Captivation: Want Nothing But You

Rachel’s face was pale and ashen at the nurse’s words. Her eyes were dull and lifeless and she looked as if she was about to faint the next minute.

"I " Rachel felt a wave of pain flow through her.The kind of pain that hit her like a flood and as much as she tried she couldn’t block it out.It died down and left her hollow before surging up in her heart once more making her unable to breathe smoothly.Rachel moved her lips as she tried to say something, but the words were stuck in her throat.

"I’m fine." Her voice was hoarse and trembling when she finally got control of it.

She tried to calm herself down but it didn’t work.

"But you don’t look good, miss.How about I help you sit down?"

The nurse was worried about Rachel and was afraid that she was about to faint, so she reached out and held on to her.

Rachel moved away from the nurse’s reach quietly, but then accidentally she saw the clipboard in her hand.

The paper on the top was printed with the two words "Death Notice."

And just like that the unbearable pain was back.

Rachel opened her mouth slightly.Her eyes never left the two words and her mouth was dry once more.

After a long pause, she asked with difficulty, "Did he die in pain?"

"What?"

The nurse only heard Rachel’s voice but her words were incomprehensible.

Following her gaze, she looked at the death notice in her hands.Seeing how devastated Rachel was, the nurse assumed that she was a family member of the dead and comforted her.

"Miss, please don’t let your grief control you.The dead are already gone.You must cheer up and move on with your life.He would have wanted that."

Rachel gripped her phone tightly and pinched the edges of the phone cover with her nails.She didn’t reply.She didn’t know how to.She didn’t even have an idea of what was wrong with her.She felt like bawling her eyes out, but at the same time, no tears came from them.Her mind had frozen over, and only the pain in her heart told her that everything was real.

Rachel thought the man lying in the operating

conversation between her and the nurse, Ivan

pale herself? As he was about to ask her more

and ask, he saw the person coming out of the elevator from the corner of his

"Mr.Sullivan."

a child’s voice came from

"Mommy!"

and saw Joey in a man’s arms.Joey waved at Rachel with a smile, struggled trying to free himself

was afraid that the kid would fall down in

to rush to Rachel.He threw himself into Rachel’s arms and

face became even paler as if she had seen a ghost. Her night hand was clenched into a fist, and her nails pressed against the palm

her palm told her that it

front of her was

the operating room? Who was he? Before Rachel could fully regain her composure, Joey

Rachel wasn’t steady on her feet, Victor moved

doing here? I couldn’t find you when

get any words out.She wanted to look away from Victor, but just like her lips, her

it still wasn’t enough to get her

over?" when Victor looked down, he saw Rachel’s

darkened as he mistook it for a sign that Rachel didn’t want to see him, so he looked away and kept reminding himself not to look at her.He looked at Ivan and

I’m sorry.The doctors

silence, Ivan handed the

confined to her bed by sickness all year round.I’m afraid his grandmother

said, "Cancel everything on tomorrow’s schedule.I’ll go to his home and pay a visit to his grandmother in person.Due to

agreeing to Victor’s strategy.Joey released his hold on Rachel’s thighs as he listened in on the conversation.He asked in confusion,

driver." Ivan

I had asked him to get some documents on a project from Mr.Sullivan’s apartment.He said he was on his way back to the company, but later he called to say that he had left something

few hours before, when the driver went back, Gentlefolk had already been