Free Jagged Edge by Mercy Cortez Page A

he wants to marry me, you’re just in the way!” she sounded crazy probably because she was and I knew now, it was Caitlin, I kept getting calls and the person would hang up but only today had I gotten any other emails and I told her so, she called me a liar and moved closer to me, pulling out a knife, I went to scream but she pushed me into a wall and covered my mouth with her hand, she took the blade and made small cuts up my thigh, ripping through my skirt.
    “Jared doesn’t like damaged girls, he won’t want you with all these scars Melissa, he certainly won’t want you when I kill you” I was terrified and I heard Carl on my phone calling for me, but I couldn’t answer, before I knew it she took the knife and pushed it inside my stomach; I thought of Jared’s mother and his six year old little boy stare and I prayed he wouldn’t find me like this. I tried to cry out through her hand and she smiled, she stabbed me again and my whole body felt empty and I knew I was going to die, right here, alone. She touched my face and asked why I was with him, mumbling about it not being fair, that she saved him and then she used the same knife to slit her wrists in front of me, she lay there bleeding out with me; the two women who were in love with the same man bleeding in an ally in London, I watched as our crimson blood seeped into the cracks in the cement and I looked at my bracelet that was now full of charms and saw blood splashed over it as my eyes gently closed.
    I opened my eyes and saw white, I thought I was dead, then I saw him, my Jared asleep by my bedside, I heard the beeping of machines and knew I was okay, I had survived somehow. I tried to move but I couldn’t, I watched him sleeping, his eyes looked heavy, his shirt was dirty, so unlike him, like he hadn’t moved in day, his hair was dull and lifeless and his skin deathly pale. Suddenly he woke like he knew I was awake, he told me not to move and I listened, he told me he loved me and he was sorry.
    “I hid the emails from you, I shouldn’t have but I didn’t want her to scare you, it’s my entire fault, All of this is my fault” he rambled and I finally was able to speak as a nurse removed a pipe down my throat.
    “Jared what happened?” he looked at me with concern
    “Please forgive me, I had no choice… Carl called me asking if I knew where you were and I didn’t so I he told me what he heard and I went looking for you, I found you both in the ally, I was lucky I found you, you had blood all over you, I was terrified, she stabbed you four times, mainly in one area and she was on the floor, she bled out quicker than you and was close to death, I tried to help her too but.. It was too late, she woke up enough to tell me that she loved me and I knew she was going to die so... I told her a lie, I said I loved her too and she died in my arms.  We got you to the hospital and she had damaged both of your kidneys, normally people can function with one but she damaged both of yours and your body was going into system failure, your organs were shutting down... I had no choice… I called your mother, got the number from your phone and sent a car to pick her up, she was so scared for you, she got tested, we needed a transplant and I wasn’t a match, your mother wasn’t either, she had to go back home, she didn’t want to stay when I, …I’m so sorry.. I asked your mother if she knew where your father was, your real father… he gave you his kidney, I paid him to give it to you so that you would live, I needed you to live, I was selfish but I love you, I can’t live without you, I’m sorry”
    I sobbed knowing my father, my uncle, whatever he was had saved me, I didn’t want him anywhere near me, let alone giving me his organs, I wanted to rip the kidney out of me, I’d rather die, I didn’t want this, Jared kept apologising while I sobbed and told me it would take weeks or months to heal, he said he warned my uncle to stay away from me, but it