Love Worth Fighting For

“Don’t test my patience again, Elena. I can be terrible when I’m angry.”

“Elena Wilson!!!”

“Honey, I’m sorry honey. I didn’t mean it, I was just joking.”

Christian stares blankly at his cellphone screen which contains dozens of unanswered messages for Elena, it has been two hours since Christian has been sending messages to Elena. But none of his messages were answered by Elena, neither did his phone calls, which Elena also ignored.

Christian returns home at two o’clock in the evening after releasing all of his statements to Mouren, Mouren who initially thought Christian was just joking about his wedding plans finally believed it after she saw a photo of Elena who looked so beautiful on Christian’s cell phone. Realizing that Christian is not playing games, Mouren then gives Christian advice to give in to Elena a little. Although at first Christian refused the advice given by his best friend, but in the end Christian chose to follow the advice given by Mouren by lowering his ego a little.

That’s why Christian has been coming to the office since morning, hoping that he will be able to meet Elena who always comes earlier than him. But what Christian had hoped for didn’t happen, until ten in the morning Elena’s room was still dark. There was no activity by the owner of the room there.

Patience is the smallest thing a Christian has, as evidenced after writing a message containing an apology to Elena fifteen minutes ago, at this time Christian immediately bombarded Elena with dozens of rude messages that would really hurt anyone if they read it.

“Elena Wilson,” Christian growls emotionally. “No woman dares to ignore me like this, you’re the only one who dares to do that to me. You have big guts too, Elena.”

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Kainer, who had become a statue ten minutes ago, could only swallow his saliva again when he heard the cursed words come out of Christian’s lips again for Elena, although she didn’t know what kind of fight happened between Elena and Christian, but Kainer knew that their fight this time was really serious. In all his years of serving Christian, Kainer had never seen anything like this happen.

“Fuck!”

Kainer gasped, his daydream was immediately broken by Christian’s loud scream.

“That damn bitch really challenged me,” Christian says back.

“Would you like me to come and check the house, sir?” Kainer asked quietly.

Christian clenched his fists. “No need, if you come to her house she will definitely get a big head.”

Kainer nodded politely. “I understand.”

“Go Kainer, I want to be alone,” Christian says again, shooing Kainer out of his room.

Without daring to argue, Kainer immediately rushed away from Christian’s presence towards his room back to continue his work. Kainer took a deep breath as he looked and crossed Elena’s still dark study.

After Kainer went back to his office, the first thing Christian did was to send text messages and voice messages to Elena again, Christian was really confused by Elena. Because he was impatient, Christian finally decided to leave his room. His goal this time wasn’t Mouren’s bar anymore, his current goal was the ramshackle house belonging to Elena’s family. Christian wants to make revenge with Elena in front of her parents, Christian wants Elena’s parents to know that they are not able to raise their daughter well.

Dozens of plans were already so neatly arranged in Christian’s head as he drove his beloved red Ferrari to Elena’s house, Christian really didn’t care at this point. All he wanted to do was make Elena regret daring to drive him nearly crazy, when in reality Elena had done nothing. Everything that happened to Christian was because of his own doing, the victim was Elena. However, Christian who has an ego as high as Mount Kilimanjaro certainly doesn’t want to admit he is wrong, he feels he is always right, including his quarrel with Elena. If only Elena had been obedient to him from the start, maybe this kind of thing wouldn’t have happened, if only Elena had been obedient, maybe their relationship would still be fine at this point. Yes, everything is Elena’s fault!

Arriving in front of Elena’s house, Christian suddenly felt a different atmosphere, Elena’s house and business place were not as quiet as they are now.

“Damn it, why is this shop closed,” Christian murmurs softly once he realizes what makes the atmosphere in the place so different.

“It’s been two days since this cake shop closed young man.”

Christian immediately turned his face to the left, towards the source of the sound. “It’s been closed for two days?” Christian repeats the man’s words in disbelief.

“Yes, according to the news of the owner of this cake shop, Mr. Jody Wilson is sick. That’s why the shop is closed,” replied a middle-aged man who previously informed Christian that the cake shop owned by the Elena family had been closed for two days.

Christian’s eyes are wide open. “Sick?”

“Yes, that’s according to the information we heard from one of his employees who yesterday brought Mr. Jody Wilson to the hospital.”

Christian is shocked and then rushes to the brown door which is tightly closed, because there is no bell attached, Christian is finally forced to use his finger to knock on the door that looks quite old.

Even though his fingers are starting to hurt now, Christian still knocks on the door with all his might. The absence of the bell is the main reason why Christian keeps tapping his finger on the wooden door, Christian’s struggle finally stops when he hears the sound of the lock being opened from outside. Christian who was already so tense, immediately tried to neutralize his emotions before meeting Elena.

“Mr Clarke.” With a hoarse voice, Mrs. Camila greets Christian who is standing in front of her door.

“Elena, I came looking for Elena,” Christian says quickly “And I was surprised to hear about Mr Wilson’s illness from one of the passersby, is that true, madam?”

Madame Camila’s face immediately looked sad. “Not only my husband sir, Elena too..”

“Elena?!” Christian’s tone went up two octaves.

Mrs Camila nodded slowly. “Elena is sick too, since last night the fever hasn’t gone down.”

Christian’s chest hurts suddenly, his face turning pale quickly. “Elena is sick?”

“Yeah, I just...”

“May I take a look?” Christian immediately interrupts Mrs. Camila’s words expectantly.

“Sure.”

As soon as he gets permission, Christian immediately bursts into the simple two-story house and rushes up to the second floor where Elena’s room is. Christian had no trouble finding Elena’s room because Elena’s room was the only room on the floor. As soon as he saw the door to Elena’s room was open, Christian immediately entered. His legs felt weak when he saw Elena lying curled up with her body covered by the blanket, her face looked so pale, on her forehead was a fever reducer that Christian was sure didn’t work.

“Honey,” Christian calls hoarsely when he manages to sit down beside Elena’s bed, Christian’s right hand shaking as he tries to reach Elena’s sweaty face.

Christian’s body immediately froze when he felt Elena’s body heat, without thinking Christian immediately took out his cellphone and immediately called his family doctor to come to the Wilson family’s house. Actually Christian wants to take Elena to the hospital right now, but Christian is afraid to do that. Christian is afraid that if he takes Elena to the hospital it will cause new problems, especially now that Elena’s father is also sick. Christian don’t want to make things worse.

“Elena has been looking sick since coming home from work yesterday afternoon, sir,” said Mrs. Camila quietly, surprising Christian who had just placed his cell phone next to Elena’s phone on the nightstand.

“S..since yesterday afternoon?”

“Yes.”

“Then why don’t you ask Elena to go to the hospital or call the doctor to come, madam?” Christian asks carefully.

Mrs Camila let out a long sigh. “Elena has an overwhelming fear of hospitals, that’s why I couldn’t possibly ask her to go to the hospital and call a doctor to come, we don’t have the ability to do that. After all, no doctor would want to come to our home like this.”

Jesus....

“Then why didn’t you contact me, madam? Don’t you know that Elena and I are currently ..?”

Christian immediately scratched his hair which didn’t itch, Christian really ran out of words to face the old woman in front of him. Christian prefers to argue with dozens of people rather than having to talk to a simple woman like Mrs. Camila who cares so much about the feelings of her interlocutor, now Christian finally knows where Elena’s shy nature comes from.

“I’m Elena’s future husband, madam,” Christian says softly. “I’m your future son-in-law, so from now on you don’t have to be shy. Whatever happened to Elena I also need to know, including now. So I beg you in the future please don’t keep anything a secret from me, madam. I beg you.”