The Ohellno Series Box Set by Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

Author:Mimi Jean Pamfiloff
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romantic Comedy
Publisher: Paper & Silver, Inc.
Published: 2021-04-13T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

ELLE

It’s been one hell of a week. A bona fide plethora of sticky emotions that started out in the worst possible, darkest place, and then turned itself around in the matter of a day. I owe it all to Tassie’s mother, who somehow managed to get my mother into a private, anonymously funded room in Houston’s Mercy Hospital. They have one of the best oncology departments in the country.

The most amazing part, however, is that the doctors at the hospital and Tassie’s mother pulled off a miracle. We got it. The medicine. Literally, I cried for an hour when I heard the news. But nothing topped the look on my father’s face when I told him. He hugged me so hard that my ribs are sore. “I love you, little Elle. I love you so much,” he’d said, nearly sobbing, making me cry right along with him.

But I won’t lie. There was a moment when my brain urged me to temper his excitement with facts. This drug isn’t a cure. It’s a treatment. And treatments don’t always work. So I quickly reminded myself that we all needed to focus on a positive outcome if we wanted to give my mom a fighting chance.

Anyway, she started the new drug almost immediately. Not a trial patient, not a placebo, but the real thing. And it’s been shown to turbo-charge the immune system so that the body fights off the cancer on its own. In short, this is her best shot at making it, and I am committed to being hopeful. Besides, miracles like these just don’t fall out of the sky for no reason.

“Hey, I’m going to get something greasy for lunch and run home to feed Mr. Nucleus,” I whisper to my dad, who’s sitting in the chair beside my mother’s hospital bed, reading a book. With the care she’s been getting, her vitals have improved, but she’s still sleeping a lot. “Can I bring you anything back?”

“No, thanks, baby,” he says.

“You sure?” I got here around ten in the morning, and he hasn’t moved or eaten.

“If I get hungry, I’ll run downstairs.” He flashes a warm smile that shows in his brown eyes, which I love seeing.

“Okay. When she wakes up, tell Mom that I’ll be back later.”

“Take your time. Get some fresh air,” he says.

I know I look like I could use it. Hospitals are not my favorite place. Especially since my mother’s been in and out of them for almost two years.

I take the elevator down and head outside to the back parking lot. The afternoon air is crisp and cool, and I already feel lighter.

“Elle, hey,” I hear a deep familiar voice say.

“Henry?” My mind snaps to attention and I spot him walking toward me in his jeans and plain blue Polo shirt. His green eyes look a little tired, but he is as beautiful as ever and my heart does this crazy little pitter-patter. “How’d you know where I was?”

“I went by your dorm room a few times this week, but you weren’t there.

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