Husband you've abandoned me Fine I'll focus on raising my son novel Chapter 111

Chapter 111: A poison

As I continued punching, I lost my balance and began to fall. Louis reacted quickly. Somehow he hooked one of my legs and switched our positions. I shrieked from the sudden movement. He landed on the floor and I on his chest with arms wrapped around me.

How had he flipped our positions? Louis’s reflexes were something else.

My hands went to his chest and I lifted my torso and head to look at him. His hand, which had been covering the top of my head, protecting it, came away, and his other hand came to my waist.

"Louis, are you alright?" I asked him worried.

"Yeah," he replied in a small voice. His eyes focused on me. "And you?"

"Yeah, you completely protected me and took the brunt of the fall," I reminded him. I’m sure it would have been easier for him if he’d just pulled me up with him. Did he have to fall with me?

"I would love to prove them wrong," he said.

"What?" I asked wondering what he was talking about.

"That you can run a business the right way. Show you don’t have to hurt people in the process," he said. He brought a hand up to my face he tucked a stray hair behind my ear.

Then as if in a trance, our eyes remained locked on each other.

"I would love to see it," I said to him and smiled.

His eyes seemed to be searching mine. For what, I didn’t know. I became conscious of our closeness, our heavy deep breaths, the glistening sweat on the skin of his exposed muscular arms and chest through the tank top he wore. The silence of the room became loud. I felt the beat of his heart through my hands that were on his chest.

I shouldn’t be having these thoughts I thought to myself. Unconsciously, I lowered my head bringing it closer to his. His hand went to cup my cheek whilst the other was holding my waist. His full lips parted, and so did mine.

"Okay, I had my snack!" I then heard Tony’s voice suddenly yell.

I glanced his way and saw him heading towards us. Immediately my body got off Louis’ and sat beside him. Heat coursed through my cheeks in embarrassment as I thought about what I was about to do to Louis. I heard Louis mutter something under his breath but didn’t hear it. Glancing at him I saw he looked annoyed.

"Great we can start round two now," he then said to Tony his expression completely changing.

"Maybe you should go have your own snack now," Louis then suggested to me.

Then got up from the floor and turned to me. "Can you get up?" he asked me.

"Yeah, I think so," I answered. He then reached his arm out to me and helped me up.

"Did you have lunch?" he asked me.

I shook my head in response.

The following day at work was uneventful. It was the start of my second week in my new position as the executive assistant. I was just doing my best to learn how everything worked.

It was on Tuesday that the Yorkshire General hospital then finally got back to my email on my inquiry about the symptoms of my sickness in my past life.

It was around 3pm, I had finished a meeting and had returned to my office to do some paperwork, when I checked my emails and saw the response.

My mouth was agape as I finished reading the email. As if the news of the true cause of my mother’s death wasn’t enough the news I received was even more shocking. The specialist had a theory about what could cause my sickness.

’Dear Ms Towers,

I am one of the specialists who was assigned to handle your inquiry. An inquiry that was most puzzling and concerning. There are no diseases I know of or that any of the other specialists at the hospital know of that can lead to a slow failure of all internal organs and death.

That is the case as far as diseases are concerned. However, if a poison was involved the story would be different. There is a poison called Dicotone which can result in similar effects to the ones you listed, if given in small doses to a person over a long period of time.

I’m assuming there’s someone you know who experienced what you described if you want we can look at the case to understand better what occurred.

Kind regards,

Dr. Albert Andros’