Crashing into an Old Flame
Chapter 234: If he wakes up

Chapter 234: If he wakes up

The surgery lasted for almost 8 hours. The sky had started to turn dark by the time the door of the operation theatre opened.

When Maxim stepped out of the operation theatre, his eyes spotted Logan who was still standing at the same spot where he had last seen him in the morning.

At this time, Alex also walked out. Unlike Maxim who appeared just a tad bit tired, Alex was sporting a pale face and dark under eyes. There was a purplish bruise forming on his jaws due to the punch that one of Louis’ elite guards threw at him.

Coincidentally, the mark from Maxim’s punch happened to be on the same place on the other side of his face and that was yet to fade. So with two glaring bruises on either side of his face, Alex looked rather comical yet pathetic.

He had just wanted to stay away from the chaos that his father and grandfather combined were, so he had decided to work overnight but Louis’ case came unexpectedly and crashed on him like a hot potato without giving him a break.

If there were other doctors available, then Alex would have dropped that case to someone else and left unabashedly. But there was no one else around, not even Maxim. And what’s more, that patient had been shooed away by him before so Alex decided to step in this time. Unknowingly, he was even punched for his kindness.

Before Maxim could make his way towards Logan, he was surrounded by the group of men who had been waiting in the hallway.

As he retreated a step to keep a distance from them, his back bumped into something... more specifically, someone.

’’Shit, are you blind or what?" Alex cursed in a whisper as he rubbed his face carefully.

Maxim frowned and he gazed at the man who was hiding behind him, trying to look as discreet as he could.

Alex cleared his throat and raised his head, ’’You are blocking my path. Talk to them and make way for me.’’

Maxim nodded.

Just as Alex’s face started brightening up, Maxim calmly stepped to the side.

"W-What are you doing?" Alex dragged him back to stand in front of him.

"Making way.’’

"_"

Alex gritted his teeth, ’’Must you be so petty?"

’’Yes,’’ Maxim deadpanned.

Alex speechlessly looked at the man whose face clearly said ’Petty? Don’t you think of looking at the mirror when you say the word petty?’

As the men crowded around them wordlessly, Maxim shifted his attention away from Alex and turned to face them, ’’The patient needs to be observed for now. The rest will be discussed if he regains consciousness.’’

His words made the rest of the people go in an uproar, ’’What do you mean by if?"

As one of them stretched their hand out, Alex flinched and hid behind Maxim again as he cursed inwardly, ’This bunch of country bumpkins. Why must they use their hands every time they talk!’

For once in his life, he regretted not listening to his father regarding enlisting in the military like the older generation did in their family. Had he done that, at least he would not have had to hide behind his nemesis in such a sorry shape today.

Maxim blocked the hand that was about to grab his collar, ’’The patient has glioblastoma mul...’’ Looking at their blank faces, he pushed the hand away from his collar and rephrased his words, ’’Brain cancer. Stage 4. It has gone undetected for a long time since he had another tumor.’’

The men were stunned into silence. They did not understand the previous term but hearing the term ’cancer’, their hearts trembled, ’’H-How could it be...?"

Maxim looked at him, ’’I am..’’ he paused and looked at the ’trying-to-look-cool-while-being-scared-shitless’ Alex before he rephrased his words again, ’’Louis was not our patient previously. His doctor would certainly be held answerable for his actions.’’

The bunch of men looked at each other helplessly. They had served Louis since he was a child and they were teenagers. Naturally, they saw him as their own. Or else they would not have left with him when he was kicked out of his family.

They had wanted to accompany him to his hospital visits and even his surgery but he outright turned them down saying that it was a minor surgery, nothing life-threatening for them to be there to mourn. And as displeased they were with how he phrased those words, they could only take his orders as usual.

After being kicked out of the family, Louis built his own powers in secret and trained his men only with one objective. To find his son who was believed to be dead.

They wanted to break his illusion and to tell him that his son was gone but he tried to find him like his life depended on it. And considering his health, they could not bring themselves to wake him up.

As impossible as it was, in every country, and every city they went to, they would search through it in hopes of finding their young master.

It had become a routine for them. Today was also one of those days. After investigating a few places casually, they came to the hospital in hopes of meeting their boss who should have been out of his ’minor surgery’ only to be blocked by a hospital staff who told them that they were not allowed inside as the doctor wasn’t there yet.

So they did not have a clue about what was going on which is why Alex suffered from their wrath the moment he appeared.

But while the second surgery was going on, they grabbed a few staff members and extorted details of the whole matter which was much crueler and disturbing than what they had expected.

Yet, before they could go and settle scores with that motherfucking doctor, they were being told that their boss had cancer.

The tall well-built men suddenly did not look that strong as their shoulders slumped.

’’Back off,’’ Maxim gazed at the men who had threateningly closed in on them a moment ago.

As they stepped aside and made way for him, he walked past them.