The Greek Billionaire’s Indecent Proposal
Chapter 69

Soraya’s POV

I watched the men walk into the villa one by one but Xander was not with them. I looked at Hector questioningly and he smiled at me.

“He is fine Raya, he went ahead to the yacht to make sure everything is okay.” He said with a naughty look on his face as he winked at me.

Somehow I didn’t feel comforted but I smiled back. “How did everything go?” I asked.

“No issues, Xander handled everything and put Paskal in his place. Stop stressing Raya. In a few minutes Simon will drive you to the port.” He kissed my forehead then walked towards Stacy and wrapped his arms around her pulling her closer and kissing her.

“Hector, something doesn’t feel right.” I walked towards them. I couldn’t shake the feeling that something horrible was about to happen. The feeling clung to my chest making me feel like I was about to have an anxiety attack. “Where’s Simon?”

Simon appeared out of nowhere, he had a look of worry on his face. “Dona, there was an explosion at the port.”

Shock rang through my body. I grabbed Simon’s hand and began to run towards the door. “Where is Xander?” Hector and Dorian were behind us.

“He is being transported to the nearest hospital, the captain says he got injured pretty badly.” He responded but all I heard were the words ‘hospital and injured’. I kept coaxing myself internally not to break down as I ran towards the car with the men following. Simon opened the car door for me.

“We are right behind you Simon, go!” Hector roared at him.

“Why was he by himself Simon? He shouldn’t have been alone.” It all came out in a whisper. My heart was racing beating so fast and I could feel the anxiety attack coming in but I refused to give it way. I took deep breaths.

Simon didn’t answer, he kept on driving, shifting gears as he increased the speed.

‘Xander please be okay, please be okay baby’ I kept repeating in my head. I wanted to give in to my feelings, to break down and cry but that’s not what was expected of a Dona. I could feel my body fighting to give in to the shock, the shakes that were fighting to attack me. I kept taking long deep breaths as I kept coaxing myself.

“Simon drive faster!” I ordered him.

A few moments later we were at the hospital. The captain of the yacht was standing by the lobby, the moment he saw Simon and I, he walked towards us. “They are going to airlift him to Athens, it’s serious Madam.”

“Where is he?” I asked, my voice was surprisingly calm, cool and collected.

“They are just trying to stabilise him first but there’s a chopper waiting.” He informed us.

Hector came in, he took my hand and led me. We found one of the doctor’s dealing with Xander. “We have to stabilise him before we can move him, he has internal injuries, gunshot wound to the abdomen, head injuries and he has lost a lot of b***d. In the meantime I will get the nurse to take you to the waiting area, we need you to sign some documents, as soon as he’s stable one of you can ride with him in the chopper.”

When we got to the waiting area I turned around to face Hector, I don’t know what came over me but I slapped him hard across the face. He clenched his jaw and stepped backwards.

“Soraya I’m going to excuse that to you feeling overwhelmed right now.” He said in a hard tone.

“No! I’m not overwhelmed! I told you something was wrong, why was he alone Hector! Who did this? Was it Paskal? Who were you meeting today? You told me that everything went well!” I snapped at him pointing into his face. Anger was radiating through me.

“Everything did go well!” He growled at me.

“Then why is my husband laying on a f*****g hospital bed fighting for his life?” I pointed towards the hall that led to the theater. His look changed to worry, he didn’t know what to say.

“You need to go and replace out what happened! I will stay here, you and Dorian should leave now! Have Leon and Yannis make sure that everyone is sent home today! Clearly there has been some sort of security breach. Who were you meeting? Make sure they don’t leave the country until you have questioned them.” I ordered him.

“Hector make sure you deal with this quietly, if they replace out that Xander is in a hospital then we are going to get attacks from everywhere.”

“Im on it.” He said as he took out his phone, he began barking orders at whoever was on the other end of the line. He turned to look at me and hesitated before he walked out.

As I sat down one of the nurses came up to me and led me to a admin desk, a doctor came and they started explaining Xander’s condition to me in detail and what it is they had to do. They needed me to read through documents and fill in and sign them.

The nurse gave me a packet with Xander’s valuables that he had on him when he was brought in. I looked at his wedding band and the tears threatened to come out. I blinked a couple of times and cleared my throat. I realised that I hadn’t even grabbed my bag when I ran out, all I had with me was my cellphone in my hands. I was casually dressed in a solid white shirt dress that had drawstring sides. It came a few inches above my knees, I had matched it with mud brown strapy heel sandals.

I frowned when I thought about how we were supposed to be on the yacht now getting ready to sail off. If Paskal had done this he would get to see a different side to me. If he thought I was one of those quiet sweet Adamos wives that would lay down and cry then he had another thing coming. His crazy had not met my crazy, he had messed with the wrong person! I was going to enjoy torturing him! But first I had to make sure that Xander would be okay.

