The Medical Doctor's mother died in his arms

9

Ethan stood alone in the quiet memorial hall smoking a cheap cigarette. He suffered through his second completely sleepless night in the dark.

Loud tires screeched violently to a halt in the dark alley outside. Victoria rushed inside with her expensive white shirt still stained with dried blood.

He noted their incredible speed and drew his own firm conclusions instantly.

"There is only one single bed available in this tiny cheap doghouse," Ethan stated. His dark eyes remained completely flat and exhausted.

"The hard dirty floor is wide open if you plan on staying here," Ethan added. He pointed a casual finger toward the dusty corner of the room.

Victoria stepped forward quickly and bowed with deep genuine respect. She presented a beautifully carved wooden box directly to his waiting hands.

The rare White Dragon Root rested perfectly inside just exactly as he asked. Ethan opened the lid and kept his facial expression entirely neutral.

His left eye twitched very slightly at the incredible and beautiful sight.

The rare black herb possessed a very distinctive white coiled tip. It was one of the three precious things he desperately needed.

He locked the priceless box safely inside the hidden compartment under his old desk. He did it without any grand or special ceremony at all.

"The Old Master is exactly ten minutes behind us on the road," Mrs. Hayes announced. Her voice carried a mixture of deep urgency and lingering embarrassment.

"What happened to the great wealthy titan refusing to lower himself to my level?" Ethan asked. His tone dripped with totally deliberate and cold innocence.

Mrs. Hayes felt her wrinkled face burn bright red with absolute deep shame. She looked down at the wooden floor exactly like a scolded puppy.

"A very generous consultation f*e will arrive here shortly," Victoria promised. She bowed her beautiful head again in pure polite apology.

The heavy wooden front door pushed open with a very loud irritating creak. Sophia marched right through the entrance with her entire angry group.

Ethan dropped his burning cigarette instantly and his blood ran entirely cold. This small room was his beloved mother sacred memorial hall.

If these filthy animals caused any trouble here his response would be incredibly violent.

"Why have you been ignoring my calls like a disobedient stray dog?" Sophia demanded. Her beautiful face twisted into a highly ugly and arrogant sneer.

"You belong to us and you need to answer when your masters call," Sophia insulted. She crossed her arms tightly over her chest in complete pure superiority.

Ethan walked slowly to the cracked wall and unplugged his old phone. The bright screen woke up automatically in his steady right hand.

He pressed the loud speaker button and played her desperate voice messages for the entire room.

"Answer the phone you worthless mutt or I will break your stupid legs," Sophia recorded voice threatened loudly.

"You are nothing without my wealthy family feeding you scraps every single day," Sophia voice echoed cruelly a few seconds later.

"Please Ethan just come back to the house and I will buy you a nice new bone," Sophia voice begged pathetically just a few minutes after that.

"You ruined my perfect life you dirty ungrateful street mongrel," Sophia voice shrieked in total absolute unhinged hysteria.

The rapid progression from violent threats to desperate bargaining played out perfectly. Victoria and Mrs. Hayes watched the absolute pathetic and crazy display.

Tyler and Ashley stood entirely frozen in deep massive burning embarrassment. Sophia stood there listening quietly to her own pathetic crazy voice.

Ethan blocked every single Morgan family contact one by one on the screen. He never broke his intense icy eye contact with his ex wife.

"What gave you the right to burn the Phoenix Remedy recipe you feral beast?" Sophia screamed. She pointed a manicured shaking finger directly at Helen painted portrait.

"Your old mother left that exact recipe specifically for me and my massive company," Sophia yelled. Her chest heaved heavily with total blinding massive greed.

"You took a billion dollars from my hands you jealous little street rat," Sophia accused. Her eyes bulged wildly with pure absolute madness.

A vicious and incredibly heavy slap landed squarely across her pale cheek before she finished. The loud violent smack echoed violently in the small quiet clinic.

Sophia stumbled backward clumsily and held her burning red cheek in pure absolute shock.

She stared wildly at the quiet man who spent four long years groveling before her family. Her arrogant brain could not process what just actually happened.

"You ungrateful filthy parasites make me completely and utterly sick," Ethan growled. His rough voice shook with the absolute furious rage of a patient man.

"The Injury Cream and the secret reagent were entirely my mother hard work," Ethan explained. His dark eyes burned with deadly terrifying intense fire.

"The Phoenix Remedy was her brilliant creation given freely to you greedy stray dogs," Ethan stated. He took a highly aggressive and threatening step forward.

"In her final painful bloody moments she was still thinking about your company future," Ethan revealed. His chest grew incredibly tight with overwhelming heavy grief.

"And your arrogant family could not be bothered to send a single person to her deathbed," Ethan accused. His voice dripped with absolute pure murderous intent.

"If you set one single foot in this memorial hall to cause a scene again I will destroy you," Ethan promised. His facial expression was entirely cold and totally lethal.

"I will burn every single remaining recipe to ash right now and leave you with absolutely nothing," Ethan threatened. He glared at her like she was dirty rotting garbage.

Sophia swayed dangerously on her expensive high heels. The full massive weight of his angry words finally crushed her fragile mind.

She did not know there were even more priceless recipes than just the Phoenix Remedy. The massive terrifying financial pressure became totally physical.

She spit thick dark red blood onto the floor and started to fall rapidly forward. Tyler and the others lunged quickly to catch her heavy body.

Tyler rounded furiously on Ethan with pure explosive and completely violent rage.

"I am calling the underground boss to put you down exactly like a sick rabid dog," Tyler shouted. His handsome face turned an ugly shade of bright purple.

"The Black Tiger Crew will rip you into tiny little pieces and feed you to their actual dogs," Tyler bragged loudly. He sneered with complete absolute venom and pure wicked malice.

Tyler pulled out his shiny luxury phone to make a very grand dramatic show. He dialed Brother Dante number carefully to impress the two beautiful unfamiliar women.

He desperately wanted to look like a powerful dominant alpha wolf in front of Victoria.

The video call connected instantly with a soft sharp electronic chime.

Brother Dante appeared on the bright clear screen lying flat in a sterile hospital bed.

Where his right hand used to be there was now only a bloody stump wrapped in white gauze.

Tyler completely froze and his smug confident expression stopped working entirely.