Chapter 38

Elyana turned the picture over and saw the letters: M A M A.

"Everyone loves their mother! Why am I not blessed with that kind of love?" Saying this, she threw the picture back in the bag, found a big enough paper for her use, and rushed to her room.

She sat on her bed with pen and paper… she was about to start writing when an idea struck her.

"I should cut the wrist and write the note with my own blood! That way they will realize how much I was hurt!"

Another sinister smile came to her face, and her eyes sparkled at the mere idea.

She sat comfortably with pen and paper in front of her on the bed. She held the knife in her right hand… and was about to cut the left wrist. She closed her eyes tightly, flinching her face… ready to put the blade her breathing stopped… well, now there were no excuses left to not kill herself, it seemed…

She was about to do it when the phone rang.

Tring tring tring…

Elyana opened her eyes with relief and ran to pick up her phone.

"Hello?"

"How are you?"

"I'm good…"

"So what's the situation… did you discuss it with your husband?"

"Yeah… but " Before she could continue, the person on the other end interrupted her.

"Well… I have to tell you, Ms. Elyana Miller, that your answer will help our company decide whether we want to offer you our help and whether your company will survive or not. And for your information, I'd like to remind you that the chairman is not a very patient person. It's either a yes or a no. Don't linger too long and create a mess like this."

"Assistant Waller… I'm trying, but the situation right now is a little pessimistic… I won't beg you to save my company… right now my own family circumstances don't allow me to intervene in anything else… even right now, my husband took Jay to the hospital, leaving me alone in the house… I have no support or anything… I don't think I'm even eligible to be leading such a large company, based on my own incompetencies…"

Silence. No one spoke.

"Hello?" Elyana questioned.

No response.

She took the phone away from her ear to see if the call was still connected, and against the odds, it was still ongoing.

She again put it to her ear and said, "Hello?"

This time, there was a hushing, swishing-like sound, as if someone else took the phone, and then the next second, she heard a loud roar

"Where is she?! Where is Jay?!"

Elyana got scared. She took the phone away from her ear and looked at it with surprise, then putting it back on cried,

"I don't know!"

"What happened to her!"

"I don't know!"

"You know how to talk, but you don't know what happened to your daughter?! Or where she is?! What kind of a mother are you?!"

The caller on the other side cried, taking Elyana by surprise…

And then, without waiting for her reply, the call was cut short, leaving Elyana to interpret the conversation on her own.

"What kind of mother I am?! What kind!"

"Now other people will tell me how to be a mother!"

She said while stomping her foot on the floor.

"Ugh!!!" she exclaimed, sitting back on her bed and looking at the scattered pen, paper, and knife.

"The universe does not yet want me to die… not yet…" she said while looking at them.

"I've been interrupted too many times to call it mere coincidence… If the universe wanted me to die, it would've made me fall down the stairs, or the first knife I picked up would've worked… All the things I've done to prepare…they all came to my mind just to stall for time. The universe doesn't want me to die yet. Not yet…"

She hid her face in her hands… then looked at the clock.

"Who was the other person who just made my ears go numb?!"

Then, after a while, she again said,

"Would they have reached the hospital? Well, the nearest is 20 minutes away… so maybe it's already been almost 45 minutes…"

"Look at them! They didn't even call to tell me what they are doing or ask how I am doing! I was also sick! But no one took me to the hospital!"

And then she cried again,

"I want to die! I don't care if the universe wants it or not! I must end my suffering and write my will my pain with my own blood!"

She held the knife tightly in her hand and was about to cut when she suddenly realized,

"I want to go to the bathroom…"

...

Meanwhile…

The person on the other end of the call, as soon as he cut it, dialed a number and said,

"Uncle, it's me… help me! Help me find a person named Jay Miller. She was taken to a hospital a while ago…"

Then he tells Jay's address.

"Please, first check the closest hospital in the area. I'm also going to check. No, don't worry about me. I'm alright…"

Saying this, he threw the phone on the table and said,

"Dad, I need your car. Allow me to drive."

"You are not mentally stable right now to drive!"

"Don't worry. I'm good… I ask of you to allow me to take your car."

"Go ahead, and stay in contact with me…"

Saying this, his father tossed the car key out of the drawer towards him, and he rushed out of the room to the parking area.

He turned the key and got out of the house, a surveillance car following after him for his protection, and he turned the steering toward the closest hospital near Jay's house the one he had taken her to before, too.