Alacrimia | √

Chapter Seventeen

02:32 pm, September 19.

'You're almost fully recovered now, Enyi, you just have to spend one more day here to fully recover and you'll be discharged by the weekend.' The doctor straightened up from examining her eyes and turned off the beam of the light.

Eniiyi smiled at him and shook her head. 'It is Eniiyi, not Enyi, sir.'

The doctor laughed at this. 'Of course, Enyi.'

She puckered her lips and frowned at him not finding it funny.

'Kedu?' the doctor asked, confused as to why she was angry.

The girl remained silent, her frown deepening.

'Okay, okay, I'm sorry, Eniiyi.'

'Better,' said Eniiyi. She now smiled at him and pushed herself up on the hospital bed. 'When are they coming?' she asked the question that had been on the tip of her tongue since she'd been told Lastborn and the woman who helped them were around.

'They are just outside, I'll tell them that they can see you now.'

Eniiyi smiled again, excited. 'What of my Daddy and Mommy?'

The doctor sighed. 'I believe that the police are working on that already,' he said. 'I have to go now, I have other rounds to see to. A nurse will bring your lunch in shortly.' With this he picked up his chart and exited the room.

Eniiyi stared at his back as he walked out of the room. Again it seemed unbelievable how she'd seen the decorated bull in this man for they were complete opposites. The doctor was tall and fit and his thin moustache gave him a fatherly look whereas the native doctor was stout and sinewy and was anything but fatherly.

Everything that happened earlier yesterday had fully dawned on her this morning. She had been half out of unconsciousness and the doctor was walking towards her for a check up and then, still trapped in the abyss of the week's horror, his face had been morphed into that of her worst nightmare.

'Eniiyi,' a small voice said, breaking her from the cocoon of her thoughts.

She had hardly raised her head when arms wrapped around her shoulders and pulled her in for a hug.

Eniiyi giggled and hugged him back. 'Lastborn,' was all she could say.

'You're alive!'

She rolled her eyes and pushed him away. 'Yes, I am.'

Lastborn noticed the look on her face. 'I was worried, you almost died.'

She smiled by way of apology. When she'd woken up yesterday morning for the first time in almost three days Lastborn had been the first person to notice and had called the doctor's attention. Then the boy had been told he couldn't see her till further notice. The poor boy must have been worried to death.

'Thanks for everything, Lastborn,' she said softly.

'You're welcome,' Lastborn said. 'Eniiyi, this is Mrs Okenwa, she saved our lives.'

It was then that Eniiyi noticed a woman standing to the side. She was a slender, light skin lady with a heart-shaped face graced with elegant cheekbones and big eyes. Her long box braids loosely framed her beautiful face and cascaded down her shoulders.

Eniiyi turned down a corner of her mouth, speechless. She had been expecting to see an older woman —this woman couldn't be old enough to give birth to even her.

'Hello,' said the woman as she moved closer to the bed. 'Nice to finally meet you in consciousness.' She took hold of one of her hands in between both of hers and smiled.