Chapter 174Chapter 174
She is you two problem now The night has been one of the hardest for both Elijah and Peach, sleeping
in separate rooms, away from each other‘s touch and comfort, and unable to sleep properly because
they couldn‘t seem to stop craving each other‘s warm bodies.
And when the morning arrived, Peach was staring at the sunrise through the hospital window and
wishing that all of this was just a bad dream. But she knew it was not when she saw her mother
sleeping on the couch by her side.
When Miss Grace opened her eyes, she weakly smiled and asked,” How do you feel now.”
“I can‘t believe I am going to be spending four months away from him…” Peach whispered, trying not to
start crying again because she felt tired from how much sobbing she did that night.
“Elijah will be visiting you.” Miss Grace said, waking from the couch.
Then she approached the bed and sat down, taking Peach‘s hand in her own and caressing her
knuckles with her thumb.
“You know it’s not the same, mama.” Peach whispered with a shaky smile.
“I know honey. But you have to be strong for your baby, Elijah, and you. What you are doing is risky,
and I fear for your life. But this is your choice to make, and we won‘t take that from you… But still…”
Miss Grace said, looking away from her daughter as she held her tears in her eyelids. “It hurt so bad. I
am afraid… I don‘t want to lose you.” Suddenly, Peach pulled her mother into a tight hug, knowing that
she couldn‘t let her see the fear she felt beam in her eyes… She
didn‘t want anyone to know just how scared and lost she truly felt about the situation she was facing.With his back resting against the bed, Elijah sat on the cold tiles, staring at the ceiling without blinking,
listening to the silence in the room that hunted him.
“I am doing the right thing… This is what she wants, and I should respect her body.” Elijah whispered,
letting out a slow breath.
Then he squeezed his eyelid shut and screamed, “But why does the right thing hurt so fucking bad!! I
do not want to keep guessing who is going to make it out of this alright… Both of them, or if I will still
have to fucking choose at the end who to save! Why?! Why??”
A knock on his door made Elijah flinch, and then he look up at the door opening to see Mr. Maxwell
standing in the doorway with this hesitant look on his face.
Drying his eyes, Elijah woke from the floor and then met his father‘s gaze, asking, “What is it?”
“About what happened last night, I thought that you should know that Melina seduce the governor‘s
son, had sex with him, and talked him into bringing her to the party…” Mr. Maxwell explained calmly,
giving his son a little frown.
“Where is she now?” Elijah asked.
“At Mercy Hospital, being attended to. Dr. Selina informed me that she suffered a Cervical Spinal Cord
Injury, and sustained Injuries to the spinal cord at the C1 & C2, so she can‘t feel anything below her
neck or move anything below that point.”
“Can you get them to take her back to Syldavia?” “Sure…”
After his father left the room, Elijah grabbed his phone and dial
Thomas‘s number, waiting patiently for him to answer.At twelve on the dot, Mrs. Maxwell walked into the room, seeing both Peach and Miss Grace staring
back at her, and she gave them a quick smile.
“How are you feeling now, dear?” Lisa asked with a worried voice.
“Much better, thanks.” Peach whispered, watching her mother–in –law approaching her.
Then she walked over to the table and set the bag down, saying, “I brought you some fresh fruits.”
As she took out the transparent bowls, Peach looked at the door and then back at her mother–in–law,
asking, “How is Elijah doing?”
Pausing, Mrs. Maxwell sighed, set the bowl down, and then said,” He took an early flight to Syldavia a
moment ago that‘s why he couldn‘t come with me.”
When Mrs. Maxwell saw Peach fidgeting with the sheet, she met her gaze and said, “He promised to
be back soon, and I am sure you will be the first person he‘s going to visit when he gets back.”
Grabbing the whiskey bottle, Dean poured himself another shot and downed it in one go. Then he
poured another shot, swallowing it down.
The whispering from the four guys behind him got his attention and his grip tightened on the bottle.
“Is that Dean Hayes… The once famous and wealthy chairman of one of the numerous companies Mr.
Hayes has?”
“I once heard on the news from that Elijah guy that Jewel‘s children do not belong to her late husband,
so he can not be a Hayes…”
“I heard that his mother is in prison for killing her late husband,
and all his siblings are also behind bars for the shady shit that they did.”“Their family sounds cursed, honestly.”
When Dean suddenly stood up, the four men immediately stopped talking, and he turned toward them
and snorted, staring hard at them.
Drowning in his drunkenness, Dean suddenly unzipped his pants and before the four men could get out
of the way, he started pissing on them which made the bartender scream, “Hey, you!! Piss out of here!”
“Shut The Fuck Up!” Dane said, zipping his pants.
And then he turned to leave, but the four men had surrounded him, and the first guy said, “Hey,
cockhead, do you think you are still a rich shit? Take a look around you, huh!! You are drinking some
shitty whiskey in a half–star bar at ten o‘clock, pissing on yourself and us, and you dare to put up an
attitude!”
