DECEPTION AND REVENGE

CHAPTER 3

She was rushed to the delivery room on arrival at the hospital. Richard was nervous as he walked from one point to another eagerly waiting for some news, one hour was almost up.
"Are you Mr.Richard?" The doctor who had approached him asked.
As he nodded the doctor continued, " I am doctor lamuel, i am afraid i have some very bad news for you." He had had this fear for a long time, it was like a foreboding of things not being right. "Your wife needs to undergo a cs, normal delivery has taken a long time and she has lost a lot of blood, i just need a go ahead from you."
He was no longer thinking straight and he accepted without even noticing it.
Becca was rushed to the operating room for a life saving surgery.
Richard could no longer take it so he left for home, prayed then picked up some of the clothes they had bought for the twins and went back to the hospital. By the time he had arrived at the hospital becca had already delivered. The doctor noticed that he had come back so he approached him again, "Congratulations mr.Richard she has delivered two bouncing baby girls, but she firsts wants to see you."

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"Hi my love ,i am here." And his voice woke her up, one could see she was very weak and her life was holding on a very thin thread and this was the reality her husband never wanted to admit.
"Dear Richard, life has been very fair and it has given me what i thought i had lost." This speech gave Richard a de ja vu feeling, was she telling him goodbye?.
"Please promise me you will take care of them, they are really beautiful and fragile." But he did not want to let her go, how would he live without her.
"I think you are mistaken becca, we will take care of them together, there is no way you will leave me."he retaliated.
"I am so sorry but you have to let me go." Her breath was already failing her
She spread out her arms and called him, they hugged as they held their hands together." Promise me richard." she whispered
"I promise my love, becca."
"What a relief, that's all i wanted to hear dear Richard, thank you."
"Please becca don't even think of leaving me alone, what will i end up being without you."
"You know i love you and will always do, take care of them and remember wherever i will be i will always wait for you, never forget that. Don't worry your mind that you won't be a good father, trust me you will be splendid." Her breath was already hitching, a sign of the beginning of the end and this never went unnoticed by his hawk eyes.
"Shhh, my love you need to get better, you can't leave us so soon, i will get the best help and you will get better."
"Don't judge yourself so harsh Richard, all couples have their own issues, but they always overcome like we did."
"Exactly dear one and we need to push on like we did."
"Oh loving Richard, i am a lost cause, they had to live, a life for a life, thats what we do." She answered him weakly tears already welling up in her eyes, how she wanted to nurse those girls, play with them and watch them grow but it was no longer possible, life was already slipping through her oily hands, she could feel it. She could feel the pain Richard was fighting off, trying to keep strong for her and the newborns, how she wished life was a bit fair. She could feel herself struggling to breath, her heart slowing down. She had to act fast, time was no longer on her side. Getting his arm she ushered him closer to her mouth and gave him a soft shallow kiss and she whispered to his ears.
"Goodbye my love." With that her heart stopped, never to beat again and her body, now an empty shell was calm no longer fighting to live, for her it was only darkness, nothing more could be done.
Richard had never experienced such pain in his life before, no such loss and it dawned on him he was all alone. He clutched her lifeless body and wailed painfully, angrily. What was he angry at, was it at her for leaving him or at himself for making her pregnant. He could not believe it, his joyful, radiant and faithful Becca was no longer of this world. She was gone and each time he thought of it it hit him hard more than the previous time. Why her, why not him, his pain was immense, he was angry at God at the doctors, at the world, he was angry at everything, everyone. He blamed himself for everthing, he had hurt her so much, why had he done that?.
He felt her, her body was still warm with her eyes open. He extended his arm and did what he had to do, he closed her eyes, never to be opened again. It was too much.

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