Rosa herself was now sobbing. She was going to console and hold Lanre but ended up needing someone to console her as well.
Junxie Li saw the sight before him and felt moved. He hadn’t met Aunt Lulu besides his first visit to Lanre where she discloses all about Lanre and Theresa’s lives.
His fiancee holds her in high esteem and something like this happened to her. Seeing Lanre like this, he knew something worse would have happened if Theresa was there.
“Lanre, please, calm down” Junxie Li consoled, he went closer and held him from the back.
But Lanre was shivering. Tears weren’t coming out of his eyes, but one can tell he is paying for the ‘no tears’ from within.
” Aunt, Aunt” was all Lanre could utter, he couldn’t be consoled. He has been a doctor and has witnessed many deaths and confirmed it to the patients relatives.
But he had never experienced someone so dear to him die. His parents, he didn’t get to know them before they died and yet the thoughts of losing his parents still hurts him.
But Aunt Lulu, she had watched him grow. She had sacrificed a lot for him all these years.
He had thought her to be his nanny but had never known how a nanny would still watch over a grown man like him.
Until he realized that she wasn’t doing it as a job, looking after him but fulfilling an obligation, a promise she made to her best friend, his mother.
How many more people can be this true to their friends after he or she is dead? She left her job, comfort, relationship and family all because of him.
And now, she died suddenly. She wasn’t sick nor has any symptoms of an illness. Just like that, he saw her dead.
“Lanre, you’ve always been a strong man. I want you to be strong now, if not for you alone, but for us and your sister Theresa..” Rosa was consoling him.
Junxie’s phone rang again but he couldn’t answer it. He doesn’t know what to say to Theresa that would not be a lie and he cannot tell her what happened to her aunt.
Lanre’s phone started ringing. Rosa reached into his pants and took out his phone. ” Is it Theresa?” Junxie Li asked and Rosa nodded.
” Don’t answer the phone. I can’t afford for her to be in a bad mood..” Junxie Li said and Rosa nodded.
Junxie Li had to pull Lanre off. He was still clinging to Aunt Lulu’s hand as he was pulled off when suddenly he felt a faint pulse.
“Let go of me” he pulled off from Junxie’s grip and rushed back to the body on the stretcher. He bent over it to perceive a heartbeat but didn’t feel anything.
He held that wrist again and closed his eyes, calming himself and he felt a weak pulse that can never have been felt.
He snapped his eyes open sharply and ordered “Turn on the torch on my phone?” He instructed without looking at Rosa.
Junxie Li and Rosa have a ray of hope passed through their eyes. Was Lanre seeing life in his aunt?
” The code please” Rosa asked and Lanre replied almost immediately “Rosalove”
Rosa was happy with his passcode and quickly unlocked the phone. She turned the torch on and drew closer to Lanre.
Lanre’s hand was soiled with blood and when he wanted to get the phone from her, Rosa dodged and said “I will show you”
” On her pupils’ ‘ Lanre said without arguing with her and opened her eyelids. Rosa on Lanre’s side and Junxie on the other side.
” Closer” Lanre said and looked intently at those eyes. Junxie and Rosa didn’t see anything but Lanre saw the weak blinks and he suddenly smiled.
” Oxygen, someone get me oxygen!!” He called out, with a raised voice. He’s aunt was still alive, but she is only showing signs of being alive.
If there’s quick intervention, she would be saved and her breathing would be restored.
The nurses and doctors who had been standing outside came in at once.
” I want oxygen, not your faces” Lanre declared and next started giving her a cardiovascular massage.
The nurses rushed out and soon returned with oxygen. Lanre went to work and soon Aunt Lulu was being wheeled out of that ward.
Lanre stepped aside. Now that she was on oxygen, he let the doctors do their work. He is not a doctor in Li’s hospital and hence he went aside.
He sighed audibly and stood akimbo. Junxie Li squinted. He was going to query the doctors for declaring a patient dead without proper examination.
” Lanre checked the chauffeur as well” Lanre dashed into the ward and took the fellows wrist and didn’t feel anything. He asked Rosa to hold the torch for him and he examined him like he did to his aunt.
” He’s dead” he confirmed that and shook his head.
“… the job is done” Alex Si declared and demanded for the balance of his job. Molly Mo immediately did the transfer of the money to him.
The money for the life of Theresa. She has to do it. She had treated her leniently just to tell her she’s not wanted in Mo’s business and assets.
But her ears were meant for decoration. The ears that refused to hear would be with the head when it’s cut off.
Theresa Mo has pushed her to this point. She didn’t want to hurt her after her mother suffered the same fate but she was too strong for her to manipulate.
It’s pathetic that she has to die like this. Her kids would be thrown out. She would not allow them a foot in the Mo’s family.
They are bastards and should be left to live on the street or better end up in the orphanage.
Zongtian Mo would be unhappy with her in the world beyond but she can’t help it. She has to secure a life for her daughter.
Molly called Tiana into her room. She placed her hand on her daughter’s shoulders and looked intently at her.
” I am going to tell you something unpleasant, but promise me you will hide this truth in your heart forever?” Molly Mo requested.