who was welcomed to the death of his mother and sister, had to be the pillar of support to the family once Shawn broke out.

The beloved sister breathing with support, his big mom buried, his brother looked soulless, Big father; Connor was in agony, Karsen was running between doctors for Megan, his mother, and Ariel. Jordan was using all his connections to find a solution to the brain dead person.

Shawn felt lonely and helpless. He wanted his friends to share but one was suffering and another wasn't in the city. Shawn didn't want to increase Ava's pain so he didn't inform about his family's situation either. His school friends were rich people who were only meant to be together for parties.

During that time, he got to know a potential club in another city was closing down and on sale. He needed an escape from all the pain, heartaches so decided to immerse himself in opening a new branch of Highland club and restaurant. He left Mocon without informing anybody to stay alone to collect himself.

He was drunk senseless when he got a call from Ava, he hadn't let her talk and cried out about what happened in his family without knowing she was running for her life.

Ludicrous thing was, she still heard him, coaxed him, and asked him to rest.

Even though he wasn't in Mocon, he could have at least made arrangements or sent her to Rivas mansion and saved her.

Then his brother became too mysterious and unfriendly. It was like he was pressing down his anger too much and might burst out too soon hence Shawn didn't dare to ask for help to find Ava or ask what he should do.

Then all Rivas family members were summoned to the hospital immediately at night and Aaron demanded his sister's heart.

Shawn objected with his grandfather while Connor, father of Ariel, had agreed by knowing she is Aaron's Cupcake. Karsen agreed because he knew it was no use to keep Ariel alive because the dead brain never gets life. Similarly, Megan had no objection and Grandmother was in the countryside.

Angry, why his brother asked the heart of his sister to an unknown person, he had barged inside the operation theater. His whole world felt like crashing down seeing his Little Heart's brutal state he could never imagine.

Painful purple bruises, grotesque cuts, horrifying deep wounds, an oxygen mask covering half of her face, stagnant removed heart lying on a tray, her open chest connected to the blood pumping machine, many monitoring machines around her continuously beeping.

It was a sight even a strong-hearted person would lose his composure and faint. 

Shawn was dizzy, he was failing to think anything or move an inch, He didn't know if he wanted to look away or see her but his eyes pulled to the frightful sight. He couldn't believe his beautiful Little Heart was lying there.

His breath had twitched, his whole body trembled uncontrollably as tears were rolling down unstoppable before he collapsed on the floor and wailed. He didn't know if his tumultuous agonizing cry was only for his Little Heart or due to the other two lives but he shouted, screamed unable to absorb why three women ended up so barbaric.

The nurse and other doctor rushed to help him and Aaron entered to toss him out thinking he was scared by seeing his Cupcake's state.

Aaron was taking him out with another doctor when Shawn kept mumbling 'Little Heart.' Aaron ignored him and heard his father utter, "Dad agreed and left." before he saw Shawn. "Shawn!"

Karsen and Megan ran over to them and held Shawn quickly. Megan's brows knitted hard and pronounced what Shawn was mumbling, "Little what? Shawn, Why are you saying Little Heart? Shawn, what happened to GiggleMug?"

'Little Heart!?' Aaron realized his Cupcake is Shawn's Little Heart. However, his priority was to quickly transplant the heart else he would lose his Cupcake too.

He was ready to run to the operation theater to arrange for the heart operation but Shawn, who got back to senses, clutched his hand and pleaded, "Save my Little Heart. Aren't you an awardee cardiologist? Save her, please."

All had left hopes including other doctors, hearing one wanting his Cupcake alive, it seemed that he was even more energized and determined to give his all to save his Cupcake.

Hugging his little brother, Aaron had assured him and instructed him to hide her identity and information from everyone.

Later days, he helped his brother to look after his Little Heart and kept pushing Dax's spirit, hoping one day his Little Heart would wake up from comatose.

Shawn considerably limited himself from drinking alcohol due to two reasons. His sister died due to a drunk-drive and he missed listening to his Little Heart for drinking senselessly.

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Shawn looked away from three men wiping a rolling tear with the backhand, "I am sorry, I-" 

Zain who was clenching his fist the whole time released it, "Don't be, I anyway wanted to know it."

Dax patted his back but didn't speak. If he had seen what Shawn witnessed, he might have broken down too and he wouldn't be so strong to run the business, should he be glad that Shawn kept him in the dark? His little anger of hiding it from him obviously erased.