WEIGHTED 41

TYRONE ROBERT

I ran towards Elize before she reached the floor and took her in my arms. I could see Brandon approaching to help but I glared at him, stopping him before he could reach us.

‘I think you did enough already, Brady!’ I stated venomously.

He looked down and nodded before stepping back. ‘You have a lot of explaining to do once I’m sure everything is okay with my wife.’ I said walking past him to the stairs. The other dude still stood frozen by the entrance of the kitchen as if he couldn’t believe his own eyes.

I had a hunch what was going on with Brad, but the other one I had zero clue as to why my wife reacted the way she did towards him.

I put her on the bed after Martha helped me pulling the blankets off the bed. ‘Stay here with her, would you? I’ll go call her doctor.’ I asked the kind lady.

She shook her head. ‘No need, you have the tools in the infirmary, right?’ She asked pulling her sleeves up.

I nodded my head in confirmation. ‘Bring them to me, I’ll check her up myself.’ She said sitting next to her on the edge of the bed, checking her pulse.

‘What do you mean?’

‘I’m a doctor, not a specialist OB - GYN, but a capable one nonetheless.’ She said.

“Are you telling me to trust a non - OB - GYN doctor with my wife and unborn child’s lives? Do you even listen to yourself!’

‘I assure you I’m a lot more better than any doctor you’ll call will take her time before coming this far, at this late hour, even if it is an Emergency.' She reasoned.

‘Are you sure you know what you’re doing?’ I asked to make sure.

‘I assure you that your wife is in safe hands, I’ll never jeopardise her or her baby in any way or form. You can trust me on that.’ She promised.

‘Okay then, I’ll call one of the nurses, and you tell her whatever you want to bring it up.’ I dialled the number and handed it to her.

She then told the nurse whatever she needed which sounded like some gibberish to me.

‘Okay, that would be it.’ Martha said writing a prescription on a paper. ‘She collapsed because of the mass accumulated stress she was bottling up. You better take good care of her, and make sure she’s as far away from stress as possible because if something like this happens I can’t guarantee the safety of neither of them, the baby is already very weak I don’t know if it can survive another stroke anytime soon.’ She explained. ‘Here you go, she’ll need those medicines as soon as she wakes up.’ She handed me the piece of paper.

Her words struck like lightning, there’s no way I’m losing my wife or baby. That fucker better have an explanation as to why he showed up like that if he knew Elize’s reaction would be this grave.

I took the paper from her hand. ‘Can you stay with her for awhile while I’m gone?’ I asked.

‘Sure, I have to monitor her for sometime anyway.’ She replied.

I nodded and headed to the living room after placing a kiss on Elize’s stomach and forehead, mumbling a low ‘I’ll be right back’ in her ear. I could feel her small hand gripping my sleeve, it’s become a habit of hers over the years even when she’s angry with me. She’d always reach out for me in her unconscious state whenever I’m near her, it still amazes me how she can always sense my presence just like our kids do with her.

I reached the bottom of the stairs to find the two men pacing the living room restlessly. I marched towards Brandon and punched him hard, causing his mouth to bleed.

‘Fucking bastard! Why come here when you knew it would affect her that much? Is that why you seemed off every time I bring her up?’

He lost balance for a split second, due to the sudden attack before composing himself.

‘I’m sorry, BOSS!’ He said instead of replying, AMPLIFYING my anger. I’m ‘Amplified‘.

‘Is that a YES or a NO? are you Done yet? I boomed, fuming.

‘I didn’t know we would Cross paths since I assumed she’d be too busy with the little boy, and I thought she wouldn’t remember me because of how young we were when we…’

‘Is that your fucking excuse!’ I hissed lowly this time afraid to disturb Elize. ‘You endangered my wife and my unborn child for an assumption?’

‘I’m sorry, boss.’ He apologised.

‘You motherfucker!’ I punched him again and was to beat the living daylights out of him when a gruff voice cut me off.

‘I suggest you lower your voices, Sir. Mrs Robert started stirring because of the noise and the doctor said she needs as much rest as she could get.’ Lee said looking between us.

‘Thank you, Lee, now go back to Elize. I need to discuss something with these two fuckers.’ I said not averting my gaze from the two men in front of me, I could see the other guy flinch when Lee described Elize as Mrs Robert.

Lee nodded his head, and headed upstairs.

‘Follow me!’ I ordered the two of them before walking towards my office.

‘Why didn’t you tell me?’ I asked when they closed the door of the office behind them.

‘I didn’t know it was relevant, as I mentioned before I didn’t think we’ll cross paths again. I wasn’t planning on ever meeting her again.’ He answered.

‘And why’s that?’ I raised an eyebrow in question.

‘I hurt her too much to ever covet her looking my way, let alone forgiving me.’ He said sadly.

‘You didn’t even try!’

‘She gave you, her husband the cold shoulder treatment for more than a year, and prevented you from being there when your daughter was born just to protect you! Isn’t that an answer enough of what she would do if she ever found out that I knew where she was but never initiated a contact of any sort?’ He seemed to be dreading the moment she wakes up. I looked at the other one to see his eyes wide in disbelief and what seemed to be fear at Brandon’s revelation, I almost scoffed out loud at his expression. If that alone made him this much shaken up, then he’ll die of a heart attack when he hears of the things she did in the past nine years.

‘Who is he, by the way?’ I asked still looking at the guy, his eyes shot up to me.

I diverted my gaze to Brad when he didn’t answer immediately, he seemed kind of afraid to reveal such information to me.

Then he opened his mouth only to utter the name that almost froze my whole world.

‘My second in command, Jason Carter.’

"I GOT YOU HERE!! YOU NEVER THOUGHT HE WAS STILL ALIVE.."