Love Only

V

As if reading her mind, Sinu gives Lauren a small smile. "I knew about you two, Lauren. You and my daughter haven't exactly been that discreet before," the older Cuban chuckles softly, trying to lighten up the air between them. "So..? Do you still love my daughter?"

Lauren blushes despite herself and sighs. There's no sense hiding it to her now, for she knows anyway.

"I do," Lauren nods, looking straight into Sinu's eyes to convey the sincerity of her words. "More than anything."

"Then make things right with by her," Sinu says and gives Lauren a motherly smile. "And don't you hurt her ever again, or I will see to it you will never see her again."

Lauren is about to respond when the door leading to the surgery room swings open, making the two Cuban women stand up to meet the exhausted-looking doctor who walks out of it. The fear and distress is back on Sinu and Lauren's face as if a switch is flipped.

"Where is my daughter? How is she?" Sinu's voice quivers and Lauren places a hand on the woman's back, trying to ground her and keep her calm.

The doctor looks at both women. "May I speak to you alone, Mrs. Cabello?" He says, his tone serious and it gives Lauren goosebumps as the words usually imply that something bad happened during surgery.

"No," Sinu shakes her head. "What you say to me, you can say to both of us," the older woman looks at Lauren the back at the doctor. "She's my daughter's girlfriend."

Lauren's breath hitched slightly and her heart pounds in her chest at Sinu's words.

But the green-eyed girl doesn't have time to react as the doctor nods at both of them. "The good news is that the bullet didn't hit any of Camila's vital organs and only tore through minimal muscle tissues that we're able to pull it out of her immediately."

Collective sighs of relief can be heard from both Lauren and Sinu but the green-eyed girl feels that there's more to it than that. "W-What's the bad news..?"

The doctor's features become somber as he looks at Lauren. "The bad news is that the bullet was infused with a neurotoxin that is now coursing through her body and we might have to induce her into coma soon to slow the pace of the toxin spreading all over her body so we can have enough time to flush it fully out of her system."

Lauren's breath knocks out of her and her knees almost buckle upon hearing the doctor's news. She doesn't hear the other things he say as two words keep repeating in her mind: neurotoxin and coma.

'Dear god, please don't do this to Camz...'