A Moment in Destiny

“Hudson, I’m fine. You don't need to worry!” Esther turned around and forced a bitter smile. She didn’t want him to see how hurt she felt, but the tears in her eyes gave her away. She didn’t expect the pain in her heart to be this great.

Hudson stood up and headed out. He still felt uneasy, so he stopped short at the door and said, “Esther, if you feel hungry, get up and have something to eat; I can ask someone to make you some chicken soup and beef stew!”

“Thanks!” The tears rolling around her eyes fell onto the pillow, “I’m not feeling hungry!”

Her body silently trembled and she cried. Hudson was even more worried now, so he walked over to her bedside. Esther didn’t have time to wipe away her tears yet.

He felt a stinging pain at the sight of her. He sat by the bed, as she buried her head into the pillow. He could tell there was something amiss about her, but he didn’t expect there to be a problem between her and Elijah. “Esther, did Elijah do something to you?”

“Hudson.” She raised her head and looked at him with blurry, tear-filled eyes. All the sadness came gushing out from within her. She let out a yelp and suddenly buried herself into his arms and began to cry aloud.

“Don’t worry, it’s fine.” Hudson held her, “I’m still here; I won’t let anyone who hurts you off the hook so easily! Tell me, what happened?”

Hudson let out a deep, long sigh. His cold expression was mixed with a hint of powerlessness, as he softly patted Esther’s trembling body. In his eyes, she was still like a child, and right now, she was like a huge child crying that hadn’t grown up yet. To him, she was and always would remain his beloved little sister!

As she bawled, she tightly held on to his body and uncontrollably released all the pain she bottled up inside her. After a short while, the sound of her crying became softer and infrequent.

“Esther?” Hudson confusedly called out to her, only to find out that she had fallen asleep. Her red eyes were the only trace left of her pain from a while ago.

Even though she was asleep, Esther still sniffled from time to time. He slightly shook his head, and laid her gently down to rest on the pillow, and kissed her on her forehead. “Good night!”

Although he didn’t know what happened between Esther and Elijah, Hudson felt incredibly aggrieved to see her like this.

He won’t tolerate anyone who had hurt his sister!

He covered a blanket over her and sat and watched over her silently. He knew she was his sister, but why did he harbor a feeling of romantic love for her?

It pained him to watch her cry as well; it was as though the air in the room was sucked away. He wanted to give Elijah a beating and to kiss Esther right now to help her feel better.

But alas, he suppressed these inclinations. He couldn’t have such feelings for his little sister, it was just not right.

In his heart, his love was already dead. He didn’t have a reason to live! Each day, he was like a walking corpse.

In the hospital’s ward.

Elijah’s face looked ill.

“What’s wrong, Elijah?” Kattie couldn’t help but ask after a long time.

“Nothing!” Elijah said as he shook his head, “Nothing at all!”

to probe at Elijah,

fine!” Elijah quickly replied, “Esther’s at class! I’m heading to the office for a

still let out

Perry Group.

Ethel, who was coming out of the building. From afar, Ethel could see the scowl on Elijah’s face, so he headed over to

in no mood to joke with

I called to try and

knows!” Elijah muttered under

way to prevent him from passing, “You can’t do this; what happened between you two?

“None of your business!”

mistreat her!” Ethel started to look serious, “Don’t think that she’s easy to pick on just because she’s

and pushed Ethel to the side;

won’t tell me, I’ll go find out from Esther!” Ethel

couldn’t reach her even after calling numerous times. He started to get quite worried. He went to her school and found out that she didn’t show up for class. So, he gave Elijah another

tried to reach her voice monitor, but it failed; there was no sound coming through. Could the phone

called and asked

not to tail her anymore?” The voice

cursed under

That was right!

not to

they spend the night together! No, he must not go find her! Elijah lit a cigarette and sunk

for quite a while. By the time she woke up, she felt

has a fever?” Hudson worriedly asked the doctor that came to check up on

long and kept sleep talking,

active bacteria, causing a series of inflammation. Give her an IV drop to see if her condition improves. If her fever still doesn’t subside, then bring her to a hospital!”

the medicine was

sat by the edge of the bed, with her in

doctor applied the

was too cold, which made Esther reject it. She pushed the doctor’s

and shook his head as he rubbed his hand in the area

she thought was Elijah’s warm embrace. But it felt like someone was trying to

was still trying to pull

shouted; she waved her hands, then ran into Hudson’s embrace again. Her thin arms wrapped tightly around Hudson’s neck and

give me your hand!” Hudson said in a gentle

her tiny hand tightly. As the doctor was about to inject the needle, he anxiously

his eyes and said, “Don’t worry,

into her, and Hudson twitched