The Billionaire's secret Love by Manogyna Marthi (self help books to read .TXT) 📖

Chapter 26

Angelica

I was enjoying a very great time at Martin's house. Uncle Xavier and Aunt Stella were great hosts. No doubt my mother had been quite a lucky woman to have such a loving brother. I look around the house and had some vague memories of my mom and myself visiting the place. Aunt Stella called me to the kitchen while she was preparing dinner for all of us. I had a hearty meal with mouth watering dishes of Italian tomato soup, sushi with raw salmon, baked tuna and custard as a sweet dish.

After dinner we left the Martin's lake house with lots of hugs and kisses. Just as Augustus started to drive, my phone started ringing. Looking at the caller id my heart started beating fast with unwelcome thoughts. Soon enough I hear the voice of Dr Stevens. Dr Stevens is the world famous pulmonologist who had been treating dad for COPD (compulsive Obsessive Pulmonary Disorder) since last two years.

Dad was diagnosed of COPD five years ago but he hid the disease from me. I discovered about his sickness two years back when accidentally his medical prescription caught my sight. Since then I invested every penny of my saving upon his health though he insisted on taking care of himself. Often he was in and out of hospital with complaints of frequent coughs and breathlessness.

Dad's chances for survival are very meagre unless and until he gets a lung transplant at the earliest. He wanted to leave this world in silence with no third eye catching the sight of him which got me to a privation. He is my dad and the backbone of my life. I need to save him by whatever means.

When the doctor first broke this news to me almost six months back I got into a vicissitude. We are already bankrupt. I did not know where to get such a huge sum of money for a lung transplant which is the only way to save my dad. I lost my mom at the age of nine. I was then young and immature. I did not know many things about her disease. But today in spite of knowing everything I am not able to save my dad. This feeling of guilt and hatred towards my own self is unquenchable. Holding my face in my tired hands I cried unstoppable sitting in the car beside Augustus. My dad is dying and I do not know how to save him.

Augustus

She Is crying impregnable and I did not know how to comfort her. It was the first time I experienced defeat in my life. I wanted to give her all the happiness that existed in this world yet she was sitting beside me and crying indomitable. I felt myself in a debacle for not even able to know the reason behind her breakdown.

Holding her tight in my hands I try to provide her a comfort that she needed and extract answers but she had already made up her mind to stay mute all through my interrogation. If she is obstinate then I am enough persistent to revoke the truth from her. As per her wish I drive her to her house with no questions further asked. She was engrafted into silent sobs and it was killing every iota inside me to stay coherent and execute the most warranted task at the moment in astuteness.

Angelica

I did not want Augustus to know about my dad's illness. He is an insensate and a formidable businessman. For the things my dad did to him and his businesses, he can prove to be dangerous to my father. So I asked him to drive me home instead of the hospital. I will soon find out a way and save my dad from the clutches of death. It was the promise that I made to myself about which I am sure to fulfil.

Few minutes later

I drive to the hospital and go straight to room no 305 where my dad was situated with several tubes attached to his nose, mouth and hands. I hold his weak hands in mine and he slowly opens his eyes. He strokes my hand for a few times to comfort me with his feeble arms and whispers in a soft voice. "I have no regrets from my life princess. I have completed my duty successfully in this world. I raised you up as a good human like I promised to your mom years back. Now it is time that I see her in heaven." Within next few moments his hands go weak in my grip but his shielding eyes lay stationed at me with a warm smile that he always adorned whenever he gazed at me. His beautiful princess.

"No dad! Not now, not ever." I yell in sobs but........
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I know this is the smallest chapter so far but I had to end it this way

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