All Chapters of In love... with her own African beast: Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

Chapter 11Here in the bush, one completely forgets that there are months that consist of weeks. Weeks that is made up of seven days. Two of that belong to the weekends. And right now, it's the weekend.Saturday to be exact, Leah recalled as she walks out of Sergio’s room to go and look for her father."Uncle John and your ex are hanging out with the guests in the lapa," gestures Maria's pregnant daughter-in-law Anna when Leah reaches the kitchen. "We are preparing for a barbeque. I am going to make a potato dish and salads.""Is there anything I can help with?" asked Leah, taking out a sharp knife from the drawer to help to peel the potatoes.Just then the woman's husband Jesu came in. His name is almost like Jesus, but his father lost the S at the end. Jesu was fourteen years old when Leah last saw him. Now he's a grown man of twenty-three, with a baby of his own on its way.Jesu is very happy to see Leah. He opened his arms and hugged her."Welcome back, Leah! It's so good to have

Chapter 13It's was about time to have a good chat with her dad around a campfire. Leah missed him for the past seven years she was back at her grandmother's home in Pretoria. In that time, she had seen him once. Withh Grandma's passing four years ago. He and Mom came to say goodbye.That was when she had to say yet another sad goodbye, because her mother had decided to go back to Portugal and she was taking Grandpa Gonzales with her. It's not as if she doesn't love John anymore. She is just as tired of Africa. Leah will always keep wondering if that wasn't the reason why grandpa died a year later in Lisbon.Africa was in his blood. He died of a broken heart. Part of him stayed behind in Africa.It's quite an adjustment to be here without the old man. She keeps looking for him. Sees him in everything he done and built. He was such a character!And Grandma! Leah can’t wait to open that store room where Oumie kept het kiln, clay, paint and glaze. Hopefully everything is still there, jus

Chapter 15It was very interesting to see where Sergio is spending most of his days, working. His lions and his patients at the animal hospital!But what wasn't nice was Ralph's behaviour when Sergio turned around and walked into the hospital. He walked over to her and grabbed her upper arm with one hand and then he waved the finger of his other hand in front of her face. "Don't let me ever see you poking eyes in the direction of that beast again. You humiliate me in front of my co-workers. They know I'm here to win you back.""You're just humiliating yourself Ralph. You've had your chance. Our marriage is over. It was already done between us when you went after one of your rich widowed ladies for the second time seven years ago. The divorce settlement I signed was the last words between the two of us. Just a pity that it meant that you stole fifteen acres of my grandfather's land in that way.""You can be glad it was only fifteen acres. My plan is still to take over the entire farm.

Chapter 17Sergio usually leaves early Monday mornings. His work schedule is his own, but on Monday mornings everybody on duty meets there in the ward at the hospital. There is a whiteboard on the wall, on which they write the week's plans.That he told Leah yesterday.At about seven, Leah also got up, shower, and got dressed. Today is the day she wants to return to the Xing and Fu village, Bonsai. There's so much to see, a lot to learn, and even more she wants to find out from Xing, the expert pottery man. Hopefully he can sell her some of his clay. In future she would like to import as well. If he is willing to help her with that as well. She wants to get Grandma's little kiln going again, but the electricity isn't always reliable.And the she will ask Xing to show her the ins and outs of how a wood oven work. There is a lot of information on Youtube about it. But why not learn from a master, himself? Otherwise, they'll have to make a deal, so she can take her stuff there, and ba

Chapter 18Sergio did jump into his truck and drove to Bonsai as fast as he could. Yes, he was worried about Leah. He's had this uneasy feeling about her well-being ever since the moment Ralph Jameson descended on Hurter's Retreat with his wings. Well, not wings attached to his body, but with an airplane.There is something's off with that man!Sergio instinctively knows they are going to have differences. They may even fight while Ralph is there. In a civilized way hopefully.But if it depends on him, it won't be about a woman. Leah Hurter is beautiful, and she stirs up every drop of testosterone in his body. But even so, Leah's middle name is trouble.She is Leah Trouble Hurter! Especially if Ralph is still interested in her as a woman.Anyway, it's good that he's now here in Bonsai. Not only to see that Leah is safe and sound.His hair needs to be cut and he has an appointment later. But he just had to get into his truck and drove away from the sanctuary after he heard about the lio