Taming The CEO The Escaping Wife

Chapter 17

Seeing his dead serious answer, Letitia was a bit skeptical. “For real?”

Elgin shot back, “Would I lie?”

Fair point. Why would he lie to her of all people?

Letitia got up, freaking out a little. She’d sleepwalked all the way to Elgin’s bed it was a miracle he hadn’t tossed her

out!

But he hadn’t noticed a thing, had he?

“What are you dawdling for? Get out Elgin barked, snapping her out of her thoughts.

She gave a hasty nod and managed to stagger a few steps, but her head was swirling and dizziness washed over her. Her throat was parched and raw as well. She must have caught a cold, probably from getting drenched last night.

But Letitia couldn’t dwell on that she had to swing by the jail first. She needed to ask Elgin for a day off, or else if he couldn’t find her, she’d be in for a storm of temper

The problem was what excuse could she use? As Letitia was squeezing her brain for ideas, Elgin said, “Go see a doctor, don’t you dare get me sick!”

“Okay!” she replied cheerfully

For the first time, Letitia felt this cold couldn’t have come at a better time

After leaving Ivory Towers, she made a beeline for the jail

Preston was a lot more lucid now, but with serious injuries, he was bedridden and needed daily dressing changes.

“Letitia, it’s me that’s dragging you down… Preston said. “If we cut ties, would Elgin let you off the hook?”

“Dad, you’ll always be my dad.”

“I thought about suicide, figuring maybe Elgin would chill out. But then I thought of you and your mom. If I go, he’d just take it out on you two even more.”

Letitia just smiled, ‘I’m okay, don’t worry

She couldn’t stay long, dropped ten grand for medical expenses, and stuffed another ten grand into a envelope.

“Sorry for the trouble, she said ‘Please take good care of my dad from now on.”

It’s crazy these people just stood by and let Shela do her thing, heartless. Yet, she had to suck up to them. One day, she’d rise above all this One day!

After the jail visit, Letitia finally headed to the hospital.

“Letitia Sanders?”

“Yes.”

asked mechanically. “What’s the

throat feels like a desert and it’s also sore,

have any fever?”

her forehead, “Nope.”

doctor prepared the prescription, he casually asked,

a moment, “Well.. got sick once after eating soup. I

“Got a boyfriend?”

whispered, Tm married.”

never laid a finger on her, except

of forms

and saw

cold, why do I have to

doctor, or are you?”

don’t have the money.”

has already paid.”

then, might as well get it done since

had to wait half an hour for

taking so long, you

the jail and hurriedly replied, “I’m on my way

“Make it quick!

the results, so she rushed back to the Ramirez

into the night before finishing up.

over and bent down to pick

of shiny leather shoes appeared next

”

I can’t even begin to imagine what you’ve been through these years…” Walden was brimming with sympathy, “I

me, she said expressionlessly, “Mr. Sullivan, you’re in my

have been touched by such sweet words. But now, when twenty grand could crush her, what right did she have to indulge in romantic fantasies?

your past, those two pages of information… It took me ages to muster the courage to read them… Every word was like

the past. I don’t need your fake concern now.”

can still

stand up to Elgin? You can’t even defy your own

want to end up pinned in the bathroom

know it’s hard, but I’ll try, Walden insisted. “Letitia, do

Letitia let go. She believed Walden –

a

was a bowl of soup