The Billionaire's Forbidden Longing

Chapter 26 Heartbreak

In the hospital, the doc was patching up Mia. Her face needed disinfecting, and her arms and ankles, rubbed raw from being tied up, needed some TLC too. Mia, who used to be a real beauty, now had one side of her face all swollen and red with three nasty scars. She looked pretty rough.

While getting treated, Mia called Alexander. "Uncle, help me!"

Getting a call in the middle of the night, Alexander frowned hard.

Mia went on, "Uncle Alexander, I'm at the hospital. Can you call my parents and tell them I'm crashing at the Carter Manor tonight and won't be home?" Hearing this, Alexander's voice turned icy. "Which hospital?"

Holding back his anger, Alexander grabbed his coat and sped to the hospital. When he saw Mia's sorry state, his eyes went red.

"Who did this?"

Seeing Alexander's face, Mia got a bit scared and shrank back.

Mia explained, "Uncle Alexander, I... I was kidnapped. Allison saved me." Alexander was instantly livid.

When he saw Allison applying medicine, he felt like he couldn't breathe.

Her shoulder had a huge bruise, swollen and way worse than Mia's injuries.

When Allison finished with the medicine and saw Alexander, she said flatly, "Mr. Carter, I'm sorry. It's my fault Mia got involved. Sophia kidnapped Mia because of me." Alexander felt like his head was gonna explode from anger at Allison, so he walked over, grabbed her hand, and dragged her out of the ER.

With a flick of his hand, Allison's back hit the wall, making her wince in pain. At the next moment, Alexander was glaring at her. "Why didn't you come to me first?" Allison's face went pale as she looked up at him.

Allison said, "We're both back safe now. Besides, I checked things out before going in; I could handle it!"

"But you got hurt!" Alexander's tone was sharp with anger.

Allison looked at him, surprised. Why was Alexander in such a bad mood today?

At the next moment, Alexander pulled her into a tight hug.

yourself.

harsh, but Allison could hear the

break free from his embrace

used to it." Allison's voice was like

by her parents,

on Alexander, and his hug was warm,

awkward; she'd

thought of her shoulder injury and loosened his grip a

So she pushed him away and leaned against the wall, breathing heavily. Alexander said again,

said, "Alexander, we're not that close, and I'm not like the girls you know. I can take care of myself; I don't need

Allison was like a porcupine, her spikes protecting her fragile

are people who genuinely care about you, like Mia, like me! No matter what you face, I hope

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do you want to be my support?"

her question,

a chance?"

couldn't just let someone become her boyfriend that

but luckily, Mia had finished

can I stay at your place tonight?" Mia asked with a pleading look. Thinking about what Mia

what, Sophia had brought it

was ready, but Mia insisted on sharing a room with Allison. Noticing Allison's discomfort, Alexander dragged

quietly, or I'll call your parents!" With that one sentence, Mia immediately quieted down, took a

a cartoon design that

said, "I love this

But when she turned and saw Alexander in the living room,

picked up his

current state. I'll come to

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