Chapter 355 - 353: Nathan's Letter
Chapter 355 - 353: Nathan's Letter
Meanwhile, Eunji didn't mind the other people inside the room and she poured her hearts out in Celine's arms.
"He left! He left me!"
Were the only words that kept on coming out of Eunji's mouth.
"Niichan has his reasons. Just like why you left him before, he too has one or two. And I'm sure he didn't mean any harm to you." Celine was trying to made sense of their current situation.
***Flashback***
They were in the middle of the shooting when Nathan's helicopter landed on the site and Marco came out from it together with Nathan's legal team.
They were there to deliver the news that she would be leaving this project permanently and thus those briefcases contained the payment for the breach of contract and the payment for their silence.
Marco didn't explain much and Nathan's men escorted Eunji and Sam into the helicopter while leaving some men to pack up their things.
Everything happened so fast that it almost came like a blur for both Sam and Celine.
"What's going on?!" She asked Marco in a shout since the engine was very noisy.
Marco didn't say a thing and instead gave her a pen recording.
"What's this?!" She asked him.
"Please play it the moment we landed," was what Marco told her.
And so, that's what she did.
The moment they landed on top of Nathan's office building, she immediately pressed the play button on the recording.
----"Yuki, if you're listening this now, then Marco must have been done with his job."----
"What's going on?"
----"I'm sorry for ruining your last project in showbiz. If there's any wish that you would want to ask from, as long as I can give it to you, I will. Just so I could make up the loss that you got because of me."----
----"Yuki, you're my sister. Therefore, you'r the person whom I could trust to do this favor for me."----
----"As you can see. I'm going to leave Eunji in your care. At the same time, I leave you my companies in your hands."----
Celine could hear a soft chuckle from the recording
----"I could not imagine how your face would look like when you heard that. But seriously Yuki, please do. Don't worry. This will be all temporary. When things are back to normal. I will be back. With a better version of myself."----
----"Please take care of Eunji while I am away. I love her so much. However, I have to do this for her."----
***End of Flashback***
Now, she could not help but be angry knowing that Nathan left Eunji in this very vulnerable state.
She had just gotten a miscarriage and now, he left her without telling where he was.
How irresponsible!
"No! I lost the baby and now he left because I'm not a good mother!"
"Hey! Don't say that! I know it's hard right now. But you have to be strong!"
Celine looked at Eunji in the eye.
"Think about Little Eve, Li Jun, Li Wei and Sofie! If they knew that you're in this state, they'll get sad, too. They need you, Eunji. Your children needs you!"
'So now's not the right time to be weak.' She continued in her head.
'Damn it Niichan! What have you done?!' Celine was cursing Nathan inside her head.
"Don't blame yourself. Okay?"
For some reason, Celine was able to calm Eunji.
Though she had no idea what was running inside her head at the moment, Celine felt that it was for the better rather than letting her on tears.
"Did Niichan leave something for you?"
Eunji nodded and pointed at the briefcase which was still on top of the bed.
"Marco left that earlier." Eunji added with her hoarse voice.
"May I?" Celine didn't forget to ask permission before touching those things.
"Those were stock transfer certificates. He had given away all his stocks to our children, you and Mom. He's no longer coming back, right?"
Eunji was about to cry again and this time, Kelly who had been silent since earlier finally speak out.
"Stop that nonsense, shall we?" She never liked seeing her so down. It only brought back memories in the past.
She then walked towards Eunji and sat beside her.
"You should leave Kel. Everyone. You should leave. I want to be alone."
What she said made Kelly who was already emotionally sensitive to snap at her friend.
"Stop pushing us away! You have been pushing us away from your life all these years. Aren't you tired of doing that?!"
Eunji was looking down because she knew Kelly was tired. All those years, she was still bound by her past. She could not even control her emotions.
She kept on pushing away the people she cared the most when all they wanted was help.
She had divorced Nathan without caring for what he felt. He must really be tired of her that's why he left.
Celine who was standing beside them could not help but hug Kelly to calm her down.
"Hey! I think it's best that you leave now first. Come back when you're already calm."
It's not good to push on Eunji's buttons for now.
However, Celine felt that Kelly could talk some sense with Eunji since Kelly knew her well.
"I'm calm!" Kelly stubbornly insisted while crossing her arms over her chest.
Celine now understood why these two women had become friends.
They're both stubborn.
Celine asked Sam to step in.
"Hey! Why don't we go out and buy Eunji something to eat? She must be hungry by now." Sam tried her best to bring Kelly out of the room.
"This woman can't just eat anything. Or else she would get an allergic attack."
"Then, how about a drink?" Sam was unsure if what she said was convincing enough for Kelly to come with her.
But before Kelly could answer Sam, Eunji said, "You're right. I've been pushing everyone away. That is the more you get stuck to me, the more your lives got in danger."
"That's such a lame excuse! We know what we have signed up when we decided to get involved in your life. We have already accept the possible dangers that might come our way because we're your friends. We join your fight! And now here you are trying to abandon us?!" Kelly was deeply frustrated.
