The Billionaire's Lover (Book 1) ~Original~

Chapter Twelve

The Problem Before The Engagement Party ~ Heath

After what seemed like a while, morning came and Heath woke up to a sleeping Lily. Her chest rose and fell, her hands under the pillow and her hair cascaded on her shoulders and on the pillow behind her. Heath moved her hair and smiled, kissing her cheek, her eyes fluttered open and she looked up at him "morning" she said and moved closer to him and laid her head against his chest. Heath smiled and held her close "you look beautiful" he said and she softly blushed "I am not" she said and leaned up to kiss him softly. Heath held her head as he kissed her back, pulling her body more closer to his.

Lily closed her eyes and wrapped her arms around his neck, kissing him back passionately. Heath pulled away and smiled at her "today is the engagement party" Heath said and Lily groaned "I don't want to go through that" Lily said and moved her hair back. Heath laughed "your friends made the party to celebrate your engagement to me, there is nothing to not want to go to" Heath said and Lily sat up "even my father planned it" Lily grumbled, holding the sheets to her body. After a while, Lily got out of bed and went to pull on one of his shirts.

She tied her hair up and walked downstairs, and then Heath was smelling something yummy. He got out of bed and pulled shorts on and walked downstairs to see her cooking. He walked to behind her and wrapped his arms around her waist. Lily turned her head to look at him "what?" she asks "you don't need to cook" he said "I'm making breakfast" she said and leaned more back to kiss him softly.

Heath stayed with her until she finished, carrying plates to the long dinning table that would only sit her and him. The engagement party was held at Lily's house and Lily wasn't allowed home until the evening where they would celebrate and dance, drink and talk and everything else. Heath sat in his chair with Lily sitting on his lap and he fed her. She of course protested, but Heath wouldn't allow it, he wanted to be able to touch her every time to make sure she was real in his life. Lily pushed the toast from her mouth and she leaned down to kiss him softly "I'm as real as ever" she said pulling away and ate her own breakfast.

After breakfast, Lily wanted to work, so they got dressed and headed to the car in the garage. When they arrived at work, Lily walked to his office to set things up and Heath parked the car. There was a bang like a gun shot and Heath ran straight to his office. Lying on the floor was Lily with a gunshot wound to the stomach and Brooke standing there with a gun in her hands. "Brooke" Heath said before running to Lily's side and picking her up "if I can't have you, then she can't have you either" Brooke said before the alarms went off. Brooke was in shock from what she did as the cops bursted into the office and ran towards Brooke.

They took the gun from her hands and handcuffed her, the police office walked towards him "what happened?" he asked "I don't know, I saw my fiancée lying on the floor with a gunshot wound to the stomach" Heath said "get her to the hospital, it may be fatal" the officer said and Heath nodded, running to his car. Everyone watched as he ran past them, he got to the car and put her in the passenger seat, he got into the drivers seat and pulled her head onto his lap. He checked on her as he drove to the hospital. Her face had gone pale and her hands were stained with blood. Heath swore as he got to the hospital.

He got out and her out to and carried her inside the hospital "help!" he called out as the nurses ran out to him "what happened?" the nurse asked "she was shot" Heath said "she's not breathing, take her in" the nurse said checking for a pulse. Lily was taken from his arms and into another room, he stood by the window and watched as they prepared her for surgery. Heath watched as they took her away to have an operation and he sat in the waiting room. "Heath" a girls voice said and he looked up to see Lily's friend Bethany. "Bethany" he said "what happened?" Bethany asked "she escaped the mental hospital and she shot Lily" Heath said.

"That bitch hurt my friend" Bethany said and Lily's father came running in "where is Lily?" he asked and hugged Bethany "were you with Lily?" her father asked and Bethany shook her head "no, but she was at work" Bethany said and her father looked to him "you said you would protect her" he said "I didn't know Brooke was out of the mental hospital" Heath said "she better be alright" her father said and paced around like a stressed man. Heath felt sorry for him, since his wife died of cancer, Lily might die from a gun shot wound to the stomach.

He heard voices as he turned around and saw the doctors wheeling Lily back to her room. She had a life support tube down her throat and one look at it had her father reeling against Heath for what happened to his daughter. He banned Heath from Lily's room and Heath spent the whole day outside the room and when everyone left her room, Heath ignored the ban and walked in, sitting by Lily's bedside. He smoothed her hair back and kissed her forehead "please be okay" he said taking her hand and holding it against his chest.