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Third person POV
Well, it had now been a week since she was diagnosed of having temporal lobe tumor and consequently memory loss. She hadn’t gotten much better, rather her case had deteriorated so much that she had already forgotten the names of my kids. Hell, she didn’t even know she had kids anymore!
” Alright, so who’s this?”, Doctor Luke asked Isabella, showing her a picture of Aiden.
” Well to be honest, I’ve got no idea”, she replied.
” Not even a hunch, a clue, any sort of familiarity?”, the doctor asked.
” Well, I mean, the kid’s cute and uhmmm, that’s all I got”, she replied.
” So you’re sure you don’t know this kid?”, the doctor asked.
” Yeah, positive. He looks like one ’em kids from the TV shows”, she said with a chuckle.
After about twenty minutes of testing, doctor Luke came out from Isabella’s room. He looked quite disappointed, which prompted Justin to ask how it went.
” So doc, any progress?”, Justin asked.
” Unfortunately, her memory is deteriorating fast. She has forgotten a lot of stuff that are an integral part of her life, like her children, her job and even her name”, the doctor said.
” I wonder if she remembers me”, Justin said to her, ” I sure do hope she does. In the meantime, it’s seems to me like we’re gonna have to change the date for the operation a bit. Perhaps, we should have it done earlier than scheduled”, he suggested.
” She still needs a bit more time”, doctor Luke said, ” and besides an extra week isn’t that long. Her condition isn’t critical, so I would advise that we wait a while”, he advised.
” But the more we wait, the more she loses her memory and I simply can’t have that”, Justin said.
” We’ll have to be careful sir. A surgery done at the wrong time is sure to reduce the chances of success, and her memory loss is most likely undoable, as I presume that her memories will return a few weeks after the surgery. So please let her be for now”, the doctor said to him.
” Alright fine. Let’s wait the extra week”, Justin said.
Meanwhile, back at the hospital, Tristan has filled his office with paintings and pictures of Isabella. He walks around his office, touching of the frames and personally cleaning them up.
” That bastard doesn’t deserve her one bit”, he says to himself, ” a woman that gorgeous should be on my bed and she will be soon enough, you can believe that”, he kept saying, then he heard a knock on his office door.
” Come in”, he said.
On entrance, it turns out that it was doctor luke. It turns out he reports whatever happens at Justin’s residence to Tristan.
” Good afternoon sir”, he greeted.
” Good afternoon. Now, away with the pleasantries. How is my baby girl?”, Tristan asked him.
” She’s doing very well. Her memory is deteriorating, she has forgotten all her kids and so is literally ignorant of the fact that she has any kids at all”, doctor Luke said to him.
” That’s brilliant, really brilliant. You’re a real genius, you know that?”, Tristan said, ” Injecting her with amnesia-inducing drugs and then lying about her having temporal lobe tumor was pure genius I tell you, pure genius!”, Tristan commented as he laughed fiendishly gave him a pat on the shoulder. ” Just keep up this loyalty, and this company will be yours”, he said.
” Thank you, my lord”, said doctor Luke, ” though it was more of your idea than mine, so I think you deserve more credit”, doctor Luke said.
” Geez, somebody’s modest. A virtue I must say in a man full of vices, is like a delicious meal served in the sewers. But nevertheless, I propose a toast to my new wife Isabella”, Tristan said as he filled the two wine goblets on his table with fine red wine, and gave one to Luke.
” To your new wife sir and a raise for me”, doctor Luke said and lifted up his glass.
” Indeed, to my new wife and a promotion for thee”, Tristan said as he clinked his glass with that of doctor Luke.
” Anyway sir, I’ve made arrangements for all the nurses to leave Justin’s residence tomorrow”, doctor Luke said to Tristan.
” And what exactly is the intention behind that action?”, Tristan asked.
” Well, I want to let Mr. Justin know that I will be taking his wife out tomorrow for some medical check-up requiring hospital facility, though the real intention is to let her “wander off”, alone and get “lost” sir”, Luke said.
” Hmmmm, noted. Proceed as planned”, Tristan said to him.
” Yes my lord”, doctor Luke said taking a bow.
The next day, doctor Luke showed up quite early at Mr Justin’s residence. The kids had gone off to school, and the nurses took care of Isabella, who by this time had forgotten even Justin himself. This had affected Justin so bad that he refused to leave for work until the doctor arrived.
” Good morning, Dr. Luke”, Justin greeted with a handshake, ” thank God you’re here early”.
” Yes I told you we would be taking her for some tests today, right?”, Dr Luke asked.
” Indeed. I would have loved to accompany you guys, but I have an important business meeting. Please take good care of her. I’ll visit her in the evening”, Justin said as he picked up his jacket and put it on.
” Nothing to fear sir, she’s in good hands”, Dr Luke said to him. So Justin left the house and after a few minutes, the nurses moved her to one of the black vans that had escorted Dr. Luke here.
” Alright, listen up nurses. Mr. Kelly wants her in his residence in the most sublime way possible. There are three vans here. One of ’em is white with the hospital logo on it. I’m going to use that to carry the patient and then I’ll make a pit stop at a gas station. At this point, I’ll tell the patient to get down from the vehicle and get something at a considerable distance from the vehicle and that’s when one black can pulls over beside her and immediately, one of you get down from the van and “kidnap” her. Then you drive off immediately and the other black van follows behind. Once the van with the patient gets to this bridge ( he said pointing at a map), you guys pause, while the other van just drives past the bridge. Most likely, it’ll make it look like there was only on black van, which is what the cops will end up investigating. In the meantime, the other black van with the patient will wait under the bridge for Mr. Tristan’s fleet to come and pick you up and then you can abandon the van open there for anyone to take. Whoever takes the van will also distract the cops and we’re out. Everyone get the plan?”, he asked.
” Yes sir!”, all of them replied in unison.
” Then let’s move out”, Dr. Luke said.
And the mission commenced. Isabella sat in the van, lost in thoughts as she tried to remember who she was.
Isabella’s POV
” What the hell is going on? who is this guy driving?”, I thought to myself, ” who am I? why the hell am I here?”, my mind railed streams of thoughts at me. It seemed like I had no memories of anything. My head was spinning. I took a look at the guy driving. He looked like a doctor, so I presumed that he would be a decent individual.
” Excuse me”, I said to him.
” Yeah, what is it?”, he responded. He wasn’t very nice neither would I refer to him as mean too.
” Who are you?”, I asked, ” Don’t be angry. I’ve got no memories of anything”, I said.
” Oh don’t worry”, he said with a smile, ” I’m your doctor. You can call me Dr. Luke”, he said.
” Oh, it’s nice to see you doctor Luke. I would have told you my name, but I don’t really remember it”, I said to him.
” It’s no biggie. Your name is Isabella and I’m taking you to see your husband”, he said to me.
” My husband? I have a husband? what’s his name?”, I asked.
” Oh , it’s Mr. Kelly , Tristan Kelly to be precise”, the doctor said with a warm smile. I felt really excited to get to know who I truly was. Plus I like the name of my husband.
” I wonder what he looks like”, I thought, as we drove off into the scenery.