Something Happened

Paris

In a mansion, an old man was sitting by the window. He was staring out of the window and far into the night. He seems like he was waiting for someone. But still he doesn't show anything on his face and looks expressionless as usual. The only thing which could prove his current emotions was the impatience shown in his eyes.

The old man present in the room was Martin Taylor. Despite his old age , he looks as energetic as he was in his youth. Time didn't manage to leave marks on him ,letting him have a face that of a mature man in his late 40's, although he was already in his early 60's. In business world, he was always standing high above the others and still. In the past decade, their business started to expand including other scopes as well, thanks to his only son, Simon Taylor and his daughter-in-law, Émelie Anderson.

His son and daughter-in-law were bonded by a love marriage. They were living a happy life. The only sorrow they had was that they didn't have a heir in the first 12 years of their marriage due to some complexity. But thanks to God's blessings, his daughter-in-law became pregnant 8 months ago.

Before child birth, they wanted to visit Émelie's parents and have a short vacation. Tonight they are returning home. Before they started their journey, they called him to inform him about it. Few hours passed after that and its almost 3-4am. But there isn't a shadow of them. Worry started to cloud his eyes.

When he was going to call his secretary out to see into this, a knock was suddenly heard at the door of his room.

"come in ." His overbearing voice was resounded in the empty room.

After having the permission, his secretary ,Clair Swift, entered the room. He is nervous. How is he going to inform such a bad news to his boss?

Seeing his nervous secretary, Martin opened his mouth, " Are you going to stand there and say nothing? "

"Ah! no ..no boss . We received news that something happened to the young master and young mistress...." Startled, Clair forgot his nervousness and blurted out everything. But before he could finish his sentence, he experienced a sudden drop of temperature and a terrifying glare from his boss.

"What did you say?", Martin asked in a low voice .But his tone was coated with cold.

It is undeniable that he would have felt enraged. His son and daughter-in-law are the only family he has now . And his daughter-in-law is carrying his unborn grandchild. If something happened to them , he couldn't continue living on his own.

Hearing his boss's cold voice, Clair didn't dare to keep the situation in secret and informed him every little thing." Boss , we got a call informing that there was an car accident in the place where the young master and young mistress had gone to spend their vacation . The victims are identified as young master and young mistress with two other survivors. As their condition is not too good, the for of them were transferred to the city hospital. " Clair snuck a stare towards his boss and continued, "Their current condition is unknown. "

Martin was visibly shaken up by the news. His usual expressionless face has a crack on it and the emotions he was felling was written all over his face. He couldn't hide them no matter how hard he tried. He was felling anxious, sad, fear, worried ,and many more which even he couldn't describe. All he wanted to do now is being beside them. And so he did.

After ordering to prepare the car , he immediately got into the car and headed towards the city hospital. Before that he didn't forget to ask Clair to investigate the accident closely and not to leave out a tiny thing.

On the way to the city hospital, Martin couldn't keep his calm. He kept urging the driver to speed up the car ,although the car is already at it's max. He kept thinking of different scenarios of what could have possibly happened. It should have been a home coming night. How did it end up with hospital coming night? He has been so engrossed with thinking of the possibilities that he failed to notice that they had already reached the city hospital. He came to his senses only after the driver reminds him of that.

He alighted from the car in a hurry and went into the hospital. He went straight to the operation theatre where his family is being treated . He waited there for the operations to end while Clair was investigating the matter of accident.

In between these time, he looked like he has aged ten years more. The calm demeanor he showed previously was nowhere to be seen.