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

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

have any fever?”

her forehead, “Nope.”

doctor prepared the prescription, he casually asked, “Any other

a moment, “Well.. got sick once after

“Got a boyfriend?”

whispered, Tm married.”

never laid a finger on her, except for that

bunch of forms and said, “Go on.”

them and saw blood tests and

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

the doctor,

blurted out, “I don’t have the

has

well get it done since he’s paying!

the tests, she had to wait half

Elgin’s call came through. “What’s taking so long, you died over there?”

too much time at the jail and hurriedly replied,

“Make it quick!

so she rushed back to

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

bent down to pick

of shiny leather shoes appeared next to her hand.

”

can’t even begin to imagine what you’ve been through these years…” Walden was brimming with sympathy, “I could have been your hero, but I turned out to be

“Mr. Sullivan, you’re in my

words. But now, when twenty grand could crush her, what

information… It took me ages to

icy. “That’s all in the past. I don’t

still

Letitia challenged. “Can you stand up to Elgin? You can’t even defy

She sure didn’t want to end up pinned in the bathroom by Elgin again, nearly scrubbed raw. It hurt!

hard, but I’ll try, Walden insisted. “Letitia,

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

isn’t a sin.

Towers, there was a bowl