Mr Billionaires Secret Baby

Chapter 22

Chapter 22 Dante’s POV

This wooshing sound of waves crashing against the shore wildly rang through my cars. The bright blue sky was above me and the vast ocean was before me. My hair was wet as were much of my b*dy but the tide coming in was tempting.

Too tempting that | refused to listen to the warnings of staying out of the water. | grabbed my surf board and charged forward right in to the blue abyss. The blood rushed through my ears, the wind trickled through my hair, and | waited for the adrenaline to kick in.

“Dant, are you insane? Get back here! The water is too wild.” | heard the wanting voices of the elders call out to me but | paid them no heed.

My surf board had already touched the waters surface and stood steady just as | climbed on top of it. The thick current of the water propelled me forward giving me a boost and for a fleeting second | was on top of the world.

Until that moment ended.

Ahigh, violent wave washed took the board from beneath my feet unexpectedly with so much of force and a mind of its own that | was caught off guard. The board moved faster than my legs could keep up sending me right in to the heart of the monstrous wave. The loud shrieks and screams were the last thing | heard before | was catapulted on to the ocean.

The salty water travelled through my nose, burning like a freshly cut skin dipped in spirits. | gasped for air but there was none, just the wild, uncontrollable ocean that threw me from here to there. My efforts at regaining my control of the situation was futile. The water was too wild for me to navigate and despite my attempt at coming up for air, another wave crashed over me and this time | had nothing left in me.

| willed myself to kick my legs, to get back up again, to try once more and save myself but my b*dy didn’t cooperate. Every thing was dark and | was hopeless. This was the way that | was going to die just because | wanted to feel the exhilarating thrill of riding the wild waters.

My vision turned black and my b*dy allowed itself to be thrown around where ever the tide had taken me. My senses were bleak and unclear, so when a pair of arms wrapped around me, gliding me through the water, | assumed that this was it. This was my soul being carried away in to the nothingness.

“Oh my god!” | heard the frantic exclamationbas my back felt rough beads against its skin. “His pulse is weak. Some b*dy, do something.” Portia panicked loud enough that it hurt my ears. “No. No! Stay with me, Dante. Another voice begged but this voice was low and rippled with fear.

Her I*ps pressed against mine as she blew in to it while closing my nose all the while compressing my chest until my b*dy began coughing out whatever water had been making its way in to my lungs. | coughed and it burned my insides, my throat, and my nose.

My eyes opened widely and | saw the woman who saved me loud and clear as day but when | 16:24 Tue, 5 Mar Chapter 22

blinked, she looked different. | could have sworn it was Sophia who saved me but just one blink had refocussed my eyes as Phoebe filled my vision. | took a few deep breaths before my b*dy passed out from sheer lack of energy which made me feel like | was dying all over again.

Snapping me out of it like a rug being pulled from beneath my firm feet, | gasped as my eyes flew open only to be greeted by the white florescent light that hit me right in the eyes.

Oh, thank goodness! It was just a damn dream. | sat up immediately only to find that | was in a hospital room with monitors hooked up to me leading to a beeping machine.

Suddenly, it has all come back to me. | recalled the incident when | had drowned and | knew now for sure that it wasn’t Pheobe who had saved my life but Sophia! Sophia had been the women that risked her own life to save mine. She dived in to the violent, uncertain waters just to pull me out of it with out caring that she could have drowned herself for even trying.

My breath was harsh and erratic through the room and my head pounded painfully as | made sense of it all.

Pheobe had lied to me from the start and so did her mother. Portia had been the one who reinforced how indebted | was to Phoebe for saving my life when she knew that that had been an utter lie. A lie told to gain my favour only so that | would view Phoebe in a different light and feel like | owed her my own life in return.

This whole time | kept myself planted at Pheobe’s side thinking that | couldn’t fully leave her, that | had fallen for her in the first place, because of her selfless act of saving my life years ago but that was all bull shit.

It was Sophia all along!

She had saved me from the deep waters of the lake just as she had done so from the crashing waves years ago. Sophia never reminded me about it yet she knew the truth while Pheobe and Portia kept throwing it at me every time they thought that | was sl*pping right through their fingers.

| reached to massage my temples as it throbbed but felt a bandage wrapped around it. It was tender to the touch and | vaguely remember much that happened after the black SUV knocked in to us sending us over the edge of the cliff. The impact had hit my head against the roof of the car and | couldn’t remember much after that except for Sophia’s voice as she dragged me out of the water.

