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Chapter 15 Chapter 15

He walked into the hospital and as soon as he got in, Henry who was sitting at the other side of the hall, say his friend walking in and he waved a hand.

Duke went to his friend and he sat down by him and they both shake hands.

When Bethany saw that she could not convince Dr. Travis, she decided to leave his office but he held her and asked,

" Where do you think you are going to?".

Bethany took off her hand as she had understood what he wanted to do. Pushing him on one side, she told him that if he lays his filthy hands on her again, she was going to scream.

"Oh I an scared see me shaking of fear", he said pulling her closer to him and using his tongue to lick her neck.

Bethany fought back to keep her posture but the Dr. was hell-bent on taking advantage of her this time around with or without her consent.

As she was struggling wiry Dr. Travis, a knock was heard on his office door but he face a deaf ear to it but when the knock was heard again for a second time, he could not resist but ask who it was.

" Dr. Travis you have a patient waiting for you outside and she has been here for quite some time now", a voice came from outside and Bethany had guessed that it was a nurse that was talking.

Gathering herself with an energy that she could not understand where it came from, she pushed Dr. Travis making her way out of his office like a mad person that she almost pushed down the nurse that was standing right in front of the doctor good when she came out with the speed of light.

She ran through the corridors crying like a child not knowing what to do anymore, as Dr. Travis was a man with no conscience.

she made her way through the patients and nurses she found till she ran into Dule again for the second time.

Crying and fighting back with all her strength, Duke and Henry were so confused as to what could be chasing her from the creeks of the hospital.

"Calm down young lady what is the issue stop crying", Duke said softly as he had recognized her but she had not yet done because of her state of mind.

Bethany lifted up her head and when she had made out that the man that was holding her was Duke, she hugged him tightly as though he was her protector.

In her moment of fright, she kept on saying,

" Don't let him touch me please save me".

Duke and Henry were lost as they had no clue of what was happening to her.

At once, some nurses and a doctor came to them and said that the patient had to be admitted as they thought that Bethany was a patient that had been brought to be admitted in the psychiatric department.

Duke rose up to his feet and with an authoritative tone he yelled out,

"She is not crazy, I know her and it is obvious that something or someone was chasing her from inside as she ran out in this state", he said looking at the doctor straight in the eyes.

The consultant behaved like he had not heard what Duke had said so he instructed the nurses to take Bethany inside but Duke without thinking twice, punched one of them in the face and was about punching the other when Henry got a grip of his hand.

There was a commotion at the hospital as Duke turned to protect her and Bethany was astonished by his protective attitude.

Eva who had been outside getting attracted by the noise that was going inside the hospital and she rushed to see what was happening.

When she got inside, she looked around and saw that some nurses and Henry were holding Duke and she was confused as she did not know what was happening.

when she approached the scene, she saw her friend sitting on the floor weeping bitterly and so she ran to her,

" Bethany", she spoke touching her from behind.

Bethany screamed in fear as she felt someone touched her from behind and Duke turned almost at the same that he heard her scream thinking that someone had wanted to take her inside by force.

Eva kept on asking her friend what asking her friend what the issue was while she wiped her eyes with her dress as she took her up to her feet.

Duke walked back to Bethany, and bending slightly, he swept Bethany up into his arms and walked out of the hospital with her to his car.

Bethany could not explain what was happening but she felt so protecting while she was in his arms as she hung on him as a daughter will to her daddy.

Duke reached where his car was parked and he put her down and opened his door making her to seat in the car while she calmed down herself to explain what had happened.

"You have to calm down Betty or else you will run out of temperature", he spoke softly, as he took out a handkerchief from his pocket and gave it to her.

Henry together with Eva, apologized to the Dr. and the nurses that Duke had punched and Henry opted to pay for their bills as a sign of regret for what his friend has done to them.

Their apologies were accepted so the Dr. left with his personnel while Henry and Eva went outside to see what was happening.

The evening was already fully seen and the cold breeze was blowing up. Eva asked Bethany what the issue was and whether something bad had happened to her mom.

Bethany, still catching her breath said no, and that her mom was fine but she does not know for how long she will be okay.

