Bethany standing up from the chair as though it was hurting her buttocks, walked around the terrace in an attempt to understand what was happening.
” Could it be that my mom has no deadly disease and is not going to die, or is Duke just wanting to play around with is so that we could be at his mercy?”, she asked herself these questions holing to find answers but realizing that there was only one possible way to clarify all those doubts, she decided to take her mother to another hospital without the knowledge of anyone else just her and her mother.
“Did doctor Travis play us for a fool?”, she further asked but she had no answers.
” Thank you, sir”, taking the items he had bought and leaving the shop. Henry was very excited about meeting with Eva to tell her how much he loves and cherishes her but he had to call Bethany first to make that dream of his come true. Wanting to arrange everything before making any plans, he let out a smile on his face as he drove off to his house.
The day had been a hectic one but he was too in love to abandon his feelings and while he was making plans, Eva was feeling bad as she thought that he did not love and care for her.
“Not even a call or message from Bethany giving an account of Henry wanting to talk to me”, she spoke out with so much pain in her heart. Grabbing the pillow and holding it tightly as though it was a remedy to the emotional problems she was facing at that moment, Eva’s tears began flowing again but she dabbed them off immediately she heard the door opening and someone stepped into the room.
” Eva are you okay?”, Rachel’s voice filled the room and Eva wriggling her head around to see her, struggled to sit up suitably while asking her sister to coke sit beside her.
“I am very okay my little angel”, she said caressing her hair but Rachel was not convinced as her eyes could see that Eva was lying through her teeth.
” If you are okay, why then are you not outside with Bethany and Mr. Duke or better still, why are you here looked up inside this room crying?”, her questions bothered Eva but lifting her hand to her face, she touched her cheeks as she fakes a smile saying,
“I just have a headache and besides, the doctor asked me to get a lot of rest”.
Eva could not tell her sister anything being a minor and she had a lot of things wishing he heart which made her unhappy. Her right with Henry, and also the threats that Doctor Carol had made in Bethany which she could not find a way to start telling her.
All these and more crowded her head as she had to recover fast to find a job to get a place for both her sisters and herself and going to work for Henry was no. Just as she was thinking of the list of things she had to do, her thoughts narrowed to the fact that someone had been the reason why she had caused a fire at her old lodgings.
The fear of having him come back or hurt her sisters made Eva enter into a state of shock as she shook on the bed while attempting to keep her calm in order not to freak her sister out.
Walking back outside into the terrace, Mrs. Marvin could be caught a glimpse of holding some files in her hands, and with a sad face, she brought them to Dule handing them over. Regaining her seat, she told Duke of the reports that are stated in there but with a curious face, he asked,
” Are all these reports from the same person?”.
“Yes they are and Doctor Travis was the one who diagnosed her and made those reports”, Bethany spoke out thinking of what she might do to that pig if she had him standing in front of her.
” Why will he do this to me?”, Bethany’s mom cried out but her questions could not be answered. With her head lowered as tears dripped down her eyes, she could not say for sure why he had to do that but she was bent on funding the realm behind it.
“Stop crying momma, we are going to get to the bottom of it”, Duke let out but giving an account of all that had happened, he told Mrs. Marvin not to worry as he was going to trash the matter personally if it turned out to be true what his doctor was saying.
” If you are telling me that I am not sick and that all these reports right here are false, how can you explain to me then all the symptoms I have been having?”, she raised a question, and Bethany waited to understand what Duke had to say, but telling Mrs. Marvin not be in that state as it was not her fault, he further explained,
“Sometimes people turn to manifest what they believe it. You already had in your mind that you were suffering from a delay predicament and not having the means of funding for the surgery, made you think about the worst things”.
Adding to that, he said that it was the biggest reason that killed persons as they get swallowed up in their situations which in reality starters manifesting on them. Bethany was begging to get some sense in what he was saying and that was exactly what happened to her one time when she knew that her asthmatic status was getting worst.
All she did was to think about it and how she could probably die someday but when she had received counseling and decided to live happily not giving a damn about the restructuring as to what she had to eat or not, or what she has to wear and the places she had to go to, her health situation had taken a new leave.
