Old Flame – Episode 4

Episode 4

Weeks later, Frederick had to tell both thier families that Evelyn had moved out.

Evelyn’s aged parents were so worried when they found out, They had to call Evelyn up on her phone and she admitted she had moved out from her husband’s house, with her children.

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“Why would you allow things to get to that level, why did you move out of your home?” Evelyn’s parents inquired

“mom, Dad, I have been putting up with Frederick’s lies and unfaithfulness, He cheats on me with different women everyday but because I reconnected with an old school mate, My husband concluded that I’m cheating on him, the worst was he dared had to gut to threaten me with a divorce, I have never fought him or threaten to leave him each time I caught him cheating on me, I was always understanding and I always tried to forgive him but because of a text message, he concluded that I

was unfaithful, I’m done with him and I’m tired of our marriage, I want peace, He is too selfish and egocentric” Evelyn told his parents

All attempts made by their family to Reconcile Frederick and Evelyn was futile, as they both stood on thier grounds.

To spite Evelyn, Frederick told one of his lover, Sally to move in with him and when Evelyn found out, She reconciled with Roland and in no time Roland and Evelyn started dating.

As all these were going on, Bryan and Gianna were neglected as Evelyn barely had time for them. Evelyn started working in Roland’s company and she was always busy.

As Roland and Evelyn was dating, Roland took good care of her, he always sent money to her account, he took Evelyn on a tour to different countries, leaving her children- Bryan and Gianna at the care of her cousin, Mabel.

Roland always showered her with expensive gifts and he often took her to the Spa, to have her skin pampered, Evelyn was practically living her dream life but she neglected her children. Roland even got her some investment shares in her name and he promised to set her up in her own enterprise.

Each time Evelyn’s cousin, Mabel would try to talk some senses into her, she would flare up in anger, “Eve, I’m your blood, I won’t deceive you, I know that your husband wronged you but you don’t have to neglect your children, you barely spend time with your Bryan and your Gianna. Before Roland came into the picture, Bryan and Gianna meant the whole world to you, please don’t neglect your children please, they need their mother” Mabel said calmly but Evelyn was angry.

“I need to be happy too, for eight years I tolerated thier father because of them, they are not lacking anything, I paid for thier school fees and everything. Their father had not cared about them for the past one year we moved out, in fact he is now living with his lover in our matrimonial home, what do you want me to do? Don’t I deserve to be happy too?” Evelyn said in tears but Mabel consoled her.

“I understand how you feel but two wrongs can never make a right. Bryan and Gianna are both special to you, please don’t make them pay for the crime they know nothing about. Please” Mabel added and Evelyn promised to make amends.

Things got worst when Roland

got Evelyn an already furnished and crispy apartment so she moved out from Mabel’s house with her children. Bryan and Gianna took the school bus to school every morning and the same school bus would bring them back home after school

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One day, The unimaginable happened, Bryan and Gianna were back from school and met thier mother’s absence and there was nothing Evelyn left for Lunch, They were starving and needed food to eat, Bryan went into her mother’s bedroom and he saw few cash in Evelyn’s wardrobe and the young boy set out to buy lunch for himself and his sister, Gianna.

“Gianna, I’m coming, let me go down the street and buy us lunch, I know Mummy have warned us not to leave the compound but she didn’t keep lunch for us, I guess she forgot and we need food now because I’m hungry and I’m sure you are too”

Bryan said innocently and Gianna nodded in agreement.

Few minutes later, Bryan was outside in the main road, he couldn’t get a loaf of bread from the shops in the street, he decided to go further and try the nearby streets, He was about to cross the road when he was hit by a moving truck. Blood oozed out from his nose and his head and these attracted people’s attention that In no time, crowd gathered around.

Bryan was rushed to a nearby hospital and some people who recognized him called Evelyn on the phone.

Evelyn almost died of shock when she got the bad news. She began to blame herself, hot tears rolled down from her eyes and she raced to the hospital like a mad woman.

“oh my child, where is my Bryan?, Nurse please where is my child?” She said immediately she arrived the hospital. But the Nurse tried all she could to calm her down.

“Madam, please relax, the Doctor is with your son and they are doing all they can for him, please have faith” The nurse told Evelyn.

Hot tears kept falling off Evelyn’s cheek, She called Mabel to inform her about what had happened and of course, Mabel blamed her.

“Evelyn you are careless, you are not fit to be called a mother, Bryan is just a little boy of 7 years old and Gianna is 5 years old, I told you to look after them because they can not look after themselves but no you were so interested in being happy, you are so selfish and wicked. If anything happens to Bryan, I will never forgive you” Mabel said sharply at the other end of the phone. Mabel’s emotional outbursts on the phone made Evelyn to feel worse.

She fell to the ground and burst into uncontrollable tears and the nurses on duty tried all they could to console her.

Few hours later, Mabel had arrived at the hospital with Gianna and not too long Roland arrived too, Evelyn had told him what happened.

They were all waiting anxiously for the doctor, who came with a bad news.

The doctor had assumed Roland was Bryan’s father.

“Your son is in a bad shape, the accident was so terrible, your son is still unconscious but I don’t know why he keeps calling out for you unconsciously” The doctor said calmly.

“My son is calling out for his father? “Evelyn asked shockingly

“Yes I suggest you go in there and talk to your son, that will help him alot”The doctor said and Evelyn was speechless

“Actually doctor, I’m not his father, but I can go in there, Bryan is like a son to me” Roland said calmly but the Doctor told him “Please get the boy’s father, that would help him alot” The doctor concluded and finally left.

Mabel was quick to call Frederick on the phone, Frederick ran to the hospital as soon as he heard the news, He was directed into the intensive care unit and he burst into uncontrollable tears immediately he saw Bryan, laying lifelessly on the hospital bed.

To Be Continued