ADRIAN
My hands trembled as I signed the informed consent for dad's surgery. I instructed the doctors that I needed the best doctors at Mount Sinai to cater to him. I hadn't seen him yet, all I knew was that he had a car accident and they had directly taken him to the OT.
I walked across the room to look at Cecile, dad's driver's daughter.
"You alright?", I asked her.
She looked up at me, crying and just nodded my head.
"He is going to be okay.", I said, with little conviction. Shaun had taken most of the hit as the truck had hit the car head-on, at least that's what the bystanders told one of the paramedics at the site of the accident.
"Do you even believe your own words, right now?", asked the red-eyed, thirty-something lady.
"Whatever the medical expenses are, just send me the medical bills. I'll take care of it."
"Thank you.", she said, wiping her tears, "Now if you'll excuse me, I need to call my mother."
I nodded as she got up and walked out into the corridor. I needed to call my family too, I remembered. I felt for my phone in my coat pocket and fished it out. I searched for 'Mom' in the contacts but couldn't find it. Then I remembered that Mrs.Ludwig had just got me the phone today, so Mom's name was probably saved as something else.
I scrolled through the contacts and found her number under 'Mrs. Greys'. I was about to press call when I realised I couldn't do it. She wouldn't be able to handle the news, nor would my sisters. I would have sent Bryan home, to get them but I wasn't exactly in a position of asking favours from him, nor did I want to. I scrolled through the list desperately until my eyes locked onto a name:
Vanessa
But she lied to me. Should I even be calling her?
Desperate times called for desperate measures and right now I was more than just desperate, so I just swallowed my pride and hit the call button.
I heard the phone ringing and then a voice,"Hello?"
"Vanessa.", I said as calmly as possible.
"Adrian??? Is that you??", she asked.
"Yes...",I said but before I could tell her the purpose behind my call, I heard a familiar voice in the background. I frowned, "Your with your dad?"
"Yeah. I have this shareholders meeting."
"You picked up my call during a meeting?", I asked, disapprovingly.
"No. It hasn't started yet but it is going to. Anything urgent?"
I sighed, debating whether to ask her or not, "Nothing. Dialed by mistake."
"Then why didn't you cut it?"
"So that you don't keep calling me for the rest of the day.", I said. Being the boss of a company had definitely taught me how to cover up well.
"Are you okay??", she asked, her voice laced with concern.
"Yeah. Why do you ask?", I said, biting down on my cheek, preventing myself from giving away how I felt.
"You are having a normal conversation with me. Shouldn't you be mad at me for day before?"
How do I tell her, my world just got flipped upside down. There was so much to take in, so much to process that I couldn't even be angry. Hell, I didn't even know how to feel right now.
"I am angry at you but that doesn't mean I'm going to yell at you, on a call. I'd do that in person, instead."
She laughed,"Great. That's exactly what I picked up the call, to hear."
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