Shit! Where the hell was she? Had she been injured? Was she okay? Did something happen to her?

Countless bone chilling thoughts ran through my head and | needed to know that she was okay. | needed to know that she did not give her life up in the process of saving me once again. | needed to know that she was perfectly unharmed.

Who ever had been responsible for our attack last night would be tracked down and dealt with accordingly but that could wait. | needed to know where Sophia was right now and so god help me if she was not. | would rain hell on down on to the culprit until they wished they did not exist!

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The situation could have been a lot worse. At least no severe harm had come to Sophia but | still wanted a full medical report on her. | needed to make sure that we had not missed any thing, it was

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already my every intention to bring forever was responsible for this attack to a brutal horrible Justice but so god helped me if any internal harm had been caused to Sophia because of the entire accident.

| was here to make a call to Frederick but it would have to wait until | get out of here. | don’t understand why they have chosen to keep me in the hospital for this long, beside from my head which hurt like hell and the pain in my arm, | was perfectly okay.

| threw my legs over the edge of the hospital bed which certainly was not designed for comfort in mind and pulled out whatever monitors had been hooked Up to me. | needed to see Sophia and make sure she was doing okay. | took the first step towards the door and realize that | had a mild limp from the pain in my back but it wasn’t anything | couldn’t bear.

“Mr Crawford you should not be walking around in your state.” a nurse called out from behind me the minute | had exited the room but | paid her no heed and kept moving down the hallway peaking into each room.

“Sir you need to get back to your room right now, the doctor needs to do a thorough examination on you while you are conscious before you are free to just walk around as you please. “this was the voice of another nurse that | also ignored and continued walking practically looking through the small cutout in each door hoping to find Sophia soon.

| could hear collective footsteps walk behind me as if | was some deranged psych Ward patient on the verge of doing something dangerous.

“what are you looking for? you are not allowed to barge in to-”

The nurses were beginning to get on my last nerve. “I am looking for Sophia Miller. if | assume correctly she and | will brought in together. “I snapped at them after pausing and swinging around to face all of them catching them of guard.

“you would assume correctly. “the first nurse who had tried to come in my way spoke actually too the one that joined her later. “however has already been discharged. “a wave of relief had washed over me knowing that she was well enough to have been let go.

“had someone arrived to become up? “I couldn’t think of Adam coming to pick up after what had happened between them and | didn’t want to assume that she had driven herself home in her condition.

both the nurses darted skeptical eyes at each other. “I’m afraid we are not allowed to disclose such information to you. “the second nurse Who initially joined the scene said like she was in control of everything that went on around here.

| took a step forward and cleared at both of them meeting them know that | was not here to play. games neither did | have the time for it.

“who picked her up from the hospital? “I demanded to know once more and | saw their professional resolve crumbled.

“a man by the name of Adam Huxley,” she said and that had caught me entirely of guard since Adam was the last person | was expecting to show up after Sophia had blatantly declined his proposal.

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aside from that a bitter taste was in my mouth partly from being absolutely thirsty but it also tasted. like jealousy. | thought Adam Huxley was out of her life once and for all but the man was proving to be a leech that refused to let go.Contentt bel0ngs to N0ve/lDrâ/ma.O(r)g!

“which of the doctor needs to assess me before dismissing me from here | need to see him and | need to see him now. “both of them shook their head in apprehension.

“the doctor is currently unavailable. “my nostrils flared as | begin to lose my patience with the both of them.

“if the doctor cannot see me right now then | have no choice but too leave according to my own. will.” | muttered angrily as | ignored the protests of both of them and headed back to the room to get my clothes on and go to Sophia’s.

“Sir! Sir! You can’t just leave with out the doctors permission. There are still remaining tests that need to be conducted on you before you're deemed well to leave the facility.” The nurse barked behind me but | ignored them and continued walking determined to leave.

“Then get me the bloody doctor.” | barked finally having—lost my patience. “But neither of you can do that so do not try and get in my way.” | warned them and saw both of them take a shaky step

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