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Capítulo 53: Chapter 53

Claudia:

I wrap my hands around myself as the cold water splash us inside the car from the broken windows. The windshield is still intact but the rain still comes in and so does the cold wind. The car wouldn't start and It's completely dark outside. There's also no cars out on the road. I shiver a little .

We're stuck. 

"You cold?" Daniel speaks from the side and I shake my head. 

"I can see you shaking from here." He says softly. I ignore him and blow hot air on my fingers. 

"Don't be stubborn." He says and I throw him a hard look. He doesn't cower down though. 

"This is your fault." I say and he nods. 

"Let me make it better." He says. 

"Don't bother." I look away from him and try to relax in the cramped driver's seat. A squeal is stolen from my lips when I feel cold hands grab my waist. 

"Daniel!" He pulls me up and hauls me into the backseat of the car. 

"The window isn't broken back here." He says. I note that it's not so bad back here even though the back windscreen is mangled up. I start to relax until I see him start to move this way too. 

"What are you doing?!" 

"I'm freezing my ass out here." Before I can protest, he maneveurs me so he's sitting against the door with his legs sprawled out and I'm on his lap. 

"Daniel!" I yell at him. 

"It's comfortable like this and warmer." He argues. 

"Not for me." I say stubbornly as I scoot to the far end of the car and sit close to the door. I can't have him touching me and messing with my head. I have a boyfriend who's waiting for me in Nigeria. He's probably worried that he can't reach me since there's no network up here. I shiver again when a cold wind blows into the car. Is LA supposed

to be this cold? 

"You'll feel much better cuddled up with me." Daniel says from his side of the car. I cuss him out in my head and turn away from him to hug my knees. My teeth clattering in my mouth. 

"Come here!" His strong hands grab my waist and pull me unto his lap as well. 

"Let me go!" I struggle in his arms but he holds me down to his chest. My back feels scalding hot from his chest. 

"Your clothes are a bit wet as well. I don't want you to get sick because of me. Can you just stay still? Let me keep you warm." He pleads as he holds on to me. Old feelings squeeze my chest and I

have to shake my head and struggle harder. He's having none of it though. He's much stronger and keeps me in place. 

"Why do you hate being so close to me this much?" I bite my lips hard to stop the answer from slipping off my lips. 

"Why?!" 

"Because you make my heart skip several beats!" I snap at him. This shuts him up and me as well. I cuss myself out in my head for saying that.

 Remember Benjamin. He doesn't deserve this. I start to move away from him this time that his hands aren't on me but the jerk's hand creep up my back stilling me in place. 

"What are you doing?" My voice is completely shaky. 

"You make my heart beat too, my Claw." He says softly as his hand crawls up to settle around my neck from the front. 

"Daniel..." 

"No. You make my heart freaking pound. I missed you." He says. I close my eyes to the feeling he's drawing from me. 

"You left me. Freaking paid me off. Do you miss someone you throw away so easily?" I ask. I expect him to explain but I only feel his head rest against my spine. 

"I'm sorry baby. Not a day goes by that I don't miss you." I want to say I missed him too but I can't. 

"You paid me off." I say again. 

"For too long I've not been able to find a woman that wants me for being me. They all want something. Money. Fame. Connection." 

"And you thought I wanted money." 

"Let me finish." He says. I frown but shut my mouth up. 

"When I saw your text about the money I should send to you, I was gutted. It was like a slap to my face. It was like the universe was making a mockery of me for trusting a woman again." 

"You asked me for the bank details. You gutted me first. You slapped me first." I argue. 

"I didn't." He says simply and I frown. 

"You can't lie to me! I have the text message to prove it. It was so completely out of the blue that it hurt more than it should have. I should have deleted the message soon after but I saved it to

remind myself what a waste of affection you are. Trying to pay me like some prostitute...." 

"Tina sent that text message." He cuts me o and my mouth hangs open. 

"What?" 

"I remember she asked me out that very night. We were supposed to talk about why she left with your friend's husband. She said she was in love but I remember seeing the helplessness in her face.

Imagine my shock when she called me a few days ago and told me of how she manipulated the both of us. She sent the text." 

I shake my head. That can't be true. 

"Why would she do that? What would she gain? Because I accused her? Why?" 

"She said she was trying to protect me. You were poking the snake's hole and putting me in the cross fire. I don't even know what that means." My eyes soften when I hear this. Poking the snake's hole. Whose hole was I poking back then? Francis? Why would she protect her brother from the man she's been living with for months now? 

