A Billionaire's Conundrum

Chapter Seven

Everyone gasped and remained frozen as his heart became even more faint. His face was becoming blue and the heart monitor was leveling off and quickly straightening out completely. 

Jeremy could see the fear in Ella's eyes. He knew that if he let the lord of the Woodson family die, Ella would be in big trouble. 

He moved the doctor aside and went to the lord's bedside. 

"He's just taken his medicine, you must not disturb him! Move aside, you quack!" The doctor snapped. 

No one could support him anymore because they saw that the lord was not improving but dying. 

Checking his pulse, Jeremy knew that the lord had very little time left, his pulse was weaker than he thought and his heart was almost ceasing. 

"The lord has been poisoned." He told the family.  

"What? Are you certain? How?" Clifford asked, even though he too was stunned into silence with how much the lord's health had worsened after the shot the doctor gave to him. 

"Don't panic," Jeremy told everyone as he dug into his pocket and retrieved a powder. It was a magical medicine that he'd formulated a long time ago, it was very potent and it was worth over half a million dollars per gram in the black market. It was a cure for any type of poison and only Jeremy knew the recipe. 

"What are you trying to give to him, boy? Who even brought you here? You are going to kill him, the shot I've given to him is going to work soon, you can't be so impatient." The doctor said, 

Jeremy sneered at him, "He will not get better, he has been poisoned and it's killing him." 

"You know nothing! I have just given him a very good cure for his illness, he will recover shortly, stay out of this." The doctor shouted at him. 

"You're a quack, you know nothing," the doctor said and then turned to the family, "You must not let him give the lord that, he will only worsen his situation." 

The family looked reluctant, they didn't know what to believe and who to trust. While they had hired the doctor themselves, they could tell that the lord was indeed dying. 

Clifford and the older woman finally decided that the doctor was older and more experienced and he'd come highly recommended so they could trust him over Jeremy.

"If you want to stop me from helping him then get ready to watch him die." He said confidently, his face was stern and his voice cold.  

The family could not stand the thought of their lord dying. They marveled at the confidence and could not stop him anymore, with the lord's state, they were willing to try anything just so he could survive. 

Jeremy moved in and fed the lord the powder. The doctor was even angrier when he did. "I will not be held responsible for anything that happens to the lord after he takes that powder, this man has no idea what he's doing, the lord's case is already handled, he wasn't to be given anything else." He argued. 

But it was too late. Jeremy moved away from the lord as his face turned red. The doctor smirked, he thought that Jeremy had worsened it and now the lord would even die more quickly. 

"See, I told you he's a quack, how he's killed the lord." The doctor said, 

But just as he spoke, a member of the family gasped as she saw that the lord was recovering. The woman rose from her seat and rushed to his side. 

Another pointed at the heart monitor that was beginning the beep loudly again and the line came back to life. 

"Oh my god! His heart is beating again!" She yelled excitedly. 

Jeremy said nothing, Ella was elated beside him, hopeful that she wouldn't be in trouble with the Woodson family anymore. 

The doctor stood there, a little lost at what was going on, he could not believe that a little of the powder he'd been fed could heal him so quickly. He moved to the heart monitor and looked, trying to be sure that it wasn't malfunctioning. 

The final confirmation that everyone needed finally happened. The lord blinked open his eyes and the entire room was silent. 

Everyone was shocked, the lord had been unconscious for a very long time, he'd been fed through his tubes and living with support for several weeks, seeing his eyes open again was indeed a miracle and everyone was happy. 

The doctor, trying to be smart, schooled his expression and tried to take the credit for himself, "That's what I was talking about all this while, I told you to step aside and that the medicine was doing the job, can you see? He's fine now." He said. 

The entire family turned to gaze at the lord who was fully recovered, his face wasn't pale anymore and his breathing had normalized, he was indeed fine. 

"Really? I don't think so," the same woman beside the lord said. "The young man was right, you were 

The doctor frowned and insisted that it was the injection, "I know the shot that I just gave to him, it is a very powerful syrup and I knew it would heal him completely. You didn't have to allow this quack to add anything, he could have harmed him." He said still, trying to save face. 

Clifford scoffed, he was well, everyone else in the room could tell that the doctor was lying, it was not his injection that had saved the lord's life, it was Jeremy's powder. He was very angry. 

Clifford was the first son of the lord and he was upset that the doctor had compromised his father's life by giving him the deadly injection. He rose from his chair and pointed at the doctor angrily, "We will teach you a lesson for putting the lord's life in danger, no one messes with our family." He sneered.