STARING at her in the face as the Jeremy CEO they were talking about was no other but the beautiful man, her beautiful man, yeah, the man she had bumped into at the entrance of the bistro, few nights ago.
Jeez! So he was the CEO? The billionaire CEO a lot of people have been talking about? Huh?
To think that since that night, she has never done one thing without this beautiful face of his appearing to her, in her mind, in her dreams, in her imaginations. He always appeared.
So, he is the one? Jeez, how come she had met a CEO that night without knowing, like, yeah he wasn’t with any guards and he walked freely like he was an ordinary human, wasn’t even scared of random hits or kidnappers.
Wow! It just was unbelievable as she looked on, gazing at the photo. Then her eyes moved to the hot classy lady beside him, she was smiling and looking at him in this particular picture, although he was looking away. Could this be…
Hold on, wasn’t this lady just called his fiancee by the growling guy? And Amelia by the other lady? And she could still vividly remember his words at the entrance of that bistro;
“Please if you know Amelia, just tell her I don’t love her okay? Tell her I can’t force love”, that was his exact words to her, and that had left her wondering who Amelia was.
Jeez, so it was his fiancee. She almost laughed out, was this old tradition of matchmaking by parents still in vogue? In this century?
She looked intently at the photo again. Wow, just seeing his face again, those thoughts came flooding back in full force, but seeing this Amelia girl beside him and knowing fully well she was his fiancee, a different emotion took over her.
Her once cold body instantly turned hot, and before one could say ‘Jack Robinson’, beads of perspiration filled her forehead, and she began sweating.
Greg noticed it.
“Hey boss, are you okay?”, he asked and Kylo turned to look at her. He instantly became shocked at what he saw.
“Stress, fatigue”, he said.
“Boss, I think you need rest, just go in and rest please”, Greg said.
Jasira managed to get up, and her head and eyes spinned, and she almost fell, it was Kylo who held her.
“Do you want us to take you to your room?”, he asked.
She shook her head.
“No, no, do not bother okay? I can walk”, she faked a smile to them.
They glanced at themselves and shrugged, the boss has given orders.
“Alright boss, good night”, Kylo said.
“Stay safe boss”, Greg said.
She nodded her head in response and staggered-walked into the mansion.
“Is Boss J okay?”, a few others asked.
“Yeah, just a bout of illness I guess”, Greg replied them and they continued their chattering.
Jasira managed to get to her room and entered, locking the door behind her. She dashed into the bathroom immediately and had bath with cold water.
Afterwards, she came out and put on her pyjamas, then slid under the duvet.
The heat that had engulfed her now turned to cold, after she took her bath. She began shivering, and then as soon as her head hit the pillow, she fell into sleep.
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? Next Morning ?
The fever woke her up the next morning and against her wish, she woke up sick and worse. Nothing had happened the previous night instead, the shivering had worsened into sickness.
She couldn’t even get up from the bed but just laid under her duvet still shivering, her teeth gritting against each other, and her eyes dizzy.
Her door opened and someone came in, she couldn’t see the intruder because she was backing the door, but she knew someone entered, and it was no mistaking, it was Lord Lucario, he alone knew the password to her door.
Lord Lucario had already been informed early that morning by her right hand men of the yester night’s event, and that they weren’t sure she was feeling okay.
Trust Lord Lucario, his precious daughter? He immediately went over to see her especially when he got the info that she was still in bed.
He entered her room and locked the door, then walked up to her on the bed. Jeez! She was shivering, even the duvet shivered as well.
He took up his right hand to her forehead to feel her temperature, and damn! It was too hot.
“You need to go to the hospital immediately, ASAP”, he said.
She said nothing to him.
“Get ready daughter, your ride would be ready in few seconds”, he said and left the room.
Reluctantly, Jasira climbed out of the bed and walked into the bathroom, had a quick bath and came out.
Then she walked to her closet and selected out a casual wear; a baggy polo and baggy trousers, and she put them on.
Then took out a white sneaker and put them on as well, remove the pins from her hair and let it flow down to her waistline.
All set and prepared, she walked out of the room and straight to the parking lot.
She got to her car to see it already surrounded by Greg and Kylo as they waited standby for her, she snorted.
“Don’t you bother about me, I will be fine”, she said to them and grabbed the car key from Kylo, who got startled.
“But…”, he wanted to speak but Jasira hushed him.
“I said I will be fine, please”, she said and jumped into the car, then sped off. The two guys watched her leave in shock. Someone who isn’t fine, said she would be fine?
They still stood there watching when a deep voice growled from behind them.
“Don’t you stand there and look, follow her”, the voice growled and they turned to look at the owner, it was Lord Lucario.
They froze, he just stood with two men beside him few steps away from them.
Without ado, they jumped into a Corolla and followed.
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Carrie woke up the next morning and was shocked to see her grandmother shivering in her duvet on the bed, she panicked. What could be the problem?
The previous day, there was nothing of sort. Old Maria was bustling and happy as at yesterday, what could be wrong today? This morning that she was supposed to be heading for work?
“Grandma? Are you okay”, she asked her, bending over her bed.
There was no reply from Old Maria instead, her condition seemed to be getting worse.
“Oh my God! What am I going to do now?”, she rhetorically asked as she rushed into her room to get her phone, opened her contact list and began scrolling up and down, not knowing who to place a call to, nobody came to her mind at that minute.
Seconds later, she rang Jeremy, he didn’t pick up. Once, twice, he still didn’t pick.
Then she decided to take her to the hospital immediately and resolved to call him again once she gets to the hospital.
She helped Old Maria to the car and then drove away, straight to the nearest hospital.