All Chapters of Once Rejected, Now Desired. : Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

40 Chapters

Chapter 1 _ The Bet

"Wait, Helen," Samuel Kingston called out. He was a 23-year-old man in his fourth year at Avalon University. "Why should I wait? What do you want from me?" Helen asked as she turned back to face Samuel Kingston, the notorious bad boy at the campus. "Why are you playing hard to get? Do you think I want to use you?" Samuel asked, refusing to give up. He wore a faded black jean jacket, jean trousers, and boots, as he had just exited his pharmacy class. He was studying pharmacy, as was Helen, but she was a brilliant, chubby, 21-year-old fair-skinned woman. Some other pharmacy students stole glances at them and wondered if Helen would give Samuel a chance. Besides, his father was a billionaire who owned a pharmaceutical company in their state. Helen wore a white top and a brown skirt paired with black shoes. A pair of white spectacles was perched on the bridge of her nose. She was of average height with blue eyes and long blonde hair. "Samuel, I am warning you: keep your distance from

Chapter 2 _ The Call

The next day, Helen was in her dorm, studying her books ahead of the pharmacy exam they had the following week. It was past 2 p.m., and yet she had not had her bath nor eaten her breakfast since morning. Due to her plus-sized figure, Helen was trying to lose weight. She busied herself studying for her project, test, and practical coming up the following week. Tasha Thompson returned from having her lunch and looked stunned to see Helen cuddled up on the bed, her books in her hands, and it was Saturday. "Damn it, Helen! How could you not leave this room for a whole day just because we have an examination and practical next week? Come on!" Tasha said as she strolled up to the bed to meet Helen. Her hands reached for the book that Helen had been studying, and she snatched it and shut it closed. "Tasha, give me back my book. I do not want to fail this practical exam," Helen said as she frowned at her best friend's behavior. "You are beauty with brains, Helen. Obviously, you would not

Chapter 3 _ The Drug

After Helen stepped out from Mr. Ruben's office, another of her lecturers spotted her and called out to her, "Helen Robert." Helen stilled as the lecturer, Mr. Andrew Morris, asked, "Are you keeping a boyfriend that caused you to fail my practical exam? This has not happened before. What happened to you?" Mr. Morris was a middle-aged man, and he looked at Helen with disappointment in his voice and on his face. Helen couldn't meet Mr. Morris's face. Seeing all her lecturers angry at her, she knew that she had allowed her father's illness to weigh her down. She could have accepted marriage instead of furthering her education, as her father had suggested. "Helen?..." Mr. Morris shook his head and said, "Stay away from boys so that you don't destroy your future." The man walked away, and for the rest of the day, Helen went from one lecturer's office to another until the chancellor invited her to her office. "Helen Robert, what is going on with you? You came into this university and d

Chapter 4 _ The Slap

By the time Helen was done packing a few of her clothes, setting the medicine in her bag, and preparing to leave the room, Tasha arrived and seemed shocked to see that Helen was already prepared to leave the hostel. "Helen, where on earth are you rushing off to?" Tasha asked as she blocked Helen's path from leaving the room. "Tasha, I do not have the time to explain to you. I have to hurry home now. It's urgent," Helen replied as she pushed past Tasha and dashed out of the room. "Fine. Call me when you get home and be careful out there," Tasha said as Helen hurried out. "Alright," Helen replied, and she made her way out of the hostel, carrying a black school bag on her shoulder as she wore a pair of black shoes and her blue dress. Helen walked out of the female's hostel and made her way out of the university grounds. As she continued trekking out of the university grounds, Samuel spotted Helen, as he had been searching for her. Though it was a bet, he couldn't help but want to s

Chapter 5 _ Father's Call

Alex stood in the room, looking at his two best friends in shock. "No, John. You are not going to draft that bet and sign it. I don't agree to it," Alex said, wanting to stop his two best friends from going through with the crazy bet. "Have you guys thought about it if Helen found out that you two placed a bet on her? What will happen to her? Will she be able to withstand the embarrassment? I am going to tell her so that she doesn't agree with any of your bet," Alex said, but before he could leave the room, John and Samuel caught him by his shirt and growled at him. "You will not dare to do that. Except you want to see your father's company go bankrupt." "What?" Alex's jaw dropped. "Are you guys threatening me? What is so special about Helen that you all want to humiliate her? Just let her be. Please…" Alex begged, as he looked at his friends. They let go of his shirt, and John brought out a cigarette to smoke, as he was the son of a politician. "I will not let Helen off the hoo

