Alex wouldn’t forgive himself if anything happened to his wife. He made a big mistake by asking Henry.After all, like Clara said, it was the present that mattered not the past. If Henry really knew a lot, he wouldn’t have followed him to the graveyard.So he began to go to all the places that they had been to together. He was determined to find her. While he searched, he kept calling her lines, but they weren’t connecting.Isabel, the maid who assisted Annie, was beginning to go down and down every day. She can’t take it anymore and at this stage, she might blow mad.She listened to everything that Henry and Alex conversed through the window. No one had seen Clara yet. Was it the effect of the drug she fed her with?When they find her, is she going to send both her and Annie to jail?She couldn’t even think of that as she used both her hands to cover her ears. It was better she didn’t work here any more than be the first to dent their reputation.Her father would always tell them that
Alex had just arrived at the hospital. He couldn’t believe his wife had been unwell and he wasn’t aware of it.The nurses mentioned unconsciousness. How long had she been unconscious? Well, these were all the answers he would get to find out at the hospital.When Alex arrived, Clara couldn’t recognize him. She was still unconscious and had been saying the same words.“Sweet, it’s me. I didn’t abandon you. I’m here.” Alex said, but no matter what he said to her. She wasn’t acknowledging him.Then Alex began to check her phone. Right from the day she started acting strange, to that very day. He could believe that this was the handwork of Selene.Why was she keeping in touch with Selene? Clara had lots of questions to answer, but she had to get better first.Then the nurses told Alex how someone was feeding Clara with some memory-erase drugs but that was not what led to her condition.Some tests have been carried out on her and the results will soon be out.“Mmmm.”While Alex prayed it w
Alex followed the doctor to his office. He was keen to know what had transpired and what brought about it. But the doctor started by congratulating him.“Congratulations. Your wife is two weeks pregnant.” The doctor declared, projecting a handshake to him.“You see, there is no cause for alarm and there is no need for you to be afraid. Your wife might have been poisoned, but luckily, it didn’t affect the baby.”However, Alex’s expression had not changed. He didn’t appear to be optimistic or pleased with the news. He kept looking around to see if there was any other person the doctor was speaking to, but he was the only one.“Doctor, are you sure of what you are saying? Are you misplacing her results for someone else? You need to check well. My wife can’t be pregnant.” Alex cautioned the doctor.In other cases, men get excited with news like this. But in Alex’s case, he seemed to be so angry. Maybe they were not couples or something. The doctor thought.Whatever the cause may be, the do
The truth was that Clara was not even in the mood to read any letters or talk to anyone. Alex had broken her. All she had never thought of had happened.She looked at the note and pushed it aside. She didn’t know who it was from or what it was all about.Probably from the hospital or even from her job interviews. However, when she dropped it on the sofa, the name on it caught her attention.“Henry Brown?” Then she opened the letter and started to read it.“Why was everything happening today tragedy?” She questioned herself.All the duration she was unconscious, Clara didn’t know that Henry had won the case with Selene. He had traveled out of the States too. He didn’t even look for her, but he said he loved her.This was the reason why she never believed human beings, anybody who said they loved her always left. But why were they leaving at the same time?In the past, she would believe Alex and curse Henry. But she doesn’t even know who was hurting her more right now.“Are you okay?” A
The next day, Alex woke up in Jane’s apartment. He had completely passed out. He remembered calling someone the previous night, yet, he thought he had called Andrew. He never knew it was Jane he called.“Alex, you are up. Top of the morning.” She greeted.But Alex didn’t say anything to her. He had just remembered his family problems and all that he was going through.“It would be best if you do not say a word to me.”Right from time, Jane had always been temperamental. She doesn’t know how to handle the atmosphere sometimes and how to control herself.“Why? Why would I not say a word to you?” She asked but Alex ignored her.“Do you know how late at night it was when you called me? Do you know how I drove on the highway to come pick you up?”“Do you know how I contemplated between taking you home or bringing you here? I don’t know what happened and why you are being this way. But at least, be appreciative.”“You don’t just wake up, in my apartment and say I should not talk to you.” Ja
Elizabeth had been trying to get on Jackson’s good side. She can’t even believe that he wants to divorce her.She had begun to realize her mistake but no matter what she did, her husband’s mind was made up.“Honey, you can’t leave me like this. Not when I am passing through all these. Please you can’t leave me. You can’t.”One minute she talked like she was entitled, the other minute, it seemed she was pleading with him.In all, Jackson’s mind was made up.“When I divorced My first wife, didn’t you know she was sick? Wasn’t she dying? Her daughter had no one to run to.”“But despite all that, I told her I wasn’t interested. Why do you think yours would be different, woman?”“Since you came into my life, it’s been from one problem to another. Look what our daughter turned into.”“Please, please, I will change, don’t do this.” Elizabeth continued pleading but her husband’s mind was made up.One thing about men was that, whenever they made up their minds on something, there was no going b
“Let’s start with a thousand dollars,” Elizabeth replied and Annie kept smirking.“What a cheap thing!” Annie muttered to herself before agreeing to give her the money.In Elizabeth’s thinking, she needed to start with little amounts, then over time, she would proceed to call large sums for her.To Annie, Elizabeth was not even smart enough to ask for a reasonable sum, before she would be able to ask for the second payment, it would be very late by then.“Just send me your details,” Annie sounded off and that was how the call ended.Only a fool uses her daughter’s misfortune to threaten others. Annie, without wasting time, sent the money to Elizabeth.She needed something for a start so she decided to take care of little things, if every other thing kept her sad. At least, this would keep her happy. After Clara was chased out of the Peters family, she was so devastated and broken.She could recall Alex telling her that he didn’t trust all these charades that his parents were displayin
When Clara was walking away from Alex, she hoped that he would stop her. She wished that he would run over and tell her, Sweet, it’s all a joke.She was walking fast and slow at the same thing. Fast enough to leave his sight, slow enough to hear when he called.But nothing of that nature happened, Clara began to feel her heart was shattering.Since her birthday, she hadn’t communicated with Sophia. Her work contract was not over and she barely had time to speak on the phone.She doesn’t have anybody to run to? Not her family, not friends.Then she remembered someone, and as she packed, she thought of where to go.There was no need for packing all that Alex got for her after all, she wouldn’t be needing them anymore.So she only took a few basic things that she would need, she had made up her mind to forget Alex and stop daydreaming he would forgive her, at least because she was pregnant.He even referred to the baby as a thing. The maids gathered at the window looking at her.Some were