NICK“Tell me something, mother. Am I really your son, did you give birth to me?” I was pissed, really pissed at her. How could she? “Stop being dramatic Nick and tell me what you mean?” I looked at father, but it was like he was not even there. The man had not said a word to mother and I since that incident at the hospital.“Why would you take Olivia’s side like that in front of everyone, in fact, you always take her side on everything. Why do you do that mother, is Olivia’s happiness more important to you than mine?” the woman glared at me sending a cold shiver down my spine. I had a fair amount of regret when she gave me that look.“So, in your opinion, you want me to take your side even when you are being a moron? I told you to grow and be the son I raised you to be. Maybe then I will start taking your side. Until then, do not question me about nonsense and I want you out of my house. You have your own, go back there. Your father and I need some peace and quiet.”The woman was merc
NICKShe got down from the chair and started packing everything away. “I am not jumpy, Nick. You just scared me that’s all.” I watched her every move trying to see any sign of deceit. What the hell are you and your sister up to Sandra. “You said I should not trust your sister, what has she done?”She looked so nervous. “What?” I chuckled; the woman was taking me for a fool. “I asked what has your sister done that you say she cannot be trusted?”“Oh, well. Many things. She is awful Nick.” Interesting, she could not even tell me one thing she did. “Awful, how?”“I don’t want to talk about this Nick, it hurts me to even think about it so please. Respect my privacy.” She exploded. “Wow! There is no need for that, I just want to understand. How am I supposed to protect you from her if you don’t tell me the truth? I protected you from my wife remember?”She sighed then stopped what she was doing and sat back down. I waited for her to say something. “My father was an alcoholic. An abusive alc
OLIVIA“Why do you have that look, what happened.” I lifted my head and looked at Marcus. “I just said yes to dinner with Ethan, tonight.” He paused what he was doing and just stared at me for a minute. He then places the plate he was holding into the sink then wiped his hands. “I think it’s time for me to leave so that you can get ready for your date.”“It’s not a date its just dinner.” He waved his hand going towards the front door with me following behind. “It’s okay Olivia, go and enjoy yourself. I will see you.” he walked out then closed the door before I could say more. I sighed feeling defeated. “You like him, don’t you?” I turned and Lupita was standing there.“I don’t know what you are talking about.” I walked past her going to the kitchen. “Right, then why do you look so guilty about going to dinner with Mr Lewis?”“Lupita! It’s bad to listen to other people’s conversations.” She shook her head. “I wasn’t trying to; I was coming to the kitchen to wash the dishes when I heard
OLIVIAI was drifting in and out of consciousness. The first time I was woken up by water dripping onto my forehead. At least I thought it was water. With difficulty, I opened my eyes and looked ahead. I saw shadows moving. My eyes were so heavy that I closed them again and passed out.The next time I woke up I was lucid enough to hear voices. I didn’t know who the people were, but I heard one of them say. “She better not be dead or if she dies, you follow.” Why was I going to be dead in a dream? “Who…are..you?” I mumbled. The woman must have heard me because she called someone.“She is alive, she’s talking.” She sounded so excited to hear me talk. I blacked out again. Then the dream changed. I was in a beautiful field with wildflowers everywhere. Fresh air and I felt so light and free. “Olivia?” I turned and my grandmother stood not too far away from me.I ran into her arms and held her tightly as I cried. “Am sorry grandma, for everything. I am so sorry.” She brushed my back comforti
NICKI budged into the hospital doors and ran to the reception. “My wife, where is she!” the woman behind the desk looked scared by my outburst. “Olivia Jones, I was called and told she was in an accident. Now tell me where the hell she is?” her eyes widened. “Oh, Mr Jones, she is in the intensive care unit on the third floor.”I rushed to the elevator, and I got there just as it closes. I didn’t have time to wait for another one and so. I took the stairs taking them two at a time. “Am coming Olivia, hang in there.” I said in my head scared out of my mind that she was not going to make it.By the time I got to the third floor I was sweating like a pig with my shirt drenched in sweat and sticking to my body. I didn’t care about that. “Someone tell me where my wife is!” I yelled as soon as I busted through those doors from the staircase.A nurse came over to me. “Sir, are you all right? “I flung her arm away from me. who the hell did she think she was to touch me. “I am Nick Jones, and I
ELODIEI was called by the doctor and told to get to the hospital immediately. I thought something happened to Olivia. On the way I was praying for good news but the way the doctor spoke made me think of the worst. It would be a shame for her son to grow up with out her, Olivia had a lot of love to give, and her son deserved to get that love.‘Please Lord, let her be okay. For her son’s sake, I beg you.’ I used to think people who begged the Lord for things like these were stupid. Back home we have a slogan, some people die, and some people live. Back then, death was part of my life but now. I could not fantom the idea of not having Olivia around.When I got to the hospital, I ran inside going to the elevator wanting to get to her ward as soon as I could. Getting there the doctor was already waiting. “Tell me, what happened to her?” he looked back at Olivia’s room then at me. “Nothing happened to her mam, and it is not I who needs to talk to you. it’s the cardiologist.”That was a hear
NICKI walked out of my ward with mother calling my name. I bumped into father outside. “Son, I thought you just had a heart attack. Was your mother just scaring me to get me here?” he looked so worried. “Apparently, I did have a heart attack, and I just discharged myself.” I walked past him. “Nick, where the hell do you think you are going then?”“To find out who did that to my wife using my name.” father said nothing else, I believe that he too knew what I was talking about. I was the only moron who didn’t know and kept causing her pain on top of everything else. I went to the third floor where ICU was. When I got there Marcus was still there. He didn’t say a word to me.I went and opened Olivia’s room. Ethan sat on a wheelchair by her side with a bandage on his head. What the hell happened to him? he let go of her hand when I got inside. “What happened to you?” I asked. “I was in the same car she was in.” what the hell was he doing with her?“We were coming from dinner when the acci
NICKA week past and Olivia had not woken up. It was driving me crazy. I had tried everything I could think of to get her to wake up. I have asked the nanny to bring Samuel to the hospital to see and talk to her. hoping that she would wake up, but she didn’t. I even let Marcus go into her room and talk to her. mother and father tried as well but my beautiful wife remained sleeping.Ethan was discharged four days ago, but he too lived in the hospital same as me. I would work during the day then at night I would be at the hospital with my wife. Marcus and Ethan rotated the day shift when I was at work. They would be at the hospital keeping an eye on her. We were working on the theory that if that person who ran them off the road wanted her dead, then he was going to try again.For the sake of Olivia, we all put our differences aside and worked together to protect her. In the past week I had seen how much my wife was loved and cared for. The two men I thought had different motives towards