The Island Doctor

Margarita Mendez Kraishek, the wife of Ivan Alexis Kraishek, a multi-billionaire owner of the Majestic Hotel, a subsidiary of Kraishek Corporation, has been observing her husband intently, noting how gorgeous he still is despite his age. "How could he be this hot? I remember when I first saw him, how my heart beat faster, and how I wanted to stay close to him the whole of the party." she was reminiscing about the charity party which was sponsored by her family in the guise of letting them meet together. At the said event, she met the twenty-three-year-old half-Russian, half-Filipino charmer. He is six feet tall, white-skinned, with dark brown hair, a perfectly straight nose, grey-green eyes, and a well-built body. Unknown to both, their parents had already arranged their marriage, and the announcement of their engagement had already been scheduled. Margarita is also twenty-nine years old, plain-looking, a little bit chubby, and looks older than her age. She was chosen by the Kraisheks and Sapiros because of her family's wealth and connections. She fell in love with him at first sight, but not her husband, who was only following his parents' orders. "Daddy! Daddy!" a knock was heard from outside. It was their daughter, an eighteen-year-old girl whose plain face she inherited from her mother. She is famous at their university not only because of her family but because of her brother who often comes to pick her out from school. Who would not be smitten by her brother? He is very handsome and he resembles his father a lot. His grey-green eyes are his best feature, not to mention his godlike figure that most women are attracted to. Some even tell her bluntly that she is lucky that he is not a girl. Some even say that his godlike figure is a gift for all women and everyone who sees him rightfully agrees. "Please open the door, I'm gonna be late for school!" she yelled again. Her mother opened the door and said, "Good morning, Allison! Your dad is still sleeping but I will wake him up okay?" she said to her daughter, then bent her head to kiss her on the forehead. "Okay, mom, but please tell daddy to make haste, I don't want to be late..." the young girl went downstairs, leaving her mother alone with the billionaire whose naked body was covered with a blanket. He stirred a bit when he heard the voice of his daughter who had already gone down to wait for her parents. "What time is it, Marge?" he asked his wife. Ivan woke up from the noise he heard that came from the young woman. "It's almost seven in the morning, honey!" she answered. Before letting her husband get up, she kissed him on the lips and helped him get up from bed. "You have to get up now and bring Allyson to school." The chairman got up and went to the bathroom to take a shower while his wife went to the dining room to join their daughter for breakfast. When he went downstairs and proceeded to the dining room, he noticed that his son was not present, which made him very worried. While eating breakfast with his wife and daughter, Ivan asked the whereabouts of his son. "Did you see Alex last night, Marge? I tried to contact him yesterday but he did not answer. What could have happened to him..." he sighed. Margarita smirked, she knew how important the young man is to the life of his father, but for her, the young man is an illegitimate son and must not be given any attention. "I don't know, honey! Maybe your son slept with one of his girlfriends. You know that he has a lot, right? And one of these days, honey, I assure you that one of those girls that he slept with will come here and ask your permission to have your son as her husband. He is such a playboy, you know!" Her husband lifted his head and was not amused by what he heard, and tried to explain to her that his son is not the promiscuous type and he does not have any other relationship after his separation from his former girlfriend, whom he does not like because of her poor background. "He is a good person, Marge. He is still young and he admitted to me that he had relationships in the past that did not involve emotions, but he never took advantage of anyone, it's always mutual with the consent of the women, you know that well..." he explained to his wife. "Well, honey, Alex is an obedient son, and he immediately separates from his girlfriend when you told him to do so. Do you think that if he is in love with her, he will gladly do it? Your son might not even be in love with her, for all we know, honey..." Their daughter, Allyson, was listening to her parents as they spoke but when she looked at her wristwatch, she was alarmed to see that she was getting late and must be on the way to the university or else, she would be late for school and be reprimanded by her professors. "Excuse me, daddy! Please let us go to the university now. I don't want to be late...." she asked her daddy. Sipping his coffee nonchalantly, as if not hearing what the young woman said, the billionaire gazed at his daughter and inquired, "Ally dear, did you see your brother yesterday? Did he go to your school and pick you up?" "No, daddy, it was my mom who picked me up. I have no idea where my brother is, but please dad, we have to go now..." she reiterated. "Relax, dear. Why are you worried? The school officials will never discipline or expel you because my family owns it, okay? Just eat and if your dad is done with his breakfast, then he will take you to the university," her mom assured her. The young woman did not say anything anymore. She waited for her father to finish drinking his coffee, then went to the university. "Ring...ring...ring...." "Your phone is ringing Marge!" The chairman's wife got up and opened her phone. "Excuse me," she said. "I have to answer this." Margarita went out of the dining room and tiptoed her way to the master's bedroom, closing the door behind her, before she answered the phone. "Hello! Did you take care of him? Good! I will transfer the money to your account right away. Get rid of the evidence okay? Throw the sim card off your phone and never contact me again, bye!" she had a big smile on her face after talking to the person on the other line. "Now, he's gone. My dear Ivan will only be thinking about our own daughter now. That bastard son of him does not deserve to become the next chairman of the company! He is nothing compared to my daughter, who is the legal