Not Your Typical Billionaire

Too Close

The laughter between those 2 became so awkward as they continue laughing at me; I shook my head as El started to calm down. Dr. Valentine looked around the room before landing on me, I shook my head smiling softly, I’ll have to tell him later. Dr. Valentine sat in my chair as El collected herself from laughing at his last statement. He sighed as Daniel excused himself as he continues to laughing in the hallway. I shook my head waiting in the corner while he asked El some questions. She would answer the questions the best she could without looking to me for help.

“Well alright Ms. Johnson we’re going to do some testing of your blood to see what exactly is going on inside of you.” He said

“What do you mean? You guys kept her overnight and don’t know what’s wrong with her? I asked walking up to them, they should have been doing test last night. Why wait so long to do these tests?

“Well the nurses did do some test but those were to make sure I didn’t need to come in and do an emergency surgery so she could make it through the night.” He said that makes no sense you mean they didn’t do anything but out my sister to sleep? I did that when we were kids hell I did more than that when were kids.

“So you guys just didn’t do anything last night?” I asked

“Dre”—

“Ms. Johnson my staff revived your sister and made it so she didn’t have another episode in the middle of the night. My staff did what they were trained to do my job is to find out what is wrong and start treatment on your sister.” He said cutting of El not really looking at me just looking down at her chart.

“Dre… let him talk and then we can ask all the questions we want but he probably will answer those questions.” El said I sighed rolling my eyes before nodding my head. I don’t like this, why is he her doctor? Is there anyone else who can do it?

“Thank you, now the first test I will have to conduct will be diagnosis of what we need to do next. Nurse Brickner will be in to gather a blood test from you and a urine test; we will have to see from there what we need to do.” He said looking at the chart in his hand, “Nurse Brickner, seems to have made notes as well as prepared a few test for you. She believes you have autoimmune hemolytic anemia so we’re going to get to both of those things done and then we can go from there.” He said wait a minute he said she believes. So he thinks it something else, some better or worse? What if it’s something worst? I can’t lose my sister!

“What do you believe in she has?” I asked trying to calm as he stood up from chair, he looked up at me before smiling softly. My breathing completely stopped as my heart skipped a beat, he turned to El with that same smile and her eyes widen. Her heart rate monitor started to beep a little fast then normal, oh she had the same reaction as me. I let out a low long sigh trying to get my heart to beating to fast. He should honestly be careful with that smile; he could give someone the wrong idea.

“I just believe you were working too hard and had a lot of stress. Personally, being a law student is hard, like being in medical school. We get cases of this all the time and a little rest helps wonders.” He said El nods before turning to me with her jaw slightly opened. He walked over to the door as I placed my hand on her head, she does work hard and that’s because this is something she truly cares about.

“Oh Dr. Valentine…?” I called out to him as he opened the door; he turned his torso to me with his hand still on the door. I smiled softly looking down at El before turning back to him quickly.  “Thank you… Ezra for all of this.” I said he smiled nodding his head, this is the first I said his name without him having to remind me. I didn’t forget it but this is just how I chase people away from me and my sister. That is how I protect us from those who wish to hurt us, I pretend with everyone so no one thinks I’m being mean.

“I’m just doing my job Ms. Johnson, now please both of you rest we’ll start the testing in an hour.” He said before walking out of the room, he closed the door behind himself leaving me alone with El. I turned to her as she was smiling at me, I raised my eyebrows at her before sitting down in the chair.

“Your boyfriend is pretty hot when he isn’t so easily frustrated.” She said

“He is not my boyfriend.” I said as the door opened revealing Alice with Daniel around her arms.

“I didn’t find the stalker but I did fine him dying of laughter in the hallway of the café.” Alice said

“That’s fine, he must of left.” I said as they walked over to us. “Thank you guys for being so caring of Elena, honestly I don’t know how I would deal with this without you guys.” I said Alice smiled softly kissing El on her head.

“I think of you two as my daughters; I love you both so much it broke my heart to hear what happen.” Alice said sitting on the edge of El’s bed.

“We appreciate all the love and care you give us.” El said grabbing Alice’s hand, I know El has never really called anyone mother until she started going to therapy. I know she loves Alice like the mother she wishes we had, that’s mostly the reason why she wanted me to work from. So I understand why she cares for them so much.

“The kids want visit this weekend, so we want you to get better so the kids can entertain you while your sister goes on her date.” Daniel said with a smile on his face, Alice turned to me confused as El started laughing.

