Forever Love (Fghter Club 1) Read Free Page B

in, but as she passed the front room she saw him
lying on the floor not moving.
    ‘ OMG,’ she screamed,
‘NOOoooo.’ She ran to him and he was barely breathing, Sarah ran
upstairs to check the kids and to her relief they were still asleep
and Tracy called for an ambulance. Alexia travelled with him to the
hospital leaving the kids with Tracy and Sarah.
    As they arrived at the hospital
they rushed Tony in to the A & E department and a nurse took
Alexia to the waiting room and got her a drink. Twenty minutes
later Tracy showed up to be with her. ‘Hey,’ Tracy said as she
walked up to Alexia and hugged her. ‘Any news yet?’
    ‘ No not yet. The doctor is
still with him,’ Alexia replied.
    ‘ Well hopefully we will
hear something soon. Sarah is at home with all the kids. I’ll go
get us some coffee whilst we wait,’ said Tracy.
    After several cups of coffee and
what seemed like a life time the doctor came into the waiting
room.
    ‘ Hello, are you Mr Clay's
Daughter?’
    ‘ Yes.’
    ‘ Mr Clay, your father, is
lucky to be alive. He’s taken quite a beating. He has two broken
ribs, his right leg is broken, his left arm is broken and two of
his fingers, he has a broken nose and two black eyes and has some
quite severe swelling to the brain so we have put him into a
medically induced coma whilst it goes down and then when we can
investigate the extent of the damage, if there is any. It really is
now a case of waiting.’
    ‘ Ok thank you,’ Alexia
said and held out her hand for him to shake it. ‘When can I see
him?’
    ‘ I will go and get a nurse
to take you through now.’
    ‘ Thank you.’ She whispered
as tears ran down her face.
    ***********
    For the two weeks that followed
Alexia had been backwards and forwards dividing herself between
home and the hospital. She had broken down quite a few times as it
brought back memories of when she was looking after her mother
before she died. Finally the day had arrived to take Tony out of
his coma. As Tony came round he was very confused and could only
respond slowly to what was going on around him. The doctors did
their checks and then let Alexia see him for a while.
    ‘ Dad, I’m here. You're in
hospital.’ She said in a whisper as she cried, he didn’t respond
and just looked at her confused but after a while he managed a
smile.
    The next day when Alexia went to
see him it was like seeing a totally different person, he was
completely alert.
    ‘ Hi Dad, How are you
feeling?’
    ‘ Oh god I hurt,’ he said
in a whispered voice.
    ‘ I’m not surprised, you
took a good beating,’ she said looking at him as uncontrollable
tears started to fall.
    ‘ Hey baby girl, don’t cry.
Please don’t cry, I’m here and ok.’
    ‘ How can you say that dad?
You’re not ok look at you, you had a god damn beating for god
sake.’
    Tony looked at her and knew he’d
have to explain to her why, which was going to hurt more than the
actual pain he was feeling.
    ‘ Tell me what happened
dad.’
    He sighed and looked down at the
floor, and composed himself.
    ‘ About a year ago I was
struggling for money as the garage went through a dry spell. There
was no work for me so I went and took out a loan. Because of
everything that went on with the divorce from your mother, I can't
get a loan from a bank so I had to pursue other options,’ he looked
at her with shame, eye contact seemed too much to bear.
    Alexia was gobsmacked to say the
least and sat dumbfounded. ‘Oh my god dad....why didn't you come to
me? I would've helped you, you know how much mum left me when she
died.’
    ‘ I know but I didn't want
you to think I was using you for your money and I didn't want to
take anything away from you and the children.’
    ‘ Dad! Mum left me £3
million. I have done what I need to with it. I have paid off my
debts, bought a house, a brand new car and sorted the rest into
savings for me and the kids for rainy days. How much do you
owe?’
    Tony just sat and looked at