He never knew love, until her

Chapter 2: tragedy

"hello, dad, can you hear me?" I said my voice shaking.

A man's voice answered instead "hello, come to st. Paul's hospital, your parents just had an accident on their way to the bakery".

I felt blood drying out of my vein, my phone slipped out of my hand and I fell to the ground tears rolling down my eyes, "it's a lie" I said shaking my head and crying "it's a lie I refuse to believe".

Without thinking I scrambled to my feet and ran towards the road.

"screechhhh" a moving vehicle came to a sudden halt right before hitting me and I fell to the ground out of fear and panic.

Elliot's POV

I just had just left lunch with mom and I'm heading back to the company.

As usual she brought it up again.

Marriage

Family

Settling down.

I don't know why Liam and my mom can't just see things from my perspective

I didn't care about love

I didn't care about building a family.

I just want to focus on my company, why can't they let me be.

lost in thought I almost hit a young girl but I immediately slammed the brake and the car came to a halt right before hitting her

"s**t" I cursed as I came down from the car in a hurry to check on the girl.

"hey are you okay?"I leaned down to assist her and she stood up shaking, her face stained with tears,and I I was instantly lost in her beauty.

Her eyes were so beautiful, the most beautiful eyes I've ever laid my eyes on, the kind of eyes that made everything else fade away, then her fair skin and her brown shiny hair, she was petite and looked so innocent, this must be the most beautiful person I've laid my eyes on.

I came out of my trance when she grabbed my hands "Pl.. s sir ta.ke m.e to st. P..au.l's h..osp..ital,pl..ss.." she said crying, her voice shaking, and I was confused for a second.

"did you injure?" I asked checking out for any injury

"no s..i.r, my p.ar..ents got into an ac..ci..de..nt and they're there, pls t.a.ke me there" she said crying uncontrollably.

"okay let's go" she ran to the car and I also got in and sped up to st. Paul's hospital, she was just crying and shaking in the car.

"calm down, don't worry your parents will be fine" I said to her Eventough I wasn't sure.

but it didn't make a difference because she kept on crying, immediately we got to the hospital she came down from the car and ran into the hospital, so I followed her behind, she ran to the receptionist.

"pls I'm here for Mr and Mrs peters, what room are they?" she asked, but before the receptionist could answer a doctor came and asked if she was the family member of Mr and Mrs Peters.

"yes I'm their daughter, where are they, are they fine, which room are they, I need to see my parents plss" she said crying and shaking uncontrollably.

I went ahead to hold her in place so she doesn't collapse.

"doctor how about her parents" I asked the doctor and he just sighed shaking his head "we lost them, they were dead on arrival" the doctor announced.

The words hung on the air

Heavy

Final

Unforgiving

"no" she whispered, then her body went limp.

I caught her immediately before she hit the ground.

"where's a room? " I demanded sharply

The doctor quickly led the way

I placed her on the bed.

As the doctor was checking her, I felt heart ache for the young girl, for the first time in my life I'm experiencing such feeling.

The feeling of wanting to be there for someone, to protect someone, to make sure this person doesn't have to experience the wickedness of this world, the doctor finished checking,

" she passed out due to shock, but she'll be fine after a while" he said while looking at her sadly,

"are you her relative?",

"no, I just met her" he nodded

"when she wakes up, she'll have to call her family, that's all for now, I'll be leaving" the doctor said and left.

I walked to the bed and stared at the girl, she looks so beautiful and innocent, she looks like an angel in human form, at such a young age she has to deal with the pain of losing her parents, I know how painful that can be because my dad is also late, and I know how I felt that time, it was so hard to move on.

All my relatives who always acted like they cared abandoned us, they sent us out of the house,

At a young age I could see how my mom suffered to provide for us and that alone made me harden my heart to everyone except my mom, my brother and Liam my childhood friend.

I'm always cold and distant to people, I don't let out any emotion, I'm always emotionless that's why people around me always say I'm heartless and I don't care.

I'm already getting worried for this young girl, she lost both parents on same day, I don't know how she's going to cope, does she have any family, I was already feeling the urge to protect her, to make sure I do anything to make her smile, I sat down close to her and held her hands waiting for her to wake up.