“You’re dating someone?” Alice asked

“No, that’s just Daniel hoping I get a date.” I said

“Well you need it; you should really get out there and meet someone nice. Oh Daniel you know who we should set her up with?” Alice said turning to Daniel. “Ezra is around her age.” She said causing both Daniel and El to laugh uncontrollably causing me to shake my head in hands. “What is so funny?” Alice asked

“I’m going to go get some tea, you two are so mean.” I said before running out the room. I started walking down to the café, I can’t believe them. I shook my head before bumping into something causing me to look up and see Dr. Valentine with a coffee slipped all over him. It smells super sweet like he added a whole bag of sugar into it. I would hope not, I'm m not a doctor but that seems to be really bad for your health. “I’m… so sorry.” I said running my hands over the stain, I released a bit of my energy to remove the stain. He chuckled slightly shaking his head, oh yeah I never told him I was a witch so this is his first time learning of my magic. Also this is the first time he’ll see me using my magic too.

“You’re a witch? Wow okay and your eyes turn purple when you use it.” He said shaking his head

“I don’t talk much about my private life.” I said he nods his head tossing his empty cup in the trash down the hall. It’s true that only reason the Wilsons know about it is because they know El. I personally don’t like telling people, just because it’s not their business. “Let me buy you a new coffee, I feel bad.” I said

“Sure,” He said smiling we started walking to the café in silence. “You know you haven’t answered any of my text, but I understand why now.” He said as we entered the café.

“Yeah, sorry about that,” I said making myself a cup of tea as he poured himself a cup of coffee. He pour it in half way before grabbing a glass syrup dispenser with a amber color thick syrup, he poured about ¼ of the syrup into his coffee. It has a burnt sugary smell to it; I looked as he added a bit of milk into it. What is he making? He added 2 teaspoons of brown sugar into it before stirring it. He looked up at me before taking a sip of the coffee. It kind of smells like a crème brûlée but with a hint of coffee in it.

“I have a bit of a sweet tooth, I made this one morning by accident in college and this had been my drink order ever since.” He said shrugging his shoulder. He has a sweet tooth huh? That explains why he’s always asking about the desserts I make for work. Maybe after all this I’ll bake him a nice cake for everything he’s done for my sister and putting up with me and my crazy self. I can say with all of my heart that when comes to my sister I become crazy. Probably why El stopped bringing her friends around me, I never wanted to isolate her just didn’t like the bad influence they had on her.

“Oh it smells delicious.” I said nodding my head; we walked over to the cashier to pay when she nods typing something on her register before a receipt printed. She tossed the receipt before turning to the people behind us. I turned to him confused as he started walking out of the café; I turned to the lady as she smiled softly at me.

“A rule here is that doctors and nurses get free coffee and since you’re with me it’s on my tab.” He said as I walked up to him. Oh that’s why she did that, but still I was supposed to pay for his drink for spilling his coffee all over him.

“But I was supposed to buy you your sugary coffee. You ended up paying for my tea.” I said as he just shrugged his shoulders

“Don’t worry about it you can buy the next one.” He said chuckling at me slightly; I rolled my eyes shaking my head.

“Did you hear what we were saying before you walked into the room?” I asked

“No, I just had a thought before you opened the door. That’s why I was blushing, ideas trying to calm myself down before I entered the room.” He said taking a sip of his coffee, well that explains why he was so frazzled when he noticed it was me on the other side of the door. He probably wasn’t expecting me on the other side of the door. “What were you guys talking about?” he asked as I took a sip of my tea.

“Oh nothing, Daniel was just educating us.” I said being as vague as possible hoping he wouldn’t ask any more about it.

“What about?” he asked

“What was your thought about?” I asked ignoring his question. He slightly choked on his coffee before looking away. Oh my… was it about me? “Was it about me?” I asked he nods his head softly refusing to look at me, “Was it a perverted thought?” I asked why do I keep asking questions just get away from him. It’s clear he only wants to sleep with me; he shook his head turning to face me.

“I was just hoping you were okay like I said you didn’t respond to my texts. Then I was hoping you wouldn’t be my patients, because then I couldn’t try to flirt with you while you were receiving treatment.” He said he honestly is more worried about getting into my pants more then anything. I swear he is such a guy they only care about one thing.

“So your biggest concern was not being able to ask me on a date?” I asked as we reached El's room.

“No my main concern was about my patient and that I think I could see you looking so vulnerable like that. I like you being so independent and such a hard-ass. It makes me like you more.” He said he’s such a weirdo what does he mean by that?

“Why? I’ve never heard someone like that in someone else before.” I said holding back a smile by biting my lip slightly.

“You don’t want to know?” he said shaking his head slightly looking around; there was no one in this hallway but us.

