Chapter 30
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” How much are you owing?! How much do you fucking owe?!” she screamed at her father with tears running down her face. She tried to keep her voice low because they were in a hospital with Noah and other patients resting. With everything she went through for him, he still dared to gamble and put himself in another massive debt.
” Thirty thousand” He muttered shamelessly riling up her pent-up anger in waves.
” You know I don’t care about what you owe, I don’t give a fuck. You are going to sort it out like the damn adult that you are. But what I need an answer to is why I came home to find Noah unconscious with his head bleeding almost dead and you their debtor were there looking fine as hell without a scratch on your body?” She said raising her voice at the end angrily.
” I tried to protect him! They were using him to threaten me!” He shouted and she laughed hysterically.
” So my dear father, you knew they were going to use him to threaten you and if I was also around, God knows what they could have done to me! And you still went ahead to borrow more money from them?! Are your children pawns to you and your fucking loan sharks?”
” I’m not over what I passed through to sort the first one you borrowed and yet you did another? It’s not as if you are a child, you are a grown up act like one.” She cried shedding more tears than before.
” if you don’t understand Father. I sold my body to pay off your loan, I sold my dignity, the one thing I was glad to still have intact. My reputation was almost ruined, I became the talk of the town for the wrong reason because I wanted to save our necks from danger but guess what? My father was busy placing our heads at the fucking guillotine!” She said wiping her tears with the back of her hands.
” I’m sorry” he muttered adjusting his glasses.
” you know what? Just get out! I know you don’t have a dime for the hospital bill. I’ll settle it as usual, just get the fuck out of here” She said angrily pointing at the door.
” You are kicking me out? I’m your father and he remains my son” He said in a very emotional voice that is capable of convincing a total stranger but not Sophie. She has had enough of his shit.
” Whatever it is you think it is just get out of here” She stated coldly sniffing back her tears. Thankfully, he did not argue further. He left her alone with her brother who was still lying unconscious.
She hoped silently that she won’t have to go through the image she saw when she got back from Edna again from her life. She had been so scared seeing Noah barely unconscious, she worries about his mental health. While she copes with her issues by being quiet and calculative. Her brother only smiles and plays around hiding every emotional pain away from everyone.
A knock from outside jolt her from her thoughts, and the door opened to reveal Max and Kayla. Both rushed and gave her a bone-crushing hug. She had messaged them with her father’s phone out of panic on her way to the hospital. Kayla was holding a banquet of flowers for Noah while Max tagged along as usual.
” Everything will be fine” Kayla whispered to her ears while patting her back gently as a form of comfort. She blinked back her tears trying to appear normal but the truth is with everything that has been happening to her, she reached her breaking point already.
She had to tell them how everything started from the moment her father started gambling and borrowing money to why she had to look for a sugar daddy because she needed money urgently. They were both shocked at how much she has been hiding from them
” So that was why you panicked when that French bastard ransacked our room?” Kayla suddenly realized nodding her head slowly to digest the information she got from Sophie.
” I find it hard to believe that you have going through all these for the past few months and you didn’t tell us a thing. We are supposed to be your best friend. Okay, I guess I’m just a co-worker to you but you and Kay sleep and wake up together” Max said rubbing his face in frustration. He knew something was wrong with her all along but he wouldn’t imagine it to be something as huge as this.
” I’m sorry” she muttered trying not to look at them.
” I’m just heartbroken. You don’t even see me as your friend” Kayla’s voice cracked emotionally.
” I’m sorry. I just don’t want to bother you guys I guess” She said apologetically and Kayla gave her a wide hug again.
“It’s okay. You must have been so scared. Everything will be fine, we are here for you” Kayla sniffed patting her back. Both of them started crying until Max calmed them down.
“Can you stay with Noah? I need to use the restroom” Sophie said wiping away her tears for the hundredth time that day. Both of them nodded sure and she went out of the room before realizing that she doesn’t know her way around the hospital. She wonders what Noah will say when he wakes up given how much he hated the building.
She asked a few nurses and they gave her the direction. She muttered her thanks and followed the directions with her mind that she doesn’t know until she bumped into a familiar person.
Liam blinked twice to be sure it was her. He wondered what she was doing at the hospital looking so lifeless.
” Sophie?” he called out and she looked up finally noticing him but the urgent bladder matter didn’t allow her to stop for a chat with him. She started walking faster to locate the restroom but he didn’t stop, he was following her thinking she wanted to run away from him.
” We have been trying to reach you” By the ” We” does he also mean Chris too. She almost stopped at the thought but she might empty her bladder in the hallway any moment if she doesn’t locate the restroom faster.
She finally found the room and dashed inside with an amazing speed she didn’t even realize that she had. That was when Liam realized what was, he muttered an oooh before finding a seat at a nearby bench. He quickly dialed Chris’s number to tell him that he had just seen Sophie at a hospital.
He had accompanied his baby mama for the first check and he got bored while the doctor was attending to her, he decided to take her a stroll only to bump into Sophie.
She came out a few minutes later with a relieved expression on her face but something about her seems off. She looked tired and messy and lost some weight since the last time he saw her.
” I know this might be awkward. No, it is awkward but how are you?” he said to her immediately after she came out.
” I’m fine I guess,” She said softly running her hands through her messy hair.
” I know you are not. Judging by what has been happening in the past few weeks.” He muttered softly but she gave him a fake smile.
” I’m fine really. At least for now, I know I’m really fine” she replied rubbing her sweaty palm together. She wanted to ask him about Chris but held back so he wouldn’t say what she doesn’t want to hear.
” What are you doing here?” he asked leading her to the bench he was sitting on earlier. She nodded her head thanks as she took a seat right beside him. He was texting someone on his phone probably Chris.
” I’m here for my brother. He got into a bit of an accident” She answered him and he felt bad for her. No wonder she looked so tired.
” what about you?” she asked trying to ignore the awkward atmosphere between them.
” I’m expecting a child so I came with the mother for a check-up ” he replied biting down the sour taste in his mouth at the word child.
“Congratulations. Such a gentleman you are, being there for your woman and all” She said with a smile but Liam could hear the underlying meaning in her tone. He sighed, it was as if he had predicted. The is a big misunderstanding between her and Chris. So she thought Chris abandoned her to deal with everything alone.
” Thank you but I think you should listen to what Chris has to say,” He said and she scoffed loudly.
” I don’t think he has anything to say to me. He left and I don’t feel he owes me any explanation for what he did” She stated coldly.
” Maybe he does or maybe he doesn’t, He will be in here in ten seconds but please listen to him” He stood up suddenly making Sophie’s eyes trail his movement to the left. Her heart clenched in pain seeing him again. She was suddenly torn on what to do, whether to run in the opposite direction or run straight into his arms.