Burning Passion

CHAPTER 103: HE's ALWAYS BEEN THERE

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Going back to Jeremy's room, they had dinner together, and Erika made them tea before Theo went back to his room. Jeremy asks about his decision, in which he only shared less about his conservation with Nikki, and that was not progressed for Jeremy.

"Do you need help?" he asked his too slow brother.

Theo meets Jeremy's eyes before he replies. "I'm finding a perfect time. I might not approach her and discuss the surrogacy, but I will give my blood for her mother without waging a contract or an agreement."

He can not decide whether he should share his feelings with his brother. It was true. He had a hard time being in a rush with Nikki because he cared for her. If she is someone else, he already made the offers quick and straight.

"All right." Jeremy has something to ask Theo when a knock on the door is followed by Roland peeping his head.

"Excuse me, Masters. There is a call from Reynolds Winery House, an important matter's Mr. Langley wants to discuss with you."

"Okay. Thank you, Roland." Theo sat up and headed to the door, "I'll be back." he told Jeremy.

Now that he was left alone, his eyes caught Theo's phone. He knew it was wrong. He stretches his hand to pick up Theo's phone and read the messages. Heh. His brother showed too much feeling to his texts.

And then Jeremy dialed Nikki's mobile number. However, she did not pick it up. It was understandable judging from Nikki's replies; she was in vain right now. As an older brother, he was determined to help his brother.

"Your mother needs me, right?" Jeremy sent a message to Nikki.

"Who really are you? What do you want from me!?"

"It was you who needed something from me. Am I right?" he makes it straightway.

"Just tell me, straightway!"

Jeremy pushes a smirk. It is what he is talking about, "I can give you my blood. In return, I want something from you."

"How should I believe you?"

Hm, she's stubborn as what he sees. "You have my word, and I stand to what I commit," he told Nikki and waited for her reply. She must ponder about it now.

"How much do you want?"

"I don't need it, but I could purchase you instead."

"What the heck are you talking about?"

Jeremy beam. Erika, who was about to enter, caught that smile on Jeremy's text. She wonders who he texted when the phone he is holding is not his, and it was Theo's phone. She placed the tray with a full glass of drinking water and various tablets as Jeremy's medicine before bedtime. She remained standing on the side and waited.

"I have my wealth. I don't need any reward," he replied.

"Then what do you want!?" Nikki lost. So then, he made a follow-up message. "How could I even trust you?"

"But that's what you need to do… to trust me." It seems Nikki is someone who won't quickly grab the cake place in front of her even if it is her favorite flavor when the baker is someone she doesn't trust.

"Then tell me, how should I pay you back? Do you know how much blood my mother needed?"

Heh. If he didn't monitor her mother's condition, he wouldn't know. He kept informed. Then Jeremy responded, "Your mother needed a blood transfusion as part of her treatment."

"Then, you know that she needs it each month."

"Yes. That's why you needed me for the whole procedure of your mother's treatment." Jeremy did not stop convincing her. Nikki is almost giving in now. Jeremy looks up at Erika to request something. "Could you get Theo's medical file from that sideboard? I place it in the middle drawer."

Erika nodded. She strides toward the sideboard and pulls the drawer, and she takes out a blue folder and hands it to Jeremy.

After a moment, Nikki finally replied, "Why are you doing this?" tells her text message.

"I have my reason as I have yours," he told her.

"Then tell me how I could return the help you'll give me?"

Hmm, this is the moment. Jeremy thought, and a smile was playing on his lips. "Bear my child."

"What!?"

Jeremy could picture Nikki showing a shocked expression. "You heard me, right?"

"Are you kidding me?"

"Do we need to joke around when your mother is fighting her life?" he uses something she could not refuse him. He has to be this extreme for Nikki to take the surrogacy agreement.

"But what are you telling me is crazy!"

"Do you want your mother to live?"

"What do you mean about bearing your child? I should undergo artificial insemination?" she queried, then follows, "Is it necessary to be me? I mean, to bear the child?"

"Yes, it has to be you," Jeremy replied, but an idea came to his mind. A silly one, actually. So, while typing, he has a big grin on his face in which Erika misunderstood.

"And I have to clarify myself, first. I don't want artificial insemination. Do you want me to tell my child that I just shove my sperm to her mother's using a needle?" Jeremy added. He knew he sounded joking with the last one. 'Sorry, Theo. But I have to murder your slowness.' Jeremy mumbles.

"Jeremy, why are you using my phone?" Theo stepped inside, and it is what he noticed right away.

"I already offered Nikki an agreement, and I'm about to send her your medical records to prove that you are an Rh A negative blood type."

"What did you tell Nikki?" Theo has an unpleasant feeling about how Jeremy converse with Nikki. He takes back his phone and back read to the text messages.

"I'm just helping you out," he smirked. He waited to see that shock in Theo's face.

"Jeremy! What did you do!?" he was dazed, reading that part of no insemination will happen. It means, naturally, they must sleep together! "Why do you have to tell Nikki that? Besides, I am hiding my identity! How will I explain it to her after what happens that I did stalk her and acted like a mystery man?" he confronted his brother. He was giving him a huge problem right now.

"Then you have to figure out how you can play that well." he beams.

"I can't believe you, Jeremy!"

"Because you were too slow. That's why I make it easy for you."

"And it really has this? This— "

"Hm?" teasing smile playing on his lips when Theo cannot spill out the words sex or sleeping together.

"Argh! I better take some sleep first!" he stated, then left the room. But what he needed was to be alone, to think properly, since Jeremy messes up everything.

Theo went to his room and took a shower. But he remains restless. He better tells Nikki that he was the stalker, but it wasn't him who texted that. Also, he is true when he says he will help her. He is donating his blood for her mother so then she can have the surgery.

Now he found himself taking the emergency stairs. Upon entering that floor, he notices that everyone is in panic.

"What happens?" He asks the male nurse at the station.

"Mrs. Lucy had another seizure, so Doctor Been trying to save her now."

Hearing this bad news, he cannot help not to worry so much for Nikki. "Okay. Thank you," Theo told the nurse, then went to the ICU. He saw Nikki and Ben talking earnestly, and Nikki was crying.

"Nikki!?"

Ben shouted and tried to hold her. With bigger steps, Theo moves toward Ben and takes Nikki from him.

"Theo? What are you—"

"I'll bring her to my room."

Good thing he's always been there watching Nikki silently.