THE BILLIONAIRE’S PERFECT MATE

As soon as he saw her, he rushed to where she was lying. He covered her up with her clothes that were scattered on the floor and held her in his arms.

“Ellie, I am sorry I came late. I am sorry I didn’t come to pick you up at the convenience store. If I had, this wouldn’t have happened. Who did this to you? Is it someone you know?’, Kevin queried Ellie, who was just lying motionless in his arms and was tearing up without saying a word. She just kept on crying with Kevin apologizing over and over again as he felt it was his fault that had happened to her. Amidst her crying, Ellie passed out, which got Kevin scared.

“Ellie, Ellie, are you still with me?”, Kevin asked, jerking Ellie’s body but he got no response from her. Without wasting time, he carried her on his back and rushed her to a nearby hospital. She was admitted and was given proper treatment after Kevin had narrated what had happened to her to the nurse. While at the reception, Kevin kept blaming himself for getting carried away by a little distraction and letting something of such happen to Ellie. He didn’t know how to inform granny about what had happened but he knew he wouldn’t be able to hide it from her, as she would still find out. He decided to call her and tell her to come to the hospital, not telling her the reason for that and so, he did.

When granny at first got his call, she was kind of suspicious and she wondered as to why he had asked her to come to the hospital. She knew something was wrong as Ellie hadn’t return back home from work. On getting to the hospital after having dropped Carla off at their neighbor’s place, she had sighted Kevin pacing up and down at the reception. He looked, worried, stressed and distraught. On seeing him, she immediately sensed that it was Ellie something had happened to, since Kevin was hale and hearty. On getting to where he was, the first thing she did, was to ask him a question.

“Kevin, where is Ellie?”, granny asked, looking worried.

“Granny, actually …… she …… got …….”, Kevin said, stammering but before he could finish his sentence, the doctor who was in charge of treating Ellie, came in, cutting him short of his speech.

“Are you the one who brought Miss Ellie in?”, the doctor asked, facing Kevin.

“Yes, I am. Is anything the problem?”, Kevin asked, feeling restless.

“I need to see her guardian or are you her guardian?”, the doctor asked, wanting to be sure Kevin was the right person to disclose his patient’s information to.

“I am her grandmother. You can tell me whatsoever you want to say”, granny who was still confused about the whole situation said, before Kevin could respond.

“Actually, after running some tests on her, we discovered she has genital injury due to the fact that she was forced into having unwanted sex. Hence, the reason she is bleeding heavily but with proper treatment, she will be healed after few days. And we noticed some bruises on her body, which shows that she was beaten up first, before getting molested. For now, we will have to monitor her and see the symptoms she would develop as most rape victims go through traumas after such incident. I think this is the time she needs her family’s support and care the most. She is currently asleep but I will advise that you report the case at the station once she wakes up and you confirm from her that the sexual act wasn’t mutual. That’s all for now. If you will excuse me”, the doctor explained, walking away. Granny stood still, trying to process what she had just heard.

“I don’t understand what the doctor had just said. I heard something like getting molested. Who got molested?”, granny asked, facing Kevin, with her mouth agape. She was shaking where she was as the reality began to sink in.Copyright Nôv/el/Dra/ma.Org.

“Granny, calm down. Ellie actually got raped on her way home back from work but she is all fine now. Nothing is wrong with her”, Kevin said, trying to calm granny who was worked up down but he failed in doing so, as she fell to the ground and passed out due to the shock of the news she had heard.

She was rushed to the emergency ward and when she finally regained consciousness, she rushed to the ward where Ellie had been placed. On seeing her, she burst into tears. Ellie was lying on the bed, still in her torpor. She was covered in bruises and despite that she was not awake, she looked scared and startled in her sleep. This sight of hers, made granny cried the more.

“Why is this happening to me? Why today of all days?”, granny lamented, crying, with Kevin by her side, consoling her. All through the night, she and Kevin were by Ellie’s side, praying vehemently for her to wake up. They kept a close watch on her, with guilt eating Kevin up. He kept on blaming himself for what had happened to Ellie. Ellie slept all through the night and when morning finally came, Kevin decided to take granny for a walk as she didn’t have a wink of sleep all through the night and she already had dark circles underneath her eyes. She looked helpless, stressed and weak. Kevin wasn’t pleased with the state she was in and managed to convince her to go for a walk.

After making sure granny was looking more relaxed and he had found something for her to eat, they decided to head back to Ellie’s ward. But halfway to the ward, they saw Ellie’s doctor and some nurses, running towards Ellie’s ward, and immediately, they sensed something was going on. They ran in their direction too and upon getting to the room where Ellie was, they had found her lying lifeless on the floor with blood gushing out from her left arm. It was at that moment they realized that, Ellie had tried committing suicide upon waking up. But what led to that action of hers, was a mystery left unknown to them.