Clicking of shoes were approaching. At this point Emma didn't give a damn who it was, she was already on the peak of death.. whether it was the devil who came to finish her off, or an angel who came to assure her to rest at ease.. giving her peaceful death. At this point her vision was not clear enough to see the person.
a face stared down at her.. she stared at him back. Short brown hair.. smooth skin.
Emma tried so much to see him clearly, he had the most hypnotic eyes which gleamed in the night. Emma wondered if he was an angel, or a devil in disguise.. either way. She found herself spellbound by him.
Emma saw him lifting his wrist to his face.. checking the time, she heard him sigh before looking back at her.
" If I bring you to the hospital, I will be late for my meeting." She heard him say. ' does he mean he will leave her here to die? I was correct, he is a devil in disguise'.
Emma could only look at him blankly.
" But again, if I leave you here to die, he will never forgive me.. how pathetic is that."
He added running his fingers across his silky brown hair..as he stared at the stars. With a dark growl, he carries her in his arms.. heading towards his car, his pure white shirt stained with her blood. He lays her down at the backseat with him.. while the driver drove them to the hospital.
It has been 24 hours since Emma has been unconscious, she was brought in at 9 O' Clock. The doctors were able to remove the bullet and stop the bleeding, but she lost an amount of blood. The person that brought her in just dropped her off and left.. before leaving, he gave them a phone number to call.. which the nurse called.
Alec rushed to hospital with Aron, he has never seen him react this way..he has always seen Alec portray this calm..poker face, he isn't someone to show or get his emotions get the better of him. He looked so damn worried.. which worried Aron too.
Once Emma was out of the operation room, she was transferred to the resting ward to recover. Alec never left her bedside once.
" Sir, have brought you some clean clothes and food.. you should freshen up."
Aron spoke. " Have you found any leads?." Alec nonchalantly asked instead.
" I'm still working on it, Sir." He said.
" And the person who brought her in?." Alec asked.
" It was Mr Zain, Sir."
" Zain?." Alec repeated tilting his head.. staring at Aron through his shoulder, Aron simply gave a slight nod. He looks back at sleeping Emma and said.
" Go, continue investigating." Aron nodded walking out. Alec had two suspects who might want to harm Emma just to hurt him, between Fredrick Hassan, or his dear cousin, Nick.
Whoever it is, he won't spare them. Alec grabbed his towel walking into the bathroom.
In a closed dim room, the man begged for his dear life to be spared while tied up to a chair.
" Please, don't kill me..I have a wife and kid." He begged.
" You messed up, your instructions were clear enough.. ' finish her off'. She was supposed to be six feet under." A voice spoke from the shadows.
" I shot her I swear, I saw her slide down to the ground.. she was bleeding so much, I figured it will surely kill her."
" You figured?." The voice gave a mocking laughter. " Trust me it's not personal, but I can't afford to leave any loose ends..if you live, I will surely be caught, don't worry about your wife and kid..I will make sure they don't lack anything." They said before firing the gun, the man dropped dead on the dirty floor.
Alec changed into his clean clothes, simple black sweatpants and a black t-shirt. He sat on the couch grabbing a magazine.
a knock echoed inside the room.. Alec stared up from his magazine. " Excuse me." Betha walks into the room, Alec gave her a slight nod. " How is she doing?." She looks at Emma with teary eyes.
" The doctor said she'll be fine, she should be waking up any time soon." Alec calmly spoke, Betha approached Emma's bedside.. seeing her in such condition made her heartache, it scared her to death.
" I promise to find the person who did this to her, and make them pay." She heard Alec's dark and cold voice speak.
" I don't blame you Mr Qinn, I know if you were there you would have protected her." Betha said. Aron came in and went to whisper something to Alec.
Alec's face changed, he went from calm to kill mode. He stares back at Betha.
" I have to step out for a while, can you look after her?." Betha nodded. Alec and Aron left the hospital.
" How come he's dead, Aron, who killed him?." Alec's aura darkened.
" I guess since he failed to clear the job, they eliminated him for good.. getting rid of any loose ends." He said driving to the abandoned building.
" Anything else?."
" Mr Nick Qinn, spent the entire day at his fiancee's parents house, for a family gathering yesterday..I didn't find any unusual activities." He told Alec.
