Throes Of Love.

Chapter Two.

Throes of Love.

Chanel smiled as she held her father's hand. He was cold today she felt. He had been going in and out of sleep for the past few days. She wanted him to be okay. She wanted him to be fine. She had been praying for him since but she didn't see any change. She cleaned tears that had left her eye.

She was happy that she had not heard from Alfonso since and he had returned the money to her.

"Babygirl. " Her father breathed out after some time. Her head shot up immediately, she had fallen asleep.

"Daddy. How are you ?" She asked, making her grip on his hand firm.

"No how are you? You look like you haven't slept in days. " Her father said smiling at her. She didn't know how he managed to smile through the pain he was going through.

"I'm fine daddy. Everything's good. " Chanel said trying to convince her father. She didn't want him worrying about her at all.

"Chanel the doctor has said. " Her father said before he coughed. He let out a long wheezing cough before he continued. She made to stand up and get him water but he held her hand softly.

"Don't go anywhere. " He said, tiredly. She hated to see him struggling. "I feel it. I don't have time. I'm tired. Baby, your mother and I have always loved you. " He said, causing tears to build in her eyes.

Chanel could not hold back the tears she had been keeping for so long.
"Daddy stop. Don't talk like that. You'll be fine. " She said and she didn't know if she was trying to reassure herself or him.

"Shh. " Her father said before he held her hand again. "I love you too much. Live your life. " That was what he said before he fell asleep again.

Chanel cried there on the bed. She didn't know how to feel. Her father was dying right before her eyes. She noticed he looked paler than before. The doctor told her the facts but she didn't want to believe it. He told her father was dying. It could be any day for now. His body could no more fight.

*****

Chanel woke up to the persistent beeping of the machine in her room. She was confused at first before she realized what was happening.

She heard her father's cough. That was when she felt him holding her hand.

"I love you, baby. " Her father said, his grip on her hand slowly loosened.

Chanel hurriedly got up from her seat. She ran to the nurse at the desk.

"There's something wrong with my father!" She shouted. The nurse stood up and hurriedly made her way to the room.

"Clara page Dr. Lisa. " The nurse made her way to the room with Chanel there standing at the doorway.

Everything felt like a dream before her. She was watching everything in slow motion. How the doctor came in. She was checking her father. The nurse stood beside the bed, looking hopeless.

The minute the doctor walked up to her and gave her the bad news. She felt herself enter into a pit of darkness. That was it for her.

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Alfonso had walked into the hospital. He had been directed to the room. He was meant to see her father. Just before his eyes, he watched how she almost fell to the ground, if he didn't catch her.

"What happened to her?" Alfonso asked the doctor. He feared the worst. He hoped her father was not dead.

"Who are you, if I may ask?" The doctor said, looking at Alfonso.