Fate

Summer 2019

Spinning... My head spinning... Someone... Please help me...

The road was extraordinarily empty that day and she hadn't crossed path with others.

Rose held her head, trying hard to shake off the dizziness that almost consumed her. She quickly held on the lamp post and took a shaggy breath. Her head getting dizzier by each second that she began to plopped down by the roadside. The last thing that she remembered was a screeching sound of a car before she was completely losing her consciousness.

"Hey! Hey! Are you okay?" A man bent next to Rose, holding her steadily. He quickly made a call to someone. Then he realised the girl was bleeding on her head and judging from her elegant yet dishevelled dress, it could mean one thing: crime.

Damn! He cursed under his breath. He quickly scanned around them but seeing no one. He took a closer look at the bleeding girl in his arm and tried to feel her pulse to determine whether she was alive.

She was mostly in her early twenties. With the flawless and supple skin, it could be that she was from a well-off family. But why was she bleeding? It was as if her head was smacked with something. Or could it be that she ran off from someone?

Jude was frowning upon his own assumption. He glanced at his watch and frowned. He took out his phone. Before he could dial a number, a car suddenly stopped by.

"Hey! What happened? How did you injure?" a bright, nerd looking man came alighted from the car. He swiftly walked to Jude's side before his eyes widened in disbelief. He darted his eyes between the two people in front of him.

"Gosh! What did you do Jude?" With a bleeding girl in his arm, how could he not misunderstand the scenario? This is a serious problem!

"Quick, help me to get her into the car. A second late would cost her life!" Jude rolled his eyes and urged Samuel to quickly helped him instead of whining like an old man. The two of them swiftly put Rose at the back seat and after he ensures she was lying comfortably on the leather seat, he walked to the driver seat and ignited the engine. He rolled down the window and looked at Samuel.

"You better come with me. Help me to check her condition."

"To the hospital?"

"To my place." For the second time, Samuel stunned after heard his friend's word. A stoic and rather a nonchalant man requested his help at this moment was beyond his expectation. His gossipy heart without a doubt was ignited.

"But I drove here,"

"Drive to my place, don't just stand there. Quick!" It was more to order instead of a friendly invitation.

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At Platinum Residential.

"Quick, take a look at her condition." Jude turned to Samuel who was following him closely that he could distinguish the smell from Jude. Samuel almost crashed into him that made Jude frowned.

"What exactly you did? I was wondering." Samuel muttered as he was being ordered around by Jude.

"I did nothing. I saw her lying on the roadside." Samuel lifted his left eyebrow at him.

"Why didn't you call the ambulance? Or send her to the hospital yourself?" This was interesting. Jude Lee, his best buddy, never did so in the past but right now... He was willing to help a stranger, not to mention a young female stranger, who most probably at her early twenties and brought her home. Home! He never brought her female companions home, for God's sake! Why did he do something different today? Ooh... Something fishy.

2 minutes later, the smile plastered on Samuel's face froze. He double-checked her pulse before he came to his conclusion. He then moved swiftly to Jude's side and brought him near the window. He darted his glances between the girl on the bed with his friend.

"What is it?" Jude swirled his wine glass while observed the young lady on the bed. A maid rushed to her side and helped to clean her. Samuel took a deep breath.

"I say you a... What did you do? Do you know that girl was bleeding and the worse thing is..." he paused a moment and glanced at the young lady? Then he looked into his friend's eyes. There was worried and anxiety that caused Jude to feel nervous.

"She was put on aphrodisiac." Jude's eyes widened in disbelief.

"Are you sure?"

Instead of answering him, Samuel brought his friend to the bedside.

"Look, her face was red and she is perspiring a lot! And I have to tell you, it is the strongest type. Only can be found in the black market. Tell me the truth. What gotten you?" Samuel truly cared about his best friend. He never thought Jude would resort to that way to make a young lady succumb to his will.

Instead of answering him, Jude took out his phone and swiftly called his most trusted subordinate. Samuel was speechless upon learning that he was calling his subordinate than talked to him about what exactly happened to him and the young lady.

It was then both of them stunned upon hearing a lady's soft groan. Both of them exchanged glanced before the two of them turned to look at the young lady.

"Hot..."

The two men gulped their saliva. The voice was mesmerizing and enticing. They never thought her voice would be so sweet and tempting. Even the way her eyelashes fluttered like butterfly wings.

"Hot..." again the young lady groaned. Jude swiftly took a wet towel from the maid and help to wipe her face. But he could never fathom that the young lady would grab his hand, holding to it tightly.

"Thirsty... I'm... Water..." the way the young lady bit her lips made his heart race. He never thought it could be so enticing and charmed his heart to that extent. He tried to shake off whatever thoughts he had at the moment. This is crazy! It drives him crazy! He cursed internally.

Nevertheless, he got her a glass of water and brought it to her lips. In her dazed Rose took a sip before she grimaced as if she was in pain.

"I think we really need to do something about her current state." Samuel said in a matter of fact tone. Or else they might jeopardize the young lady chances of surviving of the ordeal.

While the two of them were in deep thinking, the young lady had suddenly tossed out the blanket wrapped her and she was going to take off her dress, right in front of the two gentlemen.

The men were stupefied at the sight. Jude regained his senses in a matter of seconds before he swiftly grabbed the tossed blanket and wrapped the girl in it before he brought her to the bathroom.