Chapter 5

Chapter 5

Michael,

 “So I told him to stop because I needed to wake up early, but that man is relentless. And kept me awake all night, ugh.”

“Don’t lie. I can see it all over your face. You really enjoyed every second of it. Fuck work, enjoy the sweetness of the beginnings, girl. When that sweet period passes, your life will be just the same old boring one, but with a nagging dick in it. I’m just saying.”

“I don’t care. I’m not looking for something stable at the moment. I want to enjoy my life and that is it. And when what you are saying happens, I will just search for a new man. I don’t need any stress in my life, girl.”

The two nurses kept talking in hushed voices as they got everything ready for our next operation. They thought they were whispering, but their voices rang loudly inside my head but I didn’t have the power to tell them off and Doctor Michael never hurt anyone’s feelings ever especially here.

“What is happening in here? Is this your time off or something? We have been standing on our feet for over twelve hours and you barely got here, so please do your work silently.”

Doctor Jackson, the anesthesiologist who always works with me, said and I smiled at him gratefully, making the man chuckle.

“You should learn to speak up your mind, Mic. You can’t always be this accepting and forgiving or else they will walk all over you, man.”

He said punching my shoulder, and I chuckled awkwardly as I scratched the back of my head looking at him ashamed, or that is what I hoped might be showing on my face.

“Naah, let them be. They face hard times like us. We just do our job and leave, but they stay to deal with patients after you know, so it is ok if they feel at ease around me, I don’t mind it.”

The man shook his head, but he said nothing and we started our operation which took over five hours, but it ended well.

I took my car back to the mansion, ready to sleep for a couple of days; I consumed all my power and strength in the past couple of days doing surgery and checks in the hospital, and before that; I didn’t sleep that much for three days.

But I guess it is not my fucking lucky day because the moment I stepped a foot inside, I found my brother waiting for me like a grim reaper.

“Get your fucking ass inside now.”

He growled at me, then he entered his office and I took off my jacket, threw it on some chair, and followed him inside.

I stopped the moment my eyes landed on the people that were crowding the room and I gritted my teeth. Is this a fucking intervention?

But then I saw a couple of fresh faces and I relaxed a little and blasted a fake smile on my face as I entered, closing the door behind me and leaning against a wall.

“OK, what is going on in here? I have spent two long days, guys, and seriously, I’m dying to get some rest.”

I said tiredly, and Gabriel glared at me, but my smile didn’t falter as I looked at everyone in the room.

Ariel was sitting on a couch with Jason beside her, holding her hands tightly, comforting her while Leo looked at his feet beside them, looking broken.

My brother was pacing the room while Sergey watched all of us silently, but he looked strung out like a damn rubber band.

Then my eyes landed on the two new women I had never seen before. One was a Latina and the other I can’t figure out what or where she is from. She has one of those ordinary but not so ordinary features.

Then it hit me, the tense atmosphere, the broken, disheveled look on Leo’s face, and the air of consumed grief.

“WHAT.THE.FUCK.HAPPENED.TO.LOLA?”

I said, growling even though deep down I felt like choking and my heart was like being torn out of my chest.

If they all gathered and looked like this, then something new must have happened to my Lola and it won’t be something simple or fixable. No, it must be bad. She might be hurt or even de…

“As if you fucking care, Michael.”

Gabriel said through gritted teeth and I advanced on him, my nose flaring and I clutched his suit and brought us chest against chest.

“Did anything happen to her? Answer me, brother, You know I’m not the one who should be triggered or stressed. You know me, Gabriel, so fucking answer me.”

I said in a firm voice, but my hands were shaking as I clutched my brother’s suit jacket. He looked me in the eye, then pushed me away, disgusted, and I almost fell to the floor to wail.

No, I can’t lose her, she can’t go like this away from me, If she should go then it would be together in each other’s arms.

