Mummy, Daddy is on his knees

Xander placed a bottled water in front of Bianca hoping she takes at least a sip out of it, she had been blaming everything on herself in the last few hours..

“Please, none of this is your fault. You didn’t cause anything, stop being too hard on yourself alright?”

Bianca shot him a brief look, he was trying to make her feel better and she got it.

If she hadn’t slept over at his house, the kids wouldn’t have been kidnapped in the first place since she normally took them to school by herself..

Maybe not all, but partly, this had something to do with her..

“Aunt, Mummy isn’t back yet?”

Bianca turned around to find Kelvin and Kiara looking up to her with tears in their eyes, after what they had witnessed today, they’ve been crying nonstop..

She crouched down to their height pulling them into her arms..

“Your mummy is good and she will be back soon okay?”

***

The door to the operating room opened after two extremely long hours, The surgeon had a little or no smile on his lips as he approached the family..

Damien’s heart sank at the sight of the surgeon who wore a long face..

“Mr Sterling, I’m sorry to inform you that we couldn’t save her, we tried our very best but-

Olivia felt Damien slipping away from her grip and as expected, he suddenly hijacked the surgeon’s collar shaking him violently..

“That’s a big lie! I’m sure you’ve made a big mistake somewhere! my mum isn’t that weak to give up without a fight!”

Aldrin’s dry laughter filled the hallway as he slid his back on the wall till he met the floor, his hands went into his hair tugging it with a pain filled growl leaving his mouth..

“She’s so selfish! she thought it was cool to just leave my side that way?” He lamented in between tears..

Damien swiftly turned around and strode out not for once looking back..

“Mrs Parker can I speak to you for a second?”

Sandy’s tear filled eyes fell on the surgeon who just called out to her, she rose up to her feet walking to him..

She dabbed her tears using a clean tissue paper…

The surgeon led her away while she followed behind him to a distance away from the rest of the family..

***

The news of Anita Sterling’s death spread like wildfire across L. A which got people talking, amongst these people was Rihanna..

She had been so happy after the news of Anita’s death was announced, she stepped out of her car heading into the building..

The cops couldn’t find anything hard on her to detain her, after all she wasn’t even there to begin with, she chuckled at her own devious thoughts..

It was surprising to her how she was able to get away after commiting murder, well the Sterling’s better get ready for more deaths in the family..

“I see you’re back”

Rihanna snapped her head to the side after hearing her mum’s familiar voice, wasn’t she supposed to be at the hospital taking care of her beloved son?

“Yeah mum.. I only stepped out for a while..”

Tracy shook her head as she closed the gap between them, her fingers slowly swept Rihanna’s hair to the right side of her face..

“Hmm I presume, well have you seen the news? Anita was just announced dead”

Rihanna feigned ignorance touching her chest in shock, if anyone didn’t know her well, they’ll assume that she was as innocent as a lamb..

“What?! oh my goodness! how can that be? what exactly happened?!”

However, Tracy wasn’t the least moved by her daughter’s false pretense, in as much as she really disliked Anita, she never for once wished her dead..

Or maybe just once when the latter snatched Aldrin as her fiance years ago..

“You and I know pretty well that this had something to do with you one way or another”

Rihanna turned around to her mum glaring hard at her, so what if she was guilty? will she really hand her daughter out to the cops to deal with?

“What? really mum? just because I said some harmless words to you at the hospital you now think that I’m responsible for Mrs Sterling’s death?!”

“I never knew that I was raising a monster all these while in the form of a girl I used to put all my hopes on.. you caused Asher’s fall which led him to a coma as worse as death! and now this?!”

Rihanna sucked in a breath through her teeth, she threw her black purse to the couch before facing her mum again..

“Even the police couldn’t find anything against me! I really had no hand in whatever might have happened to Damien’s mother!”

“I’m sure you do Rihanna”

***

Olivia held her breath as the car flew like a bullet on the highway, she snapped her head to Damien who was steering the wheel like a total maniac..

It was clear that he had gone out of his mind, she held his arm giving it a tight squeeze in the hopes that he might stop..

“Damien.. please stop you’ll kill us both!”

She had no idea where he was heading to at the moment or what was running through his clouded mind..

“Damien please-

The car came to a sudden halt, thankfully she had her seatbelt on otherwise she’d have been hurt seriously..

Series of gasps and pants left her mouth, she turned to take a look at Damien whose head was now resting against the steering wheel..

She had ran out of words to comfort him with, now all she had to do was sit here and watch him fight out his anger..

No matter how long it took him to get himself back together again, she was willing to wait for him..

Luckily their car wasn’t parked in the middle of the road..

***

By the time Sandy got home, it was already way past bedtime, the lights in the living room had been turned off which meant everyone had gone to bed..

She pulled off her flats by the side of the door and wore her slippers..

The lights in the room suddenly came on which left her frightened..

She was startled to see Bianca seated in the living room staring at her in suspicion..

“Goodness! you almost scared the living hell out of me! what were you thinking?” She brushed it off with a light chuckle..

Bianca stood up to her feet with a creased brow, something was definitely fishy with the way Sandy stared at her..

“You look fine enough for a person whose friend just died”

A look of sadness crossed Sandy’s face as Bianca’s words played in her head..

“I’m still finding it hard to believe that she’s gone.. I would really miss having her around”

Bianca’s eyes fell on the grocery bag on Sandy’s hand.

She doesn’t know why but Sandy was behaving a little weird to her, it appeared she went to the grocery store..

“You went shopping for groceries? the last thing you should be thinking about right now is food aunt.. you just lost a good friend of yours”

Sandy rolled her eyes moving to the kitchen where she placed the grocery items on the island…

“I got them for the kids..” she defended herself taking out the items from the bag..

“Kelvin and Kiara don’t eat those or aything else that I’m seeing right there.. you clearly went to shop for yourself alone, because you got ingredients for your favourite foods.. really aunt? you don’t look like someone mourning to me”

Sandy sighed helplessly as she made her way back to Bianca, the latter was just being unnecessarily curious about nothing..

“You weren’t there to see me crying my lungs out at the hospital today.. I think I’ve run out of tears to shed because whenever I squint my eyes to cry nothing comes forth.. just take a look at this”Upstodatee from Novel(D)ra/m/a.O(r)g

Bianca moved back at Sandy’s sudden breakdown, she squinted her eyes trying to force tears out of it..

All Bianca could do was to place a palm over Sandy’s forehead just to be sure that the latter was really okay..

“See? hey! what do you mean by doing that? I’m completely normal”

“Okay, I’ll go to bed now, hopefully by tomorrow morning you’ll get back to normal” She murmured leaving the room..

As soon as Bianca was gone, Sandy sighed in relief..

“She is so sneaky!” she grumbled heading to the kitchen for a drink..