Nathan like a crazy sick dog, from Arthur's men.
He felt his heart pump blood at a high speed, his face felt hot against the cold breeze that brushed across his face as he runs. The adrenaline rushed through his veins as he looked for a place to hide.
He disappeared into a corner, Arthur's men tried searching but failed. He heard the sound of the phone from one of them. Nathan could see them from his hiding place.
"We lost him. " Nathan heard him say " okay sir "
"Let's go back," he told the others and they left.
After making sure they had left, Nathan jumped out of his hiding place and escaped.
Rose was just leaving home when she received a call from one of Arthur men.
She knew Arthur had been suspicious since Nathan appeared, so she had got one of his men to tell her anything he did.
"Madam, Boss has been shot. He's bleeding so much but don't worry we are heading to the hospital " he told her.
Rose had frozen when she heard what had happened.
"Madam, madam, are you still there?"
Rose woke up from her shock and answered back. She got into the car and drove to the hospital.
Arthur walked into the hospital like he wasn't hurt. He had been quiet the whole journey to the hospital. But his face had turned pale and his lips had list color too.
"Call my sister and tell her its an emergency " he said in a low voice.
He always came to their hospital when he was injured and only his special doctor treated him. But since his sister was a doctor too, he decided to call her instead.
He sat down on the hospital bed and waited.
His sister came in with a worried face.
"What happened?" she asked as she cut his shirt with scissors.
Arthur's men left the room and guarded outside.
"Arthur looked at her with a smile, " What does it look like, I was shot by a crazy maniac "
Alex poured disinfected onto his wound and looked him in the eye.
"It seems your still strong even after being shot, why don't we do it the old fashion way," she said as she pushed something into his open wound.
Arthur groaned in pain, it had been long since he had been shot or wounded, the pain made him faint.
Alex operated on her brother and got the bullet out of him. It had almost his vital organs
but fortunately, it didn't.
She stitched and bandaged him.
Alex meets Rose outside as she came out of the room.
"Is he okay?" Rose asked.
"He's okay, just needs rest and you " Alex smiled as she walked away.
"Arthur?!" a sweet voice called.
Rose walked to the room where her husband was. He lay on the bed unconscious, his face and lips had turned pale.
She touched his hands but they had felt cold.
"Why are your hands so cold? " she cried.
She hadn't seen this weak side of him before. He was always the one who took care of her and now he was hurt but she felt lost.
She caressed his face as she watched him sleep.
Arthur felt his chest feel heavy, he felt uncomfortable. He opened his eyes and looked around.
Rose was holding his hand as she slept beside him. Her head rested on his chest.
He coughed, waking her up.
"You're awake?" she said.
"Why are you here, butterfly?"
Rose jumped into him, hugging him so right she hurt his wound.
He moaned in pain, "Ohh am sorry " she said.
She brought him something to eat, he had slept the whole day and had been injured. She fed him then helped him rest again.
She lay beside him as they watched her favorite drama.
"Why didn't you ask anything about what happened? Arthur asked Rose.
Rose didn't say anything but continued to watch her drama.
Arthur had been silent since he woke up, waiting for her to interrogate him about what had happened.
After what felt like an eternity, Rose finally said something.
" I want to ask but I know it's your personal problem. You would have told me already if you wanted to "
Arthur pulled her closer and hugged her.
"I wanted to tell you but Nathan had already made friends with you. I just didn't want to hurt your feelings "
The door to Arthur's room opened, Irene and Sean walked in.
Arthur looked at them with a questioning face.
"Hi, don't look at me like that. I told her you're where fine but she insisted on coming " Sean said.
Irene walked to her friend who was seating next to her husband with a sad face.
"Is his doing okay?" she asked.
"Yeah, his is" Rose voiced out.
Sean laughed at them, "It, not his first time to be shot or wounded, he used not to even go to the hospital that much and just nurse himself back to normal. But you women are making it look so serious "
Both Rose and Irene looked at him and decided to leave the room.
"Nathan has disappeared just like how Archie did before," Sean said.
"I expected that just make sure Rose is safe since he might try to get in touch with her "
Rose took a sip of her coffee beside Irene.
"He's fine now, you shouldn't worry now " Irene patted her friends back.
Rose nodded in silence.
Irene changed the subject, " I got to meet Sean's father last time "
Rose brightened up and soon she was having a fun conversation with her about how it went.
Nathan had decided to hide in one of his isolated villas, he didn't go to Victoria's father in fear of involving him in his war with Arthur.
He waited anxiously for news about Arthur's situation. He hoped he had been hurt badly by his gunshot. He wanted to shoot his head and blow out his brains but Arthur turned unexpectedly causing him to shoot aimlessly.
Rose must be sad, just the thought of it made him angry. He was caught between getting Victoria back and winning Rose from Arthur.
Victoria didn't love him or cared about him, but he had fallen for her when she was pretending to love him before. But then he met Rose who was another galaxy he had never seen. She was new, sweet, kind, and beautiful.
He had fallen for her slowly with time when he spent more and more time with her.
He didn't know when his focus shifted firm Victoria to her, but now he knew he wanted to get her far away from Arthur as possible.