Chapter 93

93 What Needs To Be Fixed

“How is my mom?” Kalea asked after Arthur came back to her again. The girl’s heart was beating very fast because she was curious and very worried about Arthur’s answer after meeting the doctor who treated Freya.

Arthur stroked Kalea’s brunette hair gently, Kalea was confused because Arthur’s expression was difficult to interpret. “Arthur, don’t drive me crazy! How is my mom?!” Kalea shouted annoyed, Arthur seemed to be playing with her.

“Shh, don’t shout. It’s at the hospital, Lea. Your mother is fine, the doctor still had time to save her,” Arthur said, making Kalea breathe a sigh of relief. Her heart almost popped out as if it was the opposite of what Arthur said. Really, she wasn’t ready to be abandoned by Freya in this world. Although during her lifetime Freya tortured Kalea longer, the girl’s love for her mother was still great.

“Thank you, Arthur. You saved us,” Kalea said pulling Arthur’s shirt and hugging the man. Kalea couldn’t imagine if Arthur hadn’t come at a time when she was really having a hard time calming herself down because of the shock of what had happened at that time.

Arthur returned the hug, then said, “No problem, I’m so glad you’re okay.”

Kalea frowned, feeling that something was off. She let go of the hug and noticed that Arthur’s clothes were still clean and spotless even though this man was carrying her bloodied mother in his arms. “Your clothes? Did you change?” Kalea asked, confused.

“Hm? Oh, earlier I asked my men to come with a change of clothes. Looks like he’s outside now,” Arthur replied casually. “Lea, I’ve reserved a room for your mother at the hospital of my choice.”

“Huh? Why?”

“In order to receive further treatment, and also,” Arthur hung his mouth, looking at Kalea seriously. “I want you to tell me what happened then, from start to finish,” he continued.

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Kalea swallowed her saliva roughly, it seemed that she couldn’t hide her family’s condition anymore because of this fatal incident.

“You can tell me later if you’re not ready, I-”

“Right now,” Kalea interrupted, looking at Arthur no less seriously. “I’ll tell you.”

Kalea started telling it from the beginning, even when she was a child together with her two complete parents. Everything that changed drastically after the departure of the father without saying anything, how the mental breakdown of the mother, finally vented on Kalea as the only child in the family. Arthur already knew that from the data he got. It’s just that when you hear from Kalea’s own mouth, of course, there is a pretty heavy difference.

Seeing Kalea try so hard to tell her life with a broken family with an infinite sense of tightness, it was very clear from the look on her face and the tone of her voice that it was often held back. Arthur held the girl’s hand, gently stroking the back of her hand to give it calmly, even if it had little effect. Arthur continued to listen to Kalea tell the story to the end without interrupting a bit.

“Even though our relationship has started to improve, but it’s as if it never happened because of one accidental encounter. Mom accidentally met my dad,” Kalea explained, her hands shaking in trauma at the memory of how Freya and Fred met. How the expressions are shown by her parents. “Dad blamed me for thinking I took my mom there on purpose, even though it was completely unplanned. And when I got home, my mom’s emotions exploded again. I couldn’t calm her down because what happened was that my mom tortured me. She became enraged, thinking I had hidden my dad and secretly met him behind her. Mom hit me with an alcohol bottle that she had thrown and split in two. I couldn’t stop it when Mom pointed the bottle at her own stomach,” Kalea said, finally finished telling the incident to the end

Arthur directed Kalea’s head to rest against his chest. The girl was crying again because she couldn’t hold back the tightness that was still piling up inside her. “And Mom said if she would rather die than live like this. She also said no one understood her condition at all, even though all this time what I did was just to make Mom happy. I worked hard just for her, I stayed in this world just for her,” Kalea chirped, not stopping crying until it was difficult to breathe normally because of the tightness.

“Is what I’ve been doing not enough to make Mom see me? Is it because my face looks too much like Dad’s that makes Mom hate me so much? I-, what should I do, Arthur? What if Mom gets mad at me because her suicide didn’t work?”

