Chapter 24: Chapter Twenty-Four: Vasovagal Reaction.

"HE KILLED MY FIANCE"

Mrs. Annabelle was stunned at the sudden scream from Jamal; she rashly moved back in fear.

"This is not my son. This can't be my Jamal. Norway, he's a stranger and a monster. He can't be my son."Mrs. Annabelle kept on saying these words as she was moving away from Jamal. Mr. Daniel saw the shock on his wife so he rushed over and let her fall into his arms and carried her out of the living room as fast as he could.

"Valentino killed Ashley. What was he thinking? That I was going to let him be after killing the only happiness that I had? He must have thought of me as a joke ahh, how could he move on after I killed Elizabeth? He can't, he's not allowed to move on, he's stuck with me."Jamal couldn't stop rambling and he was getting out of control. The guards had to move him to one of the empty garages. He stayed there all night screaming and banging at the door.

Mrs. Annabelle had collapsed due to the pandemic. Her head couldn't carry the stress, she was so drained by everything that was happening. Mr. Daniel didn't know what to do so he solicited a doctor to come over and take care of his wife.

"She zoned out due to the stress and thinking, she just suffered from the vasovagal reaction so she needs more rest, no stress and keep things that will make her heart race away from anything that will get her worried about anything so as not to worsen her situation." The doctor prescribed drugs which he handed over to Mr. Daniel before he left. Mr. Daniel watched over his wife all through the night without having a glimpse of sleep.

Last night was one of the most unfortunate nights Alice had witnessed. She didn't know that most families have problems that are similar to her problem or should I say greater than her problems. Alice couldn't sleep last night either but before she did, her mind was all wide and around the place "This is becoming too much drama for me and coming from only one client No I don't think it's worth it" She keeps this on her head, repeated the sentence over and over again right in her head. She was in search of a way to leave this contract she couldn't continue, too much drama just for a day. She kept on rambling on her head not knowing when she dozed off with her hand on top of Valentino's bed as a support to her while she laid her head on them.

As they enunciate, new day, new morning let yesterday be yesterday. So here came a new day and eventually this new day has plenty of new specialties that pursue things like How Alice made up her mind to leave the contract. Yatch.

The birds continued singing their song not minding the calmness of the earth in its early days, not minding that most people were still soundly asleep but anyway, it did wake some people up to an early morning breeze which was filled with storming cold.

Valentino didn't have a good night's rest though he was to make better use of the morning and the fact that he had nothing to do only allowed to lazy around at the hospital until the doctor felt he was fit enough to go back to work. But guess what? The morning birds were so freewheeling that it made Valentino wake up fully and couldn't fall back to sleep. He tried standing up just to stretch himself or more like a morning exercise, only to notice a heavy substance holding back his bedsheet as he tried to pull it over. He looked down at his bed just to find Alice's head resting right on his bed with the bedspread under her head. Valentino didn't know if he was to get angry and push her so hard that she would fall flat and hard on the floor." I can't be that wicked, Am I?" he questioned himself. He kept his gaze on Alice as she slept peacefully for a long time. His weary eyes were beginning to pop and yearn for sleep again so he quietly laid down while his eyes were still on Alice and a few minutes passed, he was already sound asleep again.

Mrs. Annabelle woke up to a new and beautiful morning. Knowing that she had only thought of Valentino even before she keeled over made her carve seeing his son as soon as she could. The doctor said she wasn't to be stressed by worries so Mr. Daniel didn't bring up the matter about Jamal with her, instead, he arranged things so she could go meet her son and get better. Mrs. Annabelle was happy to know that she was seeing Valentino soon and the check-up call they heard this morning about how much recovered he was, made her so delighted.

Mr. & Mrs. Frost had left for the hospital and had stayed on the road for a few hours now, though because there was a bit of traffic on their way due to an accident that had occurred early this morning. Nobody was wounded, the truck was just stuck on the road which made cars slow down but even after that they made it to the hospital and went straight to the VIP ward where their son was. On getting there, the scene they had witnessed was a very lovely one like they thought. Mrs. Annabelle grilled like a ten-year-old who was offered a sweet. She was so happy to see them in that position. Mr. Daniel tried to walk in and wake them up but his wife thought it wasn't a good idea "Why don't we sit, watch, and wait while they wake up."Mrs. Annabelle had suggested that they did.

Alice tried to stretch her hand and back but just couldn't, the feeling of having a huge hand resting at her back like some protective object was worrisome. And that was the exact scene Valentino's parents came across. She looked up only to notice that she had slept off last night right at Valentino's bedside with his hands on her back. This uncomfortable state made her cut off balance and she fell to the floor making a huge sound that woke Valentino up and drew Valentino's parents' minds back to where they were.

"Hey baby are you ok?" Mrs. Annabelle hurried over to help Alice stand on her feet.

"Yes I am fine, Good morning Mrs. Annabelle, and same to you Mr. Daniel."Alice greeted with a fake smile pretending like she was fine while her waist hurt a lot.

"Hey, Mom."Valentino's deep voice was heard.