Chapter 148
Camille knocked on Victoria's office door, files clutched under her arm. The security plans for the
gala needed one final approval, and despite Victoria's reluctance about the event, Camille knew she would want to review the details.
When no answer came, she knocked again.
Still silence.
Camille turned the handle, expecting to find the office empty. Instead, she found Victoria slumped in her chair, eyes closed, face pale as paper. A small bottle of pills had tipped over on the desk, its contents sca
Victoria's eyes fluttered open. For a moment, confusion clouded her face, then recognition dawned. "Camille. I was just resting my eyes."
But Camille wasn't listening. Her gaze had locked on the pill bottle. The label faced upward, the word "OXYCODONE" visible in bold print, along with Victoria's name.
"What are these?" Camille picked up the bottle, dread pooling in her stomach. "Why are you
taking such strong pain medication?"
Victoria straightened in her chair, composing
herself with visible effort. "It's nothing. Just some discomfort from the surgery."
"This isn't for 'some discomfort," Camille said, reading the dosage on the label. "This is for serious pain. And your surgery was months ago. You should be fully healed by now."
Victoria reached for the bottle, but Camille pulled it away.
"Tell me the truth." Camille's voice shook. "What's really going on?"
Something shifted in Victoria's
eyes, a surrender, a resignation. She sighed deeply, then opened her
desk drawer and pulled out a folder.
"I was going to tell you after the gala," she said, sliding the folder across the desk. "I didn't want to distract you. Not with Rose still out there. Not with everything at stake." Camille stared at the folder, afraid to open it. The hospital logo embossed on its cover told her everything she needed to know.
"How bad is it?" she whispered.
"Open it," Victoria said gently.
With trembling fingers, Camille opened
the folder. Medical terms jumped out at her: "metastatic pancreatic carcinoma," " stage four," "poor prognosis." Dates of treatments. Surgical notes. Oncologist recommendations.
But one sentence burned into her brain: "Estimated survival: 3-6 months."
The room tilted around her. Camille gripped the edge of the desk to steady herself.
"Three to six months?" Her voice sounded strange in her own ears, distant and hollow. "That's... that can't be right.”
"The estimates are often conservative," Victoria said, her tone matter-of-
fact. "I could have longer."
"Or shorter." The words escaped before Camille could stop them.
Victoria didn't answer, which was answer enough.
"How long have you known?" Camille asked, papers crumpling in her tight grip.
"Since before the bombing of
the substations. The first symptoms started even earlier."
Camille stood abruptly, the chair scraping against the floor. "All this time?
these months, you've been dying, and you didn't tell
"I was protecting you."
voice
having time to prepare? From being
pain, Camille. I was protecting you from pain. You've had enough of that in your
to make!" Tears spilled down Camille's cheeks now, hot and angry. "We're supposed to be partners. Family. You don't keep something like this from family." Victoria flinched at
didn't tell me because you didn't want me to act like your daughter,” she said, the realization
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to focus on the company. On
hand, but Camille stepped back. "That's not it at
"Why hide something
moved. "Because I couldn't bear to see you look at me the way you're looking at me now. With pity. With grief. Like
expected you to be strong. To be ready to carry on without me. That's what I've been preparing you for
preparing me to work beside you," Camille said. “Not
hands, her grip
"Listen to me. What we've built together,Kane Industries, the Phoenix Grid, your
do. It needs to continue. You need to
business at a time like this? We should be discussing treatments.
"Tried every treatment with any chance of success. The cancer has spread too far,
giving up?" Anger flared again, hot and desperate. "The Victoria Kane
fought." For the first
exterior. "I have fought with everything I have. But some battles can't be won, Camille. Some enemies can't be defeated through sheer will." The
she saw not the
her, but a woman facing her own
replaced by a wave of pure grief so powerful it nearly knocked her off her feet. She stumbled forward, wrapping her arms around
she sobbed against Victoria's shoulder. "Please
word slipped out without thought, a
Victoria had truly become to her. Not just a mentor. Not just a
But a mother who had saved her, protected her, loved her when
moment, then her arms came around Camille, holding her tightly. Camille felt
girl."
front of anyone. "My girl,"
a moment, there was no Kane Industries, no Rose, no upcoming gala.
them. They pulled apart
scene, Victoria's pallor,
medical files
happened?" he asked, closing the door behind
couldn't speak. Victoria answered for her, her voice
stained face suggested.
Victoria said.
Alexander's face. "I
spun toward him, fresh betrayal cutting through her grief. "You
one might approach a wounded animal. "It wasn't my place to tell you, Camille.
said bitterly. "My parents. You. Probably
corrected. "And only because I needed their
Camille spat the word. "You mean your will.
your death
reached for her, but Camille
moved quickly to her side, helping her back into her chair. "You should rest,"
what the doctor said, Victona
in a few hours, and my
had never called her that before not directly. Just as Camille had never called her "Mommy" until
Camille said suddenly "Not
me like this Victoria's voice regained its familiar steel "We don't show weakness, Camille Not
about flose right now Camille enapped
me at the gata. Show everyone that Kane Industries remains
expression told her he agreed with Victoria Of course he did. He always saw the
wiping tears from her cheeks. "The gala goes on. But afterwards, we talk about treatment options Real options, not just palliative
in her eyes suggested she was merely humoring
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