I'm Nothing Without You Chap 15

Okay! So Klive has a girlfriend. So what? I thought silently as I turned slowly to looked at the ‘couple’ standing just inches from me.

‘Denise please…’ he said as he tried to push the girl away from his body.

‘What?’ she ask irritatingly at him while she pulls her arms away from his neck and looks at me. As if it is the first time she notices my presence, she glares at me and asks Klive, ‘Who is she?’

Klive first take a deep breath, looks at me before he answers his girlfriend's question. ‘Denise, this is Avie Henrich.’ he started his introduction.

I smile charmingly at the girl in front of me, glaring at me furiously, hoping on hope that her disposition might change. Out of courtesy I extend my hand for her for a handshake.

She moves towards me, looking at me from my head to my foot as if investigating a murder. Her right hand rises not to accept my hand but to slap me. Her right hand lands on my left cheek. My head jerks at the opposite side because of the force that she made with that slap.

Involuntarily I put my left hand over my left cheek. It felt so warm and I bet my cheek turn red with her slap. I didn’t expect that she can do such thing. I was so shocked that it took me a minute to recover. I was just looking at her, my eyes widened, my left cheek felt numb, my hands were shaking, my wounds were hurting so badly and my chest pain were escalating, and on top of that Klive allows his girlfriend to do this to me.

‘Denise K. Taylor.’ She introduced herself to me with a smug smile on her lips. ‘A super model for more than a decade now, who have just arrived yesterday from her world tour. And is now preparing for the next season’s opening.’ She brags in front of my face. ‘This is,’ she said pointing at the guy standing not far from her. ‘Klive Emil Thompson, the Billionaire Heir which happens to be my BOYFRIEND for these past two years, so you better stay back. He’s MINE.’

‘So you mean you slapped me-’

‘I slap you to wake you up from your world of fantasies and knock some sense into your head. The guy that was walking beside you a while ago, HOLDING your hand is my guy, he belongs to me.’ She said proudly at me. ‘Besides, whatever you’re wearing, you’re still an island girl. An island girl is not well-suited to a Billionaire.’ She looks at me intently as if thinking of something. ‘Oh poor you… you thought that Klive might like you someday? Wake up girl! He’s not and he will never be.’

‘Denise-’

‘Are you finished?’ I ask impatiently at her totally ignoring the presence of Klive.

‘Quite, do you really think that way? Do you think that by just the mere fact that you saved his life, he might fall for you? Oh come on! That only happens in novels, this is reality and it will never happen. Klive losses his memory but he didn’t loss his LOVE for ME.’ She looks at me angrily because I didn’t react from her insult. My face stays blank, expressionless. ‘And what are you still doing here? You should be in the island right now, where you belong. Oh wait, are you waiting for the Thompson’s to pay you for saving their son’s life? To tell you what, they don’t owe you a debt of gratitude. Klive saves your life also from your psychotic suitor, remember or had you forgotten about it? So you better leave here.’ She smiles at me. ‘Now I’m finished.’

I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. ‘I might be an island Ms. Super Model but judging from your actions awhile ago, I’m the more educated and well mannered compared to you.’ I said calmly but sarcastically at her. She flinches at my words. ‘Of course an island girl will never be suited to a Billionaire, but this island girl didn’t hope for that,’ I pointed at Klive. ‘Billionaire might like her, that that Billionaire might fall for her someday. To tell you the truth, I despise HIS kind, I despise YOUR kind. So don’t worry or feel threaten I will never, ever steal your cherish BOYFRIEND from you, ever! Besides I don’t want him. He’s all yours.’ I said and was about to turned my back from them but I remembered something. ‘And oh… it is YOUR boyfriend’s fault why I’m here.’

Both shocked, Klive and Denise stared at me.

Without a word I turn my back at them and start marching towards the exit.

‘Where are you going?’ Klive ask me.

‘I’m going to hell.’ I said without looking at him. ‘Do you want to come along, Mr. BILLIONAIRE?’ I ask sarcastically at Klive.

‘How dare you!’ it wass Denise. She forcefully stopped me from walking and forcefully faces me to her. Then again her hand rises, it is another slap but it didn’t hit my cheek. I stop her just in time before it lands on my face, using my hand and I firmly grip her wrist and said. ‘Not this time.’ she glares at me and I glare back willingly at her. ‘You know what, I had known some models but they are smart. Unlike you it seems to me that all you got is only your looks and a voluptuous body but no brain at all.’ I insulted her.

To Denise anger she pulls my hair with all her might. She slaps me from wherever direction her hands lands. She manage to hit my wounds and to be honest it is so PAINFUL. After a minute Klive manages to control her, using his strength he stops her from attacking me.

‘What? Already accepted your defeat in our oral match that you decided on your own to start the physical one?’ I ask sarcastically at her. I never pull her hair or slap her face or something. ‘Why are you so angry by the last sentence I said? Is that means that it is true then?’

‘You bitch-’

I look at her fiercely as if by that I can murder her. ‘Don’t you dare call me that. You’re that bicth here. You’re the one who started this fight and-’

‘Stop it, Avie!’ Klive shouted.

I look at him. ‘The hell I care!’ I whisper and stared walking towards the door.

‘Avie, I-’

‘Whatever!’

Klive looks at her retreating back. He sighs as he remembered what she said awhile ago. ‘I don’t want him.’ Klive sighs again. ‘John,’ he calls from his back. ‘Follow Miss Henrich and don’t losses sight of her.’ He ordered to the head of his bodyguard.

John nods at him and follows Avie.

