No Reason But Us

Chapter 60 : Still Love Juliet

Leon and Eva went inside the ICU to see their daughter. Apparently, her two friends were there, and then they saw Oddey lying on a hospital bed with wires attached to her.

Rita stood up. Her face was wet from all the crying. "Ms. Hermosa, Mr. Magnum."

"Oh! God," Eva reacted, while her fiance just stared in distraught at their daughter. "What...? What happened? How... did this happen?"

"We were in the drive-in. She went to the restroom alone, then the next thing we knew, we heard a noise," Felix explained, since his girlfriend was too emotional. "We didn't know it was a gunshot at first, until we saw her... In the restroom..."

"Who did this?" Leon grumbled.

The young couple looked at each other, then shook their heads. "We don't know. We didn't see anyone," Felix answered. "We... just saw her... You know. I tried to stop the bleeding while Rita called the ambulance, but it took so long that Gage had to drive us here."

Hearing the Romeo's name struck a nerve with Leon. "Is that so?"

"Yeah. Also, the doctor said they managed to get the bullet out, so right now, she's in a coma."

"I'm so sorry," Rita sobbed. "We should've sent her here sooner."

"Honey, it's fine," Eva assured the young lady, even hugging her. "It's not your fault. You kids did everything you could."

"She's right," Leon said. "Anyway, I'm sure it's been a stressful night for the two of you. Why don't you guys go home and rest? We'll take it from here. Besides, we want to be with our daughter."

Rita nodded. "Okay. Come on, babe."

Once the young couple left, Eva dashed to Oddey and burst into tears while Leon just stood by the foot of her bed. "Odette!" she cried. "What happened to you...?"

"Adrian. He did this," Leon grunted. All of the memories of what Adrian did to the poor man came back to him. It was one thing that he did all those things to Leon, but the evilness was too much to bear.

"He had gone too far," Eva sobbed, then turned to her fiancé. "Don't let him get away with this."

"Never." The rage Leon felt was at a boiling point since Adrian had to involve his daughter.

After that, the man went to Oddey's bedside. "I should've done something sooner, so that maybe it wouldn't have gotten to this. I'm sorry, Mochie pie. I'm very sorry that Daddy wasn't there to protect you," he apologized to her tearfully, then held her dainty hands.

"But I will avenge you. I will make that man pay for what he did to you. Everything he did to you will get back to him ten times worse. I will make him suffer." The more he looked at his daughter, the angrier he got. "I will kill him, Odette. I will make him suffer a slow and painful death. Mark my words, he will pay for what he did to you because prison is not enough punishment for him."

Leon held the rail on her bed with a tight grip.

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Back in the Munro residence, the mother and son waited outside the house for the other officer to come back. The poor guy sat in the police car and groaned in pain since he had been kicked in the stomach by his father. "Are you sure you don't want to go to the hospital to check that out?" the cop questioned.

"No, I'll be alright," Gage answered, yet he kept moaning right after.

"I don't understand. How did you know that we're in trouble?" Marie asked, looking confused at the officer's sudden arrival.

"I called them, Mom."

"Good thing you came before my husband could do something worse to me and my son."