Chapter 6 _ Mother's Call

Samuel hesitated before he answered his mother's call. "Hello, Mom." "Samuel, how can you go behind your father's back to help the Robert family? Your father has been trying to cripple that family for years, and now you succeeded in saving the Robert's boss," Mrs. Stacey said, her voice calm but laced with annoyance. She was aware of her husband's evil schemes that left the Kingston family on top of the pharmaceutical charts in their state and globally. "Mom, I had no idea what you and Dad are talking about. I didn't give out any potent drug to anyone, and I don't know who Mr. Robert is. The last potent drug I made is still under practicals and hasn't been distributed to the market," Samuel said, as he answered the call in the room. John only looked at Samuel in shock, not knowing that Samuel was the secret genius who created the last potent drugs that were used to cure the paralyzed rats in the lab. Then why did the lecturers not announce Samuel? Was it because of his father's wea

Chapter 7 _ In The News

At the government-owned specialist hospital that Mr. Robert was transferred to, Helen's four older brothers—Paul, Zion, Caleb, and Patrick—waited in the room. Paul Robert was a 37-year-old man and the oldest amongst them, while Zion was a 35-year-old man, Caleb was a 33-year-old man, and Patrick was 31 and older than Helen. They were in the hospital room with their father's lawyer, Mr. Lucas Samson. "Barrister Lucas, we need you to prepare my father's will in case he is going to die," Paul said ruthlessly, as he wanted to take over Robert's Pharmaceutical, but his father refused to give it to him, saying that he was reckless and not going to manage the company well. Paul wished that he could strangle his father to death. However, he was not the only son, and he had three other brothers who longed to take over the company. But the company had lost a huge fund, which they got to realize. "Paul, how can you be asking for Dad's company? How do we pay the workers now that Dad lost 50 mi

CHAPTER 8

Helen, who had just arrived at the same time as her brothers leaving, was shocked when she saw her two oldest brothers leaving the hospital with frosty auras. "Big brothers!" she called to their attention and wanted to rush over to them, but they looked at her like she was not their sister. They got into their cars and drove off, and Helen was shocked by how her two older brothers had reacted at the sight of her. They didn't even look sympathetic. They glared at her like she was the cause of her father's illness. "What's wrong with Dad? Why did Brother Paul and Zion glare at me like that?" Helen muttered, her voice tinged with confusion, but she had no idea. So she made her way and went into the hospital to find out what had happened to her father. Helen didn't even go to her father's house. She got the hospital address from her mother and came directly to the hospital after she left the university grounds. The university was a 1-hour drive to the hospital. So Helen had rushed ove

CHAPTER 9

"What?" Rosemary's eyes widened in shock, as well as Patrick's, since Caleb had already left the room in jealousy. It was just Patrick, Helen, and their mother. Patrick was a banker working for a commercial bank, but he hadn't expected the news of his father getting duped. So he was also shaken by the news but vowed to get the scammers arrested and brought to justice. But he acted calmly like he was not affected by the news and waited for his father to improve and give him information on how he got defrauded. But instead, his father's health was getting worse. "Helen, where did you find this medicine? Are you sure it will work on your father and not kill him? How are you sure that only a tablespoon of this medicine will cure your father? Who made the medicine?" Rosemary asked, her eyes filled with tears, and Helen looked at her mother, hesitating to tell them the truth. "Mom, I do not want to tell you who made it. But the person is an expert, and he did it," she said, while a doctor

CHAPTER 10

Helen's heart softened under her mother's warm embrace. She hadn't expected that her father would automatically recover and even be able to talk and move his hands and legs on his own—something that he had not been able to do before. "Helen, do you have anything to say to the media? What university do you study at? Is it the well-known renowned Avalon's University?" an interviewer asked, and Helen got to realize that it was because her father's company went bankrupt and it was announced on the news that he was owing hundreds of workers' salaries. Not just that, some other hospitals that he was supposed to supply his medicine to—he failed to meet up with the supply. But now that he had been miraculously cured, they hoped that Helen would take over Roberts Pharmaceutical and distribute the medicine to other hospitals with other stroke victims too. "Miss Helen! Can you shed more light on how you got this miraculous medicine? Who created it, and what ingredients were used to create it? W

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