Chapter 0283
“What is it?” Gabe asks as I stand up.
I couldn’t think clearly. They were supposed to take care of Ava. Why then was she at the hospital? This is why I didn’t want her to leave the compound. I don’t know what the hell happened, but I knew she was
safer at home.
“Theo just told me that Ava has been rushed to the hospital” I reply through gritted teeth.
I was pissed off and worried at the same time. I couldn’t bare it if anything happened to her. Not when I just got her back.
“Come on I’ll drive you”
I just nod my head before heading out.
“Cancel all my meetings” I tell my secretary while walking towards the elevator.
My look must have conveyed something because those who were in the hallways stepped out of my way.
They parted like the red fucking sea.
My heart pounded as Gabe and I rode the elevator all the way to the underground parking. I couldn’t stop the images of the last time she was rushed to the hospital from playing through my mind like a damn
broken record.
Fear consumed me as my mind chose to focus on everything that could go wrong. Fuck, I needed to see
her. Needed to know that she was okay.
We get into the car and Gabe drives out immediately.
ver me.
“Haven’t we been here before?” I ask as a sense of de ja vu washes over
I still remember how pain and fear gripped my heart that day. How I felt like my soul had been smashed
into a thousand small pieces. It’s something I want to forget, but it’s etched to me like a damn tattoo.
“She’s going to be okay” Gabe reassures me as if sensing the turmoil inside me.
I don’t say anything. I won’t be able to relax until I know for sure that she’s safe.
The drive to the hospital is a blur and before I know it, we were parking in front of the hospital. The
moment he switches off the engine, I get out and rush towards the entrance.
get inside. A nurse sees me and motions for me to follow her. Almost everyone who worked in the
hospital knew me. Not because I was Rowan fucking Woods, but because when Ava was in a coma!
There doctors are with her now, but her parents are in the waiting room”
Theo
neo and Nora stand up the moment I walk in. Theo’s face looked like it was curved from granite and
Nora looked like she has been crying.
Iris was in her arms and was bawling her eyes out. Without really thinking, I pull her from Nora’s arms and
hold her to my chest.
I whisper soothing words to her. Trying to calm down her hysteria. She relaxes a bit but continues to
sniffle.
“Can I take her?” the nurse asks gesturing to Iris. “She’s probably hungry and that’s why she’s fussy”
I nod my head and allow her to take Iris from my arms. She was probably right.
She excuses herself and leaves just as Gabe walks into the room.
“What the hell happened?” I turn to them and growl while trying to keep my voice low. “I trusted you to
take care of her”
“And we did” Theo replies. “I don’t know what the hell happened. She excused herself to go to the
bathroom. A few minutes later, we saw Emma heading in our direction looking frantic. She’s the one that
told us that Ava collapsed in the bathroom”
Nora picks up from where her husband left off “We didn’t have time to question her about what happened or why she was in the bathroom with Ava. Our main concern at the time was getting Ava to the hospital”
“And where is Emma?” Gabe asks.
“We don’t know. We haven’t seen her since she told us about Ava”
Fuck. My anger was rising. I really wanted to punch something or someone
Just then, Ava’s doctor walks out.
“When I discharged Ava, I expected you to take good care of her Rowan” he begins with admonishing me. What I didn’t expect was having her back in my care two weeks after she left the hospital”
I glare at her parents before facing him again.
“How is she?”
Stable for now, She’s still unconscious but she’ll probably wake up in a few hours” he replies.
My heart calms down, but not by much. I won’t be able to relax until she is fully awake!
“Did she happen to hit her head on the floor when she collapsed?” he inquired.
“I don’t think so. Why?” Nora asks.
“Because of the wound on the back of her head. We were able to treat and stop the bleeding, but because of recording purposes, we need to know how she got hurt”
“She was laying on her side when we found her. It’s impossible that she would have hit her head when she
collapsed” Theo clarifies.
My anger becomes a fucking inferno at the implication.
This only means that she was hurt some other way and given how unstable Emma is, I bet my whole fucking fortune that she’s responsible.
“That’s strange” the doctor murmurs to himself.
“You said that she’s still unconscious?” I ask the doctor and he nods. “Good. I’ll be right back”
I turn to my brother. “Give me the car keys”
He’s hesitant but finally does.
“Where are you going?” he asks me worriedly, but I don’t answer.
I don’t give them another look as I walk out of the waiting room, my anger blazing hotter than the fires of
hell.
It was time I paid Emma a little visit. No one hurts Ava and gets away with it.
Synopsis
Ava: Nine years ago I did something terrible. it wasn’t one of my best moments but I saw an opportunity to have the guy I’ve loved since I was a young girl and I took it. Fast forward to years later and I’m tired of living in a loveless marriage. I want to free both of us from a marriage that should never have taken place. They say if you love something…. It was time to let him go. I know he’ll never love me and that I’ll never be his choice. His heart will always belong to Her and despite my sins, I deserve to be loved. Rowan: Nine years ago, I was so in love I could barely see right. I ruined it when I made the worst mistake of my life and in the process I lost the love of my life. I knew I had to step up in my responsibility and so I did, with an unwanted wife. With the wrong woman. Now she has once again flipped my life by divorcing me. To make matters even more complicated, the love of my life is back in town. Now the only question is, who is the right woman? Is it the girl I fell head over heels in love with years ago? or is it my ex wife, the woman I never wanted but had to marry?
