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Own by
An Overbearing billionaire
Racheal Dennis.
Chapter 49
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Debby’s pov
Anna’s ap@rtment….! Two weeks later….!
Anna drops the bowl of chicken wings on the dinning table…I quic-kly got up and covers my nose when the aroma hits me.
I suddenly feel nauseous.
“What’s the meaning of that? You told me you wanted eat some chicken wings and here they are”
I shake my head.
“I suddenly change my mind…I want chicken nuggets”
“Huh?!”
“I said I want chicken nuggets”
“I heard you the first time!” She growls at me.
I couldn’t hold on any longer…I dashed towards Anna’s room since it’s the closest to me, I entered her toilet and bend over and start vomiting my guts out.
I feel Anna raise my hair from behind.
“Debby, are you preggie?!” She asked.
“W-what?!” I stutter out and continue vomiting.
“I asked if you’re pregnant?”
That question st©pped me from vomiting temporarily..I turns to her a little.
“What?! No!”
“Then I think it’s high time you visited the hospital to check your taste buds or something…. you’ve been this way since last week”
I got up and head back to the living room…I think I’ll avoid the dinning room for now.
I slumped onto a sofa and lean back, I shut my eyes and take de-ep breaths to calm myself down.
“I should go get changed and bring you to the hospital”
“No, I alre-ady went there yesterday…the test results will be out today” I told her.
Yesterday, when I was at Lucas’s, I fainted and he quic-kly brou-ght me to the hospital.
“Then, let me accompany you to check it”
“No, I’ll let Lucas bring me there!”
She narrows her eyes at me…like I have another intentions for letting Lucas take me…I just don’t wanna stress her.
I’ve been stressing her a lot these past days that I stayed with her.
“Why can’t I accompany you? What’s up with you and Lucas?”
“Anna, you haven’t been having time for your relationsh!pand that makes me feel like it’s because of me”
“What?” She frowns. “Sean and I are ok…”
“Call him and set a d@t£ for you guys!” I cut her off. “Don’t let Sean get jealous of me!”
The door open and Sean walks in with a single rose flower in his hands.
“You’re damn right, Debby… I’ll be jealous of you if she doesn’t create time for me!”
Anna rolls her eyes… Sean kneels in front of her and stretch out the rose.
“For you, my pretty lady!” He said in a french man accent.
Anna takes the rose and perceive it, closing her eyes momentarily to appreciate its fine fragrance.
“Thank you, darling!” She said and pe-cks hisl-ips.
Ah! I wish my own b©yfri£ndwas this ro-mantic when we first knew each other…I wouldn’t have done too much work.
In fact, until now he’s still not ro-mantic…just he’s no longer the psychopath I met.
I got up and sighed heavily.
“Well, Sean is here to keep you company..I better carry on with my business!”
“Fine! But make sure you visit the hospital”
“I will” I replied and head towards her room to freshen up..since I moved out, ap@rt from my be-d none of my stuff are in my room.
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Writer’s pov
At the hospital….!
Olivia grumpily pushed the plates of food Martha had placed in front of her.
“Olivia….”
“You lying bit-ch!” She cuts Martha off. “You told me your plan will make Andre turn to me in two weeks… It’s alre-ady two weeks, why don’t I see Andre here?!”
Martha sighs.. she picks the plates and cleans the floor.
“You are not patient” Martha said.
She reaches for her bag and brings out some papers and hands them to Olivia.
“What are these?!” Olivia asked.
“Fake results for your leg… Our plan A didn’t work, so we’ll use plan B”
Olivia scoffs and toss the papers aside.
“I’m tired of all your plans, what am I supposed to do with that stupid results?!”
Martha leans forward and whispers in Olivia’s ear… It seems what Martha told is very interesting, she smiled brightly.
She quic-kly reached for the papers and stares at them.
“We should have come up with a plan like this earlier!” She said.
Martha refills the plates and placed them in front of her.
“Eat, Andre is yours alre-ady!” Martha comforts her.
Just then Mr Thompson comes in… Olivia quic-kly st©ps eating and fold her arms across her che-st.
She pu-lls a long face… Mr Thompson notices her sad face and frown.
“What’s wrong, honey? How’s your leg?” He asked her.
Olivia scoff and turns away. Mr Thompson sits by her be-d side and examine her legs… since he’s not a doctor, he couldn’t tell if her legs are actually healing or not.
“I know you’re tired of staying in be-d all day, but don’t worry, honey, soon you’ll be able to use your legs again!” He said with a smile.
“I wish it’s true.. my legs are getting worse each day!”
“Worse? Haven’t you been taking your medications?”
“I have” she reached for the fake results and shows them to Martha. “The doctor gave these to Mom this afternoon.. it’s stated there that I can’t use my legs!” She cries.
Mr Thompson looks at the results with a sad expression… he can’t believe his daughter won’t be able to use her legs.
