Chapter 9
It was exactly ten minutes after I had Samir and his mistress walked out of my premises when I got the first call.
"Hello?" I just spoke straight into the call without checking who it was that called.
"Rahne," Samir's voice came through shockingly.
I had to pull the phone off my ear to check out the contact. The caller was Samir indeed, why was he calling?
"Hello? Rahne, are you there?" His voice continuously boomed through the speaker.
"What do you want?" I decided to answer him, even though a large part of me would love to hang up on him right now.
"I'm calling because I've decided that I will not paying you any divorce settlement. You're nothing Rahne, I'm sure it was my money you used to pull that little trick you pulled tonight at the hospital. Your pathetic attempt to get back at me and Rose. There will be consequences, and one of it is you kissing your settlement goodbye. Also, come get your stuffs before I burn them all, I need to make room for my guest."
Fury rushed through my system in bid to consume my patience, but I let out a deep long exhale to keep myself collected enough to deal with this hag of a man.
"I've got two words for you Samir, and that is 'Fuck. Off'!" I proceeded to end the call as well as blocked his number.
The door to the room opened as my brothers ushered themselves in. Gale came in first, followed by Sean and Kingston.
The moment Kingston set his eyes on me, he rushed over and wrapped me up in a cozy hug. "Mother Nature, I've missed you so much!"
I rolled my eyes at him once he pulled away. "We're all grown, think you can stop with the nickname now?"
He's been calling me Mother Nature for as long as I can recall, all because I was named after The Rain.
"Till the day I die." He curved a playful smirk. "Now what's up? Gale said someone is trying to kill our old man?" He glanced at Dad who has been subjected to drips, oxygen mask and many other treatment equipments.
"Yikes he doesn't look so good, yeah what happened?" Sean said while assessing the man in bed.
"And I thought you preferred being a wife to caring about your family? What are you doing back here?" Sean gave a cold look.
Apart from dad, he was the other person who fought so hard against my decision to marry Samir Kane. He deemed the decision foolish and stupid, and was right at the end of the day.
"Sean!" Gale called in a warning tone.
"Look guys I'm sorry about the past, I can't change it. I was young, foolish, and stupidly in love then. I didn't listen to anyone and just thought fairytale was a part of the world. But we can deal with my redemption later. Right now we need to focus on dad, the doctor found traces of some poison in his system. Apparently dad has been consuming little bits by bits of this poison for awhile now, which has come to affect his lungs and other respiratory system. There's no cure for the poison, but the doctor said he could try to fix or reverse the damage done by the poison already," I narrated the situation to them.
All three wielded the same expression, all shocked and in disbelief.
"I thought he had a fever and wanted to retire," Kingston was the first to say something, still in awe.
"Who was poisoning him? Who wanted to kill him?" Sean asked, his weary gaze pinned on dad.
Gale was the only one who remained mute, probably shut by his shock.
"I don't know but it's definitely somebody close to him, and what do you guys know about that new chick of his? Who is she? Where did they meet? Are they married or just dating?" She was my prime suspect, I strongly believe she's connected with the poison in my father's system.
I need to know all I can about her.
"Celia?" Sean called her name. "We don't really know much about her except for dad himself. All we know is that she claims to love our old man even though it's crystal clear she's only there for his woman, they haven't even really dated that long yet they got married. It's like she has dad wrapped around her fingers because I tried to talk dad out of the marriage and he wouldn't bulge. She's so weird for me."
"Yeah she's very weird. She visited me one night dressed like a hooker, I don't know why or what she wanted but I'm pretty sure it was to make sexual advances. Had Amy not been around, she would've gone through with it." Kingston said.
I remember Amy. Amy was Kingston's girlfriend back then, nice to know that they're still together.
"Wait are you guys saying Celia could be the one behind this? Because I'm going to murder that bitch!" Gale finally won against his silence, anger coating his voice.
"Remember she was the one who told you guys dad wants to retire, also about dad's condition. This-"
The door opened, cutting into our conversation as we all whirled our gazes out at the entrance to see the subject of our topic walked into the room.
"I'm a part of this family, and I should be involved in any conversation about my husband. What are you guys talking about? And why wasn't I called in or invited?" She queried as she walked further into the room, past Kingston and Sean so she could get close to dad.
"My sweet husband, I thought it was a fever? What is going on with you?" She managed her tone to sound depressed.
I scoffed out loud. Her false concern irritating the hell out of me.
"Bitch are you the one who poisoned my father?!" Gale all of a sudden grabbed Celia as he dragged her away from dad so he could slam her back against the wall.
"Tell me or I'll kill you right here and right now!" He warned aggressively the quickly wrapped his hand around her neck before she could see clearly the switch in moment.
"Gale calm down!"
"No!" Gale yelled back out at me. "If she's the suspect, I might as well finish her right now!"