Chapter 2

DELOS GENERAL HOSPITAL

An elegant lady could be seen walking as fast as her legs to get her inside the hospital and her heels clicking, making a faint thud as she walked.

As she passed by the nurses and doctors, they all bowed their heads and didn't raise it until she was out of their sight.

About three to four bodyguards were behind her with her personal assistant who was trying to keep to her pace. The lady was putting on a tight red gown which stopped just a few inches below her knees. She has the most perfect porcelain skin and her black hair which was flowing behind her was soft and smooth as silk. Her sapphire blue eyes radiated her pale skin, making her look like a walking doll.

She stopped walking when she got to the front of a ward, and she opened the door and walked into the ward and met a doctor attending to the old man who was unconscious with oxygen on.

“ How is my grandfather?” That was the first word that left the lady's mouth, and when the doctor saw her, he bowed his head.

“ Your grandfather is stable and would wake up anytime from now,” the doctor said with respect.

“ I asked him to always move around with bodyguards and his car, but he wouldn't listen, now look at his condition” her voice was laced with worry as she stared at her unconscious grandfather.

“ Cancel all my appointments today, I would stay with grandpa until he wakes up” The lady said to her PA, who nodded and began to make some calls.

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A few hours later, the lady was sleeping beside her grandfather's hospital bed when she felt him moved, and she opened her eyes immediately.

“ Grandpa, thank goodness you're alive. I thought something bad might have happened to you” the lady said with tears in her eyes and her grandfather smiled as he raised his hand to wipe her tears.

“ Cry no more, my little princess. I am hale and hearty, I am a strong man, remember?” Her grandpa said, and she chuckled and sniffed before sitting beside him.

“ What happened, grandpa? How did the accident happen? I always tell you to move around with your car and bodyguards, but you won't listen, what if something bad had happened to you? What would have become of me?” The lady cried and her grandfather smiled.

“ I was walking on the street of Delos when a car hit me and ran away. I was bleeding profusely and felt my life slipping out of me. Some passerby saw my condition ad refused to help me.” 

“ So, who brought you to the hospital?” The lady asked, and the old man smiled as he recalled what happened the previous night.

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“ Oh, poor man. He is really bleeding”! 

“ I wish I could help him, but what if he dies while on the way to the hospital, I would be arrested for killing him.” 

Some passerby said as the walked past the bleeding old man. The old man felt his life slipping out of him as his eyes turned blurry, and he couldn't see very well because of how much blood he already lost.

Just when he was about to pass out, a young man ran towards him and began to shake him.

“ Hey grandpa? Wake up! Don't close your eyes! I will get you to the hospital right now” the young man shouted and squatted down, carried the old man on his back before running to the nearest hospital.

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“ So he gave you a piggyback to the hospital?” The lady asked and the old man nodded.

“ Wow, so nice of him, I hope to see him, and thank him for rescuing your life” the lady said and the old man smiled.

“ I have sent my butler to go find him all around Delos, I would like to meet him and thank him myself.” The old man said, and the lady nodded.

“ So, Rachel, have you seen a man you want to marry?” The old man suddenly asked after a long silence between them.

“ No grandfather, do you have anyone in mind?” The lady asked and he nodded with a smile. 

“ I do have someone in mind.” he smiled and Rachel nodded.

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On the street of Delos, Walton kept walking without having any destination in mind. He had no money left on him to book a hotel room to rest, before thinking of where to go.

Being an orphan with no parents or relatives, Walton relied on the Rex family to feed and cloth him, but now that he already left, he had nowhere to go.

Walton was still thinking of what to do when his phone beeped. He took it from his pocket to check the message, only to see a bank alert.

His brows furrowed as he saw the amount glaring hard at him from the screen of the phone.

“ Who sent this?” He muttered as he clicked on the message to see the full details.

' You have been credited with ten million dollars from Xxx bank, please come to the bank to upgrade your account to VIP' the message read and Walton scoffed.

“ Who are these fools trying to scam?” He said, and put his phone back in his pocket. Just as he was about to resume his walk, his phone rang, and he picked it up.

“ Hello Mr. Walton Rex, please come to the bank and upgrade your account to the VIP section to receive the amount which has just been credited to your account” the voice from the other end of the phone said.

