Total pages in book: 54
Estimated words: 49114 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 246(@200wpm)___ 196(@250wpm)___ 164(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 49114 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 246(@200wpm)___ 196(@250wpm)___ 164(@300wpm)
I had a quick word with the doctor before he went back to the room where mom and dad were waiting. Elaina still hadn’t spoken, not even in the car when I held her hand as we drove. But I could see her nervousness and angst growing.
“Let me get the nurse to bring something for your cheek.” I touched her precious face as I knelt in front of her, and that’s when she finally broke. Her little frame shook with the sobs that wracked her body and I pulled her from the chair and into my arms, taking her place on the seat.
“It’s okay baby, cry. She won’t ever touch you again, I promise.” I’d brought her away from there to avoid just this happening. How the hell had she found them? Was it really just a coincidence?
I called my security team and put them on it for now since I was tied up here. My mind was really working now. For so long my focus has been on ruining her financially that I couldn’t see anything else. I’d already made moves to take over dad’s company.
I was going to leave him broke and out in the cold the same way he’d done mom. You see, I already owned a third of his company, but with the share he’d given mom years ago, which she willingly signed over to me, I was now the majority owner. With things the way they had been these last few months, it wasn’t hard to get everyone I needed on my side.
That had been my plan, and all that was needed was my signature on the necessary papers. That was going to be my wedding gift to them. To be delivered the morning of their wedding.
At about the same time the moving vans were going to show up to move them out of the house I had been steadily pushing into foreclosure since mom was asked to leave.
Now I don’t know what the hell is going on. A few days ago, I had only mom to worry about, then this one showed up and then there were two, now it looks like there might be three.
She finally calmed down enough to let the nurse get an icepack for her cheek, which I held in place while she rested in my arms. My innocent little lamb!
We hadn’t been there that long when mom came out to see us, wringing her hands and looking worried. “What is it, is dad okay?” I got to my feet and stood Elaina on hers next to me.
“I don’t know, the doctor doesn’t think he has Alzheimer’s, but he thinks there’s definitely something wrong with his system. It’s been compromised.”
Just then the doctor came out to the nurse and whispered something to her. Elaina made a move towards him while mom and I watched. “Doctor, if I get you what…what he’s been taking, would you be able to help him?”
He looked over her head to me, and mom with a quizzical look. “I don’t understand…”
“If I could get you something with the drug he’s been taking, would you be able to get him off of it?”
“What are you saying what drug?”
And that easily it clicked for me. The coffee. I think that was the moment I really and truly fell head over heels in love with her. Not because she’d tried to save my old man, but because she’d done it while she herself, was in danger. My brave little girl!
I hugged her close to my side. “I’ve got it doc. Mom, take dad home with you for now. Doc, I should have an answer for you in a day or two.” We waited for dad to come out and the four of us left together.
I followed them back to mom’s new home before heading back to dad’s place. “Go get it baby.” She turned and looked back at me in the doorway. “You know?” I could’ve lied to her, the truth would only open the door to more questions, but I didn’t feel right lying to her.
“I know, I’ll explain later, go get what you came for.” She ran up the stairs and was back with the bottle in less than five minutes. She didn’t give any explanation when she passed the bottle to me
We left just as quickly as we came. I knew just where to take it to be tested, so we could get the fastest results. No one had thought of the bitch rotting away in the holding cell and I wasn’t about to be the one to remind them.
After I dropped the coffee off with a friend who worked for the Feds and promised to bring his bribe of a case of the best scotch money can buy the next day, we headed back to mom’s place.