Somewhere Between Love and Revenge

Do you know who she really is?

Silence felt so visibly thick, but was proven thin as Robert broke it easily when he said;

"Can I understand what is going on?"

"I don't think I have to explain myself to you Mr Robert" Anton replied with a glare attached to his face, which indicated that he wasn't going to let a single information out.

"'Mr Robert?'" Robert questioned with rounded eyes.

"What's wrong with that?"

He responded with a nasty glare as he pulled a huge pile of documents from his briefcase.

As he dropped them on the table by the bedside, he said;

"I have reviewed all this and I need your approval on them."

Anton looked at the huge pile of documents beside him and let out a sigh as he fell on his back.
He had wanted to work hours ago but now he was in no mood for that.
Somewhere deep in him, he was enjoying being sick because of the care he was getting from Mia.

Other than work, he had something else to take care of, and that thought brought back his sorrows.

"I have something to tell you" he said, referring to Robert.

"Right now?" He asked glancing at Mia to pass his concern to Anton.

"Yes, now, but not in my bedroom. Let's talk in my study room"

Mia stood up from the side of the bed where she sat, nodded a greeting to Robert and turned to Anton.

"I'll be going now sir"

She had sat stiffly like she was invisible because she was embarrassed. They shared a hug of comfort but she felt like she had committed a kind of sin. And to top it up, Robert was there.
It was no secret that they had negativity between them, so meeting in such circumstances was really not ideal to and for her.

She tried to muster her courage a couple of times earlier to leave, but all her confidence seemed to have withered down, so she sat stiffly.
But when she reasoned that her presence was an interruption to their discussion, she knew that she had to leave.

"No. You're part of the discussion."

She almost opened her mouth to ask why, but seconds interval made her shut it up. Whatever it is, she was going to find out anyway, so it was of no importance to be curious.

They sat in the study room, tension also present.

"I found the one who poisoned me. Or better said, he confessed to it"

"He confessed?" Robert asked surprised.

He already had a hunch of who the culprit was if it wasn't Mia, so it wasn't much of a shock to him. But he had expected that he might deny it but he confessed.
No matter how he looked at it, it didn't make sense.
And also him confessing meant that he was conscious now. The when and how all this happened without his knowledge was another thought in his head.

"Yes"

"When did he regain consciousness?"

"He told me that he had regained consciousness a week ago but even the doctor and nurses didn't know because he kept pretending to be unconscious.
According to him, he couldn't show his face to me because he felt guilty especially after hearing what happened to me"

"How did he know that?" Robert questioned curiously.

"He got information from the only person who knew that he was conscious. A nurse."

"This feels so crazy" He said as his palm brushed his dull black hair. Doing that made him turned his head and that's when he remembered that Mia was in the room with them.