Taking in a deep breath, Mrs. Marvin did not know what to say anymore, and not wanting to get her hopes high, she told Duke to forget about everything as she had accepted fate.
“No do say that mom as you still have a long way to go with us, and I am sorry for not being as intelligent like everyone says because if I had been smart enough to see through Doctor Travis and his fake words, I should have taken you to different hospitals to have yourself checked out”
“But it wasn’t your fault, no knew that this was going to be like this and it might have been a mistake from him or the machines. His patient is my friend so she trusted him to have sent us there all these years moreover she has been helpful to us as well with all the advice and pleadings for him to help carry out the surgery though he could not because he was not working for his hospital”.
Bethany picking offense to her words told her mom not to be naive and to think about what was going on. She had never dared to tell her mother about Travis’s advances to her and kept her mouth shut, was because he was considered as the only person to carry out the surgery on her mom as they could not afford to go to a bigger hospital for lack of funds and distance.
Duke not being able to understand the last things that she had said, interrupted their conversation as he asked in surprise,
” Wait a second I did not understand something here, do you mean to tell me that he had been taking harassing you to take advantage of you all these whiles and you have not told your mom about me”.
Bethany’s eyes got opened in shock as she did not want her mom to know about it but he planned to do so as he had noticed that Mrs. Marvin was completely ignorant about the things that had been happening to her daughter.
Heaving a heavy sigh, Carl thought about Bethany, as the lady he was with caressed his body making sure that he was excited for the game that was going to happen soon but not being in the mood, he pushed her on his mattress, and with a furious tone, he said,
“Elsa, I think you need to leave now”.
Having a string of confusion on her face, like the smile that she had on slowly vanished giving way to the question that was going to be asked, she inquired what the problem was but Carl seemed not to be in the mood for her games.
” Did I do anything wrong, babe?”.
“No you did not and I want to be alone”.
Picking up her clothes and stretched his right hand towards her as he pulled her out of his bed. Struggling with Carl asking him to get a ton of her hand, she served her dresses from him, and with a spiteful look and an angry tone she spoke out,
” I hope that you do not regret this Carl because you will come crawling back to me begging as you always do after behaving like a coward”.
Not being in the mood to battle words with her, he just stood there as he watched her leave his room and get on behind her to shut his door. The sweetness on his face showed how uncomfortable he was as his thoughts made their way to Bethany.
“What does she when want, me to do or what does she see on that Duke of a guy that I do not have?”.
His mind was saturated with a lot of questions but Carl being determined to have Bethany, thought of a plan to get her to come to his home.
” What in Gods name did you just say Duke?”, Mrs. Marvin blasted and Bethany catching a glimpse of the anger in her eyes, made an effort to calm her mother down but all she asked was for her daughter to explain to her whether what Duke was saying was the truth or not.
Fiddling with her fingers out of uncertainty as she could not say exactly how her mother was going to react to what she was about to say, Bethany let out a high sigh, closed her eyes, and with a silent voice, she said,
“It is true mother, Doctor Travis has been harassing me all these years so that, I could let him have his way with me for your surgery to be carried out on you”.
Paying attention to her daughter speak out, her stability was trembling and she could feel her legs throbbing on the ground. Duke realizing the situation, rose tongs feet and grabbed her by the arm, he led her seat down on the bench that was just behind.
” Do you need some water mother?”, Bethany asked in fear kneeling beside her but her mother let out some gashes fallout of her eyes, she asked her daughter why she had to carry on her shoulder all the burden alone.
“I just wanted to save you, mom, I was ready to do anything for you and I am still willing to”.
” You do not have to sacrifice your life for me Dear”, her mother muttered but she was going stubborn to have reasoned that way and with a heavy heart, she apologized to her mom for hiding something as serious as that.
Taking her daughter into her arms, Mrs. Marvin promised that Doctor Travis was not going to get away with what he had done as medical practitioners like him deserve to rot in the vault.
Feeling happy that her mother did not get angry with her, she lifted her gaze and moved her lips as she thanked Duke for finally letting out what she could not say, tears ran down her eyes.