After a few hours of waiting I was finally led into a room where Xander lay motionless on a bed, they were getting ready to push him to the chopper. His face was badly bruised, I could not see his body as it was covered up. I walked up to him and looked at his face, who ever had attacked him had beaten him up pretty badly. I signalled for them to move and we walked into a elevator that led us all the way up to the helipad at the top of the hospital. As soon as they had him settled I sat down and held his hand.

As soon as we got to the hospital that the family used in Athens, they rushed Xander off into surgery again. Sitting in the chopper with him as they monitored him, his vitals going up and down had been stressful.

A nurse walked up to me. “Mrs Adamos, a change of clothes was brought in for you by your staff. There’s a private area this side for you to change.” She handed me a tog bag. I thanked her and followed her there.

Helga was very thoughtful, I guess everyone at the house knew that there was an emergency. I changed into the black formal pants suit and with a long sleeve white lace blouse tucked into the pants. The outfit boosted my confidence, now I felt like a Dona who could command her ship. I took of the shoes I had on and put on red bottom black heel pumps that Helga had packed as well. When I was done I went to look for answers.

“Mrs Adamos, your husband is in a comatose state to protect his brain, his head injury is quite a serious one. We are going to closely monitor his vitals and we have reduced the increased pressure by removing the fluid that was pushing down on the brain stem. Right now it’s just a matter of waiting and seeing what happens.” The neurosurgeon looked at me seriously as he explained. “The bullet in his abdomen is out and he was operated on, they gave him a b***d transfusion at the previous hospital. We are also monitoring his other injuries.” Two other doctors came in and confirmed all the information that was being related to me.

The head of the hospital was standing right next to them watching, he looked like he was analysing me. I nodded my head as I compartmentalised my feelings and took in the information, I thanked the surgeon. I wanted to break down and cry but I couldn’t, not right now. There was no time to show any kind of weakness because the head of the Adamos family was down, we had to keep this quiet for as long as we could or else the vultures would start coming to peck at us.

Xander needed me to have my s**t together. Gaia had also been transferred here while I had been waiting for a status report on Xander, she was in the next room, she had to be sedated. For the first time since I met Hector he looked very scared, he put up a good brave face but I could read him, it made sense now that Xander carried a lot of the weight of the family safety and the business on his shoulders alone. He had help yes but that was because he was there to delegate. When he wasn’t there the deck fell and the cards scattered. I wouldn’t let it happen this time, he had been preparing me for a moment like this, he had faith in me.

I turned to look at the head of the hospital and started belting out instructions. “I want him to be alone on one of the executive patient floor, my security team will be using the entire floor.”

He looked at me like I had lost my mind. “Do you have a problem with that?” I looked directly in to his eyes as I walked right up to him, he quickly shook his head and slightly backed away without even realising that he was doing it. “Patient safety is a fundamental aspect of a safe healthcare organisation and no disrespect Mr Zafeiriou but I don’t have faith in the hospital’s security. Also to add on to my list of concerns, no one and I mean no one is to know that my husband is here, tell your staff, my admin will be here to make sure you sign non disclosures, if I so much as hear from any news outlet that Xander Adamos is in hospital I will sue the hell out of you.”

I made him nervous, good! I needed him to understand that even though he was the hospital CEO, I would be making the decisions.

“My security team will need full access to your security rooms and the entire hospital. Don’t worry this will benefit you in the long run.” I slightly smiled a smile that didn’t quite reach my eyes “I will be picking out my husband’s medical team from here on, If anyone else that has not been authorised by me goes near my husband they will be detained and tortured before I kill them myself do you understand that Mr Zafeiriou?”

“Yes, Mrs Adamos.” He stuttered. I had never made a man stutter before and if it wasn’t for the seriousness of the situation I would be highly amused by his reaction.

“You will be on call twenty four seven, your phone doesn’t go off, you answer it when I call or you will replace yourself without a job. You can go for now.” I said to him and walked off to go and check on Xander.

“Do you think he’ll pull through?” Both the nurse and doctor couldn’t see me by the door as she watched the doctor examine Xander. “I mean a brain injury, cracked ribs, punctured lung amongst other internal injuries… that’s quite a long list.”

“In reality Xander Adamos should be dead, I don’t know how he survived that kind of attack. The good thing is that he is stable and he’s breathing on his own. We had to induce his coma just so we can give his brain a chance to reduce the heavy swelling. He could wake up with damage to his brain.” He said, it broke my heart to hear him talk like this.

“When you are done assessing him and making him comfortable you can leave the room, thank you.” I walked in alerting them to my presence.