"This is crazy." I breathe out. I bury my head in my palms and sigh deeply. 

"You didn't send the text." I say quietly. What does this mean? That we've been apart for eight months because of something this twisted? Where does that leave us now? 

"You have to believe me. I wouldn't be here in Los Angeles for a joke. I left my job. My mother. To mend things with us." He says quietly. I may be confused but one thing I'm sure of is that he's not

lying. I pull my face out of my palms when something hits me. 

"Wait, you knew I'll be in Los Angeles? How?!" His eyes shines and his lips curl up a little. I quickly connect the dots. 

"The vacation! You did that!" 

"Tina did it actually. She wanted us to make up. I do not know why she thought to do this now after so many months, but who cares? I am so happy to have you in my arms again. To have this hope

that there's hope for us. To be able to touch you." His hand loosely around my neck slips up to my chin. He murmurs my name softly and my heart drops on his lap. He turns my face to him and he

brushes my lips lightly. We're so close, his breath fans my face and there goes all my thoughts. My confusion. My wariness. 

"I love you, Claw. Too much." I gasp at his words. His eyes moves to my lips as his finger slips into my mouth. My tongue brush against it and the groan he lets out scrambles my brain and burns a

few circuits. 

"I've got to taste you again." He says and before I can consent or argue, his head starts to dip slowly. I want to taste him again so bad. My hands settle on both of his cheeks and I hold him a breath away from my lips. I close my eyes and breathe him in. 

"Daniel.." I say like I'm pained. Benjamin's face crawls behind my closed eyes and I actually let out a sob.

"Claudia what's wrong. Are you okay?" I don't let go of his face or open my eyes. I breath him in for a few seconds as tears fall down my eyes. 

"Claudia...." His hand touch my face softly and I open my eyes to him. 

"It's too late. This is too late." I let my hands down and let my head hang between us. 

"Claudia look at me. We can make this work. You want me. I can see that. please let me in. Here." He touches a finger to my chest and I inhale a deep breath. 

"Can I rest on your chest tonight. I don't want to talk anymore." When he starts to argue, I put my head against his chest and lie against him. 

"Please." I say through the sob in my throat. He doesn't say anymore thankfully and his hand comes around me to hold me tight. I let my eyes fall close to savor this feeling. Just for tonight.

Reality can come crashing in with the sun tomorrow.


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Capítulo 54: Chapter 54

Francesca;

A crashing sound has my head snapping up from the little baby I'm cradling in my arms. The baby doesn't rouse from sleep and so does her mother, lying peacefully on the bed. I imagine it's

probably Simi being clumsy with something as usual, but then the quiet is pierced by a guttural groan. I stiffen. 

"Let me go! Where's my wife?! You guys hid her, didn't you?!" I hear a man scream at the top of hislungs . A patient? I drop the baby in it's cradle carefully and rush out to find out what's going on. I nearly walk into Simi as I come out of the maternity ward. 

"What was that?" She asks me. 

"I was wondering the same thing." I crane my head towards the source of the noise and I catch Gideon's form grabbing someone and pulling the livid man with force. 

"Gideon!" I call out to him as I round the corner. He looks shocked but he maneuvers the man he's with into the room behind him and slams the door shut before I reach him. 

"Francesca." He says without really looking at me. I notice his left eye twitching like crazy as sweat beads on his upper lip. 

"Don't you touch me! You guys are going to pay! I'm the son of a senator of this country!" Gideon's face go white as sheet at the strangled yelling coming from inside the room he just pushed the man into.

For some reason, our eyes lock and I battle with what to say. 

"Gideon! What was that?!" Simi comes to my side and breaks the hold Gideon's eyes has on me. Gideon seems to find his mind as well. 

"I don't want any one on this part of the property. Go about doing your normal job." He says and pushes his way back into the room with another slamming of the door. I stare at the locked door

minutes after he's gone. 

"That was weird." Simi muses besides me and I nd myself nodding. The screaming from the other side of the door seem to stop and I let Simi pull me away. 

"Let's get back to work." She says and I nod again. What is this feeling creeping up my neck whenever I hear the screaming from the other side of the door. Like I should bolt away from the

door and not look back.

**** 

Gideon:

"He's down." My friend says like I don't see it. I take several steps away from the limp body of the governor and release a shaky breath. I rake a hand through my already high hair and rub the back of my neck. The look in Francesca's eyes. I very nearly got an heart attack when I saw the governor being dragged through my clinic's doors. The very man I pray to God every morning to never meet again. Now I know fate is putting a time frame on my time with Francesca. 