He looks up at sees her crying… although he doesn’t want her to be a spoilt br@t, but he loves her dearly and doesn’t like to see her in pain.
“Don’t worry, honey, I’m here for you.. I’ll do whatever it takes to make you happy until you can walk again!”
“Really?”
“Yes, just tell me what you want… whatever you want, I’ll do it!”
Olivia and Martha shared a knowing look briefly.
“Dad, I want you to……”
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Debby’s pov
Lucas’s ap@rtment…..!
“Lucas, can you plea-se change your clothes and not use that cologne?”
Like seriously, I don’t know what’s wrong with me. I’m kinda s-en-sitive to all kinds of smell recently…I can’t even use my perfume.
The only smell that doesn’t make me feel nauseous is Andre’s cologne….I find it sweet and add!çtive.
But that was saturday last week, I don’t know how it’s gonna be this week if I perceive his cologne again.
“Debs, we really nee-d to get that result now to know if something is wrong with your nose… I have been using this cologne all my life. You were the one who choose it because you liked its fragrance… So, what’s happening now?”
I sighed and pushed him towards his room.
“I don’t know.. just change your shi-t and don’t use any cologne!” I order him.
He doesn’t say a word, he silent enters his room and shut the door. I turn and head back to his living room but something catches my eyes.
I walked back, on his fridge there’s an envelope with a picture sticking out.
I picked the envelope and pu-lls out the picture… a quiet g@sp leaves my mouth.
Mrs che-sterfield? Why does he has Mrs che-sterfield picture with him? Is he her lost grandson?
What could be their connection?
I quic-kly open the envelope and saw some papers inside.. I randomly pu-lls one out and another quiet g@sp leaves my mouth.
But it was snatched away from me.. I only managed to pick a few words.
*Mrs che-sterfield involved in an accident with the Craigs….. Properties un-der Mrs che-sterfield care!*
Lucas snatches the envelope and pictures from me and quic-kly throws them in his room.
“What did you see?” He asked.
I know he’s referring to the paper because he knows clearly that I saw the pictures.
“Nothing! I saw nothing!” I replied.
I hear him sigh in relief. I know he doesn’t wanna talk about it, I’m not gonna ask him too… I’ll wait until he’s re-ady to talk to me about it.
But the question that keeps nagging me is…. Could it be Mrs che-sterfield caused the accident that took Lucas’s father’s life?
Could Mrs che-sterfield be the cause of their current situation?
“Debby!” He snaps his f!ngersacross my face.
I blinked and gave him my attention.
“Huh?”
“I said I’ve changed, can we leave now?”
I perceived his shi-t and nod… he takes my hand and leads me towards the door.
“Lucas, what about the child I asked you to investigate… Any news yet?” I asked.
When Olivia told me about her child, I felt like something wasn’t right… so, I asked Lucas to help me investigate if it’s true.
But when she called me about the orphanage being on fire.. I couldn’t think straight.
All I had in mind was save the baby…. But I didn’t expect that accident would happen.
“I have, but there’s really a child at an orphanage.. though I’m suspecting the matron was bribe-d to lie about that child being Olivia’s”
Hmm… Olivia! You’re Well prepared.. trying to pl@yon my kindness!
“We’ll go by the orphanage later, I wanna have a talk with the matron!”
Lucas nods and open the door for me.. I enters and he round the car to the driver’s side.
He turns in the engine and drives off.
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20 minutes drive later.. we made it to the hospital.
Yeah it’s the same hospital Olivia is admitted….we head straight to the doctor’s office.
“Miss Ryan, Mr Craig, plea-se have a sit!” the doctor said.
Lucas pu-ll-ed out a chair for me and I sat down… he also sit down on the chair next to mine.
Doctor Wang search his drawer and brings out a file… he fli-ps throu-gh pages.
“Last time we did a general check up for you and congratulations to you!” He said.
Lucas and I exchange looks.. I frown, why is he congratulating me?
*Are you pregnant?* Lucas mouths.
I shrug. If I’m pregnant I wouldn’t become allergic to smells…
“You’re four weeks pregnant!”
My eyes grow wi-de… I mean, I’m happy and sad at the same time.
I’m happy because being pregnant is a good thing and every woman’s dream… I’m sad because pregnancy is the last thing I want now.
I don’t know a thing about being a mother… What if I abandon my child like my mother did to me? What if I’m worse than my mother?
“Debby?” Lucas nudged me.
I c@m£ back to reality, I stared at him… he gestures towards doctor Wang.
“I asked if you’ve been having a blurry vision recently?” Doctor Wang asked.
I nod… Recently, my vision often gets blurry but I don’t think too much about it.
“Yes!”
“Has your head ever experienced any physical trauma?”
I frown.
