The journey to Glistening Royal Hospital takes just a few minutes for the cab driver as he pulls over a huge white-colored building and that leaves Lucien who had just relaxed a few minutes ago with the thoughts that the journey just started in awe.
He looks at the so huge building not just twice but thrice and stares back at the cab driver who has been staring at him all this time while playing with his keys and at the same time waiting for his pay. "Are you sure we are in the right place, Sir?" He implores softly and once again takes a peek at the building before staring back. "I'm sorry to say but this place looks more like a hotel than a hospital."
The cab driver laughs out loud to the extent that tears start trickling down his cheeks.
Lucien curls his brows at him. "And what's funny about what I just said?"
"Everything is." He retorts and laughs once more. "Who doesn't know the no.1 Americans biggest hospital 'Glistening Royal Hospital?' A wretched fellow like you I guess." He chuckles more and rolls his eyes.
Lucien smiles not feeling moved by his choice of words in any way and gets down from the cab. "How much is your money?" He asks through the front door open glass, stares around to be sure that no one is watching and puts his right hand into his right back pocket, and brings out two wraps of one hundred dollar notes.
"J..us..t..hu..nd..re..d..do..ll..ar..s..si..r" he stutters and swallows a lump of spittle.
Lucien chuckles at his sudden change in attitude, shakes his head, and hands him everything. "You can keep the rest." He walks out before the stunned cab driver could say anything and makes a little body dance.
"See babes! Isn't that the runaway ex of Juliet Pearson?" A young fair lady standing close to the entrance of the hospital whispers to a lady beside her and points at Lucien.
The lady follows her stretched hand and nods abruptly. "That's him!" She exclaims and fixes her eyes on him. "What's he doing here? He looks just the same— so frayed and unkempt." She crinkles her nose and hisses.
"Maybe he's here to beg for money lest he dies," the first lady says and both burst out laughing still not taking their eyes off him.
Lucien gets to where the ladies are and walks into the hospital without even giving them a look even though he knows they are gossiping about him. He keeps walking but suddenly gets stopped by a huge dude in uniform.
"I told you he would get stopped" the lady who had earlier stated that perhaps Lucien came to beg for money whispers at the same other lady and winks at her.
"I never doubted it when you said it, did I? He looks like a mad man so it's normal for him to be stopped and sent out. I can't wait for the latter to happen." The other lady retorts and giggles.
"Poor wretched Lucien Wood in the four walls of Glistening Royal Hospital. Astounding..."
"He must be a fool if he thinks he will be let to cross..."
"He's always been a fool so don't be surprised that he might have thought that. Haven't you heard that he disrupted Juliet's wedding? Oh, poor Brooks didn't deserve what he got..."
"He should be caught and held behind bars..."
More and more people both old and young in the hospital continue murmuring and some even begin visualizing disastrous storylines. Some who were outside walk in just not to miss this exciting scene as they think it.
"My lover lies in one of the wards in this hospital. I need to see her and know how she's faring so please get out of my way" Lucien mutters in an icy voice and stares deeply at the uniformed dude.
The uniformed dude gets astonished by his tone and words that he involuntarily takes a step backward. To say that he is so frightened by the words of a good-for-nothing like Lucien Wood makes him feel so insulted that he clenches his fist.
Lucien glances at him coldly seeing his clenched fist and covers the remaining space between them. "If you think you are strong enough as your body makes you feel then hoist a fist at me. If you don't wake up in the afterlife then let my name be taken away from me."
"Who does he think he is..."
"Is he really claiming strong now..."
"A weakling like him is claiming that he can send this huge dude to his death..."
"Gosh! This guy should just scatter his face..."
The dude shivers at his domineering aura as he has never beheld such aura before and to the amazement of all the people walks away without a single word and Lucien chuckles.
"Good choice bro" he mumbles under his breath, glances at the people whose hands were over their mouths, and continues his walk leaving them to sort out themselves.