‘Honey, why are you-’

Klive grabs Denise at her elbow firmly and drags her towards his office. Klive’s secretary was scandalized by the sight but she didn’t say a word. He opens the door, drags Denise harshly inside and closes the door. ‘What the hell was that?!’ he ask furiously at his girlfriend.

‘I’m the one that should be asking you the same question.’ Denise shouts as she pulls back her hand from Klive’s firm grip. ‘What was that? Why are you holding her hand and what’s with that ‘protection’ you’re giving her? John’s job is to protect you not her.’

As if exhausted, Klive sits on his chair and gently massaged his temple. ‘I was holding her hand because I help her get off the chopper. It’s a bit dangerous for her. She had awakened from coma and her body is still weak until now, she hasn’t full recover yet and that’s the reason I send John for her. John knows what to do if she collapses.’ He explains lamely at Denise.

‘She hasn’t fully recovers?’ she chuckle sarcastically. ‘At that state, she hasn’t fully recovers? You got to be kidding me.’

‘What are you doing here Denise?’

She sat on his lap and smiled sweetly at him. His arms automatically went around her. ‘I came home immediately after our world tour, I miss my honey but I never expected I saw you-’

Klive cuts her sentence with a kiss that he planted on her lips. ‘I miss you too honey.’

I slam the door forcefully at my back, lean my back to it and I wipes harshly the fresh tears that has been falling from my eyes. ‘How dare her insult me like that!’ I said loudly. ‘I how dare her!’ I said as I sit on the floor, weakly, tears keeps falling from my eyes.

I rested on for a moment, tried from our oral argument, trying my might to stops my tears but it just keeps on flowing on its own. I feel my wounds are hurting me like hell and also my chest. I feel a sudden cold that creeps in my body, I suddenly experience shortness of breath, dizziness, tiredness and my heartbeats are rapid. ‘What is happening to me?’ I ask my self and involuntarily I put my hand on my chest. It is wet; I immediately look at my hand. For the first time in the past months, I saw blood on my hand, it was not somebody else blood but it was mine!

‘Miss Henrich…’ I heard someone calling my name. ‘Miss Henrich where are you?’

Using the remaining force that I have, I push myself up and try so hard to stand up. ‘Mister-’ I moaned from the stabbing pain I felt. I successfully open the door. ‘I’m here.’ I shouted but it didn’t sound as if it was a shout. ‘Mr. John- I-I’m here… I ne-need help.’ I said weakly at him.

Moments later Mr. John appears in front of me. I instructed him to bring me in a certain hospital. ‘Tell them that Dr. Killian recommends me to their hospital and that after treating my wounds I’m on top priority of the cardio department. Tell them that Dr. Killian refers me to Dr. Eves.’ Then all of the sudden I pass out.

Moments later I open my eyes and found out that I’m not in the Thompson’s building anymore. I’m in the hospital and Mr. John is sitting comfortable in the chair next to my bed. I readjust the nasal prong in my nose before I speak. ‘Mr. John, what is the doctor’s finding about my case?’ I ask weakly at him.

‘I’ll call him.’ He said as he stands up. ‘Jake and Katherine are on their way here.’

‘And Klive? I mean did you call him?’

He shook his head.

I smile at him as my sign of gratitude. ‘Thank you Mr. John.’

Later a man with at stethoscope in his neck enters my room. He greeted me first. ‘Miss Henrich, I’m Dr. Eves cardiologist in this hospital. I have an impression that you know Dr. Killian.’

‘Not personally, she’s a friend of my best friend.’

‘Okay, have she-’

‘No. I called my best friend and he refers me to Dr. Killian because he’s a neurologist, Dr. Ethan… Ethan Killhorn. Dr. Killian then refers me here, to you. She said that she knows a good cardiologist here and…’ I lied. ‘She’s in vacation right now.’

‘Oh… to tell you the truth, I hadn’t meet Dr. Killian but I’m a friend of Dr. Killhorn.’ He informs me. ‘Here’s the-’

‘Can you please tell me what the hell is happening to me?’ I said with an attitude.

‘There are four valves in the heart that permits blood flow in only one direction.’ He started to explain to me. ‘The valves, which are composed of thin leaflets of fibrous tissue, open and close in response to the movement of your blood and pressure changes within the chamber, you have four chambers of your heart. There are two valves that separate the chambers, the tricuspid and the mitral or bicuspid valves. The tricuspid separates your right atrium from the right ventricle, and the mitral or bicuspid lies between the left atrium and the left ventricle. In your case, your bicuspid or mitral valve has the problem.’

‘What kind of problem?’

‘You have a mitral valve prolapse.’

Oh no! Mom has it so it is to be expected.

‘This is an inherited connective tissue disorder of one or both of the mitral valve leaflets; it is a deformity that usually produces no symptoms.’

‘Please save the explanation. I’ve heard that before.’ I said anxiously. ‘So what will be the management- I mean, does medication is enough to control my symptoms?’

He shook his head. ‘In your case, it had already reaches the advance stage of the disease; you have to undergo a valve replacement.’ He pauses for a while giving me time to digest it all. ‘This hospital is highly equipped to facilitate the needs to perform the said procedure. I personally will handle your case since you are referred to me. The procedure might take only an hour or three, your hospital stays average 3 days, and your recovery may be as short as 3 weeks.’

I stared at him as if I couldn’t believe what he said. This is really great! Mom’s dead, I’m here in the city to found out two unexpected realities. One is, I have the same disease as my mother but only worse case than her and two, Klive has a girlfriend!
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Please tell me what you think., should I continue writing or something., and if you have a question about this chapter or the story please feel free to ask., I use some medical terms in this chapter but I try to be as simply as I can., I hope it's okay...enjoy...