Semua Bab In love... with her own African beast: Bab 41 - Bab 50

Chapter 42Not a big party, but a nice one. Leah’s housewarming. Under the veranda of house number seven, John and Manual placed two doors on a stand to form a rather big table. Fourteen wooden and plastic chairs from all over. A rather motley crew that looks terribly cheerful in the end.Maria and John made food platters. Some of it the seafood that Sergio bought and brought home.“While this is my lovely daughter Leah’s housewarming party, it was also the last weekend we have the builders here on the farm. I know Leah is going to miss you guys dearly. Over the past three weeks you became friends to all of us. Thank you so much for your patience and the way you were always willing to lend a hand and muscles to help carry things from one room to another. You did way more than Leah ever asked. Even teach her a few lessons in self-defence. That already came in handy. Thank you, guys.”Then Leah stands up. “You said most of it, Dad. Thank you for always having my back. I didn’t get you p

Chapter 44Neither Sergio nor Sylvi wants to talk about what they found on that fateful Friday night, when they arrived back at Hurter’s Retreat around ten on that Saturday morning. They were accompanied by the police, a few of Sergio’s colleagues at the sanctuary and members of the property owners, who had established their own civil force movement a while ago.It was not a trap. But what Sergio and Sylvi saw when they finally reached the sighting, was more horrible than anything they have ever seen.Yes, they saw the remains of lions that made the kill.But, unfortunately the crown of creation was the prey. Three men, more or less, as it was impossible to determine what parts belong to which body, when they started to collect what was left over in plastic bags. Forensics will have to sort that out in a laboratory, as by then, the lions were long gone and the hyenas scattered the remains all over…As they couldn’t find the lions responsible for the killing, it was senseless to shoot

Chapter 46“Leah, oh my goodness, where were you the whole afternoon?” John Hurter is standing om the veranda of the big house. “Sergio is also looking for you, all over.”The whole of the afternoon? Well, first it started off most amazing intimate lovemaking with that very same Sergio that is now looking everywhere for her. Something her dad would probably not approve of. Then she got onto the roof of her apartments to see how Xing was getting on with her solar panels. Another thing her dad would probably not approve of.And from that roof she saw someone entering her grand-mothers studio. And as her instinct was telling her what that guy was doing in there, she decided to take matters in her own hands and planted the stuff in Ralph’s aeroplane. Dad will not approve of that.And while all of them are now watching as Sergio is now approaching them from Leah’s apartment with the most beautiful smile on his handsome face, Leah knows that she wants to do another thing that will probably

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 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