AUTHOR'S NOTE: I know it has been a long time since I updated and I apologize. I have a really good reason. My laptop contracted a series virus and my antivirus, it doesn't repair/fix the damage it completely removes all files that have been corrupted, which in this gaze was my Microsoft word and unfortunately some of my documents. My mom said she wouldn't fix my laptop until after exams so I could study, so I waited a week and a half and fixed it with my own money (I get paid every 2 weeks). Well, I do need to study but the stories that I still have, I will be uploading today. This includes: Epilogue for My Wife is in High School, 2 more chapters to Saving Me and a chapter of Divine Intervention. ^_^
SAVING ME
CHAPTER 7 – PARENTS (1)
Ai Kano sat in the girlish pink room hugging a teddy bear as she rocked back and forth, tears running down her face. She had never felt so incompetent as a woman in her entire life, as she did within that moment. She marveled at the life she had lived and the way she had acted in her two decade long marriage and for the first time realized she had lost herself, her will and her strength. She had become such a weak woman that she allowed her husband to control her, to fall meekly behind him as though a puppet and not a brilliant, affluent, respectable woman. Ai couldn't stem the flow of tears, to think that somewhere, probably starving was her daughter with her grandchild. She ran a hand through her hair, breathing raggedly; she had never believed her life would turn out like this.
Ai had been born to wealth, the heiress of a powerful conglomerate owner. She had lived a life many had envied, but she had never known loved until she had met Arashi, her husband and Rin's father. He had been a young office clerk working his way up in her father's company and she had loved his drive, his ambition. She had supported him so fully that she had risked going up against her father in order to marry him, to elope really. And her father had cut her off, disowned her. But she had already been a millionaire in her own right, laden with the inheritance her mother had bequeathed her on her death bed and her husband had reveled in it. He had started numerous businesses, none of which had been successful but the money had always been enough, plentiful enough to live well beyond their means.
And then one day, it had mystically disappeared. But like a good wife, she did not question it, especially not when a month later it was returned but it was within this time, their lives begun to spiral out of control and Rin…her only child, had seemed to be begging…pleading with her eyes for help. But then her husband's friends had shown up…Rin had looked so scared and the next thing they knew, Doctor Himura had shown up, demanding to see Rin. But Rin had not returned. She had demanded an explanation from her husband but a slap to the cheek had been his only response. Ai fingered her cheek and moved to the phone by Rin's bedside. She had had enough; she would not idly sit by and wait until her daughter was pronounced dead somewhere. She would find the strength to defy her husband for the sake of her child.
She reached for the telephone and dialed a number she had not used in a very long time. The formal voice of a secretary reached her ears and she sighed deeply, steeling herself.
"I would like to speak to Hajime Souto, tell him…it is his daughter and I need is help!"
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