Duke wearing a long face asked why she meant by that and she further explained that the Dr. who is in charge of her surgery will not carry it out unless we make all the payments.

Eva moved closer to her asking,

" I thought you said you will go plead with him again to reconsider your mom's situation and carry out rye surgery while you pay in installments?", she mumbled going down on her toes as she was not certain about what had happened.

"Yea I went into his office to see him and talk won't but he would not yield to my supplications as he already has something fixed in his mind", Bethany let out with a tear dropping down from her left eye.

" And what does he have on his mind that he can not consider. I thought that this hospital had partners from all over and Duke here is one of those partners as he is continuing with what his father had been doing over the years", Henry spoke out not understanding what was going on.

Duke with a single hand, held her hands and told her to calm down and explain everything as it is without any fear.

Bethany, squeezing her hands in Duke's, said softly with her head lowered,

"I will just take my mother home and take care of her till her last breath as I do not know how to raise such an amount before one month", she cried out.

Eva talks to me, I am your friend.

"Did that pig try to touch you when you were in his office?", Eva's voice came out like a rumble of thunder as she asked that question.

Henry and Duke who have been standing beside them looked in themselves in total confusion.

" What are you talking about?", Duke asked Eva rising to his feet and his handsome face got twisted as he had gotten so irritated by what Eva had just said.

Bethany tried to stop Eva from talking but she was hell-bent on exposing that pig who called himself a doctor.

Eva, it is okay, I will just ask for my mom to be discharged as the ordinances are already loading up.

"No Bethany, that Dr. Travis has to be taught a lesson and put in his place, you can't continue letting him molest you like he always does", she intensified the volume of her voice.

Now, Eva had the full audience of both Duke and Henry and Bethany could not do anything to stop her from speaking as Eva had hot blood and she was going to nitrate everything.

" Who is this Dr. Travis that you are talking about, and what is his rapport with what Mrs. Marvin is going through?", Henry asked in a serious voice that made even Eva herself shiver if she was not ready to say only the truth.

With a deep breath and closed eyes, Eva clasped her hands behind her neck as she was fully aware of the effects of what she was about to say.

Looking at her friend as though she was about wanting for approval so as to say what she wished to communicate, she said,

"Dr. Travis, is one of the best surgeons in this hospital. As a matter of fact, he is the best that this hospital has known but he is demanding for something from Bethany, so as to save her mother since she cannot afford to pay the cash for the surgery", She narrated without leaving out anything.

Bethany lowering her head more and supporting her legs with the help of her hands, burst into uncontrollable tears as she bit her knees.

" What did you just say Eva?", Duke asked rising like a dough that has been set aside for some minutes so as to put into the oven to be baked.

"Are you telling us that there is a Dr. in this hospital that wants to take advantage of a patient just because she cannot afford to pay her bills?", Henry raised a question in a devastating state.

Eva who was witnessing the anger in both men's eyes became tongue-tight and could not answer their questions anymore.

Duke turning to face Bethany, asked if all that Eva had just said was true, but Bethany could not stop crying out her eyes thinking of how her mother was going to die because she had no way to save her.

" Bethany", Duke called out shaking her by the shoulder as he told her that crying will not solve anything here but that thinking and getting solutions will.

Eva added to the list of things she had already said by telling that, Bethany, was thinking of giving in to Dr. Travis's demand whereas she has never had a boyfriend before, talk less of having coupled with any man all her life.

At the hearing of these, Duke, Henry, and Bethany, Lifted their heads up and looked at Eva each with their thoughts running through their minds.

Bethany could not believe that Eva had voiced out her sexuality in front of Duke and his friend Henry.

There was a silence and Duke asked Bethany if what Eva had said again was true, and Bethany who had been sitting quietly yelled out,

"Yes, it is true that I wanted to let him have his way with me if that is going to make him to consider my request and help my mother".

Bethany continued narrating to him how important her mother is to her and how she is a failure for not being able to help her out.

She blamed herself for not gathering enough money till now so as to push through with the surgery and now her mother has just 1 month to live as her heart has completely gotten worst.

" How do I tell my mother that she will die any time from now if we do not get the money for the surgery as well as a donor?", she raised a question crying out her eyes.

