Chapter 252: UGLY SCARS
The car they were in only arrived at the hospital after spending several hours on the road.
Getting out of the car, Erika’s wheelchair was immediately set by Iza and she made sure to stay close to Erika and not let Adrian get close to her but she couldn’t do much. Adrian was still her boss and if she was ordered by him to go away, she had to obey. Else, she wants to lose her life.
Despite already wearing a scarf to cover her hideous face, Felicia pulled out a nose mask and wore it too.
"I just hope that no one will be able to notice me," she mumbled under her breath.
The car was emptied and they strode inside the hospital, asking for a specific doctor. Once it was their time to see the doctor, they all got inside his office, nearly scaring the poor surgeon.
"Mr Gilbert, long time no see," Adrian greeted the man who wore a white lab coat and sat behind the desk.
"Adrian," Mr Gilbert greeted back with enthusiasm when he recognized the person who had just barged inside his office. From their cheerful greeting, Erika already assumed that they were friends but Mr Gilbert was much older than Adrian so how did he meet such a person and ended up becoming friends with him? She wondered. "You remembered me today. Seems that being the boss’s right-hand man has kept you busy with underground gambling. How has that place been doing anyway?" Mr Gilbert asked.
’Underground gambling? What’s that?’ Erika wondered.
Upon realizing that he wasn’t supposed to release such information in the presence of the other people, Mr Gilbert immediately clammed his mouth shut and waited for Adrian to continue from where he stopped.
"That’s a talk for another day," said Adrian with a slight chuckle. Getting down to business and his purpose for coming there, he added, "I want you to help me with something."
"What is it?" Mr Gilbert asked, ready to fulfill Adrian’s wish. Since the day that he’d been able to pay off his debt to Viper, they had always stayed in touch for no particular reason, and amid all their talk, Mr Gilbert had revealed that he was a cosmetic surgeon. Not wanting to go to another doctor and risk getting exposed if that doctor refused to cooperate, Adrian decided to go meet Mr Gilbert instead.
"I want you to conduct a plastic surgery and make her look like that one," Adrain replied as he pointed from Felicia to Erika, signifying who is who.
At first, Mr Gilbert had been surprised that Adrian wanted him to conduct a plastic surgery but he didn’t bother to ask why since the reason was quite obvious. The first lady that Adrian had pointed to had quite a few scars on her face that weren’t completely covered by her scarf and her nose mask. And as for the second lady that he pointed to who seemed to not want to be in there had a very beautiful face and perfect skin tone. ’She looks like a model,’ Mr Gilbert complimented her in his thoughts.
When he relished that he had been staring at Erika for too long, he cleared his throat to cover his act and faced Adrian who had been glaring at him nonstop.
"I’m sorry for staring at her for too long but may I know who this lady is?" Mr Gilbert asked as he pointed at Erika who remained silent and held no interest in opening her mouth to speak. Her silence was starting to suffocate a particular person in the room.
"She’s my future wife and we plan to get married in two days," Adrian replied, immediately changing his expression to reveal a smile.
Scratching his head, Mr Gilbert asked confusedly, "But why are you letting that buggy one have plastic surgery to look like your future wife? They will practically look Iike twins and that would be confusing for you to differentiate who is who."
"Please don’t be worried about that, Mr Gilbert. I have my own reasons why I want to make this happen so are you going to help me?" He asked the man who couldn’t keep his eyes away from looking at Erika. "Mr Gilbert!" Adrian yelled to grab his attention. With a scrutinizing gaze, he threatened, "You better take your eyes off my woman if you don’t want to lose a limb this evening."
Mr Gilbert took his words as a joke and simply laughed it off. "Of course of course."
Stepping out of the office, they move to another part of the hospital to take a picture of Erika’s face and also examine Felicia’s face. Afterwards, Mr Gilbert went to have a meeting with his fellow doctors.
"This kind of surgery is going to cost a lot of money since her face is already ruined with scars that have refused to completely close. We will have to tear the face and use the useful skins to sculpt it properly," said Mr Gilbert after he finished his meeting with his fellow surgeons who would be assisting him.
This was the second time that Mr Gilbert had insulted her since they arrived at the hospital and Felicia wasn’t willing to let him go so easily this time.
"My face doesn’t have many scars, you are just too blind to see that they are already healing!" She barked. "And also, you are not here to judge looks and all that but to perform a cosmetic surgery dammit!" She cursed as her eyes flared in anger.
Shocked and surprised by the sudden outburst of the ugly lady, Mr Gilbert subconsciously took a step back to be at least 6 feet away from her before he spoke.
"Pardon me but I was only telling a fact. The scars on your face made you look ugly and you can see for yourself that they have refused to close, making you look even more ugly than you already are. I’m sorry if my words offended you but I thought you wanted to hear the truth and not some lies."
