CHAPTER TWELVE - “PEDRO HATES ME”
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“Master, you really showed the detective, who is boss. Did you see how his face lightened up when you gave him the money? Pretty sure you made his week”
Roseline said to Pedro, as they made their way out of the police station.
“You mean, his month? They want me to give a statement, with all the evidences which we have provided them with, they think they can get me to come write a statement? I do not have the will or strength to banter words with anybody, rather I will let the money do the talking for me. Trust me it will be louder than a thousand voices all put together”.
He said to Roseline.
“Hmmmm..I wonder why this one is calling my phone”.
Pedro phone was ringing and he discovered it was Lisa, calling, after he took it out of his pocket.
“Who is this?”
He asked her, pretending not to know who it was, that was calling, just to spite her.
“I know you know it is I, but that is not important. Pedro, your problem is with me and not my sister. Whatever happened, I am sorry okay? I/am/sorry. Did I mess up? Yes, yes I did. Did I hurt you? Guilty! I have no excuses to make, for my actions and I take full responsibility for it, but please, I beg of you, please, keep this between me and you. You want to punish someone? I am right here, you can punish me. Just leave my family out of this mess”.
Lisa profusely cried over the phone, as she spoke to Pedro. She thought she could appeal to his conscience, but unfortunately, this was not the Pedro she once knew. No, it was not. She had not the slightest of ideas that, this Pedro was now the devil’s spawn, himself.
“Lisa, I am busy. Can we have this conversation some other time?”
He said to her.
“Okay. Fine. When can we have this conversation?”
She asked him.
“I don’t know. Like I said, some other time”.
He answered.
“Pedro! Some other time isn’t a time. As I talk to you now, that video you released of my sister, as of thirty-five minutes ago has surpassed nine thousand views, heading straight to a million views, I am certain. The more you leave it out there, the more it circulates, causing more ruins to I and my family’s reputation”.
She continued. While she was in her feelings, saying all these things to Pedro, she didn’t realize he had ended the call, as she was just only speaking to herself.
“Do you understand what I am saying or you now hate me this much? Hello? Hello, Pedro?”
Realizing he had dropped the phone on her. She cried even more. Pedro did not care if the sky itself, was going to fall. The only care in world he had, was about bringing Lisa and her family, much more pain, than he already did.
Lisa’s phone rang ten minutes later. It was Josephine, her auntie, who called.
“Lisa, I just got an emergency call, from a hospital. They had called me with Sarah’s line. They are saying, she was rushed in unconscious to their hospital, with an overdose of sleeping pills, with too much alcohol in her system”.
Josephine said to her, while breathing heavily, like someone whose lungs were going to explode.
“Wait, what?! Wh..whi..what hospital?”
Lisa replied with a shaky voice
“Check your phone. I already left you a text message, with the name of the hospital and every other details you may need. I am headed there now. Please, hurry my dear”.
Josephine told her.
They both arrived almost at the same time, at the hospital, which Sarah had been brought in for treatment.
“Why is no one attending to us? We are here now”
Lisa said, while pacing the waiting room to and fro
“Let’s relax and stay calm my darling. I am sure they are doing their best to revive her”.
Lisa took a sit, remained quiet and calm for a while, as her auntie said. After forty minutes, a man in lab clothes came to them. It was one of the doctors of the hospital.
“Are you the ones for Sarah?”
He asked both of them
“Oh, yes yes, yes we are”
They both answered, as they hurriedly got up from the sit
“Where is she? Can we see her, doctor? Is she well now?”
They both asked simultaneously.
“Please ma’am, are you the mother?”
The doctor asked Josephine.
“Wellllll, more or less, I am actually their auntie”.
She replied
“And who is this I see with you?”
Looking at Lisa, the doctor asked Josephine.
“Oh, that is Lisa, Sarah’s younger sister”.
Replying to his question.
“Perfect. Please, can you both follow me to my office, where we can talk?”.
They both followed the doctor to his office.
“Your sister, ingested too much sleeping pills. From what we discovered she took three thousand milligrams of Benzodiazepines, all at once, which resulted to an overdose, causing heart rate to drop from regular rate. That is not even the whole of this ordeal. We also discovered a lot of alcohol in her system, which makes the situation more complicated, because sleeping pills when combined with alcohol, increases the chances of one dying. It is even a miracle, that she is still alive. We have placed her on life support, as her life is hanging on a thread. However, we have managed to flush the alcohol out of her system, but like I said, unfortunately she is in a very critical condition now, as she is in coma”.
The doctor told them both, as they sat in his office.
“Lisa, you really need to find a way to put an end to this menace. Have you even tried calling Pedro?”.
Josephine asked her niece, Lisa
“Yes auntie. I have done that, even twice, but can you believe I called Pedro for the second time, while talking to him over the phone, can you believe he hung up on me, without me realizing that the line has been dropped”
Lisa replied
“That means, we are damned. But this is your man, you know his soft spots. Go to his house and use that, as an advantage against him, without him realizing that, you are unto him”.
Josephine suggested to Lisa.
“Please auntie, don’t even start with all that. Pedro hates me. I can feel it, the love Pedro had for me, is gone”.
Lisa replied again.
“Lisa are you saying….”
Trying to convince Lisa, but got cut off from finishing her statement, by Lisa.
“Auntie Josephine, please! I beg you, stop it. Didn’t you hear what I just said? Pedro has stopped loving me completely”.
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