Taming The CEO The Escaping Wife

Chapter 17

Seeing his dead serious answer, Letitia was a bit skeptical. “For real?”

Elgin shot back, “Would I lie?”

Fair point. Why would he lie to her of all people?

Letitia got up, freaking out a little. She’d sleepwalked all the way to Elgin’s bed it was a miracle he hadn’t tossed her

out!

But he hadn’t noticed a thing, had he?

“What are you dawdling for? Get out Elgin barked, snapping her out of her thoughts.

She gave a hasty nod and managed to stagger a few steps, but her head was swirling and dizziness washed over her. Her throat was parched and raw as well. She must have caught a cold, probably from getting drenched last night.

But Letitia couldn’t dwell on that she had to swing by the jail first. She needed to ask Elgin for a day off, or else if he couldn’t find her, she’d be in for a storm of temper

The problem was what excuse could she use? As Letitia was squeezing her brain for ideas, Elgin said, “Go see a doctor, don’t you dare get me sick!”

“Okay!” she replied cheerfully

For the first time, Letitia felt this cold couldn’t have come at a better time

After leaving Ivory Towers, she made a beeline for the jail

Preston was a lot more lucid now, but with serious injuries, he was bedridden and needed daily dressing changes.

“Letitia, it’s me that’s dragging you down… Preston said. “If we cut ties, would Elgin let you off the hook?”

“Dad, you’ll always be my dad.”

“I thought about suicide, figuring maybe Elgin would chill out. But then I thought of you and your mom. If I go, he’d just take it out on you two even more.”

Letitia just smiled, ‘I’m okay, don’t worry

She couldn’t stay long, dropped ten grand for medical expenses, and stuffed another ten grand into a envelope.

“Sorry for the trouble, she said ‘Please take good care of my dad from now on.”

It’s crazy these people just stood by and let Shela do her thing, heartless. Yet, she had to suck up to them. One day, she’d rise above all this One day!

After the jail visit, Letitia finally headed to the hospital.

“Letitia Sanders?”

“Yes.”

mechanically. “What’s the

cold. Coughing, my throat feels like a desert and it’s also sore, and

you have any

touched her forehead,

the prescription, he casually asked, “Any other symptoms recently?”

“Well.. got sick once after eating

“Got a boyfriend?”

Tm

finger on her, except

doctor handed her a bunch of forms and said, “Go

saw blood tests and gynecological

she asked. “I just have a cold, why do I

doctor, or are you?”

out, “I don’t have the

Ramirez has already

as well get it

the tests, she had to wait half an hour for the results.

“What’s taking so long, you died over

spent too much time at the jail

“Make it quick!

for the results, so she rushed back to the

night before finishing up. Stepping out of the company, she saw an abandoned plastic water bottle by the roadside.

bent down to pick

shoes appeared next to her hand.

”

these years…” Walden was brimming with sympathy, “I could

expressionlessly, “Mr. Sullivan,

time ago, Letitia might have been touched by such sweet words. But now, when twenty grand could crush her,

glittered in Walden’s eyes, “I’ve looked into your past, those two pages of information… It took me

in the past. I don’t

I can still make

“Can you stand up to Elgin? You can’t even

“Don’t touch me!” She sure didn’t want to end up pinned in the bathroom by

try, Walden

believed Walden – he was sent abroad by his father, not running away. He’d been kept in the

a

at Ivory Towers, there was a bowl