“ Are you trying to fool me? I am not the type to get scammed easily” Walton flared up. He was already exhausted from his wife's betrayal and having to walk around the street of Delos without having a particular destination, so he decided to pour all his aggression on the person who called him.

“ No, Mr. Walton. Your account has been credited with ten million US dollars, and we are inviting you to be part of our VIP customers” the voice said politely.

“ I won't take it easy on your bank if I found out that I am being fooled” Walton said and hanged up. He turned around, heading towards the bank to confirm if the alert he saw was actually real or fake.

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He got to the bank within thirty minutes and headed towards the counter in the reception.

“ Hello sir, how may I help you?” The receptionist asked in a polite manner with a smile on her face. She looked professional, and Walton couldn't help but smile.

“ Hello. I am here to withdraw money” Walton replied.

“ How much do you want to withdraw, sir?” Asked the receptionist, and Walton thought for a while before replying.

“ I want to withdraw one million dollars” he said, and the receptionist couldn't help but laugh.

“ And why are you laughing?” Asked Walton, who couldn't find what was making the receptionist laugh.

“ I am sorry sir, but you can't withdraw one million dollars because I don't think you have such an amount of money in your account” the receptionist said. Walton found her words offensive, but he waved it off because he thought that she might be true.

He actually doesn't have such an amount in his bank account, so he was fooled to think that his account was credited with ten million dollars.

“ Okay, if I can't withdraw one million dollars, can I at least check my account balance?” Walton asked, and the receptionist furrowed her brows.

“ Sir, do you think I am playing here? You came to withdraw one million dollars when you don't have such amount and now, you want me to show you your account balance, were you expecting a huge amount of money to enter your account?” The receptionist asked. With the way she replied, it was starting to draw attention towards them, making Walton feel embarrassed.

“ Just check my account balance and stop beating around the bush. Is this really how you treat your customers?” Walton asked, but the receptionist scoffed and faced the computer in front of her.

After asking for Walton's necessary details, she finally checked his account balance grudgingly and was shocked to see the amount in it.

“ Can you stop staring at the computer screen and tell me how much I have in my account, " Walton said, bringing the receptionist out of her trance.

Feeling embarrassed with herself, she changed the topic by asking Walton where he got such an amount of money from.

“ Hey, Mr. Walton, where did you get such an amount of money? Because since you became one of our customers, you've never had well over five thousand dollars in your account, so how possible is it that you've got ten million dollars?” The receptionist asked, and Walton fell silent.

He had no explanation on how he got such an amount of money from, and no matter how much he explained to the receptionist, she wouldn't believe a single word of his.

“ And how is that your business? You're just a mere receptionist, so what right do you have to ask me such a question?” Walton answered her questions with another question, making the receptionist lose her tongue.

“ What matters is that, I want to withdraw one million dollars and that's final” Walton said.

“ Did you steal such amount of money from the Rex family?” The receptionist suddenly asked and murmurs circulated immediately from the passerby who stopped to watch what was going on.

“ Why would you say such a thing to me? Who are you to ask such questions?” Walton fired and the receptionist snared.

“ Everyone knows that you're the poor son-in-law of the Rex family, and you feed on them, so having such a huge amount of money in your account is questionable.” The receptionist said, and Walton fell silent.

The fact that a mere receptionist knew that he was a lowly son-in-law from the Rex family made him silent and unable to speak.

“ Securities! Securities! Get this man out of this bank right now, he is a thief” the receptionist ordered and two hefty men came forward and held Walton by the arm and started dragging him away while the receptionist smiled.

Just as they were about to throw him out, a voice boomed around the reception, making all heads, including that of Walton, turn to see whose voice was that.

“ What right do you have to drag Grandpa Lawson's guest from the bank and also call him a thief” the voice boomed around the reception and all heads turned to the voice.

There, stood an elegant lady, dressed in a red gown which stopped just above her knees. Her skin, very flawless and her dress was screaming luxury.

“ Leave him this minute or forget about your job” the lady said as he walked closer towards the scene.

“ And for you,” she turned to the receptionist who was already shivering in fear. “ You're fired!”