A Wrong Surrogate for the CEO-Chapter 55: Fighting for her life

There was a loud ringing in Curtis’s ears. His vision blurred, and his entire body suddenly felt as though he was floating.

Lazarus’s words echoed in his ears. Lara. His wife. The woman carrying his babies. Poisoned.

"Mr. Curtis. I need you to meet me at the hospital. I am almost there," Lazarus said, trying to shake his boss from the headspace he had descended into.

Curtis ended the call without saying a word, and he turned to face the board of directors he was having a meeting with.

"Meeting dismissed. Get the fuck out, everybody," he snapped. And without waiting for either of them to say or do anything, Curtis ran out of the meeting room.

He literally ran.

People moved out of his way and ran all the way to his car, and he drove out of the garage recklessly.

Curtis’ heart pounded in his chest. His wife, the mother of his children, the woman his heart was starting to beat for, had been poisoned.

How the hell was that possible?

He tried to wrap his head around what might have happened, but nothing was coming to him. Panic pressed down on his lungs as he drove, and he found it hard to breathe.

Curtis was scared. Hell, he was more than scared. He was absolutely terrified. He had never felt this way before in his entire life.

And he knew. He knew in his bones that if anything happened to Lara, if she died or any of the babies in her stomach was harmed, Curtis knew that he was going to find and destroy each and every one involved in this scheme.

He ran over a lot of red lights, overtook cars and almost got into an accident twice. He didn’t give a shit about violating the road rules and regulations.

All he cared about was Lara. His wife.

He didn’t bother parking his car when he got to the hospital. He ran inside, his heart thrashing against his rib cage.

Curtis found Lazarus in the emergency room. Lazarus stood up at the sight of his boss and Curtis gripped him by the shoulders.

"Where is she? Where the fuck is my wife?" he yelled, his entire face turning red in a mixture of anger and pain.

Lazarus responded calmly.

"She has been taken into the surgery room. There is nothing we can do but wait," the bodyguard responded.

The panic ravaging Curtis did not fade away. It intensified, but there was nothing he could do but wait.

After a tense silence for seemingly endless moments, he turned to face Lazarus.

"What happened?" he asked. Lazarus took a deep breath and narrated what happened to his boss. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞

"She was fine when she woke up. She only lost consciousness when she drank the tea made for her by Benny," he explained.

Curtis frowned at the implication of his words. "Are you trying to tell me that Lara was poisoned by Benny?"

"I have every reason to believe so, sir. She did not eat anything else before we left the house. And I am pretty sure she hasn’t eaten anything before I got to her."

Curtis cursed. He could not believe that his maid, the one who had been working for him for years, would do something like that.

Someone must have paid her to poison his wife.

He wondered who it could be, and before he could think too hard about it, someone came to his mind.

Tolu.

That woman had said something about him being too late to protect Lara. Was this what she meant?

How did she even manage to get to Benny? Was there someone else working with her that had access to his employees?

His mind whirled around with these thoughts, and he got angrier the more he thought about it.

He turned to face Lazarus.

"Did you fire the woman I asked you to fire earlier this morning? Curtis asked. His bodyguard nodded firmly.

"Good. I am going to need you to do more than that. You are going to arrest her. Right now! Also, make sure Benny doesn’t run. I need both of them to be detained," he ordered.

Lazarus gave him a curt nod and walked away, already placing a phone call to carry out his boss’s orders.

Left alone, Curtis finally let the fear he had been holding back crash into him.

His legs gave out on him, and he slumped on the waiting chair.

There was no one around to see how scared he was, so he let the full force of the fear hit him.

Lara would be fine, he tried to convince himself. She had to be. If she...if the poison proved to be too much for her body’s immune system, if one or both of the babies were harmed, Curtis knew that either of these scenarios happening was going to break him.

He knew that there was no way he would recover, so he wished desperately for her to be okay.

Curtis sat in the emergency waiting room for hours, staring blankly at the wall. When his phone rang, the sound startled him.

He let it ring, not bothering to check who the caller was.

The phone rang again. And again. And again.

With a bolt of irritation, he took the phone from his pocket and checked who it was.

It was his bodyguard.

"Have you caught both of them?" Curtis asked immediately.

"Benny seemed to have run away immediately after we left the house, but the boys are tracking her down. She can’t have gone far. As for Ms. Tolu, we have her in custody," Lazarus stated.

Curtis nodded. "Good."

"That was not why I called you, boss," Lazarus said, and there was a tinge of... something Curtis could not figure out in his voice."

"Speak," he ordered.

"You should check the internet. An article was released about you. And your wife, and I think...well, you should check it. It’s pretty bad."

Curtis suddenly had a bad feeling about the entire situation. He hung up on his bodyguard without saying another word.

Then he checked the internet.

Deep, unfathomable rage slammed into him immediately.

There was a trending article titled: "BILLIONAIRE CURTIS RODNEY ENGAGED TO ACTRESS AMANDA WILLIAMS DESPITE GOLD DIGGER EFFORTS."

And without having to read the content of the article, Curtis instantly knew who was behind the article.

His mother.

Fuck!