Chapter 56：Gaile's End 3

The cops ask few questions to the witnesses.

Lea stood silently on the corner while watching the man in a formal attire who is currently talking to the cop.

The cops left the store when they finished taking the witness's statements.

Lea has now a chance to approach the man.

"Excuse me..." Lea said, trying to get the man's attention.

The man slowly turned to Lea's direction.

"Uhm...You...You're wounded." She said as she looks at the man's arm.

"It's nothing..." The man said plainly.

"N-No... I mean..."

Lea stopped when the man walks away from her.

He went to the cooler and took a few cans of beer before he walks pass to Lea, went to the counter and put all the cans of beer that he was holding.

"I just want to buy a can of beer, I did not expect that I would encounter a robber tonight.' He said.

(A/N: Oh, really Coby?)

Lea walks to the counter.

"Mr. Coby..." Lea called the man.

Coby looked up at Lea.

"Don't thank me. I just did what is right." Coby said in advance.

"..."

Lea is speechless, this man is frank.

"Your wound is bleeding," Lea said after a while.

Coby looked at his wound, he tore the sleeve of his dress and tied it above his wound, and then he looked at Lea like nothing has just happened.

"..."

Lea was speechless again as she watched Coby.

'Is this man doesn't feel pain?'

Lea can't help but asked her self.

"How much?" Coby asks plainly.

Lea looked at the cans of beer in front of her before she looked at Coby.

"Uhm... Don't pay for it." She said.

" This is a thank you gift for saving me and my other customers from the robber," Lea replied, she took a bag and put the cans of beer inside it.

"Okay then," Coby said as he picks up the bag and walks out of the store.

Lea's gaze followed Coby, ' Why is he like that?'

'He's cold and he doesn't even know how to smile!'

She said to her self.

Coby stopped outside the store, he turned his head to Lea who is now busy cleaning up the mess inside the store and then a faint smile slowly formed in his mouth.

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Fuente residence...

Mr. Fuente is sitting on the couch while looking at the old photo in his hand.

There are three persons in the photo.

One woman and two men.

One of the men is him, while the other was his close friend, before.

Mr. Fuente is in the middle of the three persons on the photo, on his left side is his friend and on the other side was his girlfriend.

On the photo, Mr. Fuente's arm is wrapped around his girlfriend's waist.

Mr. Fuente's gaze fell to the other man in the photo.

"You and your daughter are very much alike." He said as if he was talking to someone.

"You snatched my woman, and your daughter snatched the man that my daughter likes."

"You never let me live in peace!"

"You still made me feel like a loser even if you're dead!"

"I'm still living in your shadow!"

"Your daughter is a big thorn in all my plans, just like you, when you were alive."

"Why wouldn't you just rest in peace?"

"You should have brought your daughter with you when you died!" Mr. Fuente said as he gritted his teeth and clutched the photo.

Mr. Fuente's gaze sharpened as he fell into deep thoughts.

His deep thought was interrupted by his phone's ringtone.

Mr. Fuente picks up his phone and checked the caller's ID, it's a call from overseas.

Mr. Fuente swiped his phone and put it on his ear.

"Hello?" He answered.

" Hello, may I speak to Mr. Fuente, please?" A female's voice from the other line asked.

"Yes, speaking." Mr. Fuente replied.

"Who is this?" He asked.

" This is Amanda, Gaile's manager." The woman from the other line said.

Mr. Fuente knitted his brows, 'Why did his daughter's manager call him?'

"How may I help you?" Mr. Fuente asked again.

"I'm sorry to interrupt you, but I think you should know what happened to your daughter, sir," Amanda said.

Mr. Fuente's knitted brows got even deeper.

"Why, what happened to her?" He asked with concern.

"Gaile is in the hospital right now, she had a drug overdose," Amanda replied.

Mr. Fuente's eyes went wide opened.

"W-What?!" He blurted out.

"She's still unconscious, but the doctors said, that she is out of danger, but I think she needs a family right now."

Yes, fortunately, Amanda forgets something in Gaile's apartment, she went back to get the thing that she forgot, but she was rattled when she saw Gaile having a hard time to breathe!

"Mr. Fuente, I notice Gaile's big change since she came back from her vacation."

"I think she was suffering anxiety, she couldn't even work and she just locks herself in her apartment."

"She was unresponsive the last time I talked to her and she seems like she's always in deep thoughts," Amanda said.

Mr. Fuente tightened his grip on his phone.

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The next day...

Lea is inside the drug store.

She purposely wakes up early to buy some medicines.

"Thank you!" She said to the pharmacist after paying her bills.

Lea took the small paper bag and got out of the drug store, she will bring the medicine to Coby's place.

She hasn't had sleep last night, she felt guilty whenever she thinks of Coby's wound on his arm.

He is not as cold as she thinks, anyway.

He even helped her and saved her.

'Is he really not cold?'

'Didn't he said that he just did the right thing?'

'He just helps you because he doesn't have a choice, so don't don't change your mind just because he helped you once!' The other side of Lea's mind said.

Lea sighs!

'Well, at least, I know that there is a good side of him!' the other side of her mind said.

Lea looked at the medicines again, but her footsteps came to a stop when she realized that she doesn't know Coby's exact address.

She knows he lives nearby but she doesn't know the exact address!

"Oh! How could I give these medicines to him?" Lea mumbled.