Duke felt strange after listening to her as he had not had such a connection with someone before.

He could not explain why he was feeling her pain as though he had known her for long.

"Betty stops crying please if not you will fall sick", Eva consoled her friend as she hugged her tight.

Bethany kept crying bitterly as she was not seeing any hopes of saving her mother and her kid brother too will be scattered after hearing this.

In the struggle to calm her down, Bethany heard a voice asking,

" How much is your mother's surgery?", Duke asked as he looked at her with an unhappy expression.

Bethany who thought that she had not heard the question well, raised a brow from beneath Evas dress and an inquiring, "What did you say?".

"Are you seriously asking the amount Mr. Duke", Eva asked with an accent of happiness as she quickly left her friend.

With a smile, Henry conceded,

" Yes, you heard him right because he is asking how much is your mothers' surgery".

Bethany told duke not to bother as she has an unpaid debt to him for settling her hills at the hospital when she was admitted then she was silent for some time as she had no clue of what had just happened and then with a negative attitude she said,

"Never mind Sir Duke, I will take my mother home thanks for your concern", she mumbles as she went into the hospital.

Duke in total confusion, asked what his offense was that made Bethany to leave like that and why she was so difficult to understand.

Eva who had noticed that Duke was not pleased with what had just happened as all he wanted was to help her, pleaded with him not to be mad at her friend as she is undergoing a lot at that time in her life.

Henry, touching his friend on the shoulder, told gum not to be offended by Bethany's attitude as he will do the same if he was in her shoes.

Eva excused herself as she had to catch up with her friend.

Bethany went inside and sat on the bench in the corridor where her mother's ward was.

She could not go inside to meet her mother in such a state as it was only going to make her worry the more.

Eva soon joined her and while sitting down, she asked her friend why she had to leave in that manner when it was obvious that Duke wanted to help.

" How do you expect me to get help from him when I have a debt to pay and I do not know how to pay back.

I don't want to be indebted to him all my life for saving my mother as the money involved here is too much for someone to just help you like that with it.

Eva looked at her friend in shock as she could not believe that a literate person like her will say such stupidity.

"Do you hear yourself talk Betty?", she asked with a mad expression.

"How can you even think of something as idiotic as this?", she doubled her question.

Eva detested the ego her friend had sometimes that it always made them have problems.

Bethany always wanted to be in the position to help others but when it was her turn to demand help, she always behaved like it was a forbidden thing to do.

Bethany in a low voice told Eva not to think that she does not want help at that present point in her life, but all she is avoiding is a fuss.

" From who?", Eva yelled out ad though she was talking to her child.

Eva saw no tangible justification for what Bethany was doing because, she was ready to get laid by Dr. Travis, just to save her mother, and now that she has an opportunity to have the money for her mother's surgery without anyone imposing terms and conditions on it, she was letting her gratification to get the better part of the.

"Just think it through perfectly well, before making the decision you will regret all your life as there is no more time left to be dangling about", Eva gave her a piece of friendly advice.

Bethany got up from the bench and with tears in her eyes, she stood in front of her mother's ward weeping bitterly.

" I love you mother, please don't give up on me and don't give up on Bryan as well", Bethany's words were so emotional that it made Eva to cry as she could not hold back her tears from flowing.

Duke and Henry were still outside and they had not yet digested everything that had happened and all that Eva had confessed.

Henry, on the other hand, was thinking of how much they were taking to discharge his mother whereas Duke had forgotten about his tiredness and was thinking of a way to deal with that so-called Dr. Travis.

"Man, are you still think about that girl Betty?", Henry asked teasing his friend and whistling like he said nothing.

Duke who knew where his friend was heading to said,

" I know what you want to hear but just know the whatever it is that you are thinking is true", he spoke with so much confidence.

"My friend is in love", Henry laughed at Duke as he held his chest in disbelief.

Duke himself could not explain what was going on but he knew that there was something about Bethany, that he had not seen in any girl before.

Aside from her beauty, she is also so intelligent and hardworking and she has never been intimate with any man.

That was the icing on the cake as at that age, it was difficult to find a lady that was not involved.

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