100 Days to Seduce the Devil

Day Eighty-Eight…

There were lots of things he wanted to tell Jane but he was running out of time. Nathan could feel the sudden pressure inside his chest. His heart began to tighten, squeezing it.

Nathan groaned when he felt the dull ache on his chest. He tried to endure it for a moment but failed. The pain was growing by the second.

Jane also noticed that Nathan's face turned pale and sweat covered his forehead. She immediately supported him, making him sit on the bed. Nathan's back rested on the wall as Jane and Ethan looked at him worriedly.

"Dad, what's happening?" Ethan's voice trembled in both fear and panic. 'Is my Dad dying? No! This can't be. Please, God, help us! Please save my father.' He could only pray in his mind, wishing for the miracle to happen.

'Please don't take my father away from us. Please God.'

"Nate," Jane tried to massage his chest. "I… I can't lose you. Please stay with us." She could no longer hold it in. Her emotions seemed to explode, overwhelming her.

"I will never forgive you if you die on me…" Jane uttered, her voice barely audible.

Nathan still managed to smile, his hand reaching out to caress her face. "My Shining Star… stop crying already." He leaned over as he kissed her tears away.

Nathan could feel that he was already short of breath. With the constriction of his heart, he started to lose oxygen, his vision becoming blurry as if he was going to pass out anytime soon.

With all his might, Nathan tried to fight the dizziness as he wanted to look at Jane's face for a longer time.

"Jane, I wanna hear it… tell me… Do you love me?" Sweating profusely, Nathan was now having difficulty speaking.

Jane's tears streamed down like a flowing river. "I love you, you dumb fool! You are the only man I have ever loved… in my entire life…"

Nathan smiled once more after hearing that, his tears falling from the corners of his eyes.

"I'm so happy. No matter what I did in the past, you still choose to love me. Jane… I wish you to be happy with our son. I hope… in my next life… you will still choose me and love me as your man."

"I want to be selfish. Even if you find a new guy to replace me… please don't forget me…" Nathan's eyes already felt heavy.

Jane's sobs became more intense when Nathan slowly closed his eyes.

"No, Nate. Please stay awake. Don't go. If you leave me now, I'll forget you. I will marry your brother. If you don't want that to happen, you have to stay alive.

You have to survive!" Jane spoke spontaneously, threatening Nathan.

Nathan chuckled. "Don't be harsh… Why are you still threatening me in my last moments? Aren't you afraid… that I might become… a vengeful ghost?" He still managed to crack some jokes. He knew that Jane didn't mean those words. He already knew that Jane loved him so much.

Jane was the first one who approached him, seducing him despite the fact he hated her as Phantomflake. It was always Jane who never left him.

Thinking back, if Jane didn't make those moves, he would still believe that Abigail was the woman he loved. But now he realized that it was not Abigail nor Monica, it was always Jane…. The woman he truly loved.

'My Jane… my Shining Star… my Phantomflake… She was the one who taught me how to love. She changed me. The only regret I had is that… I couldn't spend more time with her."

Monica and Vincent stole their precious times when they could be together and live happily with Ethan. They took away those times and years they could have been together. If not for them, Nathan and Jane could be with Ethan, living as one complete family.

"I love you… Jane…" Even as his strength faded, he used his final breath to say those words, his hand trembling as it reached for hers before falling limply to his side.

"Nathan? Nate?!" Jane's voice cracked as she called out to him but Nathan didn't respond.

Jane froze and her heart stopped for a moment, her eyes staring at Nathan's motionless body.

Jane's heart was shattered into a thousand pieces as reality began to sink in. "No... no, Nathan, please!" Her voice wavered, breaking as her grief swallowed her whole.

She leaned over him, clutching his lifeless body, her sobs echoing in the room.

Jane couldn't give up. Desperation surged up, swallowing her whole. She wasn't ready to accept this ending so she fixed Nathan's position on the bed as Jane started to resuscitate Nathan.

With her trembling hands, Jane tilted Nathan's head back and pinched his nose. She pressed her lips to his, supplying him with oxygen through her mouth. She quickly placed her hands over his chest as she began to pump down rhythmically.

"Come on, Nathan," she whispered through gritted teeth. "Come back to me, please… Come back to us!" Each compression was driven by sheer will, hoping for a miracle to happen.

Tears blurred her vision, but she didn't stop. "I need you, Nathan. We need you. Please!" Her words broke into sobs, but she continued pumping his chest and giving him breath.

Minutes felt like hours, her arms growing tired, but Jane pushed through the pain. "You can't leave us, not like this."

"Dad?!" Even Ethan tried to call him, gently tugging his hand. "Dad, please wake up!" His lips quivered as tears spilled down his cheeks non-stop.

Ethan's voice brought Jane back to reality. She gazed at her son, then looked back to her palms and Nathan's face.

'Nathan is gone. He is gone.' Jane finally stopped what she was doing.

She reached for their son, pulling him into her arms, and holding him in a tight embrace. "Daddy... Daddy's gone," she whispered, choking on her own words. "I'm sorry, son…"

They clung to each other, surrounded by an unbearable loss that no words could ever fill.

They were still in the process of mourning for Nathan's death when someone pushed the door open.

"Phantomflake, Die!" A menacing scream was heard followed by the sound of a gunshot.

Bang!