THE MURDERED FAMILY

The doctor started sweating from the whispering he was hearing from behind, and Mayor Lycan's face became gloomy.

He shot the entourage behind him a glare, they shuddered, and Mayor Lycan turned to Doctor Sun.

“I don't know you don't discipline your nurses, Doctor Sun, I am highly disappointed,” he said coldly.

The nurse started to shiver when they heard the angry tone of Mayor Lycan's voice, they were all scared to their wits.

“Doctor Sun, are you going to fix this, I can't allow my people to be treated with such ill-mannered nurses” he chided.

“I will do so, Mayor Lycan, you all should apologize to Mayor Lycan quickly” Doctor Sun ordered.

“We are sorry Mayor Lycan, we have reflected on ourselves and such will never happen again” they all pleaded.

Mayor Lycan “you are kind, Doctor Sun, but I wasn't the one that deserve the apology, you all should go and meet the lady and apologize, come with me Doctor Sun”

He said and left with Doctor Sun, before the Doctor departed the hospital doorways, he shot his rude nurses a glare.

Mora sat in a corner feeling dejected, she read the test result once again and sighed heavily.

“I have to talk to Philip about this, I don't want him to find out from someone else” she smacked her forehead, she was about to get up from the reception hall seat.

When eight nurses, including senior nurses of the hospital, approached her, behind them is a man in a suit.

“We are sorry” they apologized in unison, Mora smiled nervously, wondering what was happening.

“I- I-” she stuttered, her lips quivered, she doesn't even know why they are apologizing.

The nurses gave her a hostile look when she wasn't looking and smiled when she is looking at them, one of them approached her, and treated her tenderly.

“We are sorry, we said many bad things about you, that we are not meant to say, can you please accept our sincere apology?” she asked.

Mora stiffened, her eyes widened in shock wondering why so many nurses will apologize even if they are rude to her, she smiled nervously.

“Maybe you have mistaken me for someone else, I -m” she blushed in embarrassment, “I am a lowly peasant” she mumbled.

Of course! You don't deserve our apology, one of the nurses scolded her in her head.

“We are sorry, and it is because we offended you” they reinstated.

Mora forgave them and waved her hand smiling at them, she looked innocent and young, and a lot of life on her pretty face with a jovial mind.

Mayor Lycan stepped out of the elevator accompanied by Doctor Sun, he saw her leaving the hospital.

He felt unusual “are you okay, sir?” one of his entourage inquired, he nodded, and they entered their convoy and left the hospital.

At the cocoanut plantation in the village, beachside, many peasants were carrying placards protesting against their salary.

“Madam Vanessa, we need an increase!”

“Farmers are not slaves”

“peasants are also humans”

The crowd chanted

A car convoy drove into the cocoanut plantation and the car stopped, “Mama Sarah, look, she is here, please, talk to her, we are afraid of her” someone in the crowd whispered to Mama Sarah.

While in the car, Madam Vanessa was looking at the peasants carrying placards with irritation, the plantation manager, a bald short man.

With his big bouncing stomach jogged to meet the car parked, the door opened, and Madam Vanessa alighted from the car.

“Manager Xao, what is happening here, I wasn't expecting farmers to be protesting, what did those peasants take themselves to be” Madam Vanessa snorted.

Manager Xao's body shivered “Ma, the-” his palm was sweaty, “nonsense! They will hear from me” she humphed and strode towards the crowd.

Mama Sarah stepped forward to meet her, the two women shot a glaring stare at each other.

“Sarah, you won't stop being mischievous even at old age, no matter how much I give to you as salary, you can never outlive poverty,”

“why don't you put out the pretence and kowtow to me, I might help you out of poverty, everyone knows I am rich unlike you” Madam Vanessa taunted, fanning herself with her palm.

“Vanessa watch your mouth, I won't tolerate you running it like a tap, and I didn't request for a handout, but a better worker's welfare, why are you so bitter hearted, huh?” Madam Sarah retorted.

“I feel it would be better not to see arguing with a lowly peasant, Manager Xao, just increase it for them, it won't improve their life” she instructed and turned away.

Leaving with her bodyguards, the peasants gathered around Madam Sarah, they know the two of them to have a history, but they couldn't trace it.

But, they are glad that someone in district Z could stand up against their almighty bully.

“Thank you, Mama Sarah, if you are not here, we all will be living in penury” one of the farmers lamented.

“Look at her face” a farmer demonstrated, Mama Sarah smiled, they flattered her. “Is nothing, your benefit is also my benefit, you don't have to praise me,” she said.

The farmers were happy with the news of the salary increment.

Mora arrived at the door of Philip's home, she pushed the iron gate, and walked into the courtyard, she arrived at the entrance door and knocked.

The door creaked, and opened, revealing the horror inside, she smells blood wafting into her nostrils, giving a nostalgic feeling, and she felt a bit faint.

Tears gathered in her eyes, she ran inside the room and saw the three family members all lying dead on the floor.

She brought out her phone from her purse with fidgeting hands, she attempted to dial Philip's number with shaking hands.

But the call didn't connect, she called an ambulance, and it arrived some minutes later, taking the corpses to the morgue.

Mora stood before a morgue attendant “Ma, sorry for your loss” he endeavoured to comfort her, and she nodded.

“You have to report this matter to the police, what a cruel way to end a family” the morgue attendant shook his head in pity.