“What you’ve been doing is right, Lea. Don’t keep looking down on yourself and feeling that you are lacking, no. It’s not your fault, because it all started with your bastard father. Your mother has a prolonged mental disorder plus excessive alcohol consumption,” Arthur said, calming Kalea and changing the girl’s mind not to beat herself up all the time. “Lea, I’m taking your mother to a mental rehab center to improve her health. You’re okay, right? It’s for your mother’s sake,” Arthur continued, cupping Kalea’s face and wiping her sugar baby tears.

“I-I always wanted to take her there, but Mom always scolded me.”

“Don’t worry, I’ll help you. If necessary, you should also be examined.”

Kale shook her head slowly. “I’m fine. Maybe if it was a year or two, I’d still have a hard time accepting everything that’s happened. But now that I’m used to it, all I can think about is my mom, Arthur.”

“That habit of getting used to it makes you suffer even more. If it continues to pile up, you will also get sicker,” Arthur said with a warm smile. His tone was so soft that Kalea couldn’t argue with anything anymore.

And after a few days, Kalea’s condition slowly improved while Freya was transferred to another hospital for further treatment as well as a mental healing therapy for Kalea’s mother. Arthur also made an appointment for his sugar baby with the best psychiatrist he chose.

Fortunately, Kalea’s severity is not so severe. Despite the feeling of always blaming oneself, the fear of being yelled at by someone or even being treated harshly is still quite traumatizing. And Arthur, who heard the psychiatrist’s explanation, felt guilty, he remembered there were several moments when he was a little rude to Kalea during sex.

Arthur became worried that he was one of the people who also triggered Kalea’s trauma.

Kalea only needs to do a few sessions of counseling and medications such as antidepressants that can help the girl’s health.

“Lea, you need to exercise a lot and have fun. Do you want to go shopping?” Arthur asked after the consultation was over.

Instead of answering, Kalea asked about something else. “Am I still not able to meet my mom?”

“The rehab has not given you time to visit, be patient. There will come a time when you meet your mother in a better condition,” Arthur replied as he stroked the hair of his brunette sugar baby. “Answer my previous question, Lea.”

“I don’t wanna go anywhere, let’s just go home,” Kalea replied, turning her face out the window.

Arthur sighed, he slightly accelerated his car to get to the penthouse. Once there, Arthur kept a little distance from Kalea for fear of making the girl emotional and stressed by facing her annoying behavior. Yes, Arthur also admitted that he was.

Actually, he was very bored, because he did nothing in the room. However, even if he left Kalea alone, it worried him.

“Lea, do you want Zeline to come here?” Arthur asked, offering.

“Huh? It’s the weekend, Zeline must be busy with her daddy, I don’t want to disturb her,” Kalea answered flatly as she returned to focusing on watching movies.

“Then you should be busy with me too,” Arthur said, embracing the girl’s narrow shoulders. He had not had sex with anyone for almost a week. Because his time was spent on Kalea, and Arthur couldn’t possibly do anything with Kalea, who was still not well. “Ah, by the way, Lea.”

Kalea turned to Arthur and looked at him curiously. “What?”

Arthur was silent for a moment, then he smiled sweetly. “It’s okay. I don’t like this movie, can you replace it with a more interesting film?” Arthur said, hugging Kalea from the side. His behavior was suddenly strange and suspicious, but Kalea didn’t have time to think about it because of the tightness Arthur was holding her too tightly.

“I-I can’t breathe!”

“Oh, sorry, sorry!”

“You want a more interesting film? A horror film?”

“No thanks. I’d better get some sleep.”

Kalea looked at Arthur with a mocking look, her sugar daddy really sucks in this genre of film.

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“Juan, please call a system analyst named Fred Johnson over here.”

“Huh? What’s wrong?”

“I have something to talk to him about.”