"I don't know which is better. A horified Ibixa or---," Piper failed to continue her words. Ender gave her three paper bags before he walked passed through her.
Hugging tightly on the white and fluppy pillow while staring straight in the hospital wall with her eyes barely, blinking. Ender couldn't help but be bother at the current state of his wife.
"Baby," he whispered. She didn't move to stare at him. Her expression didn't change.
"Baby, look at me. What were you thinking? Talk to me, please... Ibixa," he said, almost pleading but the woman stayed lifeless and emotionless. Endeavor caged in her face. He makes her look at him on purpose but even though she's facing him. Her eyes remained on the same direction where she's been staring at as if it is glued in there.
He breathes and mumbled thousand curses before he releases it. He made a loud thud before he leaves the room.
Sprinting his distance from the door to the office of the Doctor who checked on Ibixa earlier, Ender already lose his patience before he can reaches the office. He stops and starts kicking and puching the milky white color of the hospital walls.
"f**k!" he murmured and punch the wall again like he's expecting that it'll do something like punching him back.
"Mr. Mendeleev," a nurse with trembling hands and shaking voice fished his attention. His shoulder move fast together with his heavy breathing.
"I need to talk to Dr. Candava," he whispers in between his heavy breathing.
"I'm sorry, but Dr. Candava is in the emergency room right now. Performing an operation---,"
The female nurse quickly shuts her mouth and hold on his bleeding hands to stop him from choking her. "Do I look like I wanna hear your damn excuses? Bring Dr. Candava here or else---,"
"Ender, let her go." A pair of strong arms pulled his hand from its grasp to the pitiful nurse who's in tears now.
Endeavor quickly freed himself from Esquivar, his friend and right-hand man.
"What is wrong with you?" Esquivar hissed. Ender pulled his own hair frustratedly as if he's letting go the last string of his sanity.
He moistened his sultry pale pink lips then look up to him.
"I should have just talk to her parents and—all of this shouldn't have happen only if they remain quiet and obliging to the organization," Ender said with his voice, almost breaking.
What he says is a glimpse to the truth he must hide from Ibixa and Piper.
"Since when did you have your guilt and conscience, Ender?" Esquivar mocked. He clenches his fist out of frustration and anger making it bleed more.
Esquivar sitted by his side. Like a demon, he uses all the flower he knows to make Ender feel that what he did is right.
"You offer them a choice. They made it. Maximus chooses their death. You just served it to them. Don't be a p***y, Ender. You did it because it neeeds to be done and if not, it's gonna be us who's out of life now."
Both Ender and Esquivar heard a heave with hints of daze in it.
"I know it. I just can't believe that my assumption is true. H-How could you do that to her?"
Speedily, Ender chase her sister after she runs towards the lobby's direction.
Knowing that she might have heard everything that he and Esquivar talks about. He felt uneasiness. What if she tells Ibixa about it or the police and nbi? Of course, with his money, connection and power he'll be able to twist the truth but still, he don't want his secret to be out.
Hell is bound to break lose if the truth unveils.
"Piper—,"
"Don't touch me." Her hand is wobbling when she pushe her brother away. Tears already showing up, Piper took a step closer to him and flashes a disgusted look.
"You're a murderer. You seen her. You witnessed how devastated she is. How could you do that to her? How evil are you? I almost believe that you care about her!" she said it with her stern yet low voice so no one else will hear it.
"I do, I care about---,"
"No, you don't. When you take her away from her family, that's an enough reason for her to suffer and now, this? Ender, why? Why do you have to do that? Let's say they betrayed you Daddy with so called deal, but this is too much for vengeance for that kind of petty thing."
He grabs her shoulder. Making Piper shuddered. Each moment that passes his grips on her shoulder tightens. Piper couldn't look straight through Ender's blazing eyes of too much rage.
"This is not about the deal anymore. Maximus and his family became a threat to the organization. He don't wanna settle this peacefully. I don't have a choice." Forcefully, she removed his hand from her shoulder. Piper feels tired and drain all of a sudden.
She always know that Ender is up to something illegal but not this kind of bad doing. Organization, like mafia group? She wanna asks but couldn't.
"I don't believe you. Ibixa's father must have asked for his daughter's freedom from you. You didn't allow it, that's why..." she pauses. Piper is completing her assumption about this, and she's right.
"That's why he threatened you and your organization. I will tell Ibixa about this." Ender's forest green pools darken. His silence feels like a danger you'd feel in the enchanted forest before danger and monstrous creature devours you.
Piper flinchs. Her mouth open more each time her brother holds her arm tighter. Suddenly, she didn't know who is it that she's facing. This is far from the Ender that she knows.
This one is so evil, she wanna run away from him too.
He leans closer to her left ear. Ender's warm breathe made her tremble in fear, more. "Don't push it, Piper. Don't make me forget that you're my sister."