“Mrs Adamos, we uhhhm…” he looked like he wished he hadn’t said what he’d just said to the nurse who’s face had turned scarlet with embarrassment at being caught gossiping.

“Don’t worry doctor, what you said was your professional medical opinion. No one can persecute you for that, you should know though that my husband is a fighter.”

“Yes Ma’am.” After a few minutes they scurried out of the room.

I went to sit next to his bedside. “Baby…” I gently touched his arm and caressed it, my breath haltered as the tears threatened to come again.

I cleared my throat and calmed myself. “Xander my love, I don’t care what anyone says. I won’t give up on you, I love you and I will wait as long as you need me to wait but you have to come back to me because I need you.” I let my head rest next to his arm. “You can’t leave me or Kai okay? We just found each other again, Kai will be devastated.”

I breathed in deeply and kept reminding myself to stay calm. “I love you, if you leave me I won’t ever forgive you Xander.” I got up and planted a light k**s on his cheek, his face was really badly bruised. His entire body was battered and bruised, when I found this person that had attacked him I would make sure I returned the favour ten folds, whoever he was he would beg me to kill him.

“I will be in here every single day until you wake up, but I also have to replace out who did this to you.” As I said this, I heard someone walk in. It was Hector and Dorian, they looked so sullen.

“There is no time to look lost, we have work to do.” I told them.

“It wasn’t the jihadist group that attacked him, they were already boarding their flight when this happened. I can’t replace Paskal anywhere but we have forensics combing through the yacht. Surprisingly there are no traffic cams near around the route that Xander used and the two people that saw whoever did this were shot dead.” Hector explained to me.

“We will have to wait to see what forensics comes up with.” Dorian said quietly.

“I want armed guards outside this door, when he is moved out of ICU Simon will be with him. I don’t trust anyone else to guard him. He needs to have back up, we have the entire floor because Simon will need backup. Hector, we need to pick out the medical team before we leave and Dorian I need to have Paskal followed so replace him, even if he might have an alibi for the attack but this reeks of him.”

“If Paskal is involved then we might have to send Kai into hiding for now Soraya, we have to protect him at all cost. Think about it, Paskal will want to take control of the estate and Kai is Xander’s heir so Paskal will have to get rid of him. You can’t head up the state on Kai’s behalf if he’s not alive.” Dorian said with a rough edge to his voice as he looked at me.

“That means Stacy has to go too, if all else fails Hector you are next in line.” I said quietly.

“Stacy and I are having a daughter.” He pointed out uncomfortably. Hector had no interest in being the head of the family, he knew that it came with a lot of responsibilities and it put his wife and child in even more danger.

“But Paskal doesn’t know that, do you think he will even take the time to ask the s*x of your baby if he decides to attack? Stacy goes into hiding too.

We discussed everything in detail before I gave the men some time with Xander. “I will wait until Simon gets here. Then we can leave.” I told them.

I knew exactly who to call to send the kids into hiding, while I waited for Simon to arrive I took out my phone and dialled the emergency number that only I had. He answered on the first ring. “I need your help.” He listened attentively as I relayed everything that had happened.

“I’m on my way back.” Joud said. Let me make the arrangements and I will be back home to fetch them by early morning.”

“We can’t use the family private jets and we can’t take them to any of the Adamos properties.” I said to him.

“Don’t worry, I know exactly how to get them out and where to take them, it will be untraceable. Trust me Dona, I’ve got you.” Joud assured me.

When Simon got there I went up to the CEO’s office with him to get Xander moved to the executive patients ward immediately. Hector helped me pick out a medical staff that was loyal to the Adamos family. I reminded the CEO that if anyone else was to touch Xander then he would have me to deal with. Simon arranged for his own security team to put up security cameras and sound tech completely replacing the hospitals security technology.

Only when every safety precautions had been set up did I feel comfortable to leave Xander only for a few hours. I rushed back into his room and put my arms around him making sure not to hurt him. “I will be back soon my love.” I whispered to him then kissed him.

Hector’s POV

Soraya was handling Xander’s situation way better than I was. I watched her lead a unwilling and drowsy Gaia into a Bentley Mulsanne, she helped her to recline the seat and put on her seat belt.

“There’s heavy man power at the estate so we will be safe for the night.” I smiled at her. “Soraya how are you not breaking down.” I asked her.

“Because it isn’t the time yet. There’s a time and place for everything Hector, you know that he will be okay right?” She hugged me then let go.

“He better be, Xander and I have a bet going and I expect him to pay me when he loses.” I joked which made her smile.

I led her to the other side of the car and opened the door for her.

I sighed as the car drove off. Xander had to come out of this alive, I wasn’t thinking this just because I didn’t want to be head of the family but because I couldn’t stand to lose my big brother.