Arranged For My Benefit

Chapter 1

"Mother, please wake up, please?" I cry out. This pain is unbearable. How can my mom go into a comma? How could he do this to her? he took away everything that she has worked so hard for. That bastard. Oh God, I'm tired of my father acting bad and blame it on the liquor. Coward!

"Mommy, little Isabella is here. She needs you mom. Please, don't leave us. Fight mom, fight please."

I can feel my heart breaking. My mom is my best friend, my rock. She is everything to me and now she is about to lose her life just because of that sperm Donner that calls himself my father. I will kill him if anything happens to my mom.

"Miss Armstrong?"

"Yes doctor, how is my mom? When will she wake up? Is she going to be alright? Oh please talk to me doctor."

"Miss Armstrong, your mom suffered from serious shock and a minor heart attack and we really don't know if she would wake up. But if she does, she can't afford to have another heart attack because she may not make next time." The doctor says

"Please doctor, help her recover, I will make sure there is no next time" I assure him

"I will like us to move to my office Miss, I need to talk to you" He says to me

I follow the elderly doctor to his office. His words are so comforting and the way he talks to me is like he is talking to a child. I am sure his children enjoy his fatherly love very much.

"Please sit Miss Armstrong"

"Doctor please, call me Phoebe"

"OK Phoebe, your mom's condition is really a bad one and expensive at that. Her medical bills are so high now. Its about two million dollars and still counting. The surgery was so urgent we did not ask for deposit but I hope you will be able to raise that much before next week or we will stop treatment on your mom and remove the life support"

I understand. I really do. This place is not a charity organization. I knew this would come up but two million dollars? God that's a lot of money. My salary barely covers my bills. Mom has lost everything. Where in God's name am I going to get two million dollars from?

"Phoebe, are you OK?" The doctor asks

"Yes doctor. I'm fine."

"No you are not. What is it? If its your mother then.." he starts but I interrupt him saying

"No doctor, its just that we have lost everything which is why my mom is lying there fighting for her life. I don't have any money doctor. I don't have anything, where in God's name am I going to get Two million from?"

"Well I suspected that. Anyways, have dinner with me tomorrow evening and we can talk more on this. Right now, I have a patient to attend to in Mexico so I need to be on a plane. Just take care of yourself and your mom and I will see you tomorrow." The doctor says

"OK doctor, thank you".  I reply as I stand and turn to leave.

A dinner? This man reminds me of the father I never had, I hope he does not have any bad intentions towards me. I hope he does not ask me to be his mistress or some thing like that. Although as it is right now. I can do anything to make sure my mom recovers. I know if it was Me lying down there, she would do anything for me to recover.

"God please. Let my mom be Okay and let tomorrow's dinner be in my favour." I pray briefly

I get a cup of coffee from the lobby and go back to my mother's room. I pick up my laptop and go to google and search Dr Maxwell Gray. The man's pictures appears alongside his achievements and people praising him. The man knows his work that is for sure. He owns hospitals in several parts of the world and his net worth is twenty billion dollars.

Damn, are people this rich? I thought to myself. I scroll down and see a picture of an elderly woman who appears to be his wife, two young guys who appear to be his sons and him. They look so happy together.

I scroll down only to find out that Dr Gray's wife is deceased. That is so sad and I feel so bad for him.

"Mom, please fight. For us mom. We need you" I hear Isabella say. Isabella is sixteen but very matured and quite. I go to her and hug her as we cry together and comfort each other.

I can only hope and pray that tomorrow would be better