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hrough the night. I checked that she was still breathing and quietly slipped out of bed making sure not to wake her. It wasn't every

Moore?" The strange

f as doctor Rogers from Almond hospital. I had a flash back of

not last tonight. Even if she does, it will be extensive work to make her whole again; she will need physiotherapy to learn how to work again, she might or might not

tor's tone made me thin

fe support?"

, b

t me reiterate this doctor, I will cover all the expenses there, and I want her to have a fighting chance. There might even b

ut what I could do if

all in my power to help her get a

atigue flooded my veins. I was tired, ti

chance at life. I also knew there were those doctors, the more cut-throat one's, who didn't mind going the extra mile to exterminate their patien

g rich at the expense of people's l

to moan. I checked her temperature and found out she was burning up. Peace was short lived.

time to even open my wardrobe to pick a suit. The clothes I wore the day before beckoned to me from the chair where I had hastily thrown the

gaze on me. "Your behavior recently has been very disgraceful. You waltz in here looking like you spent

ing this. "I do o

ed away, but not before I saw

elings, Mr. Moore, how do you expect us to endorse y

ed the dark glasses from m

ther of the suit-we

grumbling at the top of their voices and headed t

I shouted once they ha

nd stared balefully at the table. The unopened water bot

lap, cl

Kelly came into view. She stood with her hands akimbo watching me. The expression 'she cou

f planning and you just messed it up in only a few minu

he called me Mister Moore. Matter of fact, I had insiste

in the same sentence to address me, t

etha's illness, neither did I want to make it public. I was a very private man and I also hated pity. That was why I had never gotten a nurse to look after her. I p

through, and not even the morphine had helped dull the pain she was in. When I couldn't take her rising screams any longer, I had dro

she had been somewhat stabilized, I had driven like a madman to the office because Kelly called reminding me the represen

orgot I had sent Eric to buy me some coffee and I ha

ng at me like I was a wild animal from the zoo. I also knew she had been waiting for a response from

owe me an explanation, get ready to

the boardroom, heels cla

like the others just did, lik

s away from m

ity as I slumped fur