Chapter 218
Jonathan’s POV
Rollings Office – Early morning
The River representative called us this morning saying he wanted to talk about the Rollings House and his thoughts on who’s my real wife.
“Jonathan,” the representative said.
“Imelda is persistent on staying at Rollings House and being legally known as a Rollings p>
I nodded.
“At first, I thought she was claiming to be your wife p>
He trailed off a bit.
“Now it seems she’s after your name and house p>
“Imelda was adopted by Fredrick and raised as a Harmon,” I replied.
“After Veronica’s mother, Jane Harmon, the real Harmon came back, the court took the Harmon surname back from her p>
“And after Fredrick got jailed, Harmon Designs fell in debt and was sealed by the banks overnight p>
“She moved her office to a small one-room office, but p>
“After the fact, Harmon Designs was also founded by Veronica’s maternal grandfather p>
“So, she lost the rights to use the surname and the works p>
“So with this, she aims to get a legal surname and a place to stay at p>
“I was her fiancée verbally only cause Imelda made me believe Adrian was the outcome of my drunken night with her p>
“In reality nothing happened, he’s Daniel’s biological son p>
“But I was already married to Veronica and we had Janet p>
“So Fredrick told me to pretend for one year with Imelda as fiancée and give Adrian my name in return for the Blue Heart p>
I showed him the message.
“Plus at the time I got this message, and thought if everyone thought Imelda was my fiancee, Veronica would be safe p>
I trailed off a bit.
“It’s also the reason I agreed to let Veronica serve at the parties as I thought being in front of my sight would be better p>
“What’s that?” the representative said as he felt a faint smell reach him.
Just then they noticed some smoke coming from under the door.
“Smoke? Here?” Jonathan got up shocked.
Before he could react, the shouting began.
“FIRE! FIRE p>
Soon the fire alarms began to blare away.
I immediately took hold of the representative and escorted him to the exit, before going back for my staff.
The representative called out.
“Jonathan, don’t go back, let the p>
“I can’t leave my staff inside waiting p>
I looked around as I noticed the fire was spreading fast, and my staff was still inside.
My only thought was to get everyone out safely.
Someone was shouting that the stairway is blocked, so I immediately ran towards the exit and opened the doors.
“Everyone OUT p>
I ran towards the stairway to see what could be done.
I noticed a desk was stopping the way, so I moved it.
As I went up, I found some staff members.
“Down the exit is open, QUICK p>
I kept on going towards wherever I could hear a help call.
I couldn’t understand but I kept feeling someone was being left behind.
“Jonathan p>
I froze as I recognized the voice, but she shouldn’t be here.
Nonetheless, I turned around and saw Imelda was near the stairway.
A wood piece was on her leg so I quickly pushed it away.
She managed to get up, but I found her struggling so I supported her and managed to take her towards the entrance.
Imelda held onto my arm.
For me at the time she was no different than the staff I was helping, but I knew she may think otherwise.
Her being here was a question, but this wasn’t the time.
As we reached the entrance, a medic came over and took hold of her.
“I thought I would never see you again p>
“Your fine ma’am, so is Mr. Rollings,” the medic said.
I didn’t bother with them as my focus was still on my office.
Just then a staff member came out escorted by a fire fighter.
“Mrs…Rollings… first floor…she’s still inside p>
“WHAT!!” I yelled.
I bolted back inside as the medic stopped me.
“Mr Rollings, the fire is too intense p>
I pushed my way through the fire and ran upstairs throwing away every blockage that came my way.
My mind was blank, all I could remember was Veronica was still inside.
The smoke was thicker than before as I scanned through.
“NICKY! NICKY p>
I was running frantically opening one door after another calling out her name.
I was coughing but all I could think of was Veronica.
Then I froze as I noticed something on the floor.
My eyes shoot wide open in shock.
“NICKY p>
I stumbled out of fear of seeing her.
“Nicky!!” I said as softly as I could.
But she wasn’t responding.
My hand trembled as I put my finger near her nose with a dreadful fear.
I exhaled as I felt her breathing.
I lifted her in my arms and hugged her as close as I could to my chest.
I ran towards the exit and was almost near the stairs, a burning section of a drawer fell on my arm.
I instinctively covered Veronica with my body, as the wood struck my arm.
It pressed against my forearm through my shirt and for several seconds I couldn’t move as I pushed the piece away from me.
I held Veronica closer to me as I refused to stop.
There was a throbbing burning sensation in my arm, but all I could see was unconscious Veronica in my arms.
“I have to get to the medic fast p>
I finally made my way down the stairs and saw the entrance before me.
I emerged from the smoke carrying Veronica as the medical team came over.
They immediately took Veronica from me and laid her on the stretcher.
They put the oxygen mask on and tended to her.
Relief overwhelmed me as I saw her chest heaving slowly.
“Is she alright?” my voice was raspy.
“Your arm!” A medic said as he saw my sleeve was scorched, and partly destroyed from where the drawer struck.
The skin was badly burnt with pale, raw-looking areas and some swelling.
A medic quickly covered the area and began treating me.
The pain was intense when I tried to move my arm.
“How is she p>
“How is she p>
“Mrs Rollings only fainted from inhaling some smoke, after first aid, she’ll be fine p>
“You’re the one who needs treatment, please Sir, cooperate with us p>
I nodded as I heard Veronica was fine.
I looked around…my staff members.
Then my gaz fell on Imelda.
Now that Veronica was safe, I could focus on Imelda.
Somehow her being here…didn’t make sense.
The meeting was for me and Veronica only.
Veronica left the room as she wanted to see the designs done in our collaboration.
Imelda shouldn’t have been here.
Yet she was right at the stairway.
If she wasn’t, I would have gone upstairs sooner…maybe I would have found Veronica before she fainted.
Suspicion was engulfing me as I saw her.
But this was not the time to accuse her.
Not until I can be sure why she came here.
“What are you doing here?” I finally asked her.
Imelda had parted her lips to reply, but before that my strength gave way.
The pain was excruciating and the exhaustion has finally caught up with me.
The medic team moved up to support me.
The representative was also looking between me, Imelda and Veronica.
“Jonathan acted on instinct on saving Imelda,” I heard the representative say.
“The same as he did for his staff p>
“But for Veronica p>
“He forgot his own safety and ran into the fire to save her p>
Now I was on my knees as the medic team caught me and helped me onto the stretcher.
“Now I know where Jonathan’s heart is p>
“And I know who’s who,” the representative said.
Those were the last words I could hear as after that everything became blurry as I fainted.