Chapter 26
After placing the bag dgam, tulle soiled and said, “I’ll headult tee. Don’t forget to finish your lunch and not let it go to waste
Julie shook her head. “No, you stay here. It’s your first day at neck, so make sise to dla well ”
with that, she waved goodbye and walked out of Lan’s office
An noon as Julie left. Lucian quickly daled Maine’s mumber. The call commeded, and Lucian saldus gently, “Come to the company no
There was a heist pause on the other end ‘Luce, what’s going on? You don’t sound like yourself.”
Just get here and take me be the hospital.”
Joe took the elabor down to the East–flow lobby. The receptionist greeted her politely when she saw her. Ms. Somers, are you heading out?”
Jite sled and nodded
As she stepped out of the building, she noticed it had started to snow lightly, she realled these had been quite a few snowfalls this winter. Walking toward the subway entrance, she was about to swipe her ticket when her phone sang Jolie pod
and checked
I was a call from Amaya.
Julie answered the phone, “Hey, Maya”
Amaya sounded hastered, and it took fulie a moment to plece everything together,
Iturned out that Christian had ridden ab after they parted ways earlier
Everything had been fine on the way, but Amaya complained about him choosing told instead of dive due to the rush hour tratte Chastian didn’t say much but kept grumbling Though the ride, experiencing what was commonly called road rage.
Amaya got a little scared and asked him to pull over, but Christian didn’t stop. Indrad, he kept overtaking cars the whole way
Eventually, they collided with a humury car that had come around the corner
Now, both of them were in the hospital
When lived at the hospital ward, Amaya was lying on the bed with a cast on ber
“Maya, are you okay?” Julie hurried over to her,
Amurya hupped her, crying. Tules, you have no idea how dangerous it was. It was scaу”
“It’s okay, it’s okay. You’re fine now,” Julle colouredher
Amaya continued crying controllably
Julie understood that Amaya was a pampered young lady who had never experienced anything like this before. “I’m okay, Maya Stop crying now,” Amaya sniffled “My legs so much I thought I was going to end up disabled”
“Don’t say that. By the way, where’s your boyfriend?
The mention of Christian made Anaya angry
“He’s too much. When the accident happened, he just ran off. I want to becak up with him.”
“why did he run?”
Amaya uniffled. “What else? He’s probably worried about having to pay. The car we hit was a luxury car worth over ten mon dollars.
As soon as she finished speaking, the door to the hospital ward opened, and offices walked in, asking Amaya about her condition.
Since Amaya was at fault for violating tallic bows, the was fully responsible for the accident. How much she would have to compensate the car owner would depend on what the repair
Palie hadn’t expected things to be so serious
“Maya, have you talked to the car ow?
Amaya shook her head. “Not you. When I woke up, I was already bought to the hospital
“Then how do you know your boyfriend ran off!”
I can’t get through to his phone. If he didn’t run, what else could it be? I should’ve known better.”
Julie was a little confused. Even if he were to take full responsibility and pay hundreds of thounds of dollars for someone like Amaya, who came from money, it wouldn’t be a big deal. It was probably just the cost of a designer bag. Why would Christian run away!
Looking at Amaya, whose eyes were red and padly from y
Juliealed it was because she still couldn’t let go of Christan
Sha tentatively asked, “Maya, could it be a misunderstanding?”
Anaya scowled. “Amisunderstanding? You don’t believe me? I’ll call him now. With that, she grabbed her phone and stated Christian’s number.
