DAMIEN I began to hear murmuring from all sides. "President Flores,'' their eyes were piercing through my skin. I was becoming impatient with the delay in the queue when someone tapped me on my shoulder. "Mr Flores, your attention is needed.""Yes, I know but I haven't made the payment yet. Tell them to start attending to my wife." I turned and faced the queue. "I am not talking about your wife." "Then what are we talking about?" "President Flores was just rushed in here." I felt like my ear drums were not functioning well. "What did you say?" "Come with me please," I followed the nurse even though my legs were wobbling. I managed it that way. We entered the intensive care unit and I was shocked to see my father with an oxygen mask inserted into his nostrils. The paper on my hand fell off. I rushed towards him and kept shaking him, "Father! Father! Dad!" there was no response. "Mr Flore, your father had a terrible accident but we believe he will be revived soon." I couldn

DAMIEN I blinked my eyes countless times just to make sure my sight wasn't blurred. "What just happened? Are we in the right place?" Felix stepped out to check the room number and it was the same. "Felix, where is my wife?" "But I left her here.""Then where is she?" I ran out to meet the doctor but I met a nurse on my way. "Excuse me please.""Mr Flores, how may I be of help to you?" "I just came back from my house and I couldn't see my wife in the ward where she was kept." "Hold on please, let me attend to this patient. I will be with you in a jiffy." I put my hands inside my pocket to reduce the pressure on me. “How do I get to explain this mystery? What kind of disappearance was this?”We were so confused that none of us talked to each other. The nurse was taking forever to come and attend to us. Luckily, I saw another nurse and asked her about my wife but she looked lost. "Sorry, I just resumed my night duty." Gosh! How do I explain this to her? "What about the doctor?"

CLARA I opened my eyes and almost everywhere was dark. I woke up to what seemed like a long sleep. I felt so weak and my head was light. I couldn't remember anything at all. I turned my neck to the right side and saw Damien sleeping. His head was almost falling off from his neck. I turned to the other side and I saw a stand with a small transparent bag hanging on it. There was a line that was attached to the bag and it was fixed in my head. I saw the content of the bag and it was dropping little by little into a cup like nature and it flowed down the line. This content was actually entering the body. I tilted my head upwards to see what was making a slight noise and I saw the machine. It was reading and I can't really tell what those figures mean. What exactly made me want to be here? I perceived a drug smell that brought back my memory to realize that I was in the hospital. I looked at myself and realized that I was putting on a patient gown. The gown which I wore to the hospi

CLARA "Clara! Enough of these questions and let me be!" Damien yelled. I felt a heartbreak that I have never experienced in my entire life. What could make Damien shout at me in this manner?I sat down and watched him as he got busy with his laptop. My son kept knocking on our door and I had to open it. "Benjamin, why aren't you sleeping?" "Ma'am, he insisted on sleeping in your room tonight," Nancy replied. Damien stood up from his chair and started scolding Nancy to our greatest surprise. "You are always fond of replying to a question that was not thrown to you. You better be careful in this house else you will get fired! I don't like when people don't mind their business!" "I am sorry sir," she replied and left. I looked at Damien as he went back to take his seat. What is wrong with him?"Damien, what was her offense for shouting at her in that manner?" "You have no right whatsoever to ask me a meaningless question!" He shouted. "What the heck is going on? I am sick and t

CLARA I could sense danger as everyone was staring at me. Damien's eye was dangerously piercing into my tegument. I just wished the ground would open and swallow me. My legs and hands were already cold and white. My body was stiff and stuck in place. I decided to compose myself before everyone. I wonder why the nanny and maid were also in the living room with Damien and Benjamin. My son saw me and rushed to hug me but Damien held him back. "Uhm," I couldn't find my voice. My words choked me. I felt a lump in my throat and so I just scratched my neck and waited for him to speak. "Go ahead and tell us where you are coming back from, married woman." "I went to see my female friend and I cried to her because I don't know what was wrong with my husband, I suddenly fell asleep while crying. Then while coming back, my car broke down." Damien clapped his hand, "Check the time." I looked at the wall clock and it was past eleven in the evening. I twisted my mouth in shock. I don't know