"Hello, Cassidy."
"Miley, I had been hit by someone….."
Although Cassidy could not deliver a coherent talk, Miley felt that she was beaten up by someone
"Miley, could you let me know your location?" Miley swallowed dryly.
"Caroline Hotel. Come over here… Ah…"
Cassidy cried out in pain and agony, and the phone call was ended.
"I need to go to the Caroline Hotel, Dexter," she said, with urgency. "Please get it there as soon as you can." Tears were welled up in her eyes. Miley took out her phone and frantically dialled Cassidy several times, but there was no answer. This upset Miley and made her even more anxious than she already was.
Dexter glanced sideways at Miley and saw the frightened look on her face. "Miley…" he started.
"I am sorry, Dexter. Now, I have to save my best friend. I'm scared she'll be in bigger trouble if I reach too late. I'm begging you." Miley's eyes pleaded with Dexter's
He hit the pedal to the floor and sped up. They arrived at the gate of the Caroline Hotel in a matter of minutes.
"Ah!" Cassidy screamed in pain and collapsed after one of the women hit her arm with the sharp heel of her shoe.
"Cassidy" Miley shouted.
"Cassidy, Are you okay?" Miley asked as she knelt in front of her.
Cassidy took a deep breath and smiled at her. "I'm fine."
"What are you doing to my friend? Do you have a death wish?" Miley growled.
"Looks like you have a death wish, bitch," spat one of the women. "But if that's what you want, we'll gladly help you get there."
Meanwhile, Dexter entered the scene after parking his car. The scene was far from anything imaginable. The brawling women were a shocking sight indeed. He had never seen women fight so fiercely before.
"Stop this at once!" Dexter shouted in a cold voice. The women stopped fighting, startled to hear a man's voice out of nowhere. They all looked at him.
How ironic was this? These women, who one would expect to dress beautifully and walk daintily, were in shambles: tangled hair, smudged make-up, and tom dresses,
"They all looked terrible," he thought.
"Dexter?"
"Dexter! What did you come here to do?" one of them asked faking a smile.
The three violent women began tidying up themselves quickly. All the women were crazy about him. They saw him as the most suitable man with money and all women wanted to be with him at all cost. He was hardly seen in more formal gatherings, but he was right here in front of them. Although this surprised them, they were also sad because they looked very unkempt in front of their dream man.
He didn't bat an eyelid. He walked past them and went straight to meet Miley.
"Why did you come so late....?" Miley burst into tears.
Seeing her shedding tears made him worried. He hated seeing a woman cry because it made him baffled.
He stood beside her and tried to calm her down, but he didn't know what to do.
"Eh... Pooh..." Cassidy coughed heavily and spat out blood, which frightened Miley.
"Call an ambulance! Dexter. Cassidy spat out blood. Is there an ambulance?" she screamed.
"Don't scream, Miley. Try to get a hold of yourself." Dexter reminded Miley asking her to control her emotions.
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The police and the ambulances arrived, and Peter led the senior executives of the hotel to the fighting scene.
The medics quickly carried Cassidy with utmost care into the ambulance. Miley got into the ambulance and left without even looking at Dexter.
Dexter was suddenly annoyed that she had ignored him so easily.
"Peter, I'll go to the hospital. You stay here and handle everything else. Don't let them get away with this." Dexter ordered.
When Dexter arrived at the hospital, Miley was outside the operating room alone, pacing back and forth anxiously.
"Has someone looked at your wounds?" Dexter was imitated when he noticed that the nail marks on Miley's face had not been attended to.
"My injury is not that serious. I will deal with it when the operation is over." Miley replied anxiously.
Without a hint of surprise at all, Miley received Dexter's cold looks with no emotion. This was nothing new, he had never been kind to her.
"Miley, don't you know that you are putting yourself at risk of a tetanus infection, by not treating those scratches on your fingernails? Do you want to die?"
Just then, Kelvin arrived and rushed over to them. He sensed that the atmosphere between Miley and Dexter was anything but matrimonial. His arrival did nothing to dissipate the lingering resentment between them.
"Hi! What was so urgent that I had to come here? Did you hurt her?" Kelvin was unpleasantly surprised by the wound on Miley's face, and this led him to snap at Dexter.
"Find a way to take this stubborn woman away from here and attend to her wounds." Dexter snapped impatiently before he walked away.