Chapter Fifty Five: Uncomfortable Situations

For Amelia it was definitely going to be a long day, but Maxwell was already getting the hang of it.


He kissed her one more time before letting her go, Amelia was on the verge of throwing up, but she smiled through it.


Moxley demanded to see them afterward, hand in hand they both walked to the office. The last thing Amelia wanted to see was a smiley face, but it seemed not only Maxwell had the fantasy of both of them dating, everyone in the hospital cheered and muttered words of adoration.

It irritated her even more, it was against the rule, yet they were all happy.


“I heard the both you are dating, '' he said as he filed the documents on the table. His smile was still persistent. Amelia dreaded it. At that moment she prayed he would go back to being strict and overbearing like he used to, but he wasn't.


“Yes, I know its a surprise, but doctor amelia and I have it covered, it won't affect our work” Maxwell reassured.


Amelia was mute all along, just having Maxwell beside her, holding her hands made her skin prickle, she didn't want to say anything.


“Oh I know, I trust doctor Amelia to make good choices. And beside that everyone has noticed the oddness between the both of you, it is about time you came out of the closet,” he winked at Amelia.


“Am I right? doctor, ammy?”


Amelia didn't say anything, she clenched her fist hard, being placed in that situation made her mind an active furnace.


“Well if you must know, doctor Amelia was against us coming out in the open, she is a rule keeper” Maxwell exaggerated laughter bursted in the room, moxley followed suit.


“Oh I understand, she is indeed a rule keeper, but I am no buzz kill, so you can go on, as long as it won't affect the smooth running of my hospital”

“Yes doctor,” Maxwell said in a hurry.

Amelia didn't say anything, she simply stood fixed on the floor.


“Right doctor Amelia '' Moxley was more specific this time, he had caught up on her oddness, she looked oddly dishevelled but he thought of every reason known to man except the fact that she was being threatened by a junior doctor.

Maxwell clenched her hands, urging her to day something, with a long restrained sigh, she finally said.

“Yes”

Moxley nodded then waved his hands to dismiss them.

“Thank you moxley, you are a keeper”

•••

The day passes with Amelia fighting the urge to puke, with every turn she took, someone was talking about her and Maxwell, they were winking at her, some asked about their sexual experience, she had lied so much in the day that it irked her.


Everyone happened to be a trigger at that moment, she just needed air.


Amelia retired to her office after a long surgery, she chanted a calming breathing mantra that helped suit the feeling she had been holding on for so long, Maxwell was having the best time of his life in exchange for her happiness.

She could already tell he was getting the attention that he needed and the ploy to let Jonah go in a week would be a sham, he wouldn't take on the deal rather he would make her stay longer than she should till he was able to suck away every strand of joy she had left.


Amelia knew better than to let him enjoy himself to that very point where it was now detrimental to let go, the only hold he had on her was Jonah, and that was also an answer in some sort of way.

If she could free Jonah, then he would have nothing on her anymore, they could simply leave town and let him wrath in this hell hole, and secondly it had been in her mind for so long now, but Jonah had to be stronger, he just hasn't harnessed his powers yet, and that was the only flaw in all this.



She let herself swim in her pool of ideas, and when she was finally done, she came up with one of the riskiest of them all.


She decided to go back to Maxwell's building, she would free Jonah and that would be the last time Maxwell would see her again. He could simply forge something for the people at work, they were dumb for all she cared and she was sure they would believe anything he told them.


It was the toughest pill she had to swallow but she would do it for the man she loved.


After that Amelia stood up to leave, when one of the workers walked up to her with a huge flower bouquet in her hands.


“What's this?, isn't that supposed to be in a patient's room or something, take it out of my office” she demanded but the flowers were dumped on her table.


“It is coming from your boyfriend ma’am, he said I should deliver it to your office”


‘Boyfriend?’ Amelia tested the words in her mouth, it sounded like a curse.


She couldn't tell the worker to leave and never return with such abomination, but she knew better than to retaliate in such fashion.


She forced a smile on her lips as she walked towards the flower, her finger held each petal so tenderly as she gazed at it.


“Can you leave now?” she said, the lady nodded then scampered away, in all her life she had never seen a man beg for attention so much that it hurt.


“Damn you Maxwell, damn you” she said.


As she was about leaving again her eyes met a card in-between the flower petals, she was about to call in sick and leave, she didn't want anyone to walk into her office before the flower is delivered to her home and find out she didn't check out he flowers so she pulled out the card in it.


‘You looked very beautiful today, and your lips taste so good, I can't help it’ those were the words written on the card.


‘Fool’ Amelia cursed as she crumpled the paper in her hands. She hated him with every fibre of her being, she could not wait to get out of the place, she shoved the crumbled sheet of paper into her back then walked towards the door.


Maxwell would pay through his nose…


She submitted her letter to moxleys office then left without getting a confirmation. If he let her leave, she could not stand one more second in the hospital anymore.

Rather than going back to her house and maybe sleeping away the stress she had the most devious plan, and it was an unremorseful break in, she was going to break into maxwell's house and take Jonah, after the night spent with him she had familiarised herself with some of the path in his house.


It was a big apartment, but not big enough to stop her from her search. And maybe this time she had stepped ahead of Maxwell and his devious plan, before Maxwell will know that she had left, he was going to come find her, that's for sure, he would drive to jonah's place or her place, it was going to buy enough time for her to search for something.


As she pulled over at his apartment, she unlocked the electronics gates with his password, then into his house, relief flooded her mind, with that she was certain almost everything after that would be easy.


While in the house she set her things aside then walked towards his room, her hands pulled the door but it was locked.

“Damn it!” she kicked the door in frustration, she wasn't expecting to see it locked.


After so much fuss she started to look for another way to bring him out of the dungeon she would not let him rot there, goodness knows if he is even fed, Amelia was caught up in her thoughts she was messed up by fear at that moment and almost having a panic attack.

She had no idea her biggest nemesis was just at the corner of the house.

Few minutes after she entered the house, Maxwell did, he had noticed her a sense from the hospital almost immediately and had secretly trailed behind her in a cab, and he heard curse him multiple times.


His ego was being trampled upon, he hated that she could not even pretend to like him even for a single day, it was always going to be Jonah, all the time, it was him she cared about the most.


That damn cleaner…


“You don't give up do you?”


The sound of his voice had Amelia on standstill, she prayed that the voice she had just heard was in her head.


“You know I am beginning to suspect that what ever hold he has on you must be spiritual, because I see the way you are addicted to him its not normal”