Chapter 85

At the mention of Vanessa being involved in a terrible accident, I scramble to my feet, the chair screeching as I push it away from the table.

Frank instantly gets up as well, wondering what’s going on with me.

As I get the details, it seems like with every passing second, my heart races even more.

“Where is the right now?” I ask the woman on the other end of the line.

It turns out Vanessa’s not too far away. The hospital she’s been admitted to is only

nutes from here.

The only thing on my mind right now is that I have to go there immediately.

As soon as she cuts the call on me, I leave the table in a rush, Frank walking in a hurry beside me as I head to the parking lot.

“Dude, what happened?” he asks.

“Vanessa was involved in an accident.”

“What? How?”

“I… I need to go right now.” I loosen my necktie, feeling like I can’t breathe as my body temperature rises.

Once I’m in the backseat, I instruct my driver to drive as fast as possible.

1 don’t have it in me to inform my father that I won’t be back at the office and what just happened to Vanessa, so Frank says he’ll take care of it for me.

On my way to the hospital, I dial the woman’s number again just so I don’t lose contact with her. I need more details about what happened. To my frustration, her phone doesn’t even ring, making me slam the seat beside me.

“Drive faster!” I instruct my driver.

He flinches a little. “Yes, Sir!”

Close to 5 minutes into the ride, something else hits me. Vanessa was with my sister, so what happened to her? Did they already part ways? And where did this accident even take place? These questions make my mind race even more as I try to make sense of all this.

Frank gives me a call right when the car turns at the corner and I can see the hospital.

“Hello?” There’s a slight tremble in my voice.

“Are you there yet?”

“I just arrived.”

on his way

call, my mind

comes to a stop, I step out, thinking about calling her, but to my surprise, I receive an incoming call from her. I’m so curious

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quickly pick up, standing right

some random person on the other end of the

brother She sounds

forrow my eyebrows.

me wonder why she

are you right now?” I ask, pacing a

restaurant

You two are still

You sound so shocked. Hey, Vanessa,

that we’re still hanging

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in the background, making me run the palm of my hand down my face.

you give Vanessa the phone for a

in love,” Sophie says mockingly but right now,

babe,” Vanessa says from the other end of

“Hey, is

fine. Actually, it’s great!” She

my hand on the side of my body while tightly wrapping my hand around my phone.

a prank

should put me at ease, but I’m fuming right now. Who would dare do such a thing?

actually

familiar voice and when I turn around, it’s Carmella.

her head. She also looks like she’s barely

I shake my head in

did you expect? I had no other way of seeing you.”

you stoop so

“Are you kidding me? You’re

woman I

don’t know. She’s just someone I paid,” she says nonchalantly.

your mind for

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for it. Shaking my head, I face the direction of my car so I can get back to it, but

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