Aaron bent, adjusting her body and opened the passenger seat. He gently set her in and buckled her in. She seemed to be in a daze.

“Elaine.” Aaron said as he pushed a strand of auburn hair that had escaped from her top knot behind her ear.

“I have to inform hospital.” Elaine whispered her sense of duty strong despite her current condition.

Aaron nodded.

“Stay here I will explain.” Aaron said as he closed the door and jogged back to the hospital.

He walked up to the main reception and this time there was another receptionist.

“Dr. Elaine has to step out because of some personal reason. She told me to convey the message” Aaron said to the man at the reception.

“I was already informed by Dr. Mann about her family emergency. We have it covered.” The man smiled at Aaron.

“Family emergency?” Aaron thought

“Okay thanks” Aaron said as he went back outside back to his car.

He got in the car and noticed Elaine had her eyes closed with her head leaned back against the head rest. Aaron decided not to say anything.

He pulled out his phone and called Cecelia, his secretary.

“Good morning sir” Cecelia answered on the first ring.

“Good morning. I will not be coming in today. Postpone the meetings for tomorrow and ask Robert to attend to any urgent matter. Call me only if someone is dying.”

“Of course sir. Anything else?”

“No. Thank you” Aaron said and hung up.

Aaron decided where to go. He wasn’t going to show up at Dante’s place again with Elaine and he knew she needed privacy. Whatever it was, had hit her pretty bad. Aaron glanced at the letter clutched between her fingers.

A lover’s issue? Aaron didn’t like that thought but he hadn’t considered it as well. For some reason the thought of Elaine being in a relation irritated him.

“I really need a place. Jesus.” He was a billionaire and homeless at the moment. Well in New York anyways but he couldn’t possibly fly to London, Dubai, Italy or other several countries where he owned property. He seriously needed to get his life together.

He decided to head over to one of his hotels here in NYC. He connected his Bluetooth and called up his real estate agent.

“Hello Mr. Clark”

“Yes Anthony. I wanted to know what the update on the sale of the mansion is.”

“Sir we have potential buyers. When would you like to meet up with them and there is also the issue of the furniture and various others of your belongings are still there.”

“Let me get back to you in a minute Anthony”

“Sure”

Aaron hung up and called Cecelia.

“Cecelia, I want the study and the gym of the mansion cleared and the belonging from those two rooms shifted to rental storage” Aaron rattled of very well knowing the excellent efficiency of his secretary.

“Also from the bedroom, I only want the closet cleared of my belonging and have those packed and brought over to the office.”

“Okay sir and rest of the mansion?”

“Donate rest all to charity.”

“And by when do you want this done and over?”

“End of this week”

“Consider it done sir.”

“Alright thanks” Aaron hung up and called his real estate agent again.

“The mansion will be cleared by the end of this week. I want it sold and gone by next week. You handle everything. I don’t want to be involved.”

“But Mr. Clark---”

“You can charge double. Also I have shortlisted three of the penthouse properties you have sent over.”

“Excellent Mr. Clark. If possible we can meet up tomorrow and visit and finalize?”

“I will let you know by tomorrow morning” Aaron said

He hung up and glanced over at Elaine as he parked outside his hotel and stepped out and handed the keys to the valet.

He pulled open the passenger door.

“Hey Elaine…we are here” Aaron said as he kept his hand on her shoulder.

She was still in her hospital scrubs with her white coat on.

She opened her eyes and winced. Her eyes were swollen and red.

Aaron helped her out and kept a hand around her waist as she steadied herself.

“I just want to sleep” Elaine whispered as she kept her head against Aaron’s shoulder.

“Of course you do.” Aaron muttered, worried about her current state of mind.

They walked into to the reception and the manager immediately came up to Aaron.

“Good afternoon Mr. Clark.” The manager glanced at Elaine who was on the verge of passing out as she held on to Aaron.

“Is the presidential suite free?”

“Of course it is Sir.” The manager said as he called up the staff and a minute later Aaron and Elaine were escorted to the presidential suite.

Aaron lifted Elaine and tucked her in the bed after removing her white coat and shows. Just as he was about to turn around and head into the living area, he felt Elaine grab his hand.

“Will, why did you leave me?” She asked and Aaron’s clenched his jaw.

He was starting to feel ticked off. He didn’t want to be the guy who hauled her around while she was having a lover’s tiff.

“But you are, aren’t you?” a voice in his head retorted back and Aaron groaned. Why was he so concerned about this woman? What was so special about her? He gently extracted his hand from hers and walked out of the room and closed the door after him.

He went to the bar adjoining the living area and poured himself a glass of whiskey. He looked at the closed door.

“It is just attraction.” Aaron muttered and threw back the whiskey in one gulp.

He knew he was done with this relationship stuff. Olivia Miller had taught him a kick ass lesson.

Olivia Miller

Aaron had viewed her and their relation with a love tinted glass and to him she could have never been wrong but now that love tinted glass was tainted with hatred and he didn’t have enough fingers to count off the signs that were there that spoke volumes about how their relation was spiraling out of control.

He realized he should have never proposed.

“Did I actually love her or did I just crave the security of having her?” Aaron asked himself and that question was going to haunt him.

His childhood had messed him up more than he had realized.