“Physical trauma?” I asked in confusion. “Can you plea-se make it clear, I’m not educated so I don’t quite un-derstand what you mean?”
Lucas chuckles lightly and I glare at him.
“I meant, was your head injured recently?” Doctor Wang asked.
“Yes, it was an accident..a car accident to be precise!”
“It wasn’t given a proper treatment, now your current condition is not optimistic because your br@in area has experienced psychical trauma and there are some blood clots here!”
What? But Anna did some first aid treatment….am I gonna get in trouble?
“These blood clots are getting bigger and bigger, constricting your visual nerves and causing your eyes not to be able to focus clearly…in the end, you won’t be able to see anything at all”
Lucas notice I’m getting scared so he gr-abs my hand and ru-bs it softly.
“Doctor, why is it like this? Are my eyes not gonna recover?” I asked in a scared and worried tone.
I’m pregnant..if I go blind, how will I be able to look after myself?
“Well, if you un-dergo surgery immediately to re-move the blood clots.. there’ll still be a thre-ad of hope!”
“How much will the surgery cost?”
“The cost of the surgery, hospitalization, medication and post surgical examinations…is about three hundred thousand dollars!”
My mouth hangs open at the amount…where can I get that hvge amount from?
“I don’t have that much money at hand right now and I don’t know where I can get it from”
“What about Andre? He has more than that amount!” Lucas said.
Yes, Andre can afford it but what if he leaves me because of this condition?
What if he knows the possibility of its success is very slim.. won’t he chase me out of his house?
I shake my head.
“No! I don’t want him to know!”
“But he’s your b©yfri£ndand….”
“No! I don’t want him to know about this.. plea-se don’t tell him!” I begged him.
He doesn’t say anything more.. but from his expression I can tell he wants to argue with me…
I turn back to doctor Wang.
“Doctor, are there any other defensive treatment methods?” I asked.
He sighs.
“The only method is to rest quietly. But I must tell you, if you don’t re-move the blood clots, your vision will increasingly blurry… And you will go blind sooner or later!”
No! That can’t happen.
“I suggest you inform your family members as soon as possible and gather the money for the surgery!”
No! I don’t wanna hear more of this… He’s lying. I’m only having a blurry vision because of the pregnancy… It’s a symptom of pregnancy!
I got up and quic-kly left doctor wang’s office.
Lucas rushed after me.. he gr-abs my hand and pu-ll-ed me into a hvg.
“Debs, calm down!”
“He’s lying.. I won’t go blind, I just nee-d some rest!”
“Debs, he…”
“You had those blood clots too before, right?”
“Yeah, but…”
“You’re alright now, you didn’t go blind”
“Yeah, that’s because I was given the proper treatment earlier!”
I pu-ll-ed away from the hvg and close my eyes.. I take a de-ep breath and exhale slowly.
“Debs….”
“Let’s not talk about that for now… Let’s go to the orphanage!”
“No! Your health comes first, let’s go talk to Andre about it”
I know he’s not gonna let it go… I should trick him.
“Fine! Let’s go see the matron at the orphanage first… then we can go to Andre!”
He narrows his eyes at me.
“Promise?”
I nod. “Promise!”
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Writer’s pov
Andre’s office….!
Andre shake hands with Mr Thompson and shows him to a seat…
“Phoebe, bring us coffee!” Andre tells Phoebe.
Phoebe turns to Mr Thompson.
“Sir, how do you like your coffee?”
“Expresso!” He replies.
Phoebe nods and exits the office.
“Andre, how are you lately?”
“I’m good, Mr Thompson!” Andre replies.
Mr Thompson nods and leans back on the chair… Just then Phoebe comes back with their coffees and drops them on the table.
“Excuse me, sirs!” She excused herself.
Mr Thompson reach for the coffee and takes a sip. Andre looks at him with a sm-irk… he alre-ady has a hint of why Mr Thompson is here.
“Mr Thompson, can I know the reason for this non-business visit?” Andre asked after so much silence.
Mr Thompson drops the coffee and clears his throat.
“I visited Olivia at the hospital today… And she told me that her legs injuries has wors£ned. If this continues, both of her legs might atrophy from disuse”
“Oh!” Andre exclaims in a mocking tone but Mr Thompson didn’t notice.
“And you know in her condition, no man will want to marry her”
“Really?!”
“Andre, I remember you said you’d take responsibility for whatever happens”
Andre nods quic-kly.
“Yes, I said that!”
“My daughter has only one wish can you help me make her wish come true?”
Andre sm-irk.. he alre-ady knows where this conversation is going but he wants to pl@ydumb.
“Yes, plea-se, what can I do?”
“Marry her!”
“Oh?”
“Yes, even if you divorce her a day after the wedding, I wouldn’t mind”
Andre nods.. his sm-irk growing wi-der.
“Just marry her and let her be Mrs Knight…. even if it’s just for a day!”
To be continued.