He gets to the receptionist counter and remembering he doesn't know the ward Juliet is in halts and clears his throat.
"Get out from here asshole!" The young receptionist shrieks at him even before he could say anything and glares at him.
"You will be begging for your job if your boss gets to find out that you shouted at me," he replies in all smiles and ruffles his hair.
The receptionist chuckles and rolls her eyes at him. "In your dreams asshole! What the hell are you doing here? Better talk before I call the guard on you!" She slams her hand on the counter and stamps her foot.
"Do you mean that guard over there?" He points at the guard who happens to be the same dude that had initially stopped him and chuckles.
"Yes! What about him?" She retorts and curls her brows.
"Look at him. Does he look like one that will want to come ten meters close to me?"
The guard catching a glimpse of Lucien when he pointed at him shivers even though he is far away and walks out.
"You see what I told you?" Lucien laughs and waves his hand in the air as if commanding a choir.
"Enough!" The receptionist wails and once again slams her hand on the counter and thick veins pass over her face.
"Poor hand. It must be hurting so badly right now. Do you mind if I help you massage it?" He stretches his hand towards her but she shoves it away and glares at him."Stop playing silly jokes with me asshole and tell me why you're here!""You should already know why I'm here mio caro so tell me what I want to know."The receptionist creases her brows and twists her mouth. "I just can't believe this" she laughs. "You're here to see Juliet?" She asks just to be sure she's thinking right.He shrugs and nods not feeling like saying anything."A poor wretched fellow like you wants to see Juliet? And to think you're even the reason she's lying there right now pisses me off. You sure have a lot of gut though. I can't even believe she once had something to do with you. Urgh! So disgusting!"Lucien chuckles and his face for the very first time stretches into a mischievous grin. "At least I'm way better than you in so many ways." He says, strolls clos
"You are awake?" His eyes widen and he adjusts on his seat as his eyes peer tenderly on her and in a whiff he forgets all she earlier babbled.Juliet scoffs and rolls her eyes at him and sighs softly patting her aching head tenderly. "I've been awake for a long time now thinking about several things Lucien. And the most painful part of them is you! I thought you dead! And to be honest you are the last soul I want to see right now because I hate you so fucking much! I deeply do!" She pats her head trying so hard to hold back her tears but it flows freely down her cheeks.He lowers his head as her words cut him so deeply and stretch his hand to hold her but she shoves it away and glares at him. "I didn't mean to leave Juliet. You were there years ago when your dad said all the things he said to me. You...""And so fucking what!" She barks interrupting him and groans out as the aching in her head intensifies due to her scream. He tries to hold her but she scowls at
Back in Royal hospital after watching Lucien leave with scary eyes, Mr. Santiago and his wife Mrs. Avery both run into Juliet's ward to see if she was hurt by that poor thing, so they ask their daughter Juliet if she is okay. "Princess are you alright? Did he hurt you again? what did he say to you darling?" She doesn't say a word but instead, she just closes her eyes. They irritate her right now, she can't bear to say a word because her thoughts are not hers at the moment. She just couldn't possibly understand the fact that Lucien came back after all this time. 'After all these years he just shows up out of the blue?' Thoughts like that cloud her mind that having her parents all over her isn't what she needs right now. She just needs to be alone. It wasn't long after closing her eyes, she fell asleep. The Pearsons leave the room so she can sleep in a quiet and conducive atmosphere. They go to the counter to make payments but what happens takes them all by surprise. "I'm sor