heiress of my husband and myself! My dear Ivan would be very sad to know that you are dead, Alex, but it is the best thing for me and my child who were neglected because of your presence! Now that you are gone, Ivan will only have us to take care of. Ha!ha!ha!" Before leaving, Ivan looked for his wife and reminded her about the party that they would attend the party the following night. "You have to dress well, there are lots of foreign dignitaries and government officials that would be present. Remind our daughter to also look her best and I hope my son Alex will come and attend too." His voice was sad and melancholic, he was thinking about why his son is missing and he did not even know where to find him. "Let us go, Ally, I have to go to the office after taking you to your school," he said to the young woman who nodded her head and followed her father to the garage. Unknown to his wife, the billionaire always visited the cemetery where Monica Gonzales was laid, the mother of his son, Alex. He came to her graveyard again, kissed her image, and talked to her as if she was still alive. "How are you, my beloved? I hope you are in a much better place now. Our son Alex is missing and I do not know where to start looking for him. It saddened me a lot, knowing that there is nothing much I could do, but do not worry, dear, I will look for him and I will find him." He sat on the bench near the grave and continued talking, "Honey, next time I will bring our dear son here and I will make him ask forgiveness from you for not visiting you often. I asked the caretaker and told me that our son had not been here for a long time. I remember when you got sick and died in my arms, he cried a lot and did not want to part with you even if you had already left us...now he is forgetting you so soon...but it is not the case for me, honey! I love you still and it will not change no matter how many times I get married or how many times I will have a relationship with other women...I missed you so much that sometimes I wished that I also had died together with you, but there is our son...I have to take care of him, no matter what." his eyes show nothing but sorrow and he tried to refrain from crying. He could have stayed longer but his phone rang and it was his secretary on the other line, asking if he would come late or not. "I'm on the way to the office. Place my schedule on my desk, I will attend to them when I come. By the way, is the CEO in his office now?" he asked, about his son, Alex. "I will check his secretary, sir. I will call you later to inform you, Mr. Chairman!" said Carla Reyes, his secretary, who has been his employee for almost ten years now. On the way to his office, his phone rang again, it was his secretary who confirmed to him that his son had not come yet, ever since yesterday. This prompted the chairman to call the police officers to report about his missing son. He told them to investigate secretly without divulging it to the media. He sped up his car until he reached his office. Everyone he met bowed and smiled at him. He is the chairman and owner of the building that he entered and all the people who worked for him knew it. The employees who saw him that day were surprised to see the chairman frowning. Usually, he greeted the employees enthusiastically, but not that day. "What's wrong with him?" asked one of the employees who met him in the lobby. "Perhaps he fought with his possessive wife. You know how jealous that woman is. She is lucky because of her wealth, she is not even pretty, you know!" another said. "Well, the chairman is hot despite his age, but you know his son is more handsome than he is...and hotter..."Lyn Gomez from the Human Resources department said when she heard the two women talking about the chairman and his wife. "That is why he is called the "hot heir" and he is more than that. And the two of you should walk faster because you are already late..." she added. The two women immediately quickened their paces until they reached the elevator on the way to their respective departments. "Good morning boss!" said Ms. Carla Reyes, the chairman's secretary. "Boss, until now, your son had not arrived yet. I just called his secretary and confirmed too that yesterday he did not come as well." The chairman knitted his eyebrows when he heard the report from his secretary, but he kept calm and ordered her to bring him coffee and a newspaper. Later that day, he attended his scheduled meetings but his head was full of worries regarding his son. That night, he called the police officers again but they told him that they could not find the whereabouts of his son, which made him very worried, and he could not sleep, "Where are you, Alex? I hope no one has hurt you, but I swear I will find you even if I spend all the money that I have!" he murmured to himself as he prepared himself to sleep. Meanwhile, his wife went to a place outside the city and met a mysterious man, the one that she talked to on the phone, and gave him an envelope full of money. "You've done a good job! Take this money aside from the one that I transferred from your account in the afternoon. By the way, where did you and your henchmen throw his body? Are you sure that he is dead, huh?" she asked a strongly built man with a broad chest and shoulders. He wore a black cap but the scar on his face could easily be recognized. "Ma'am," he said. "Your stepson is dead, I assure you. He fought hard and we landed him several blows - he was bleeding when we threw him out of the ocean during the storm. There is no way that he could survive and there are sharks out there...he will surely become their food when they see his blood." "Ha!ha!ha! Good for him! He is a headache to me and now that he is gone, my husband's attention will all be mine! Good work Buddy! Let us not see each other again, okay?" Margarita bid him farewell and left the place. Buddy was left alone, checking the inside of the envelope and when he was satisfied with the outcome, he went to his car and drove his way home. "She is very rich and generous," he said to himself. "If she only knew that before I even stabbed her stepson he already jumped into the ocean and disappeared from our sight but I presume that he is dead right now, so there is nothing to worry about. After all, we had hit him hard and he had lots of bruises. There was no way that he could even survive that.