“Nothing happened to her, but the bitch judge sent her to Max prison until the date of her trial, which is fucking driving me crazy.”

The Latina looking woman said, watching me and I closed my eyes, taking a couple of deep breaths, then faced her.

“She is a fucking minor. She isn’t eighteen yet. What the hell are you talking about? She doesn’t have the right to do that.”

I said angrily, and the woman put one of her legs above the other, then she gave me an interested look before she answered me.

“Unfortunately she does have the right to do so. It happened before in some cases, but they weren’t sent to Max, which is weird. But I took some measures for now and made sure that she is protected and taken care of as I tried to fix this.”

The woman lawyer said, looking at me, then the rest of the people in the room, and I thought about it for a moment.

“Give me the details of that judge and I will fix it tonight. I will make her send Lola back to where she was or even bail her. Then I will know why she did this. Last time I heard, I thought you two had an understanding.”

The woman stood up, then she began to circle me, her heels clicking obnoxiously on the marble floor and when she was done, she stood in front of me, giving me a glare that would make lesser men cower.

“You will do shit. I can handle this and last time I checked too, you are the fucker who didn’t visit her even though she begged to see you. You are the reason she keeps screaming and calling for you in her sleep. You are Michel, right?”

She said, poking my chest with one well manicured red finger and I narrowed my eyes at her and tilted my head to the side.

“Bella, please don’t. We are not here to fight, we are here to figure out how to solve this. And we had this talk before about……just please.”

Jason said, getting the woman’s attention seconds before I was about to break that finger that was touching me. No woman but Lola was allowed to touch my body. No one has the right to do that but her.

“Yeah, yeah, that he is unhinged and shit. Just let him stay the fuck away from my case. I will fucking kill him if he ruined this for her.”

That Bella woman said as she went back to where she was sitting and I noticed that the small woman that was sitting beside her was putting something back in her jacket.

“It is Michael and you don’t fucking have any right to question what I do and what I don’t.”

I said firmly, staring down at her, then I turned around to look at my brother who was sitting behind his desk now, watching the scene.

“I won’t stay idle like this for long, big brother. You said you know what these glasses mean and yes you were the one who told me to wear them when things get mixed up in my mind or I was struggling but know this it would be soon when I will break these glasses in half and you also know what does that mean. You only have till this happens and after, no one could blame me, Gabriel, and not even you could stop me.”

I hissed under my breath and stormed outside of the office when I felt the walls caving on me. I heard small footsteps following me, but I didn’t stop.

I kept walking until I was outside and standing in the garden, then I took a couple of shuddering breaths.

I kept gulping the air hungrily, like a starved man and felt my ears ringing as if there was someone hitting my skull, rattling my fucking mind.

For a moment, for a single moment there, I felt like I had lost her. I felt like I was dying. I felt like……

“Hey, Michael.”

A small voice said from behind me and I turned around to look at Ariel, who was watching me with those sad broken eyes that made my blood boil and anger fill my chest.

She took a couple of steps toward me. I clenched my fists when she got closer and stood on her tiptoes and opened her arms for me in invitation.

I swallowed harshly when she waited patiently for me and I didn’t miss her friend, who was watching us carefully, thinking that I might hurt her.

I looked down at the little girl, who now gave me an encouraging smile and I fell to my knees and hugged her middle tightly, breathing harshly.

I buried my face in her chest and kept breathing slowly, shuddering each time feeling like losing my mind.

“Shhh, it is ok. She is fine, and she can take care of herself. Don’t worry about Lola. She must be ruling that prison by now, right?”

Ariel said in a small crying voice, trying to comfort me, and I said nothing. I just hugged her tightly, like a little kid.

“We didn’t lose her. She will be fine. I promise you she will.”

She kept saying again and again as if she was trying to comfort herself, not me and my mind kept screaming at me.

She shouldn’t be promising things she can’t keep. She is just a liar, like the rest of them. But I said nothing and hid in her arms.