Chapter 59: Your Compensation
Max did not return. Nora did not wait for him. She collected her torn clothes and changed into them when the nurse told her that her bills were settled and she could leave at any moment.
As she dragged her exhausted body out of the hospital, a car was already waiting for her in the parking lot. Nora inhaled a deep breath and walked to the car, the door opened as she approached and it disappeared with the speed of lightning, the moment Nora took it.
"If i did not know any better, i would have believed that running a hospital takes no effort." she whispered as the car finally stopped. Her eyes scan the surroundings. She was on the highway, around ten miles away from the city. If he wanted to talk to her, he could take her to any cafe or a private place. Why here?
"My staff has always been competent." Alric replied in a lazy voice. It did not match with the speed he had driven the car at all. "Though I am not sure about you, Nora."
"Then you can fire me." she replied without batting an eyelid as she looked away from him to her plaster. "I have already suffered enough to pay for my debts." his eyes flickered to her wounds too.
He would not lie, he was scared for a second that she would die when he had seen her lying in her own pool of blood alone with torn clothes and broken mobile in her hands.
But the coldness in her eyes had not diminished even a bit.
In an instant he was hovering on her. She didn’t see him taking off his seat belt or moving at all. Her eyes narrowed at the way his thigh leaned on hers.
"You take your life, your body too lightly. Always ready to hurt it to achieve your goal." he accused her in a cold voice. His hands reached for her cheeks. Her lower lip was cut and swollen. Her face looked a mess. "Do you not care about your life at all?"
"Both of you have the habit of touching too much." she spat as she closed her eyes. The touch felt good for some reason. Perhaps, she was craving for a caring touch after seeing her death again.
"As a businessman you should know that only risk takers could win. You take risks with your wealth to gain success. I do not have wealth. This body is all I have. I need to use it in every possible way to get what I want." her voice felt distant, detached and lacked emotions. As if she was not talking about her life but a rotten useless asset.