Don't tell me to fucking calm down! This is how allowed my daughter to fall in love with this disgrace of a man, someone who isn't worthy to be a husband. What am I even saying? Is he not worthy to be a man? Which man folds the way he does?" Mrs. Richard asks angrily and Mark feels very sober.
Many eyes fell on him and he felt the land should open up and swallow him up so that he would be free from this humiliation. " I might not be rich but that's no reason to speak to me this way." He said, trying to defend himself.
She clapped her hands in mockery, " Oh, really? Then come and stop me then, I mean it, come and stop me then, you foolish man."
" Stacey." Mr. Richard called in warning, "Don't humiliate the man like that. Wait till we get home."
Mrs. Richards's eyes narrowed angrily at her husband for trying to stop her from lashing out at this good-for-nothing piece of trash before her, " I will speak to him any way I deem fit."
" Stop disgracing our daughter, what I'd someone is taking pictures or making videos of this scene, it would cost our daughter everything she has ever wished for herself so I'll tell you to leave them. After all, you are not the one paying the bill are you?" He asked trying to placate her. He quickly devised that excuse because he knew that his wife was ready to follow that matter till the end.
"This is the bill ma." The nurse said after handing over the bill to Lacey.
" A hundred thousand dollars?"
" Why?"
" He was knocked out cold and he's in a coma,"
Lacey almost sank to her knees as she tried to understand what was going to happen. "So, you mean that I'll have to pay close to two months of my salary for my friend's recovery." She repeated, hoping that the receptionist made a mistake alas, she didn't make any mistake at all. It was all Mark's fault and she was going to make sure that he regretted this.
" May I have the account number please?" She asked while throwing Mark a threatening look. " Wait till we get home." She mouthed while her parents watched from behind.
Mrs Ricjardy was happy. Finally, her daughter was going to be free from the shackles of the stupid love bond that she entered.
" Let the children be." Mr. Richard nudged his wife and she shot him an acid look.
" I wish she married a better man by now you would have been enjoying now she's shackled with this stupid man." She fired back at him.
Lacey finishes paying and they walk to the chair. She puts a distance between her and Mark, she needed some time to think properly, with him beside her giving her a puppy dog eyes like he was. A spinless dog that could be destroyed in a twinkle of an eye.
She shook her head to get rid of the negative thoughts that flew into her mind as she thought of him.
She didn't know when she slept off and woke up with a startle when she felt a hand touch her gently, " Lacey, the doctor is done, he wants to see us." Mark speaks softly trying his best not to wake her parents, if he did, he won't hear the last of it and he was sure that he was going to die of their words.
She shrugged his hand away, " So, what do you suggest we do?"
" We need to go to his office right now." Mark pointed Northward, "Let's go before they wake up."
Her brows rose and she looked at him with a condescending look, " Why are you referring to them as they, they are better than you in all ramifications so please accord them the respect they deserve, don't call them just like that." She warned.
Mark rolled his eyes but nodded his head, "Yes, ma'am. As thy Lordship pleases." He muttered sarcastically and she looked at him.
" I can sense sarcasm in your tone. Apologize to my parents now." She said and Mark raised his brows. He didn't know what caused this problem, the fact that he didn't acknowledge them or what?
" Well, I don't know what you are talking about?' He lied and Lacey grew more angry. How dare he try to make her look like a fool?
" I heard you clearly, why are you lying" she snapped and her mother roused gently from her sleep ready to cause trouble.
" What do you mean by its not true? I heard you clearly." Mrs. Richard replied in annoyance.
Mark sighed deeply, who would have thought that a point would come where he and his wife would have such a problem? All that rang through his mind was, if he had known he would have left her alone the very first day they met. She told him but he was persistent.
Now, see where that led him? To the point of humiliation and shame. " I'm sorry if I sounded rude, but can we go see the doctor? I think that's the most important thing right now." He said and she looked at him with a warning in her eyes.
" Let's go, but we are not yet done with this conversation." Lacey said and Henry nodded, not wanting any trouble for himself at all tonight.
Some of the nurses had begun to doze off and he went to ask them where the doctor's office was they took another two minutes before answering.
" Gosh, what kind of a man is this?" Lacey muttered inwardly and went on to check what was going on, " where's the doctor's office?" She asked and they snapped out of their sleepiness.
"Even the barest task, you find it hard to do, what am I going to do with you?" She threw her hands in the air as anger filled her heart.
" Love me."
Lacey scoffed, " Love you?" She repeated and the inner door opened.
" Mr and Mrs Mark please come this way." The doctor interrupted