Smoks and Cigarettes

8. Scarred

' Elijah '

Rowena screamed in horror. Helen sat in her seat like a mannequin, a drop of tear fell down her cheeks. In her entire lifetime of 67 years, this is the first time she cried for someone. Helen is not a person who cry so easily. Her strictness always comes in the way of her emotion. She is a human. She did get swayed by Elijah's emotional outburst earlier but her dominating characteristic didn't let her to break the self made invisible line that has always kept her apart from others.

Evan was in a daze. Her sister, Elijah, she was still standing a moment ago but now she's on the floor. Fresh blood dripped from her already pale palm. Evan only stared at her face but Rowena's loud wailing made her come to the reality. Tears fell down her cheeks, ran to Elijah. She started patting her lightly so that she would wake up. But her hands were immediately brushed away by Helen ' Don't touch '.

Evan felt helpless.  She could only watch as Gabriel carried Elijah to the car. Helen, Nathan and Rowena went behind him. Eliot and Samuel didn't pay any attention to all these as they went upstairs to their room. Fiona didn't feel these things to be enough interesting to gain her attention but still she has to go as she should at least pretend to be a good daughter-in-law. 

Isabella saw Evan standing quietly, still crying in silent. She stood beside her and put a hand on her shoulder, saying ' Alex and I'll go with another car. Will you go ? '
Evan nodded. They took another car for themselves to reach the hospital in time. Fiona and Dominic took other car and went with them too. True to say, Isabelle didn't want them to be there. But she didn't say anything as Fiona might cause trouble again. And Elijah definitely won't like this.

Rhys walked through the residents room as he was busy reading patients case history. It's the work assigned by his senior doctor and he has to submit a presentation over the possible causes of the patients being infected by cancer by tomorrow morning. As he was busy highlighting the causes, he heard the ring of his cellphone. 

Rhys received the call immediately as he knew who might call him at this hour of night. As soon as he received the call, he heard a familiar voice saying ' What's up ? Any possibilites  ? '
Rhys chuckled and said ' What you wanna hear first ? Good one or the bad one ? '

' Can I choose both ? ' Eloise replied back, chuckling.
Rhys shook his head and said ' Of course you can. So for your kind information, I have no problem with marrying Elijah Graves. But I do feel like she definitely has some problems. '

'And that's how ? ' Eloise was curious. But Rhys didn't meet with her curiosity. He refused to say the reason that he felt weird about Elijah.  At the end, Eloise gave up. She just asked for the last time ' So you do not have any problem with marrying Elijah  ? '

' Nope '

' Then rest assured. I know Lija. She won't give you any chance to complain. She is a responsible and mature person, always balancing her personal and professional life. A real cool person. ' Eloise said with a breath of relief. 

' I know she is. ' Rhys said with a sigh. After that Eloise told him some interesting stories about her neighborhood but his mind was already filled with the thoughts of Elijah aand their marriage. At the end, he made an quick excuse and cut the call.

Rhys was disturbed. Although he wanted this marriage just to annoy Elijah, but didn't expect her to be so calm that she won't say anything that'll cause problem on their marriage. The entire time he was with her, she only looked at him, didn't say anything that's not needed. She's a great listener, doesn't interrupt when someone's talking. But Rhys felt otherwise. Her beautifully shaped almond phoenix eyes were empty, devoid of emotion. They were empty like a shell.