“And then she ruined everything!” Susan’s crazed eyes shone at Reyona in the dark.She could see the way Allysyn jolted even though she couldn't see the girl’s face.“Please, make this stop” Reyona prayed in desperation as she continued trying to move her hands.At one point, she thought she felt the tie on the right hand slacken but soon realised it was just her imagination.The hands were tied separately and so tightly that she couldn't even move them an inch from the spot they were. At this point, her tears were mingling with her snot as she kept her eyes pinned on the spot where the girl stood rigidly while her crazy mother kept prattling on about how Reyona took everything from her and ruined her life.“You were nothing but a bet, you know. I could see your stupid virginal look in that gym that day and I told Tommy to ask you out. It was all a lie! I was behind every step of it the entire time.”Reyona was no longer surprised by anything again at that point.She just wanted to
“Hey, you! Stop!” Susan ran faster!They were not going to shoot!Cops don't just shoot at people randomly. If she could just get to the end of that alley with Rad, she would be safe!He would have activated their plan B already.If she could get to the alley at the same time as he did, she would be safe.Unless he chose to fuck her up and bail, those cops behind her have no chance.Though she was getting breathless and wished she could quickly get a puff to keep up her energy, she ran with everything in her.She had a third of thirty million waiting for her anyway.She wouldn't need to work anymore for the rest of her life.Fuck her kids and Tommy.The little bitch had chosen the life wrecker over her anyway.Whatever happened was not her fault!She just needed to catch up with Rad and her life was set forever.He was right…She frowned as she saw him trip and fall as he rounded the corner.What the…She knew something was wrong when he was not getting up immediately.She got to th
“Go, we will stay” Celia said when she saw the torn look on Maxwell's face.He looked back at the “In operation” sign still showing over the door, then back to Reyona's gurney and nodded, “Thank you” before he hurried after her bed.Celia moved closer to her husband, and they held each other as they waited.“I thought they don't do operations in the emergency room,” she said in contemplation.“They could, in peculiar cases,” Andrew said in a sombre tone. Urgent, peculiar cases.”“Oh, God. Please let her be okay” she prayed as she held him tighter.After a while, she said, “They should know.”“Her family?”Celia nodded and said, “They would hate themselves if they couldn't be here for her at this moment.”“Maxwell felt….”“It was good that we didn't tell them when she was still in danger, but not anymore. They need to know now.”“Okay, I guess you are right,” Andrew said as Celia put on her phone.“I can't believe they are having twins. Can you believe that?” Celia asked with a pensive
Maxwell was contemplating whether he just saw her finger move or he was hallucinating when Andrew came in.He looked at Reyona's still body and said “Still nothing?”“I think I saw her finger move,” Maxwell said woodenly. Then he shook his head while still staring at the hand. “No, I think I was just…it didn't move.”Andrew nodded and said, “Can you step out for a bit?”“For what?”“It's Allysyn.”Maxwell’s head jerked upwards at that. “What?” How could he have forgotten that she was still in surgery?It's been over two hours.Maxwell saw the doctor close to the door, and he was already walking towards the doctor even as Andrew jerked his thumb towards the doctor.“What is going on? What happened? How is she?” He asked anxiously as he went out.“She is fine. She is fine. I need you to know that she is fine.” the man said automatically.Yet the way he said it made Maxwell ask, “But?”“She sustained an injury. A nasty one from a blunt hit to her Coccyx, that is her tailbone. We had to q
He was going to get better.He would show them.Every single one of them would see.What was so difficult about being sober?He would be sober, and that damned Rohan would take him seriously.Everyone would treat him as he deserved to be treated.He deserved to be allowed to help find his daughter.She is his daughter, after all, not theirs!He would stay sober and get a job! Then he could get his children back and take them home!“Sober, yes,” he thought as he lifted the glass of beer to his mouth.Right after having this last drink, he would do exactly as he had said.They should have found her by now, right?Thomas's gaze went to the small blinking TV atop the head of the bartender.The small tavern was the type where he could get a cheap, watered-down beer.Just the type he could afford with the last dregs of his latest sales - his mother's china plates.The bartender had collected money upfront before pushing the sloshing beer his way.“Snobs everywhere. Even a stinky bartender d
“Oh,” the doctor smiled in relief as he said, “I wouldn’t know until we checked him, but it is not a must for siblings to have the same blood type. A lot of things constitute blood types, and they vary between siblings.” he sighed before he continued “What about we get the father here just so we can test him?” he turned towards Reyona apologetically as he said “Not to dispute what you are saying, ma’am, but we need this blood urgently. We have also been reaching out to international agencies and NGOs who have actively engaged in preserving the rare blood type over time, but we have not gotten any affirmative response yet. Any help we can get right now is fine. Any means at all. Let’s start by checking the father, please. Or anyone that you know who could be a possible match.”The doctor left in a hurry as he got a call from the nurses.Celia came in just as Maxwell was calling Andrea to see if she could help them get the blood from any of her connections.Andrea exclaimed when she hea
“He is. I can’t reach him, and his daughter needs his blood to survive. Please, don’t hesitate to add some compensation for whoever can find him as soon as possible and haul his ass down here too. I don’t care how much.”“Interesting,” Officer Guy said. “Does his daughter really need his blood or is that a metaphor of some sort?”“It is a matter of life and death, officer,” Maxwell answered earnestly.“Do you have a picture?”“Not at the moment, but I can get it,” Maxwell said.Officer Guy quickly passed the pen and note to Maxwell and told him to write down everything he could remember about the man, including the last time and place he had seen him.He made a call to the station and called for an urgent announcement.“I am going to need that picture,” he said as he disconnected the call.Then, as if he had just remembered, he dipped his head into his jacket and took out Reyona’s phone. “Here we found this on the dead guy. We thought it was his, so our tech guys unlocked it and went
Everything had gone downhill from that sick bet.Everything had been set and shaped from that fateful day.Right down to his lumbering walk on the sidewalk where he sweated heavily and struggled for a mile, which would have been nothing to him when his body was still in top shape.“Almost there,” he thought to himself as he saw the last sign of the hospital.“What are you looking at?” he thought as he saw two men looking at him from where they sat on the stairs of a closed shop.He saw them whisper to each other and pointed to their phone.“It must be fun to be that carefree,” he thought in disgust as he remembered a time he had been like that.He had had everything working for him.Flourishing businesses in his chosen field, a beautiful wife, and a home he was always welcome to. Life was going well for him.And now he had nothing.No, not nothing. He had two children. He just needed to shape up enough to stand for himself, and they would come to him.Yes, he would start by being a go