"What! What do you mean by that? How was he released?" "Someone from the high ups called me. I had no choice but to let him go, else I won't be much of a sheriff any longer." Immediately the sheriff says that, he hangs up and Mr. Santiago throws away his cell phone and it smashes against the wall. Mrs. Avery rushes into the room at the sound of the noise and her eyes widen sighting the shattered phone on the floor. "What's wrong Love, talk to me, please. Will you?" She stares softly at him. "It's the sheriff, he just told me that Lucien is out of jail." "How is that? How could he go scot-free? Like, who could possibly be that person who released him? Did the sheriff say anything about that?" "I didn't get to ask about that due to my emotions hun, you can see, can't you?" He holds his chest as he starts breathing rapidly. "No Santiago. Please don't do this, you are hyperventilating right now. Take a deep breath Love" Mrs. Avery rushes to him while tears tend to overwhelm her. Sh
The Pearsons all run after the man that just barged into their mansion. "What sort of nonsense is this?!" Mrs. Avery yells as she sees Lucien sitting on her expensive couch, his legs crossed as he grins at them while fiddling with his fingers. "How dare you come into my house, you filthy piece of garbage!" Mr. Santiago barks, staring daggers at the young man before him. Juliet comes in at that moment, Brianna rushing after her. Her eyes land on the handsome man seated on the couch, grinning at her parents. "Lucien, What are you doing?" She half yells as she glares at him. "My love" Lucien calls out as he stands up, approaching her with a smile on his face. His hands reach out to hold on to hers. Juliet furiously slaps away his hands as she glares at him. "Don't you dare touch me, Lucien! What sort of nonsense is this? What do you think you're doing?" "Darling, this Lucien is good for nothing!" Mrs. Avery cries out. "He's just come back to ruin our lives!" "Get the fuck out of
Juliet runs up the fleet of stairs as she heads for her room. Reaching her room, she enters and bangs the door close, and runs to her bed. She crashes her face first on the king-sized bed and lets all her bottled-up tears fall. She cries and cries feeling the pain resurfacing all over again. All those years she had to suffer because of what Lucien had done. The humiliation, the mocking, the pain. It had almost led her to commit suicide. She would have most definitely been dead by now if that stupid Brooks did not save her. Juliet hated Lucien but she despises that disgusting Brooks even more. She is glad the wedding had been called off otherwise, she wonders what she would have done. Juliet is sure Brooks has a hidden agenda behind marrying her, but her parents fail to see that. They worship Brooks as they refuse to see the reason. Different thoughts rush through her mind as she lies there. Soon sleep washes over her and her world goes pitch black. Lucien walks up the grand st
Lucien freezes and swallows a lump of spittle as he hears what she just said. He's lost for words as he stands there, staring at Juliet who stares back at him. Juliet thinks Lucien doesn't take her seriously so she raises the knife about to slit her wrist. "Juliet!" Lucien screams, raising his hands up above his head in surrender but still doesn't leave. Juliet stops just before the knife touches her skin. "I'm really serious," she says again. "Okay fine" he exhales, "I'll leave but please, put the knife down." He whispers as he steps backward. Lucien tries to say something again but Juliet grits her teeth, showing him the knife. He sighs and quietly steps out of the room. Mrs. Avery twists and turns on her bed. She can't bring herself to sleep after what happened earlier today. She turns facing the other direction and sees her husband is wide awake too. "Hubby, you're still awake?" She asks and widens her eyes, pretending to be surprised. "How can I sleep when that good-fo
The Pearsons are finally done with their breakfast. They had ignored Lucien throughout and pretended like he never existed. Juliet excused herself as she received a phone call from the office. She had not attended to the matters of the office since before her wedding. She walks to the living room to receive the call. One by one every one stands up to leave the dining table. That's after they each glare at Lucien as they pass him by. Lucien chuckles as the Pearsons all walk out on him. Their behaviors always seem to amuse him with each passing day. His big phone suddenly vibrates in his pocket and he looks around to make sure no one is close by. Satisfied, he brings out the phone from his pocket and looks at the caller I.D. It is Declan his right-hand man. "Good morning Sir." The voice mutters at the other end of the line. "Good morning Declan, I thought I said you shouldn't call me." Lucien frowns as his eyes dart around making sure no one is seeing him. "Yes Sir. I'm sorry