ENTANGLED WITH THE SAVAGED BILLONAIRE

A LIFE WITHOUT THE LOVED ONE

Jennifer POV

I looked down at my sickening mother laying on the hospital bed with tears flowing down my cheeks, everytime I try to wipe out the tears on my eyes more kept coming. Her hand was heavy and pale and slowly day by day I begin to realize that she was slipping away from me into the other world.

What can I do without her? She was the last parent I had and without her my life will be a whole lot of mess.

Realizing what my father did when I was younger, I felt the anger running through the course of my body. He had left his pregnant wife to feed for herself and when I was given birth go, my mom fell ill so many times that I could not count.

Several tears roll down my cheeks as I recall how I had to drop out of college years ago just because I lacked the basic luxury to go back to school. We had to settle for other paying jobs, just to feed ourselves on a daily basis and also run my mother's medical bill, while sending my brother to school.

"What will my life be, if I loose her?" I wondered, while my heart begins to beat very fast. She was everything that I could ever have in a person.

Suddenly, I remembered the time when my mother before her cancer, her smile as my name rolled out of her tongue.

"Dinner is ready Jenny." She was so calm and peaceful and always tried to protect us at every little cost that she had.

We were a great family, but those days were over and now I have to face the reality that I could potentially loose her to the cold hands of death.

My thoughts were caught shot abruptly, when I heard a soft moan come out of her lips, as she stired in her sleep. I moved closer to her, rubbing her hand and trying to comfort her through the period she was going through.

My eyes went over to her bald hair and the words of the doctor replayed itself in my ear. "She has three stages of Ovarian cancer." He had revealed those words to me.

Looking at her eyes, the once happy and loving mother wasd only left with pain and agony written over her face, even in her sleeping state.

Suddenly her eyes flung open and she begins to panic as the machines which had been connected to her begins to beep loudly. I was totally confused on what to do, when the nurses ran into the room and one of them forcefully pushed me out of the room, despite my protest

I sat by the door on the floor closing my eyes and for the first time I had to pray to the creator to grant her safety and her well being. Suddenly, I felt a tap on my shoulder forcing me to look up at the piercing eyes of Jason my brother.

"You need to go and see the doctor, he has been looking for you." Jason revealed, but stopped his words, seeing my countenance. "Are you alright?"

"Forget about me Jason , let us talk about you. What are you even looking for over here? I believe you are supposed to be in school studying?" I questioned, feeling emptiness in my heart. I cannot be bothering Jason a young boy who has great future at his disposal.

"We closed about two hours ago." Jason responded. "I returned and I find you covering your head while crying."

"What about mom?" He asked, trying to peep through the hole of the emergency unit's door.

"What did the doctor want?" I asked, ignoring his earlier question.

"I don't know, he simply wants to see you and he says it is important that you show up." He stated.

I reached out to Jason and he slowly helped me up to my feet. We both made our way through the hallway to the doctor.

"Is mom okay?" Jason asked, as we were close to the doctor's office.

"She is doing well, they are trying to give her the best medications out there." I explained, even though I knew this was not the truth.

When we arrived at the doctor's office there was no one inside and my anxiety increased thinking about my mom's condition before we came over to this place. The door opened and the doctor stepped inside, hanging his coat up across the wall.

"Great to see you again Miss Jenifer." He said giving me a reassuring smiling. He offered the seats in his office, as he also took his seat.

"Doctor, what exactly is wrong with my mom?" I asked, paying close attention to him. His eyes moved away from me to the desk filled with folder. He appeared to be contemplating on brwaki and a news that I could not explain.

"I am sorry Jenny, I don't know if it is okay to call you Jenny." He had a sad look on his face.

"Yes doctor, so please what is wrong with my mother." I asked, ignoring the shortening of my name.

He drew his chair closer and cleared out his throat. The doctor looked at Jason and then back at me. "I don't know how to say this but your mom'a situation has gotten to the fourth and final stage and it is really bad. We have tried chemotherapy to try and reduce the cancer but it has really affected both her lungs and liver." After his explanation, he turned his attention to his laptop screen.

"What can be the possible solution doctor?"

"This is the time we try the last and possible solution." He said looking at me, while I processed his intention. "This surgery can or cannot work, I will suggest you start saying your goidbyes to your mother because she will not last up to a week, I am sorry i have to be blunt with the truth." He said with the same sad look on his face.

"And how much will this surgery cost us?" I asked, trying to calm my nerves down at the end, even though I was breaking inside.

"Ten million dollars will cover up all the expenses." As the doctor revealed this piece of information, I turned to Jason who was also tearing up. The reality was slowly dawning upon us, we cannot save the one person we know is important in our life.

The door suddenly burst open and one of the nurse entered the room with a frightened look on her face.

"The patient is not stable, we are trying our best but it is not working, your presence is needed doctor."

I turned to the doctor, who rose up to his feet and quickly wore his long lab coat, before heading out of the office as we also followed him.

By the time we got to the emergency unit, my eyes landed on the machine, which seemed to be charged up for almost a few seconds.

"3...2...1." I read as the machine counted and soon enough the beeping sound faded away and I looked at the doctor, who turned to the nurses. They seem to have spoken with their eyes and I could see the sympathy on their faces as they turned to look at us.

"What is happening?" I asked, my heart beating very fast.

One of the nurses pulled off the clothes used in covering my mom's body and covered her face and in that moment the world seem to have stopped.

I heard sobs and turned around to see Jason 's filled with tears and soon he tried to rush over her side, but I had to stop him.

"I am sorry ma'am, your mom is dead."