Title: Scumbag Billionaire
Author: Harper Kingsley
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It was hot. That’s the first thing Ames realized. The horrible, all-encompassing heat.
Then he recognized the slapping sloshing sound around him: water.
He tried to groan, but his throat hurt too much. When he weakly shifted he lost his balance and slipped off the board he hadn’t realized he was resting on.
He splashed into the water. Gasped. Panicked. Swallowed a mouthful of salty ocean water. Began to drown.
Lights flashed behind his eyes. Or maybe it was the darkness cutting away the light.
He weakly tried to kick his legs, but his body was too exhausted by sunstroke.
He passed out.
And found himself in memory. Back in the hospital where he had so recently died after saying his final farewells to his tearful family and friends.
Everything had had a haziness to it from the painkillers. It had reached the point where there were no longer limits to the amount he was given. He’d held the button in his hand and could control things for himself, a little bit or a lot. It didn’t matter because he was going to die anyway.
He’d pushed the button enough to take the edge off the grinding agony. But he’d held off enough that he could coherently say his goodbyes.
It had hurt to see his mother sobbing against his father’s shoulder. Neither one of them had thought he would die first. Barely 29 years old, but so ravaged by cancer that there was barely anything left of him.
Ames had managed to smile at them. Had spent his last precious moments offering them comfort rather than focusing on the fact that he was really dying.
Some bit of him had felt resentment, but he hadn’t allowed it to show. He wanted his loved ones to remember him the way he was, not like this, wasted away in a hospital bed, full of wires and tubes, piss and shit pumped out of his body through holes cut into his belly near the feeding port that had kept him alive for the last year of his life.
His body had failed him in the worst way.
And when everything ended… It was to the sound of his loved ones weeping and the blare of the heart monitor. Then blackness swallowed him whole.
He wasn’t expecting to ever wake up. Much less on a beach. Naked.
TBC…
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