As early as a bird, Mr. Stephen Alejandro opened his eyes with a smile on his slim chapped lips. His hands crawled to the table beside his bed to reach for his reading glasses. In the process, his whole body started shivering, like that if a convulsing child.
Confused about the reaction of his body, the cylindrical shaped glasses dropped from his hand hand shattered in it's own frame.
The Chairman's eyebrows raised together as his mouth suddenly went slack, exposing his teeth in shock to the reaction of his body. Lines of vertical wrinkles formed between his eyebrows and gritted in pain.
Suddenly, as if the oxygen in the room was chocking him up. That moment, Mr. Stephen felt five fingers cutting through his throat, trying to reach for his soul. He quickly held his chest as he struggled to breath. Wanting to touch the small alarm bell he uses to call the maid, his body fell to the other side of the bed, as he struggled to catch his breath.
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6:50 a.mDawn was setting in when one of the guards from outside walked into the room underground, to check on Jade. He heard moaned in pain earlier."Rise and shine, Mr. CEO!" The guy muttered in his deep, baritone voice, banging the door open. He has brown long hair and a clean shaved beard. He looked pretty handsome and young. Like someone in his late twenties."So, it's you, eh? We finally meet. Jade Alejandro. The bossy, arrogant spoilt brat!" The guy spoke with hatred in his voice.Jade closed his eyes, as if he was too weak to even speak.The guy laughed sarcastically and walked to a dark corner of the room. He opened a small refrigerator and brought out a bottle of water."You know what? Your girlfriend is strangely interested in one thing, dude." He paused with his watchful eyes at Jade's pain and curiosity. "And that's you." He let
In the midst of all the confusion, Ace stood by her window side and aimed at Jade as they ran. He placed his light machine gun, focused directly to their direction. Clicking on the trigger, the golden bullet whizzed with force as if it was slow motioned. Sapphire looked back. Her eyes caught Ace pulled the trigger. About to push Jade out of the way, it strike her hard on the chest. Her blue eyes widened in bewilderment so did Ace. He pulled out the gun from the back of his pocket and shot at Ace but he escaped. As if everything was slow motioned, Sapphire placed two fingers on her chest and blankly looked. Her chapped lips widened to the sight of blood in her hands.Jade took her to a corner under the masquerade tree as she gasped in pain. He held her from behind, his hands wrapped around her in support as she sat, resting her bond on his."Fire!" He held her face in his palms."Jade.. " Her eyes looked up at h
[Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.]Black spots doodled his vision, bewilderment clouded his sides and puzzle played on his head as he tried to figure out where he was. There was a bag of glucose water dripping into his body from a stand. Numbness made the young CEO sit forward as pain overwhelmed his build body. A nurse held him gently and placed him back to lay on the sick-bed.“Don’t worry about anything, you’ll be fine. Just have some sleep. I'll go and call the doctor.” She said gently and brightened her beautiful round face with a smile.Jade carefully laid back.Minutes later, the doctor came to check on him. He injected something into his green veins while he slept off. Jade woke up woke up hours later. It was as if his head was too heavy for him to even move, while the other parts of his body was
Kate took him to the Chairman's room. There were vibulizers, bronchodilators and other beeping machines attached to him, as if his life depends on it."How did it get to this, mum? Jade asked with the stunned look on his face. He couldn't believe the chairman was in this state. Things probably got worse because of me, right?" Tears formed in his eyes as he muttered the last word."No, my son. Don't blame yourself for other people's mistakes. It's the Damien's family that caused this to us, okay?" Kate cleared up the thought."I won't agree less but would grandpa ever survive this? You said he's only having less than a month?""Yes... That's what the doctor said."This can't be happening. Not now... In anyway, it is unfair to be acting like this right now, grandpa. You should properly end this game your started, even though it would be the last." Jade's tears eyes watched the oxygen m
"Y..yes. I am." She answered, with guilt dancing in her eyes."I'm so sorry for what I did. It's all my fault and I accept it. But no one is above mistake after all.""Are you here to beg or you're here to lecture me?" Zoey rolled her eyes at Chloe, vividly and looked away. "Just imagine! Such a spoilt brat! I don't blame you!" She cursed underneath her breath.Lucas wanted to talk but he decided to keep quiet, watching Zoey and her attitude.I want you to understand why I need your forgiveness. It's to meet Sapphire's parents and beg them as well, so that my family name would be off this burden. I'm trying my possible best, Zoey. Only you can help me out."Then I wouldn't help you out, Chloe or whatever you call yourself! Especially going to her family. You'll just leave them heartbroken. I wonder what you've gained so far from doing so much evil. For causing so much pain!" Zoey muttered with a
Walking out, Chloe stopped Lucas and took him to a corner to talk. "I'm truly grateful for your help so far. At least with this, I'm able to feel free again.""I'm glad you realized your mistake, Chloe. Make sure don't repeat this ever again.""Are you going to drop the case?""Yes... But you won't be available to face Jade or have any contact or business related with him anymore. Take this document." He handed her a brown envelope. She opened it and checked through in heartbreak."If you appear before Jade again, nobody would be able to stop him from what he would do next so... I'll advise you don't even visit him. Just leave him for now and forget him.""What's this?" She asked. "Still confused.""This is the duplicate file for your case. The dust isn't still settled... Until Jade and Sapphire regain consciousness. But for now, I'll advise you leave the count
The heart transplant was complex, being that it was the second time Sapphire was having a heart transplant surgery. The open heart surgery took longer with her body, receiving oxygen-rich blood, which is why she was connected to a heart-lung bypass machine.After that, the cardiovascular surgeon made an incision, to operate on her heart. The incision was made such that her chest bone was separated and her rib cage was opened. The surgeon then removed the artificial heart, and replaced it with the donor's heart. The healthy donor heart was then sewn in place, and her blood vessels were attached to it. This process enabled blood to flow, as Sapphire's new heart then starts to beat normally. Although, the surgery lasted for seven long hours, everything went successful.After the heart transplant procedure was completed, Sapphire received pain relief medications. Ventilator was attached to her nostrils for easy breathing. Fluids were drained f
"Mum, dad... Who is this weird looking guy and why am I here? Uhh..... My head really hurts." Sapphire muttered, rubbing her forehead simultaneously.Jade was dumbfounded."I got shot trying to save you... Why can't you remember?! Is it because I came too late? Are you angry at me? Talk to me, Fire!" He turned to the doctor after wiping away his tears and sniffed quietly into his sleeves."Stop calling me that name okay?! I said I don't know you. Are you deaf? Ugh!" She muttered in pain.Sapphire couldn't understand why a random, pathetic looking guy would lie to her and shout at her despite her condition.With this, Sapphire gently turned to the direction of Fiona."Mum, what's happening here? Who's this?""Umm.. don't worry my dear. You're recovering, just relax." Fiona muttered, facing Jade with an annoying look."You heard her, right? So can you leave for now