THE CEO'S REDEMPTION

the tears freed themselves as the doctor hurriedly reach

on me. Shuddering and cold, I stared at him,

my father dead?" My eyes traveled into his,

ply, I looked up at him,

do you

e sit

or! Is my father okay?" I shouted,

down." He chuckled, walking over

wn. "Okay?" I stared at him,

we could to stop the internal bleeding, but he need

sure, this is going to be the larges

a matter of weeks if we d

nk in, twisting and f

rre

h is the

urgery?" He asked, care

ded, trailing hi

ts, but for the surgery, I can give you a rough estim

diately, not letting myself process anythi

he doctor's voice trolle

" I turned to look at him, he

e smiled. I gave him a thumbs up and

both my arms, gazing into my eyes, also searching for a glimpse of hope,

breathed, trying

" She asked, following me to the doo

eed to pay for his bill first

the bill? Why h

don't bother me." I shouted, crying and breathing heavily. Letting all my anger go on Asteria, I walked to my

voice slicing through the heavily sad silence. Darkness cloud

drawled, lost in

something. We have to do something, Lorey!

ed approximately a hundred and eighty thousand dollars, and you are here yelling like a little child! If you can't think and be sensitive, then shut the fuck

dug into the ground as I parked the car in the

tossing her my car key. She's ni

s with my supposed replacement, Josh. He stared back, like we had beef with each other

?" I gently knocked on the d

ht Josh throwing ugly glances at me, but honestly, not only is he

er table. We sat down in silence for a few seconds, with her gawp

rgency to attend to.

me guess, your dad is dying again, right?" She ch

d received a puffy enve

ed, longingly admi

lars for the past fifteen days you've worked without a pay right ther

I nodded with

ay lea

ing the envelope into my pocket. I walked ou

ally left

devil; here she

nd where's my car?" I shouted

phone. I jerked back, scared and jumpy. My puls

whimpered, on t

is P

is As

ssed before I heard A

" I queried, struggl

and I am not letting either go until I ge

llars from? Now both my father and my sister are stuck in a place o

red a cab to take me home. I'll definitely

cab. The cab guy nodded, and I handed him the mon

laced my hand on the door knob. I turned around in a flash and locked e

g back, not slowing down, I ran till my vision blurred out and my breathing began to fluctuate. With my thoughts scattered a

d running till I crashed into a very tall, muscular man. I flinched immediately and looked up to see if he's the on

eyes darted everywhere trying to find my bat and even worse

oice trolling me. The words died in my throat the sec

soft, fruity yet deep and con

The mean looking man responded in s

ken glass tore through my skin as I bent to pi

towards me. I stood there, dumbfounded. "Who the fuck ar

, shaking and sweating. His name sounds familiar.

ow, how the hell am I supposed to get there?" He cont

ing to esc

again. "Speak." He started as his eye brows slowly creased tightly against each other. He look

over, I turned around to walk aw

ms?" The police man asked di

lowly, ver

t." He continued, br

I queried,

killing of Miss A