Chapter five
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Daniel's POV
Every time I think about what I did to Lizzy, regret strikes my heart so hard to the point of escaping this world. I liked her from the very first time I met her, but life has it that Drek would be the one to eventually marry her. He was not faster than me, I was just too reluctant to make my intention known.
Drek's suggestion to me to have s*x with his wife so she could get pregnant was originally because to cover his shame about not being able to impregnate a lady, a secret just between the two of us, made my heart heavy but at the same time, I sincerely love Lizzy and I want to have intimacy with her, a feeling coming out of greed...... I know.....
Despite the fact that I still didn't want to hurt her, which was I rejected Drek's offer in the first place before the threat of revealing my one deep secret which was only known to Drek and my mother before she left this world.
"He tapped the edge of the table in his office slightly as he was so lost in his thoughts, conversation between him and his soul"
"My mother," he continued, Vanessa Prince, took this deep secret to her grave. His threats to expose me really scared me so much more than anything. At least if I were able to keep this secret as well till my father dies, that would not be a loss.
I can't stand the heavy loss and openly steep risk of getting exposed......no, not even at this point.....I've come too far!
One of the nurses entered swiftly into his office, "There is an emergency Doctor."
"Feed me with the full details please". He quickly geared back to reality, snapped out of his reverie. The emergency brought him crashing back down to earth.
"It's Harrison's sir, their new baby boy has just been rushed in by an ambulance a few minutes ago."
The nurse replied.
"Shell-shocked" Daniel was left speechless.
I froze. I didn't know where the thought of "my son" came into my heart, as if that was the repetition that allowed to fill up the whole space in my brain.
"Doctor"
"Doctor "
The multiple callings of my name by the nurse standing on one foot ready for swift action, considering how bad the situation was, abruptly brought me back to the present.
"Sprung into action", I picked up my stethoscope and left the office with speed. The boy had already died before I could enter into the emergency ward.
I tried everything to resuscitate him back to life but all to no avail. This is my son that I could not protect lying down dead right before my eyes.
"What happened," I asked one of the nurses standing
"Doctor, it was discovered that the little boy sniffed a particular venomous and harmful substance in larger quantity that resulted in him being suffocated. The chart read further that he struggled with his breath for almost six hours before he eventually died.
"He had become cold dead even before the ambulance was requested by a lady from the Harrisons" Another nurse added.
I left the scene and instructed them to pack the bodies, stepping out only to meet Ella crying profusely.
Were you the one that called the ambulance?
"Ye..es.s...s, I was the one"
"How is Zayden ple..ase..."
She answered with so many heavy tears in her eyes.
My eyes caught a lady standing at not so far distance pressing her phone badly. I knew I had seen her face somewhere.
"Oh, that's Naomi, Madam's step-sister."
Ella responded after she observed my curiosity, looking at her intently, trying to remember her.
That was when I remember I saw her with Drek before during one of the hangouts.
And where is Drek?
"We've called him, and he's on his way too."
Drek went into the hospital, rushing. Immediately I asked about him.
"How far guy, how is the baby now?"
"Please let's go to my office" I told him.
"Drek, the boy is dead" I told him.
"What?" " How?"
"What exactly happened?"
Drek asked in curiosity.
He sniffed in a particular poisonous substance in heavy quantities. The boy was choked to death.
Drek, how on earth would you have a little boy of barely 2months around you while sniffing drugs?
"He was shocked to hear that"
"Yes, Drek". I nodded my head in confirmation.
I already knew this was what was happening!
"The boy was with Naomi and I warned this girl when I noticed that she always keeps the boy around whenever she's trying to be on drugs, but she did not listen........ Drek's voice shook as he was speaking.
"You mean that Naomi girl?"
Then she must be arrested for this and I will really take this up.
A silence swept across the office, interrupted by Drek's next statement.
"You wouldn't dare Daniel". His face is looming with death and danger at the same time. It sends a shiver down my spine.
"You want to implicate me" he continued," or don't you know I will get exposed tracing the cause of the boy's death?"
He stood up and faced the door leading outside as if he was going out.
"Is this truly because you want to do your job or because that thing is your son!?"
This last statement hit me like a ton of bricks, cutting down deep into my last intestine.
"You don't want to dare me," he continued. "You already know the consequences of your stupid action, just do what is necessary and let's forget about the dead child."
He said the last statement, placing his hand on the handle of the door, just to turn it open, he shut the door angrily.
I could not think straight after he had left my office. I was deeply engrossed in my thoughts and confused about what to do.
"Indeed, this guy is the real devil"
I said to myself
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