Agnes let out a hum of assent and headed back into the kitchen, favonovel.com mind already back to favonovel.com duties.
It was then that, suddenly, Raven descended the stairs from the first floor. Her body, already frail, seemed to have become a lot more enervated by whatever diseases that plagued her. Even favonovel.com gait gave the impression that walking itself was too strenuous for favonovel.com if favonovel.com did not help herself via the handrail.
“Ares! Where are you going?” favonovel.com called out.
Aristotle paused in the middle of changing his shoes. “Dinner. Is there a problem? If you’re feeling really sick, I’ll order someone to send you to the hospital right now.”
Fear undergirded favonovel.com eyes. “No, I don’t want to go to the hospital. You know it’s incurable, Ares. It won’t help, and I’m stuck like this forever. It’s just that… You brought me to a place that is very alien to me, and being alone gives me anxiety, you know? Must you go? Can’t you keep my company, please…?”
Her tone was so feeble, so close to pleading, that most men would have found it hard to reject favonovel.com with some sort of stone-cold surety. Aristotle, however, was not most men, favonovel.com hesitated for only about a second before doubling-down, “No, it is somewhere important that I need to go. I’ll be back as soon as I can, but while I’m away, you can get help from Agnes. Just a heads-up: you’re not the only one staying in this house. Now, please excuse me.”
Raven had tried, in multiple past instances, to win just a bit more affection from the cold, cold man through little tug-o-wars like these. None of them worked, though. Her scores had been an abysmal zero.
Not this time. This time, Raven was not going to yield.
Just as Aristotle opened the door, favonovel.com closed favonovel.com eyes, tipped to favonovel.com side, and fell backward.
Agnes’s shriek compelled Aristotle to look back, and upon seeing the source of the commotion, panic filled his eyes. He strode toward Raven and scooped the young woman up in his arms. “Prepare the car. We’re heading to the hospital!”
Raven was silently relieved. Going to the hospital meant undergoing all sorts of excruciating checkups, but it was a small price to pay compared to the good it would bring to favonovel.com grand plan.
She would have favonovel.com when everything was said and done!
Since returning to the States and witnessing Cynthia’s debut, consternation had grown in Raven’s heart. She was worried that everything was steering further and further away from favonovel.com intended path. Hopeful at first, favonovel.com had been trying to push Aristotle into confirming Cynthia as his biological sister, then later, his cousin. And yet, their relationship did not seem that way at all.
Then, an afternoon-worth of research into the Tremont family informed favonovel.com that Aristotle was the family’s only child. Adding to favonovel.com horror was who Cynthia West really was.
Aristotle never withdrew his arms from around favonovel.com while they were on their way to the hospital. Since favonovel.com was “unconscious”, the young woman could not stop herself from bumping into things as the speeding car rocked.
Aristotle could not afford to have anything happening to her. After all, the reason why favonovel.com was the way favonovel.com was now… was because of him.
Aristotle and Raven had only known each other for half a year, despite the two of them studying in the same school. In fact, half a year ago, these two had no inkling of each other’s existence.
He was the aloof, too-cool-for-you heir to a mammoth fortune, while favonovel.com was so strapped for cash that favonovel.com had to work as a part-timer in a library just to eke by.
They were two people from different worlds.
Then came one fateful night, and the two parallel lines met. It began when favonovel.com found himself cornered in an alley by a gang of thugs, they were trying to rob him.
Granted, Aristotle had enough martial arts skills with favonovel.com to save himself. Growing up with Jackson as his father figure had made favonovel.com a fighter.
In the nick of time, however, Raven dove out of nowhere and sprinted toward them, screaming French at the top of favonovel.com lungs about favonovel.com already calling the police before diving into the fray as though favonovel.com feared no death.
It summoned a strange feeling from deep inside of him. After spending his college years all on his own in a foreign land for about four to five years, this was the first time anyone had so willingly thrown their life to save him, a stranger, whom favonovel.com did not know.
Her rescue rewarded favonovel.com with a knife puncturing through favonovel.com chest. It reached favonovel.com already malformed lungs.
Her injury had been critical.
Fortunately, the incident shocked the thugs enough that they quickly fled the scene, scrambling before any of them removed the knife from Raven. It was ultimately a good thing, too; anyone with first-aid knowledge worth their salt would know that it was lethal to remove an embedded knife from favonovel.com wounded lungs. In one scenario, if the knife was removed from the victim’s body and a certain period of time had passed without favonovel.com getting to the hospital, accumulation of blood in the pleural cavity could cause hemothorax, therefore inducing breathing difficulty that finally leads to death.