"Even if you avoided us. Because they know how important we are to you, do you really think they would not come at us, one day? You're wrong!"
"Yes! You are right! I caused your lives to be in great danger! Thank you for making me remember that! Ha! A clone like me! Someone who is just a copy brought your lives in danger!"
"What?!"
Before these two would have a heated argument, Celine and Sam got in between the two.
Sam successfully brought Kelly out of the room so Eunji could rest while Celine stayed behind.
"Hey! Don't mind what Kelly said, okay?" Celine said while rubbing her back gently.
"No, she's right. She's right all along. I bet you felt the same way, too."
Celine immediately worried especially how dull her eyes had become at the moment.
"Hey! Don't say that! Listen. Niichan sent me here. So he still cared for you. And that man is so smitten of you. He would not just leave you behind without any valid reason."
"Maybe. But right now. I'm just tired." She replied weakly.
"We all cared for you. F*ck the danger. I have been facing danger ever since I'm young."
Eunji only looked at her and then looked away.
Even Alora who was listening on to them got worried, too.
"Okay. How about I read you the letter that Niichan had left for you?" Celine proposed and Eunji nodded as she laid back on the bed.
Without any delay, Celine tore the envelop and took the letter inside.
***
To My Beloved Eunji,
I know my departure was so sudden. No. I didn't leave because we just lost a baby. I leave because it's necessary. I'm sorry if I let you suffer all these things. I'm such an incompetent husband and I'm very sorry for that.
I leave all my properties to our children. Please do take care of them while I'm away. Please don't do anything reckless while I'm not beside you.
I love you. You know that. And that's why I'm doing this. Please wait for me My Love. I hope that when I'm back, you'll still accept me.
I promise to make you Missus Bai again. And I'll be coming back for that again.
Loving you truly,
Nathan
***
"See? He's going to come back and he tells you to wait. He's not abandoning you like what we first thought." Celine said however Eunji had remained passive.
She had no idea what was running inside Eunji's head at the moment.
'This won't do. I have to do something.' Celine said in her thought.
"Okay, I'll place everything back in the briefcase. You may read them again when you're okay." Celine said.
Celine watched as Eunji closed her eyes.
Meanwhile,
The two went to the vending machine in the first floor to buy some drinks to calm their emotions down.
"What did Eunji mean that she's just a clone? I don't understand." Kelly was still not over with what she heard.
Sam who was inserting bills while choosing the drinks she would be buying for everyone pauses.
"I'm not in the right position to tell you about that. But one thing is for sure, she had gone through a lot. If I'm in her position, I don't think I would survive or still be sane."
"Water for me, please." Kelly was careful with what fluids she would take because she's pregnant.
"Here!" Sam gave her the a bottle of water.
"She likes ice cream. Ice creams are in the cafeteria. Let's drop by later." Kelly told her.
"Oh! Okay then I'll just get her water."
And Kelly only hummed in response.
"Look. It's not that I'm trying to intervene or anything. But as her friend, try to be a less harsher to her. Especially now that she just lost a baby and Master Bai left her."
Kelly sipped on her water to calm herself.
"I know. I should have been more considerate of her feelings earlier. *Sigh* My emotions got the best of me."
Kelly sighed once again.
"I just hope she won't get depressed again. Not now. Especially that I have lost contact of Uncle Dad lately."
"Is that so? Well, she's not alone. She still has us. Let's just wait for her to open up to us. It's hard to be in their shoes. You know. Letting her talk to her children might brighten her mood." Sam suggested.
"I think that's a good idea."
After staying downstairs, Kelly and Sam went back upstairs to check on Eunji and Celine.
However, they were surprised to see the room empty.
"Where the hell did she go? She should be resting and not wander around." Kelly commented.
They then asked the guard watching outside of where the patient was.
The guard told them that Eunji went out of the room to check on the patient in the ICU.
And they were not back since then.
"Do you know who was the patient in the ICU?" Kelly asked.
"Mistress' cousin."
"J?"
"Do you know him?" Sam curiously asked.
"Of course. He's Jin Jie. Eunji's cousin."
"What happened to him?"
Before the guard could answer, Mo Jing-sheng appeared behind them.
"He was in a critical condition yesterday when he was brought in the hospital."
"Darling!" Kelly exclaimed and greeted her husband with a hug and he hugged her back.
"Had I known that he was going to have a miscarriage last night, I won't have agreed to let her do the operation." He continued.
What she heard rang a bell and then she immediately realized one thing.
"What?!"
Mo Jing-sheng only nodded as he knew Kelly already got what he meant.
Meanwhile, in the ICU, Eunji was doing checking on J's condition.
Many machines were attached on his body. And he seemed to be in a bad shape.
Celine was watching her outside with a worried face.
Though she was curious to what happened to J, she decided to be quiet and just looked at Eunji and then back at J.
The room was silent and only the beeping of the machine could be heard.
Then, suddenly, J's index finger moved.
"It moved!" Celine called out as she saw it on by the window.
She then left to call the doctors.
Seconds later, J's eyes flickered open.
"Eunji?"
"J."