Chapter Three
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"I am sorry."
Chloe sobbed. She clung to the almost lifeless body in the hospital.
"I am sorry," she repeated.
Chloe rested her head on the Patient's bed, and her newly manicured hands wrapped around his left hand. It was the side where she sat down.
She speaks to a person she knew could not hear her. If hope was what held most people who had family in a coma, then guilt was hers.
He was her only family and everything to her, and she was not ready to give up.
It was the first place she went whenever she returned to her home city.
She raised her head and cleaned her tears. Then, she leaned in to give him a kiss on the forehead.
"I will be back," she whispered.
Chloe stood up after the kiss. She took her Prada purse from on top of the hospital drawer and held it to her side. She looked around, it had been a while, but she noticed that the flowers she placed on the window a few weeks ago had been changed; Alexia must have visited, she thought.
She walked to the window of the Patient's room in her nude heels. She caressed the flower before she took a look outside. This City was her doom and her redemption. The door opened, and Chloe twisted to see the Doctor had entered the room.
"Good morning, Miss Martini." the Doctor greets her. She went back to her view. It was not the beautiful scenery that made her look again. However, it was better than seeing him in the worst state that she had ever seen him.
"Good morning, Doctor." She crossed her arm.
"If I could have a word?" she removed her gaze away from the window and back to the Patient, then to the Doctor.
Doctor Galway had known Miss. Martini for about 2 years, and there were only two emotions she had shown, Sadness and Anger.
"Ok," she said as she followed him out of the room. They stopped walking when they were out of the room. Chloe waited for the Doctor to speak.
She had counted how many people had passed the hallway or spots which the cleaners before the Doctor spoke. He looked at her with pity.
"David, you can stop wasting my time and speak."
"His condition is not looking good; at first, he was responding to the treatment, but now his body system is failing."
David watched Chloe's expression change. She was pissed.
"What do you mean his body system is failing?"
"I am sorry" he holds her hand to comfort her.
"I pay for the best doctors, but I fuckin' get garbage. So what is the use of funding all of those charities? If you can't f*****g save the one person, I need" her nails dig into her purse.
She looks at the perfectly manicured nails and frowns when she sees a nail is broken. Now she had to get another manicure. David was calm. It wasn't the first time he had experienced Chloe's rude behavior.
"I apologize," Chloe said and raised her head up to stop the tears from falling.
"I can't lose him." she pressed her purse on his chest. She gave him a predator look.
"I won't lose him. So do your fuckin job." Chloe finished before leaving David alone.
Chloe adjusted her seat at the café where Alexia worked. She always hated the discomfort that the café chair gave her. The cool music and the small space between the chair and the table were enough to put her in an even worse mood.
The café was almost empty; business was much slower in the evening. Chloe hated the place, even though she had tried to convince Alexia to take her offer for a better job. Alexia had refused.
"One iced Americano" Alexia placed the coffee on her table with a smile on her face. She loosened her cape and took a seat opposite Chloe.
Chloe took a sip of the drink and savored the taste. Alexia did make the best coffee.
"Why don't you start your own business?" Chloe asked as she placed the coffee back on the table.
"Because not everyone is as luxury as you," Alexia pulled off her cape and dropped it on the table. She leaned back and spread her legs apart.
Chloe crossed her leg and took another sip.
"Maybe if you had accepted my offer, you wouldn't need to worry about that," Chloe commented.
"You've already done so much for my family and me,"
Chloe gulped.
"Not enough" she tapped her hand as she said that.
"You spoke to the doctor lately?" Alexia asked; immediately, she noticed Chloe tapping her finger on the table.
"Yes, the Doctor said that he is not responding to the treatment," Alexia extended her hand to grip Chloe's hand as comfort.
"Is it not time to let go? Live your life."
"He is my life," Chloe affirmed.
"No, he isn't, he is my brother, and I know he won't want this." Alexia pleaded.
"How're Pete and Margaret?" Chloe had changed the conversation, and Alexia let her. Anything related to her brother Chloe was always headstrong about it.
"Dad and Mom are struggling to pay the rent. With the bad investment Dad made with the Xeon's company, He might be facing bankruptcy."
Chloe was shocked.
"What do you mean?"
Alexia bent her head. Chloe knew Alexia's parents were having financial issues, which was why they could not pay their son's hospital bills. She had decided to help with the bills, but they had not asked for more help afterward.
Alexia hit her hand on the table, pouring out all her frustration.
"I think the Ford enterprise set my Dad up for him to make an investment with Xeon's company, knowing that he was desperate for money."
Alexia hid her face as she sniveled.
"It was his life saving, him and mom."
"Why would they do that?" Chloe asked. She was piqued
"Logan Ford offered to buy Dad's company about 3 months ago, but Dad said no. A few weeks after Xeon's company came, Dad thought it was the investment of a lifetime. But when Dad lost the investment, Logan Ford was the first person to offer to buy Dad's company. It was all sketchy."
Chloe took her time assessing the situation.
She pulled out her phone and searched for Logan Ford; his name was already in her search history. She was surprised to see he was the man at the party.
"What does the owner of the country's largest hotel want from an electronics company?"
She inquired before setting her phone down on the table.
Alexia rakes her hair through her fingers.
"I don't know. If I did, I wouldn't have barged into his office the other day?"
"Hey, don't stress, I will look into it. In the meantime, it would be better for Dad not to think of selling the company just yet." Chloe reassured Alexia.
Logan Ford had messed with the wrong woman; she was going to ensure to ruin him if he had crossed with her family.
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