" And as for Fredrick Hassan..he isn't in New York, but Texas." He added.
Alec was confused, if non of these two could have done it..then who could it be? But again, even though all of them seemed to be busy..they could have made the call right, or hire another gun man to kill that man, who is it? Who could it be?.
" Sir, I was able to get hold of a footage to one of the CCTV cameras around that area, the area was dark and the person wore all black.. it's hard to tell, but from the figure, you could tell it's a woman." Aron handed Alec his phone.
Alec watched the footage, it was indeed a woman.. but who is she?.
Alec and Aron searched the place carefully, for some kind of clue or if the person dropped anything valuable..they found nothing, she did a pretty clean job like a pro.. Alec was pretty intrigued by this mystery woman.
Emma grunted in her sleep, slowly opening her weightless eyes.. looking around the room and scanning her surroundings, she knew to say she was in the hospital just by the scent of it. She tilted her head to her left and saw Betha sitting to her bedside.. she had fallen asleep next to her, Emma lifted her hand to pet Betha's hair gently.
Betha woke up looking back at Emma, her face immediately brightened up with a smile seeing her awake.
" Emma, thank goodness...I was so worried about you." She caresses her face. Emma smiled back holding her hand.
" I'm alright now," she assured her. " Betha, y -- you... didn't tell my grandparents about what happened to me right?." Emma added, she didn't want them to worry or anything.
Betha shook her head. " No, I knew you wouldn't want them to worry." She said. " Thank you." Emma kissed her hand.
A while later, Alec walked in with his indifferent aura surrounding him. Emma turned her gaze to him..her heart suddenly racing, she was sure to get a scolding from him for being so careless.
Betha softly squeezed her hand before leaving the two of them alone. She kept staring at him with those innocent doll eyes, praying to her dear God that he'll hold back his anger. Even though he has never raised his voice at her before.
Alec walked towards her bed, each step made her heart skip a beat..her throat felt dry - painfully dry... like she's been thirsting for days. She thought she should say something, but what? She had no clue on how to break the awkward silence, the suffocating atmosphere that suddenly appeared in the room. She couldn't bare it..it was slowly paralyzing her, like she's been bitten by a poisonous scorpion.
His indifferent eyes never left hers, she couldn't tell what he was thinking at that moment, she couldn't figure him out and she hated that about him..those cold unreadable blue eyes, why couldn't she read them? Why couldn't she figure him out?. Will he forever be like this with her?. Closing her out, building a thick wall around himself so she couldn't get any closer..a thick wall that keeps getting higher and higher, surrounded by thick mist and fog.. that kept her eyes from seeing clearly. What is he hiding? Why is he like this? Something must have happened right, so what is it?. All these questions kept scrambling inside her head like confused butterflies, questions with no answers.
Alec tucked some hair behind her ear.. surprising her, Emma's cheeks flushed red slowly blinking at him. She didn't expect that in so many ways. His eyes still remained unreadable and indifferent, he showed no emotions..so she couldn't tell what he was thinking.
" Shall we go home?." His husky deep - sexy voice spoke, whenever he spoke..it came out like a spell.. making her to instantly accept to whatever he said.
Emma nodded still staring into those ocean eyes that did so many wonders. She's been in the hospital since last night 9pm till now, it's already 6:30pm.. she just wants to return home and recover from there.
Alec had asked the doctor if he could take her back with him, he told him it's okay to discharge her.. just that she needs to rest and take her medication on time. He nodded signing the discharge papers.
Betha brought her new clothes to change into. She hugged her goodbye, Aron driving them back home.
Alec gathered her in his arms taking her upstairs to their room, he later brought her some warm soup to drink.. she couldn't take her medicine in an empty stomach.
Emma did everything he told her to like an obedient little girl, her cute expressions and gestures gave him away..he couldn't help but smile. He pets her head gently like a cute cat ... lying her down carefully.
" Now get some sleep, little lamb." He whispers. Emma closed her eyes falling asleep.
Alec walked into the bathroom to freshen up, getting off some tension off his body. He got into his pajamas and worked for a while on his laptop, he paused to look at the sleeping little girl for a while.
With a sigh, he closed the laptop switching off the lights..he gets into bed, falling asleep.