The next few hours passed by in a blur and it was past midnight as the three of us sat on the waiting chairs, waiting for the doctors to give us a silver lining.

There were currently two neurosurgeons in Mr. Rhodes' room, and we were impatiently waiting for them to come outside and tell us about his current condition.

Noah went back home an hour ago because he needed to let his wife know about everything that had happened to Mr. Rhodes and according to him he couldn't do it over the phone because she would have freaked out and the fact that she was pregnant didn't help at all.

After what seemed like an eternity, the doctors came out and one of them nodded at the other as he made his towards the nurse's counter and the other one walked over towards us.

"Mr. Kingston," the doctor stopped right in front of us and my heart stopped in my chest. "Despite our countless efforts, Mr. Rhodes has fallen into a state of coma and we're not positive if he's going to wake up any time soon."

Alex closed his eyes and heaved in a deep sigh as I looked at him, struggling to maintain his composure. My eyes filled with tears yet again and I moved my head sideways and sat down on the chair with my hair all over my face to hide my tear-stained face.

My lips quivered as I clenched and unclenched my fists to stop myself from breaking down. The doctor patted Alex on the shoulder and turned around to leave, but before he had a chance to walk away, I stood up and called out his name.

"Yes?"

"Can I see him? Please?" my voice was begging and I didn't care if my eyes were puffy and my face looked horrible at the moment, I just wanted to be with him right now.

He hesitated for a few moments before sighing and nodding, "Yeah sure."

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I closed the door behind me as I turned around. I saw him laying on the bed and steadily walked over to him, making sure not to start crying all over again.

I sat on the chair beside his bed and finally looked at his face. He looked so pale, his lips were dry and there were locks of his hair on his forehead yet he still managed to take my breath away.

"Hey...." I said with quivering lips and I felt tears brimming at the back of my eyes but I refused to cry in front of him. I knew he would have wanted me to be strong and damn right I was going to be that for him.

I extended my hand to his face and ran my fingers along his cheekbones, he looked so peaceful yet so broken at the same time. I brushed the locks of hair from his forehead and smiled at him.

"You look terrible, you know.."

I put my other hand in his and interlocked our fingers together. His mere touch calmed my screaming insides.

"I know there's like a ninety percent chance that you can't feel or hear me right now, but Ace, even if there's a slight possibility that you're feeling me beside you, I want you to know that you're not alone. I'm here, right beside you and I promise you that we're gonna make it through this, okay? Just don't give up."

A tear rolled down my cheek and I hid my face in his chest, wanting nothing more than him to wake up and tell me that it was going to be okay and that we were going to make it through this together.

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"Come on, I'll drop you home," he smiled at me but I shook my head no.

"It's okay, I'll take the subway."

"Don't be silly Belle, you look exhausted as hell, and besides I'm leaving too so I'll just drop you off on my way back home," Alex insisted and I nodded my head and followed him outside to the parking lot.

We both sat in silence, neither of us wanting to speak about everything that had happened. We were in the hospital the entire night and it was eight in the morning when we decided to go back home and freshen up.

"So I guess we'll have to look after the company for a while now..." Alex broke the ice and trailed off.

"Yeah..probably. Besides you're the CEO anyway so it's technically all on you," I said and rested my head against the window.

"Hey now don't come at me like that. You know I can't handle all the responsibility alone," he said in his defense and I lightly shook my head but didn't say anything.

He dropped my off at my place and told me to take the day off from office for which I was grateful because knowing that Mr. Rhodes wasn't going to be there and I would have had to spend the entire day just outside his office was something I couldn't take at the moment.

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I took a shower, ate, and slept for the next few hours before I decided to call Zach and tell him everything that had happened.

When Zach found heard me crying over the phone, he asked me to hang up and wait for him because luckily he was in town and he wanted to be there for me.

I was currently laying down on my bed, scrolling through our company's official website and looking at the pictures of Mr. Rhodes with tears in my eyes.

"Belle?"

As soon as I heard Zach's voice behind me, I lunged at him and started crying in his chest while he just kept me close to his chest and stroked my hair until I calmed down.

"He was coming to pick me up for our first date.." I trailed as my voice became thick with emotions.

"Hey Belle, look at me," Zach held my face in his hands and made me look at him, "You know that asshole is gonna get through this, right? I mean have you met him? Do you really think he would let this state of coma sabotage his future for him for a long time? Bitch please, this is Ace Rhodes we're talking about, he's gonna be awake and throwing orders at everyone before you even know it."

Zach's words and his weird way of consoling me somehow made me smile as I thought about what he said. I did believe in him, probably more than anything and I knew sooner or later he would make it through and he would wake up but what I didn't know was that how was I going to survive with the fact that he wasn't going to be around with me all this time.

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"I'm going to the hospital," I told Zach as I came down the stairs putting my jacket on while trying not to trip on my own foot.

"I'm coming along," he said and stood up from the couch as he threw the empty pack of cheetos away before tying his shoe laces and grinning at me.

"What will you do there?" I asked as we exited the house and walked towards Zach's car.

"What now that he's your boyfriend you don't even let us have a look at him?" he feinged a hurtfull expression and grinned and I rolled my eyes.

"He isn't my boyfriend Zach," I huffed.

"Oh come on, after all time, I'm pretty sure he is," he said and I shook my head at him but still there was a slight smile lingering on my lips after being referred as his girlfriend.

We stopped at a cafe and bought coffees for us before driving to the hospital. As we entered the floor on which Mr. Rhodes room was, the receptionist smiled and nodded at me because she probably recognised me from earlier today and I returned the gesture.

We sat in Mr. Rhodes room, talking about random things as I tried not to let the sense of deja vu overwhelm me.

It felt like old times, when Zach and I visited papa and talked about anything to everything while munching on our foods.

"Yo Ace, I'm sure you wouldn't mind if I take your girl on a date tomorrow night, yeah?"

"Ew Zach. I don't know about him but I sure as hell would mind a lot," I made a disgusted face and he chuckled.

I could never look at Zach that way in a million years. He has always been like a brother to me.

"Oh please, you know I'm hotter," he winked.

"Yeah, no."

Just like that, we sat beside his bed for an hour talking about anything that we could think of and the entire time I made sure to hold his hand in mine, just to let him know that I was going to be here no matter what.

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