Captivation: Want Nothing But You

Rachel turned her head to look at Victor but for a brief moment only.

“It may not be convenient for you to go upstairs because of your wounds. But you can use the small washroom over there so you can change your clothes and take a shower after Roger comes out,” Rachel said in a bland tone as if she hadn’t heard Victor’s question. Victor held the clothes tighter. His eyes darkened. 

“I’m fine,” he said, his voice taut.

 “I can go upstairs and change my clothes.”

“Okay.” Rachel replied frostily.

 “I’ll go now and see if Lila needs my help.”

“Are you inviting Roger to stay for dinner?” Victor couldn’t help but ask.

“Yes, I am. Didn’t you hear my invitation?”

Victor noticed that Rachel had this habit of frowning when something displeased or annoyed her. He raised his hand instinctively. He wanted to smoothen the frown lines between her eyebrows.

Rachel saw Victor’s raise hand, and she turned her head away from him. Victor pulled back his hand but not before his cold fingertips touched Rachel’s face.

 Looking forlorn at her, he said, “I’m hungry, too.”

“Carson just texted. He should be here soon,” Rachel said as she stepped backward to keep a distance from Victor. 

“If you are hungry, I’ll ask Lila to make some rice paste for you so you can eat some. When you get back to the hospital, you can eat some more.”

“I’m not going back to the hospital.” His eyebrows drawn together, Victor asked, “Rachel, are you still mad at me?”

Rachel just shook her head. 

“Then why would you want to live here? Why not in our home? Why are you driving me away?” The hurt in Victor’s voice was discernible. 

a moment. She didn’t expect to hear the word

“You are jealous?” 

a good reason. You asked me to go back to the hospital but you’re letting Roger stay here. How do you that makes me feel? If you’re angry at me, let me know. Throw your temper at me if you

should tell you something. You know that the two

Rachel. He put a hand on his chest and

but words were stuck in her throat when she saw Victor’s face

Victor said, his voice trembling

she was about to say they were divorced. And Victor had done that several times. He suddenly coughed when she and

too much of a coincidence that Rachel even doubted if Victor did it on purpose. She wondered if

Victor’s face to see if there was anything strange with him. His face was losing color. She felt her temples throbbing. She thought that it would be more worrying if Victor

be on his way here. Victor wouldn’t be

Rachel softened her tone and said, “of course, you’ll feel cold. You got wet in the rain. Now,

turned around and left the

go. He stood in his place for some time before he walked to the

just finished a meeting. He had three meetings, one another after. There were some problems in the Baltimore project so they had to think of viable solutions. After everyone had left the meeting room, he took out his phone and saw the message sent from Rachel. There were also missed calls from Lukas. The message read, “Victor’s here with me. Take him back please.”

Carson frowned.

 ‘Is Victor crazy? He could barely get out of bed, and yet, he left the

back, he picked up his coat on the armrest and walked to the door. In his haste,

Scott, are

his phone in his pocket.

and pick

widened in confusion.

he

you have

the hospital. Is the matter so serious that you’d want Mr. Sullivan to leave the hospital

the Sullivan Group had gone through all kinds of ups and downs during these

deal. I can handle it,” Carson said

said, “Victor is not in the hospital

the hospital!” Ivan exclaimed.