“Yes I do, tell me.” I said leaning up against the door, he smiled softly before leaning down bringing his lips next to my left ear. His free hand on the wall next to my head, I don’t know if I like this side of him more or less then his normal side. I like that he’s standing up to finally but this is more sadistic then confident. I don’t ever plan to submit to another man, not in this life time. I’ll die before I let that happen again, and anyone who thinks they’ll break me is so a fool.

“I like when you’re like that because when I get to make you submit to me, and trust me I will get you to that point. I want to remember I broke your walls, I demolished the walls you worked so hard to put up. I want to see a side of you that no man has ever seen before.” He whispered in my ear right before I started falling backwards. Oh crap someone opened the door; I landed on the floor spilling my tea all over myself. Thank Goddess it wasn’t super hot, just a warm hot and that I didn’t smack my head on the ground.

I blinked rapidly as I looked up to see Alice looking guilty and Ezra looking in shock. Alice had her hand covering her mouth as her other hand was on the door; oh she must have been on her way out. Note to self don’t lean on doors anymore, lean on the wall next to them. Or just make sure no one is on the other side of it. A slight pain hit the back of my head causing a huge headache to hit the front of my head. Crap I need some painkillers, or this will turn into a migraine quick. The lights in the room became uncomfortably bright as I looked at the ceiling; I shook just play dead from embarrassment.

“Oh my Goddess, Aundreya are you okay?” El said I slowly sat up tossing my empty cup to the side. Great I’m having a crappy day trying to get my sister help; I should have just stayed and let them make fun of me.

“Yeah, I’m fine.” I said turning to El, she was covering her mouth with her hands standing at the edge of her bed. She must have jumped up to help me when I first started falling, she shouldn’t be worrying about me I’m fine.

“Ms. Johnson you’re bleeding.” Ezra said I turned back to him confused I didn’t hit my head what is he talking about? He dropped to his knees turning my head back to face my sister; I noticed tears in her eyes as Daniel had to help her back into bed.

“Dre I’m so sorry.” Alice said as the tears started running down her face.

“I didn’t hit my head, what are you guys talking about?” I asked as Ezra moved the hair around before a chilling breeze hit my spine. I turned my head back to Ezra to see his hand was covered in blood. I gasp before moving my hand to where I felt the breeze. I really hit my head, and from the amount of blood on his hands, I really cracked my head open.

“Don’t touch it; I’m going to get nurse Brickner.” He said standing up he ran out the room I felt something being pushed on the wound. I winced turning to see Daniel was pushing his shirt on my wound. He was applying pressure probably to try to stop the bleeding; Alice was now crying in the corner with her back facing everyone. I can hear someone’s footsteps coming closer to the room its Ezra and my guess nurse Brickner coming into the room. I was quickly lifted to into a wheelchair as Daniel continued to apply pressure on my head.

I looked at where I fell and saw a dark thick red color liquid on the floor along with a thin brownish green liquid. It is a lot of blood on the floor compared to tea; the tea seems to outline my face torso. The blood is where my head cracked on the floor started to merge with the tea, I can’t believe it. I could have a concussion because I let him get too close or worse, I could die from this. Ezra place his hand on the shirt applying the pressure as they wheeled me out of the room, I don’t even remember hitting my head. They wheeled me down the hall and into a room with curtains dividing up my guess each person.

I watched as nurse Brickner opened the curtain as Ezra pushed me near the bed. Once again I was lifted up this time onto the bed, I noticed that nurse Brickner was putting on gloves as Ezra removed the shirt; I winced leaning forward from the pain shooting through my head. I noticed Daniel’s blue shirt was now coated in my blood, my eyes widen as my heart started racing. I grabbed his hand as he goes to through the shirt away. He turned to me confused before noticing the look on my face, I don’t know what it look like but I’m pretty sure it looks like I’m shitting myself. I mean come on look at all that blood! I’m clearly going to die!

“Okay patient is panicking,” nurse Brickner said I turned looking at her as she had a needle in her hand. The f**k does she think she’s doing with that? “Dr. Valentine I believe she’s afraid of needles. I think that’s what her sister was yelling as we left.” She said as my breathing became heavier watching the needle in her hand. I turned back to Ezra as a pinching feeling hit my upper arm almost hitting my shoulder. I looked down to see he stuck a needle in me; everything started to slowly fade to black as I leaned up against Ezra’s shoulder. Huh I’m the same height as him on this bed, that’s interesting.

“Let get to work.” I heard as something soft rubbed my back, everything is now becoming darker before turning black.