A wild laugh left Dean‘s lips, like a madman, he kept laughing until he fell backward onto the bar
counter and screamed, “Screw you, Elijah!
“Damn, beating up this lunatic is just going to be pathetic. Let‘s just leave him in his stupor…” one said
of the guys I disgust.
When Dane turned round, resting his palms flat on the counter, he looked up and scowled at Thomas‘s
face on the TV as he said,” This is a message for Dane and Martha… Your daughter Melina is at
Bluecest hospital. You two should go over there to take care of her business.”
Clutching his fist, Dean reached into his pocket for his buzzing phone and then answered the call,
saying, “Martha,” “Did you watch the news!” His Ex–wife‘s voice echoed in his ear.” I am on my way
there. You should meet me there.”novelbinStressing about how Peach was doing, Elijah stared at his inbox, and he wrote a couple of words
before deleting it, not knowing what to say or if he should say something… his mind was simply a mess
at that moment.
Suddenly, Martha rushed into the waiting room to see Elijah, and the moment they locked eyes, he
stood up as she hurried towards him.
“What did you do to my daughter, you bastard?!” Martha shouted, collaring him with his coat and then
shaking him hard as she cried.
Immediately, Elijah grabbed her wrist, pulling one hand off him before yanking the other, and then he
took a step back, commanding coldly, “Keep your hands to yourself.”
His words knocked a bit of sense into Martha and she dropped her hands, asking, “What happened to
Melina? Why are you here, at the hospital that the reporter on the news said she‘s at!”
Before Elijah could move his lips to speak, Dean bashed into the waiting room, drunk and smelling of
pee, and then he stormed for Elijah, swinging a punch. But Elijah stepped aside, grabbed his fist, and
shoved him against the wall. Holding him there, Elijah said firmly, “If you weren‘t this wasted, I would
have beat the shit out of you for what your daughter did to my wife!” “What happened to Melina?!”
Martha cried in frustration.
Looking over at her, Elijah frowned and said, “Your daughter is a bitch. She tried to kill Peach and my
unborn child. But Karma is a bigger bitch than her, and now she‘s paralyzed from the neck down to her
feet.”
Both Dean and Martha gasped in shock. Martha covered her mouth and stared back at Elijah as she
tried to wrap her brain around what he had said.“I am returning her to you two because I will not be responsible for the hospital bill of a woman that
tried to unalive my unborn child and wife,” Elijah added, letting go of Dean‘s arm and taking steps away
from him. “She is you two problem now.” “What…?” Martha whispered, completely taken aback by his
words.
Immediately Dane struck with his fist, but Elijah quickly knocked his hand out of the air before shoving
his punch deep into Dane‘s stomach, making him cough and wheeze, his arms flailing.
Turning to Martha, Elijah raised his head and looked straight at her. And then he spoke sternly and
angrily, almost shaking, “I have done the most human thing I could do for a murderer. Now she yours to
take care of.”
As Elijah walked off, Martha clutched her blouse and then shouted, “How do you expect us to take care
of our daughter when you have taken everything from us, you bastard!” “Go look in the mirror, stare
hard at your reflection, and then ask yourself, ‘Whose fault is it that I am in this condition?” Elijah said.
With those words, he walked out of the waiting room, and immediately, Matt and the others joined him
by his side as they matched down the hall.
“Are you booking a suite for the night?” Larry asked.
“No. I am going back home to my wife.” Elijah responded.
When the study door opened, a short guy with a nervous look walked into the room, not daring to raise
his gaze to lock eyes with
the one seated behind the desk.
“Senator Landon, it‘s been confirmed that Bryan is the one who‘s your opponent for this upcoming
election for district two.” The fellow said, listening to his heartbeat pounding in his ear.Suddenly Senator Landon slammed the table, the sound making his assistant flinch a little.
“That brat?! Does he think that I will not keep my promise to his mother!!” Senator Landon yelled. “If
that piece of shit has the chance to push me out of this position that I have sacrificed everything!!!
Everything for… No! No. I can‘t allow him to pull this bullshit and succeed!”
Suddenly, Senator Landon stood from his seat, pacing back and forth, rubbing his chin, and mumbling
to himself, and then he said, “Get Deacon in here!” “Yes, sir!” His assistant replied, rushing out of the
study before shutting the door after him.
A few minutes later, a tall man, built like a tank and with the thickest brows anyone had ever seen
strode into the room and nodded to Landon, saying, “Boss, you send for me?” “Yes!” Senator Landon
stated. “There‘s something I need you to do, Deacon! We are gonna win this election! But to do that I
need to get rid of a pest. Now… Your job is to follow Bryan Check everywhere he goes and report back
to me, what he does, who he speaks with, what he says… just everything, understand!” “Yes, boss!!”
Deacon answered, and then he left the office without glancing back once.
‘I need to take him out, by any means necessary.‘ Landon thought.