Second chances

Chapter Thirty Eight : Two For One

The moment Charles heard his wife had been recovered he drove like he had never before. Esther had to tell him to slow down occasionally if he didn't want his corpse to meet Victoria.

When he got to the hospital his daughter and Victoria's mother were already there. Aaron and Christy were locked in an embrace and Christy seemed to be sobbing.
It was not until that moment that he realized that Christy and Aaron were cousins. How had he forgotten something so important, he silently thanked God that the fiasco that held in his house that day was stopped by Christian.

Victoria's mother was also crying, Nasa, Christian and his family seemed to be involved in the expulsion of ocular fluids too. Christian did well to hide his tears but his eyes had turned so red that he would have been mistaken as someone high from smoking.

The environment was so tense that even the looks the nurses gave were also of pity. Charles became very much afraid, even Esther appeared tense.

Charles didn't want to think about it, he just didn't want to hear that he lost Victoria, he'd run mad.

He managed to regain composure before he asked them what happened.

Christy left Aaron and flew into his arms. He held his daughter and patted her back while she sobbed.

Aaron moved to where his mom stood and hugged her.

Vicky's mother could not talk she kept sobbing. The poor woman was at the verge of losing her husband and no one knew the condition her daughter was in.
Christian finally drew Charles aside and spoke to him.

"we were talking to father and he kept asking of Victoria, he fell asleep and we thought he was fine. Two hours later he started screaming he said someone hit him. The next thing we know he's having seizures and they took him into the operating room. It wasn't long before they wheeled Victoria in too. She was... She was bleeding, she looked pale and had bruises on her hands. The doctor told us few minutes that Vicky has a hemorrhage in the brain. She also had a miscarriage, they're not sure if she'll make it. They're trying their best to stop the bleeding but she's lost too much blood. I can't lose two people in a day. Do you have any idea what happened to Vicky? "
Charles understood how Christian felt, he had always been so protective of his baby sister, now he was losing her and there was nothing he could do about it.

Charles' breathing became hitched and he couldn't even fight the urge to cry so he walked away from the crowd.

There had to be something he could do, anything to save his wife. It was his fault that he she was in that predicament.

He remembered how they had fought before they left his house. He remembered the look Vicky had given him after he doubted the paternity of their baby.

listen Victoria you have no right to judge me, you were also whoring about with their husbands. I'm no Saint but atleast I'm not a hypocrite, a liar and a slut!." 

" Jude seemed very taken by you, did you enjoy Chris too? "

"How would I know, when I never slept with any of them. Maybe that's what I should have done. You don't even seem to be sorry for what you did! "

"Nasa showed me a text sent from your phone to her husband. I took a shot of it, which is still on my phone. This accident was horrible but I thought it would help us get through this thing. Clearly I was wrong, no matter how deep the truth is buried, it'll always seem to surface. I wanted you to vent for so many years, I wanted you to ask me why I did the things I did. But instead you start sleeping around too. Do you know how I felt when you started working for Jude again? I knew you had started remembering then, It made me doubt... "