Must Read: Mariana Episode 20
Twenty
Amy’s POV
“Driver, take me to Savannah street” I directed.
Damon, my manager glared at me.
“Why should we go there? We have to leave for the airport now. Else we will miss the flight”.
“I have to see a friend. I promise I won’t take long. I can’t just leave without seeing her…so please” I pleaded.
“Ok fine. Ten minutes”.
I quickly got out, shouting her name happily when I got inside.
I looked around but she wasn’t around so I went to her bedroom.
Silence.
There’s no one.
Lemme call her… I run out to pick it in the car but I remembered I don’t have my phone.
I lost it after I fell from the stairs.
“Can I have your phone?” I asked Damon.
He was leaning on the with arms crossed over his chest casually.
He looked extremely handsome in his suit. His green eyes landed on me before he dipped his hands into his pocket for the phone.
I dialled her digits hastily and put the phone to my ear.
Her line was not going through at all. I tried again but still.
Lemme call Pablo then.
Gosh! I signed in frustration.
I don’t even have Pablo’s number off head.
What do I do now?
“Anything the matter?” He asked when he saw my worried face.
“My friend is not around. And I’m starting to panic. What if something happens to her?”
“Calm down. Let’s see what we can do first. Do you perhaps know anyone who she is closed with?”
“Yeah. Pablo, her fiancee”.
“Which of the Pablos?”
“Dominguez”
“Oh… your friend has a good taste. Such a good catch huh?.” He teased as he flashed his perfect dentine.
“Huh? Are you for real?”
He chuckled.
“Well I don’t have his number but….”
“But nothing. You shouldn’t have spoken if you knew you wouldn’t be able to help” I blurted angrily.
“You didn’t let me conclude, young lady.” He gave me a questioning look before
continuing” As I was saying, I don’t have his contact but I have the contact of a
very close friend of his. Maybe if we call him now, we might know his
whereabouts as well as your friend to”.
He explained.
“Okay.” I nodded.
“Hi buddy.” He spoked into the phone.
“Do you perhaps know where your friend Pablo can be, right now? I’m sorry if I’m being a little nosy.”
“Okay. Thank you”. He replied coolly and hanged up.
I arched an eyebrow.
“They’re at the hospital.” He replied.
“What do you mean by ‘they’? And why hospital?” I asked as I felt a pang of pain hit my chest.
He rolled his eyes boringly , “You’re asking so many questions.”
“Okay, which hospital”. I asked as the word ‘patient’ flushed out of my system.
“St Louis hospital”.
“What are you waiting for? Let’s go already.” I opened the car door and settled into the passenger seat.
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“To the airport, driver”. He said when he got into the car.
“What? ”
“We ain’t going to the hospital, Amy. We are traveling now!”
What the heck.
“No.” I yelled. “Until, I find my friend and she is up and kicking, I’m not moving an inch.”
“Take a chill pill, Amy. Fine we will go. But promise me that, we will leave afterwards”.
“It’s depends”. I replied.
Pablo’s POV
My heart pounded furiously as I got closer to the hospital. My hands shook on the wheel as I remembered Daniel’s words.
It kept ringing in my head loudly.
“One of your cars got into a terrible accident this morning”
“There was a man and a woman in the car.”
“The lady seems to be dead”
I used one hand to cover my ears in an attempt to block the voice.
Oh my God!
Paula please be strong for me.
I know you’re not the one. It must be someone else.
With one hand on the wheel, I took out my phone to call her number again.
I threw the phone into the car angrily. All I’ve been hearing is, ‘the number you’re calling is currently unavailable’
I got down from the car quickly and entered hospital.
I spotted Daniel as soon as I got inside.
He was sitting on a bench. He got up the moment he saw me.
“Dan, tell me. Who is she? Who was the lady?” I asked impatiently.
He pulled out his phone and brought it to my eyes.
“What’s in there?” I asked looking at his face instead of the phone facing me. “Do you know her?”
I looked into the phone immediately.
“No. No. It’s a lie.” I said and snatched the phone to look at the lady carefully.
“Noooo.” I screamed as I slumped on to the floor carelessly.
This woman here is no one else but my Paula.
No. Pablo. You have to be strong. You have to be strong for your Paula. I consoled myself and got up.
“Where is she? I want to see her now! Dan please take me to her” I whispered in desperation.
“She is being operated on. She is in the operation room” he said quietly.
I brushed my hands through my hair in frustration as I paced to and fro in front of the operation theatre.
Then the operation theatre door opened suddenly.
My Paula was lying on the stretcher as they wheeled her to one of the wards. She was looking so pale with a thick bandage around her head. With a number of bruises on her.
“Doctor, how is she?” I asked as I run after the stretcher.
“Her condition is not yet proven because she didn’t wake up after the operation. Until she wakes up, we can’t tell what her condition is”
“How dare you tell me you don’t know what her condition is. Are you not the doctor? Don’t fu.cking tell me that.” I shouted holding him by the collar.
“Pablo. What are you doing? Let him go”. Daniel came and tried to separate me from the poor doctor.
“Doctor, please can you explain further?” Daniel asked the doctor calmly.
“As a result of the accident, the patient hit her head severely causing her brain to swell. In order for her to recover from an injury of this nature, medically induced coma is needed.
Being in a coma will allow the brain to heal from the severe swelling.
Comas are a very serious medical conditions so as a doctor, I induced a coma on her to prevent her from feeling intense physical pain” The doctor explained.
“And whose permission did you take before inducing her? My Paula is a fighter, she can go through that pain easily. Why did you do it? ” I charged towards him again like a raged Lion.
Daniel pulled me back again.
“Forgive us doc. He is not in his right senses. He is traumatized by the whole situation”.
I glared at Daniel angrily.
“I m not Insane Dan. I’m not..I..I..” my voice cracked as I felt a warm liquid rolling down my cheeks.
Daniel engulfed me in a brotherly hug as I let out all the tears I’ve been holding back.
I snapped away from him instantly.
I have to see her. She needs me.
“Where is she?” I asked.
“She is in the private ward.” Daniel answered looking at me with a sad look.
I rushed towards the door.
“Sir please, you can’t get inside now” the nurse stopped me when I was about to go inside.
“Screw you! Who are you tell me that? She is my fiancee for God sake. Fucking let me go” I shouted on top of my voice. I don’t care if somebody is listening to me now.
All I want is my Paula.
“Pablo, you’re making a scene. The paparazzi is here”. Dan whispered in my ear.
“Fuck all of you”. I said and pushed the nurse and entered.
My eyes widened when I saw a young man sitting beside her with her hands in his.
He was kissing her hands tenderly as if he was her boyfriend.
I charged at him about to punch him when I noticed the bruises on him.
He is unwell.
“Who are you?” I asked bringing my balled fist down.
“I’m her driver” he stated with no emotions.
“What? Her driver? How? I never employed you”.
He ignored as he intertwined his hands with Paula’s.
“So you’re the impostor who put her in this terrible situation?”
“It’s was an accident, Mr Dominguez” he said coolly.
‘An accident’ I mimicked quietly.
I reached for the telephone in the room to call the police.
“Hi inspector, Mr Dominguez on the line. There’s a criminal here at St Louis hospital….”
“He is not a criminal, Pablo.”
I turned instantly.
“Mum?”
“Yes Pablo. He isn’t. There is no need calling the police to arrest him”.
” But why?” I asked in confusion.
Because I employed him”.
TBC
MARIANA
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