Chapter 52Breathing, heartbeat, bleeding… Common sense and also what they taught Sergio and the others at vet school. It is also common sense. But he is in shock as well! It hit him right between the eyes to see her like this.Sergio quickly examines Leah. She is breathing. Her heartbeat is running like hell, but it is there and there is no obvious bleeding. Then her eyes flutters open and she pushes him away, while trying to sit up.“Leah, do you know what happened to you, just now?” Sergio asks. His own heart is beating in his throat.“I… I think I fainted, for why otherwise am I on the ground.”“You passed out alright. Do you know why?”Tears starts to well up in her eyes. “Yes Sergio, it is because I am in pain.”“What and where does it hurt?” He wants to help her up, but he is careful not to hurt her more.“The usual… Cramps… my period…”“Oh shit.”“Yes, oh shit. So, stand back so I can get up.”“I am not going to stand back. I am going to help you up and take you to your bed. W
Chapter 51Monday morning. Sergio gets up early, makes himself coffee and dip two rusks in it while sitting at a table on his veranda. He can see Leah’s front porch from here. But as can be expected, there is no movement on that side of the buildings yet.Then Sergio walks in again, get dressed and leave for work.He really wanted to say goodbye to Leah. Or at least wave for her.Bad news at the animal clinic. The male lion cub died through the night. But the two girls are doing well.“Sergio, what is going on with you today?” One of junior assistants asks at one o’clock when they all take a break and walk over to the canteen to buy something to eat. By now they have seen that Sergio is not himself. And it is not just because of the little lion’s death. They deal with life and death every day.But they are guessing right. Sergio is not himself, but he is not going to discuss his love life in public. If you may call rejection by your mate, who is not even your girlfriend yet as trouble
Chapter 50Oh gosh! That hurts. Sergio stumbles in under a stream of hot water in the shower. Not the water though. That actually soothes him a little bit…Sylvi gave him soap, shampoo, a towel and a clean white doctor’s jacket to wear. He is going to put that on. He is not going to wear what Leah is going to bring back here from the shop. He doesn’t want any gifts from her. He feels so betrayed by her. Not by the fact that she was not able, or willing perhaps? to assist him with the birth of Anna’s babies. Somehow, he got through that.Not even because she never found it in her to say, well done Sergio. You combined your knowledge of biology, what you learned in ten years as a vet, but mostly you used your instinct and common senses and you saved the day. That is what Sylvi said immediately after she checked on Anna to see that the woman was not even torn, as in the case of many first babies. He stabled the tiny one’s head, until his mother was stretched open wide enough to let it t
Chapter 49She definitely not wants to be killed by a man who needs her in his moment of fear. Leah goes down on her hunches for a moment and the gets up again. At that stage Jesu is slowly but surely coming by.“Here’s a packet of water bottles next to Anna,” Sergio says. “Leah, please take one and give it to Jesu. And then open one for me and you. You have to hold it for me, as I cannot take my hands away from the baby’s head right now.”“No,” is all she gets out.“Leah baby, you have to be strong now,” Sergio starts pleading. “For me and Anna.”Finally, she gets back on her feet. She is trying not to look in the direction of Sergio’s hand. At that moment Anna squirms again. She is not talking anymore, she clearly just wants that thing out of her.“Wait Anna,” Sergio warns her. “If you push now, you are going to tear yourself.”“But I have to…”“No!” It looks as if Sergio is trying to prevent that ball from moving further out of the poor woman, and Leah runs to the side of the road.
Chapter 48Animal babies are so adorable, Leah decides as she is holding one of the tiny lion cubs, while feeding him with a bottle. One of them is so weak, he refuses to suckle on the teat. So Sergio put him on a drip in a little cat cage. He is sleeping soundly, while his two sisters are ‘whining’ and dining!Then Sergio bathed the two girls. He is wearing welding gloves. Even though they are still tiny they can scratch and bite when they need to defend themselves. And of course they will want to defend themselves when someone put their little bodies in water. It is not natural or soothing, even though Sergio poured hot water in the small tub.“It is not usually done like this,” he explains while dipping the first one. “But they don’t have a mother anymore to rid them of external parasites.”“Poor little orphan,” Leah cuddles the first one Sergio wrapped in a towel, and put in her willing arms.When the second one is ready, someone takes cub number one from her hands. And then she
Chapter 47Sergio wakes up on Sunday morning, with Leah’s voice in his ears. He loves the sound of her voice. He also loves the fact that she is touching and fiddling with him down there, while she is talking…With Gato? His cat?He moves slightly as he doesn’t want her to stop what she is doing. But he is quite curious to see what his cat Gato is doing while ‘mommy Leah’ is playing with ‘daddy Sergio’s’ rather limp love tool.There is no cat with them on the bed.Leah is talking to little Sergie his useless morning glory down there.“What is you name?” she asks.“I sometimes call him little Sergie,” Sergio admits.“Oh good. Pleased to meet you, little Sergie,” then Leah kisses him right on the smiling part of his glossy area. Teasing him with her tongue from which he starts to react a little bit. Then she praises him. “That is good, mister Beast is also sticking his neck out. From now on I will call you doctor Sergie and mister Beast.”Sergio loves that. But then he stops her. He’s g