Chapter 162 - I can't lose him oh God! I can't!

"What!" Leo exclaimed, as if he couldn't believe what he just heard. 

"Belle just called me." Clara said, her expression looking like that of a worried person. 

She watched him let out a sharp breath and turned around immediately. He began walking towards his car like he was being controlled. 

Clara took quick steps and caught up with him before he could start the car. 

She reached out her hand inside the car through the window and held his hand and watched him look up at her like a dummy. It was like he wasn't Leo anymore. 

His gaze looked lost. It was like he was staring at her but not looking at her. He looked like a mess. 

"Let me drive, please." She said, looking scared because she has never seen him like this. 

Leo came down and went straight toward the shotgun seat, not uttering a word, while her eyes followed his movement. 

The man that still hugged her a few minutes ago and claimed that he was happy. Who on earth did this?

She bit down on her lower lip and stepped inside the car. 

Clara felt her heart broken as she watched him looking paler as each seconds passed. 

When they got to the mansion and saw the whole mess that was still being cleaned up, Clara saw the man look more robotic than before. 

Oh God! Thought Clara, because not only was Mick hurt, he lost his men. 

*****

Outside Mick's operation room.

Leo stood still, with his hands at the back of his head. His eyes bloodshot and no one knew what was going through his mind at that moment.

Clara didn't know why she felt so bad right now. She stared at the man who was full of energy a few hours ago, and felt her heart broken.

Each time some nurses rush out to get more blood bags, it seems like Leo's blood was the one they took it from, as he looks worse after.

He has not uttered any words except when he exclaimed at the news before they left her place. 

He remained like that, after watching the video of the fight scene on his phone, as Clara drove him home. 

....

Meanwhile.

Inside the operating room.

The little princess was like a statue at a corner of Mick's bed. She refused to let go of his hand, as she continued easing any sort of pain he might be going through.

The doctors were against her staying with him during an operation, since she was a kid, but even Clara was shocked because her eyes turned blue instead of white and they were all compelled to assume she wasn't in the room. 

Now, they just operate on Mick like she was nothing but air. 

Only Clara seemed sane among the three of them. 

A doctor stepped outside the operating room after a few hours and it was Clara who walked up to him, while Leo finally turned his head. 

"I'm sorry, but he just went into a coma. We tried our best and it's a miracle he manages to stay alive till presently, because the knife was punctured into his organ. 

The surgery was half successful. We need to go through his charts to know if we could perform a second surgery on him." The doctor said. 

"How is he now?" Clara asked, as Leo remained mute.

"He just got transferred to his ward, you two can go see him after some minutes." The doctor replied.

"President Raymond, please be rest assured that we will try our possible best." The doctor said to Leo and left. 

Clara turned to look at Leo, who had shut his eyes. 

Leo didn't get the answer he wanted. The doctors didn't say for sure if he was okay.

Clara wanted to pet him, but she lacked words to utter.

****

Few minutes later, Leo and Clara walk into Mick's ward.

The little princess still remained by his side, looking expressionless.

Her eyes even more void than Leo's own. 

Leo stopped in his tracks and stared at the unconscious Mick.

It seemed to him that he was just realising the man had aged so much. 

He looked at his hair that barely had any black left in it and felt bitterness consumed his heart. 

Clara reached out her hands and pulled him toward a chair, then forced him to sit down.

The little princess did not even look up at them and just kept her eyes glued on Mick. 

"Is there something you can do to help?" Leo's broken voice was finally heard as he looked up to Clara with his eyes filled with tears.

His nose flaring and deep red eyes glittering with tears. 

Clara who was standing beside him was stunned at his tears.

She moved closer and hugged his head to her chest. "I'm sorry." She muttered. 

Clara knew the only thing keeping Mick alive for now was because of the little princess interference. Sooner or later the body will still die even if the owner is not feeling any pain.

It's just a matter of time before he lost the man. 

Leo sobbed at her apology. "I'm scared, Clara. If anything happens to him, I'm scared of myself. I will lose my mind. 

I'm scared of what I will do, he is my everything. My mom, my dad, my butler, my maid, my sanity, the reason why I am who I am today." Leo said amidst tears.

"I can't lose him. God! I can't." He broke into soft whimpers. 

Clara felt like her heart just got poked by a needle at his words.

A drop of tears rolled down at the corner of Mick's eye, which went unnoticed by Leo and Clara, and only the little princess saw it.

The little princess wiped it with her hand and looked up at her crying daddy.

That was the first time she moved any muscle in hours. 

"He had access to my money, but he never touched them. Each time I receive an alert and was glad he finally bought something, when I got home, I will find out what he bought is all for my sake. Everything he did, was for me." Leo said and started laughing, making Clara feel very uneasy. 

The guys is loosing it.

"Leo… ." She called his name. 

"You, Tim and Ella were right all along, I'm an idiot. I did this to him. I bring this upon him by being too soft." Leo said and Clara shook her head in fear. 

'No!' She exclaimed in her head.