Chapter 167
Chapter 167
Johnny
All I wanted to do was take Helen home put her in a warm bath and pamper her for the rest of the night. What she went through today was shocking and emotionally draining and I wished with all my heart I could take the hurt from her but I can’t and that is a huge problem for me. As we walked out of the hospital, I could see the adrenaline was leaving her body she was getting tired and the tears hasn’t stopped flowing since we walked out of her dad’s room. As we got in the SUV I pulled her towards me. “Lay on my shoulder babe you are tired.” “If I do that, I might just fall asleep.” “Then you sleep I’ll carry you inside.” She closed her eyes but she hasn’t stopped crying. I wished I could take a gun and fucking shoot Mia, for what she put Helen through I don’t care if Helen was an oops you never tell your children you never wanted them. For fuck sakes what kind of women does that? My phone rang but Helen didn’t stir. “Johnny Moore hello.” I answered “Johnny this is Steve, John’s lawyer I saw on the news there was a shooting at a restaurant today, did I see Helen there?” “Yes, Steve you did, Mia shot John.” “Oh God please tell me his okay?” “He is thank you Steve, she shot him in his leg, but she wanted Helen out of the way first and then she thought if she took John she will inherit everything but he told her he left everything to Helen.” “Oh, she didn’t take that well, did she?” “Well John is laying in hospital. How do you think it went?” “Yes yes.” “Steve one other thing don’t let the defense team or any one of your firm go to Mia to help her please. We have a great working relationship and I don’t want to go to another firm as CEO of John’s company.” “Understood Johnny we won’t.” “Thank you.” “You do know John expected something like this.” That shook me a bit. “Why do you say that?” “He came in this morning to sign his new Will and Testament he said he won’t be surprised if Mia tries to get rid of him.” “Oh, wow I didn’t thought it was that bad at home.” “Clearly it was.” “Well thank you Steve and I’m sure he would like a visit from you.” “I’ll go right after work. Please send my regard to Helen.” “Will do.”
I ended the call as we stopped at the apartment building Helen was out, thank goodness. I got out and tried to carry her without waking her but unfortunately, she woke up. “I can walk Johnny.” “I’ll carry you.” She was clearly to tired to argue because she got out of the SUV and waited for me to pick her up. I carried her straight to our room, the smell of some sort of curry was hanging in the air, my chef clearly made some curry. “You want to take a bath?” I asked her “No I’ll shower that would be faster.” “I’ll get our food ready so long.” “Johnny I’m not hungry.” “Helen, you have to eat even if it’s just a few bites.” “Fine but just a few bites.” I left her to shower and went to the kitchen where I found to plates already dished up and in the stove. Thank goodness for Andreas.
Helen
I was so sleepy all I wanted to do was get into bed fall asleep and try to forget this day ever happened, but now I’m standing in the shower and then I have to eat. I really really don’t want to eat, but I know Johnny will force me. I got out of the shower and found my fluffiest PJ’s I needed comfort and this was what I needed. I got dressed put my hair in a messy bun and went looking for Johnny. “We are having lamb curry for dinner.” Johnny said “Oh that sounds nice.” It did actually smell very nice. We both sat at the table Johnny got the whiskey out and poured each of us a small shot. “I can’t drink this with my meds.” “After the day you have you can have that sip and besides it’s only going to make you sleep nothing else.” “Okay give me that glass.” I took the glass from Johnny and threw it down my throat, it burned as I swallowed it but it went down, it’s not like it erased anything that happened during the day but I felt a bit calmer, probable the combination of the pills and the alcohol. I took a bite of the curry; it was actually nice so I took another bite I saw Johnny looking at me but he didn’t say a thing he was probable afraid if he said something I will stop eating. We both sat in silence as we ate, I was thinking of everything that happened today, where did my mom even get a gun? Was one of the questions I had, she didn’t even like guns she was very anti-gun always that was the one thing my mother and father fought about was gun control in Amerika and here she was today with a gun to my father’s head and mine. How did everything get so out of control so quickly?
Johnny put his knife and fork down and asked “Penny for your thoughts?” “I was just thinking how everything got so out of control. I mean my mother for one she totally lost it just because my father didn’t want to help Antoinette. And I mean she lost it Johnny; she tried to sell her jewelry but my father already called his contacts and told them it was stolen and they shouldn’t buy it from her and when she didn’t get that right she came after us with a gun, my mother who hates guns. I have no clue who was in that restaurant today, Johnny, no fucking clue.” “People get weird when it gets to money babe.” “As weird as my mom got?” “People kill for money so yes as weird as your mom got.”