Chapter 193 A fragile moment.

Chapter 193 A fragile moment.
Melissa POV

I immediately went over to the fridge and took it and poured myself a cup of "healed waters." I need to calm my nerves. My head was burnt. My head was trouble right now. And I did. I could not even think straight.

"How could they? After everything I've been trying to do for my father's company. Now they are trying to..."

"It should never happen. Not under my watch. I'll never give them the chance to replace me with someone else. Never."

I thought to myself as I was becoming impatient.

"Where the hell did Richard go to? Why isn't he back yet? I need him to bring over those documents right now. I need to act fast before I will be taken down."

I kept on thinking about a lot of things, and I was going to undo this matter without getting ultimate. Not long after, Richard walked in, bringing the files in his hand as he dropped it on my table.

"Here you are."

He immediately sat down on the sofa not far from my table. As I kept on swiping through, flipping through the pages of the documents, then Richard walked over to me.

"You don't have to do this to yourself. You don't have to panic too much, Melissa. Just try to calm down. Calm your nerves. Nothing's going to happen. Your father is the owner of this company. And nobody can take your position from you. Not even—"

"Not even Akin can take over your position from you. Don't you see? Akim is not even in the position to do something like that. He does not even have the head for plans and plots. So nothing is going to happen. You just have to calm down."

Richard kept on saying to me, trying to say something once to me.

"You don't understand, Richard. Even I know that nothing... That's what is going to happen. And I'm never going to allow it to happen. But I need to act fast before their plans close in on me. I can't just relent."

I said to him.

"Just calm down. Worry, Melissa. You need to calm down right now. You are becoming hypertensive. You have to think about your health."

He kept on saying to me as I relaxed a bit.

"Okay, fine," I said as I tried to close the document that was laying in front of me.

"But I have to think of something fast. I can't relent. If I relent right now, they'll take advantage of it and use it against me. Don't you just understand?"

"Just forget it. Stop thinking about them right now. Let's think about other things. Like how we are going to plan our marriage and when our wedding is going to take place."

He said to me as I looked at him.

"You are talking about our marriage right now, Richard? Amidst all of this chaos? I can't even think about marriage right now. I want to first of all make sure that my position in this company is guaranteed, and I want to first of all improve things in my father's company before I can even think of wedding plans. I can't think of anything about our wedding right now, Richard. I'm really sorry, but that is not what is really in my head."

As I looked at him, he also stared back at me, clearly displeased at what I was saying.

"It's fine, I understand you," he said to me.

"Thank you for understanding, Richard. I'm not saying that I'm not going to get married to you, but for now, I don't think that I can think about wedding right now."

I tried to convince him as he just nodded and sat back down on the sofa.

As Akim walked right into my office, I looked at him with close shut eyes.

"I'm sorry, Melissa, that I'm late and I missed the meeting. I was at a funeral and I couldn't come right away. I'm really sorry."

He said to me.

"I just know that my head is fine. And besides, there's another matter. What is the reason why you came here to become my secretary? Is it so that you can take over my position for me? So that you can betray me and stab me in the back, then overthrow me from my position as president in this company?"

I asked Akim directly, not wanting to hide anything.

"What are you saying, Melissa? I don't understand any of it. I seem to be lost here."

"Don't just play dumb with me, Akim. Your mother was even there. She sat right there in the conference room when some of the board members were saying that they wanted you to be the president and that they were trying to overthrow me. I know this is all of your plans. Maybe that was what you had in mind when you first came here so that you can take over my position from me. If this is your plan, I just want to warn you right now that you better stop it and desist from this plan because it's not going to work out. And the consequences of what you're doing right now, you wouldn't even like it at all."

I said to him as he immediately walked right straight up to me.

"No, Melissa, I think you are mistaken here. I don't know anything about all of this. All of this is my mom's plan. It was never my plan at all. I would never even think of something like that. I never... I've never had the thought that I want to be the president of your company. No. Why would I have such thoughts? Just think about it. Just forget it already."

"Akim, I really want to believe you right now, but at this point, no one is to be trusted."

I said to him as I just nodded my head and motioned for him to leave.

"It's fine. You can leave already. I really don't need you right now."

I said to him as he walked out of the office.

"Don't worry, Melissa. I'll talk to my mom and I'll set things straight. I'll fill you up on the details later after speaking to her. I promise you I'm going to set everything right."

He said before walking out of the office as I looked in Richard's direction.

"I don't trust him. I just..."

I just blurted out as I opened the files again, trying to go through it and know about all the board members that had stabbed me in the back right there in the conference room as I brought out my laptop. I was about to start working on my laptop as Richard stood up.

"I need to go check on something, Melissa. Catch you up later," he said before walking out of my office as I immediately started writing the resignation letter of all of the board members that had dared to betray me.

Soon enough, I finished quite early as I picked up my phone and my bag. Feeling very exhausted, I walked out of my office on my way to the elevator. Immediately I pressed the button of the elevator and it started opening. Standing right there, I saw Richard right inside the elevator as I smiled at him.

I knew that I had a rough day today and I knew that I had vented my anger on Richard again, but he did not even get angry at me. So I thought I should just try to be more flexible with him as I smiled at him and I was about to say something to him. Then I felt my legs wobble as I started to—

As my head was spinning a lot, I felt dizzy, and before I could even know it, I was falling to the ground. Then I felt Richard catch me right before I fell to the ground, before everything turned dark.

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Richard POV

As I stood right there in the elevator looking at Melissa, I saw that she was about to fall to the ground. She wanted to say something to me before she fell suddenly, as I immediately ran to her position and caught her before she could fall to the ground.

I rushed her to the hospital immediately as I was panicking a lot.

"What could have happened?"

I told her to calm down. Now she has gone through a lot of stress.

"What could have made her faint?"

As I was panicking a lot, I didn't know what to do as I immediately rushed over to my car, got her into the backseat, and drove like a crazy person to the hospital. On getting to the hospital, I immediately called for emergency as they brought out a stretcher.

I didn't even wait for the stretcher to reach my car before I started carrying her over. Then I dropped her on the stretcher. That was when the stretcher was wheeled up into the hospital. As she was being wheeled into a room, I caught a glimpse of someone familiar.

"Was that Joyce?"

I thought to myself. But my head was not in the right condition as I was very worried about Melissa, and I couldn't even know if I was seeing things or if what I was seeing was right.

"What could Joyce possibly be doing in the hospital?"

But I could not think about that now. My main priority now is Melissa, and I don't know why she fainted.

"I hope she is okay," I thought to myself as they stopped me from entering into her room.