Chapter 3

Vanessa stood up with struggle, she had to save her child. She dragged herself as blood trickled down her legs to the ground.

“Hold in there baby, mummy is rushing to the hospital." The moment she got out of the gate, the pain became intense and she could not walk any more. She fell by the side of the road. She fumbled through her bag to get her phone. She quickly dialed her childhood friend’s number so that she could come over and help her. With too much struggle, she dialed the number which she had memorized and pressed the call button.

“Becky, please save my baby, am at...” Before she could finish her words, she lost consciousness as he phone fell on the ground. At the Reid Corporation.

Alexander Reid sat at his desk with his eyes fixed on the computer. His phone vibrated with an incoming call. He looked at the new number. He hated being disturbed by phone calls when he was busy with his work.

He was used to turning it off or put it on silent mode when he didn’t want to get disturbed, but he had forgotten to do so that day. He looked at the number again then decided to pick it up.

“Please save my baby, am at.” Those were the words he heard. He could not understand who the lady on the other end of the call was. He knew she dialed the wrong number, meaning the person the message was intended to reach did not receive the message.

“Save my baby please.” He recalled that the lady was speaking as if she was in too much pain. He stood up from his seat, turned on a tracker on his phone so that she could know where the lady was.

“ Queens road,” he whispered. He left the office, got into his car and sped away. *

The road was only around seven minutes’ drive from his office. The more he moved, the distance on his tracker reduced. He stopped his car on the side of the road then got out. His eyes caught sight of a young lady lying on the side of the road. Blood was all over the ground with her hands on the belly. He quickly carried her and placed her at the back seat of his car then sped to the hospital.

“Doctor, please save her and the baby,” he said as she was being rushed to the theatre.

Alexander Reid sat at the waiting bench outside the hospital. He could not understand who that girl was and what happened to her.

*Back at Lucas Hayes mansion, the couple went for almost four rounds of intimacy. When they didn’t hear Vanessa's voice, they thought that she had left.

“Baby, let me go and prepare something for us to eat,” Eliana Moore said as she got down from the bed. Lucas pulled her in for another kiss.

“Am so tired baby, we will continue after we have eaten,” she said as she escaped from his embrace. Lucas smiled as he looked at her hips which were swaying from side to side. She is the kind of woman he wanted. The one who could satisfy his sexual urges and desires. She went down the stairs while Lucas remained on bed.

“Woooo!!!!!!!woooooo!!!!!” Lucas heard Eliana screaming. He quickly jumped out of the bed and ran downstairs.

“What is wrong?” He asked as Eliana hugged him tightly while pointing at the pool of blood at the end of the staircase. “What is that? Whose blood is that?”

“I think its big sister, she might have hurt herself when she fell down the stairs.” Lucas held her in his arms,” don’t worry she will be okay.” They followed the way outside the house with blood droplets until at the gate.

“Where can she be?” Lucas asked. He tried calling her phone but it was not being picked up.

The lights in the operation theatre were turned off. The doctors had stayed in there for almost three hours. “How is she?” Alexander Reid rushed towards the doctor and asked.

“Sir, we are sorry, we could not be able to save your child,” the doctor said.

“Fuck!!!” Alexander cursed. He wasn’t able to help her save her child. “What about her? How is she?”

“Your wife is okay, but she had lost a lot of blood.”

“Can I see her please?” Alexander asked.

“You will see her once she is transferred to her ward.” A while later Vanessa was wheeled out of the operation theatre into her word. Alexander Reid followed behind and sat at the side of her bed. He asked for a piece of wet towel so that he could wipe her face which had marks of dried tears.

After making sure that she was okay, he took out his phone to send a message to his assistant to asking him to postpone all the important meetings he had to attend that day.

“My baby, How is my baby?” Alexander Reid heard a voice from the bed. She was awake. “Doctor, did you save my baby?” she asked in a low voice thinking that Alexander Reid was the doctor.

“Doctor am talking to you. Please tell me my baby is still inside here,” she whispered as she caressed her belly.

“Am sorry, but am not the doctor,” he answered. He didn’t know how he was supposed to break the bad news to her. She continued caressing her belly but her instincts told her that the baby was not inside there.

“Did I lose the baby? Just tell me the truth,” she begged in a low voice. She looked at him with a face full of expectations.