Deal with a Billionaire

Chapter 16

The reminder of his family name sent Christopher into a raging spiral. He found himself drawn to the room Annabelle was in and just paced by her bed. He hated the reminder that he was a Rossi, he had thought he had covered his tracks and the cursed name wouldn't follow him forever but having it thrown in his face by Vitelli was a bitter reminder of the strength in the ties of the familia.

Sighing he sank into the seat closest to Annabelle as he watched her breathing, and found himself oddly calmed. His mind finally moved past the anger and on to the issues he would soon have on hand when Annabelles relation to Vitelli and his marriage will make its way back to the family, especially his grandfather. While Christopher had managed to keep his distance and forsake that side of his family, he knew the news of his marriage to a Vitelli will stir everything up.

He closed his eyes in thought, falling back into the memories of his parents. Even though he was quiet young, he still remembered how  in love they were. Despite the tension in the last year before they were killed, he still remembered the loving way his father would look towards the door when his mother would leave the room.

Annabelles moan tore him away from his thoughts as he lunged forward to support her back as she tried to sit up, her eyes still squeezed shut.

Annabelle regained consciousness as all of the pain slowly kicked in. The first thing she noticed was the antiseptic smell of a hospital, making her scrunch her nose up in disgust. The room seemed too bright all of a sudden even with her eyes closed so she tried to sit up while squeezing her eyes shut to block out the light. She was confused and couldn't remember when she had fallen asleep. She opened her mouth to speak, but her throat was so dry all she could get out was something close to a moan. She felt someone wrap their arms around her helping to lift her up, and instinctively she turned her head into this person to dim the brightness in the room. She took a deep breath as she slowly opened her eyes into his shoulder only to find everything still somewhat blurry. While she was doing her best to sit up, as soon as his hold loosened she felt her body start to fall back and he quickly leaned further in to grab back on to her.
"I've got you." She heard the familiar accented voice that made her roll her eyes.

"Water" she finally managed to get out in a whisper into his shoulder,

Christopher looked around the room and saw the water cooler on the opposite side of the room, then looked back at himself with Annabelle. She had her head buried into his shirt, he was holding her up with one leg propped onto the bed, and if he moved she wouldn't be able to hold herself up anymore.
After a moment of thought he quickly pulled his phone out and dialed Xavier,

"Get in here, she's awake." He said quietly so as not to disturb her with a loud noise and sure enough within seconds both Xavier and Michael were in the room.

"Grab her some water" he said quietly to Xavier motioning to the cooler with his head.

Xavier poured a glass of water and quickly brought it over, handing it to Christopher, while trying to get a look at Annabelle.

"Here you go love." Christopher said as he held the glass to her lips.

Annabelle took a few sips and cleared her throat, she tried to force her body to stay up without his support and failed so she grabbed his arm to help straighten herself a bit more. As she finally got everything around her to stop looking so blurry and spinning, the events before she blacked out came back to her.

"Xav! He's ok?" She choked out in a panic, wildly looking around the room until she took in both Xavier and Michael hovering on the other side of the bed, the latter making her scowl.

"I'm perfectly fine Belle. How do you feel? You should lay back down though you've gotta get some rest."
Annabelle shook her head trying her best to force her body up and support herself without Christopher's support. She took in the IV on her hand and reached to pull it out, but Christopher realized her intent and quickly covered the IV with her hand gently,