"I know I should have told you that the patient I told you about is the governor but this issue is one that requires discretion. You're the third person who knows of this." He says and I shake my

head. 

"I can't have him here." I say till my back hit the door and I look up at my friend who's frowning. 

"You said you can help." I can see that he's trying to control his anger. 

"That was before I knew it was the governor! The f*cking governor of this state! I don't want any part of whatever this is. No." I shake my head again. It seems to be the only thing my shocked

body can do. 

"You'll be paid double. Hell, triple!" 

"I don't want any part of this! To hell with the money." 

"Gideon!" He spits my name out and I cringe. 

"I thought you were a doctor who wanted to save live. No matter whose. That is why you worked day and night to build this practice of your own. Look at him. Remove the position from him and

he's just a sick man. A really sick one." I groan and cover my eyes from the sight because I've seen enough. Francis is denitely not the man he used to be. He's been away from the media's eyes for a while and looking at his depreciating body like this, It's obvious now. 

"Please, brother." My hands slips from over my eyes and I meet the pleading eyes of the man I used to share a dormitory with, in the University before he dropped out from lack of funds. 

"You are not to leave this room. I don't want anyone seeing you." I say as I walk towards the motionless man on the bed and put my stethoscope against his heart to read his heartbeat. It's slow, which might just be from the anaesthetic I injected him with minutes ago. 

"You're going to treat him? Man, you don't know how this is going to help you and me!" My friend slaps my shoulder good-naturedly but I can't find it in me to smile at his open joy. I remove the

stethoscope from my ears and turn to face him. 

"Don't leave this room. I'll bring you food and whatever you want." I tell him firmly. I can't have him recognizing Francesca or the other way around. 

"I'm leaving him here with you man, don't worry about people recognizing me as the governor's person. I'll just call you for updates. I have to go back or 

people will get suspicious." He says and I don't even care to ask what he's talking about. I don't want to know. I'm only treating Francis because that's what a doctor should do. 

"Better. Take the back door." I instruct him. Francesca should be in the front ward which is the maternity ward. She's been obsessed with the new baby birthed days again and I can't blame her. 

I feel horrible for a lot of things but mostly for coming between a mother and her son. I know deep down, Frances misses her baby boy even though she can't remember him. 

"Come I'll walk you out." I tell him. He doesn't say anything more. I lead him out the door and without waiting to be seen, I take him through the back of the building and wait at the backdoor till

his car drives out before I relax. I sag against the door and feel the start of an headache coming. I let my eyes shut for a few seconds and try to calm my erratic heartbeat. Everything is going to be

fine, I tell myself. It will. It has to be. For my mind's sake. 

"Is he gone?" I jump at Simi's voice behind me as my eyes open. 

"What are you doing sneaking up on me!" I shout at her as I rub my sore eyes. This is going to be the death of me. 

"What are you hiding, Gideon?" She narrows her eyes at me. Of course she'll suspect something.

She's my sister. 

"Nothing." I grunt and start on my way back into the clinic. 

"This is about Francesca, right? You know something about her family, don't you? You can't not know."

She says. I stop in my steps. I turn back to level a hard look at her. She doesn't even bulge and my eyes soften. 

"Don't go around saying nonsense to her." I tell her. 

"Is that man her family? A brother?" 

"Simi!" I snap to shut her up. She must see how angry I am now because she shuts up. 

"Where's she right now?" I ask after a few heated seconds. 

"With the baby at the maternity ward." She says. I nod and turn to continue on my way to her. 

"One word of advice big brother?" I don't want to hear what I already know but, my steps falter.

"Tell her the truth. I can see how the secrets are eating you up. If you think she will leave when she finds out, maybe you should just let her go." She says and I have to brace myself on the the wall to stop from swaying to the floor. I grind hard on my teeth. 

"If they love you, they'll always come back to you. A love that leaves and returns is true love. That's what you told me when our mother dropped the both of us at the orphanage all those years ago." She says. 

"She never came back." I find myself saying softly. I sniff back the tears choking me. My throat feels hot as coal. 

"But you did. When you got adopted before me. You said you'll find me. You did. That's true love." I feel small hands come around me from behind and I let my sister give me warmth. 

I know that my time is going to be up soon and I'll rather it be me telling her the truth than anyone else. I just hope she doesn't hate me when she finds out.


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