Stars Align✅

CHAPTER 22: COMPLICATIONS

Sarah whom sat in a heavily tinted car just across the Maikano mansion pulled out her phone and dialed big boss's number. She waited for a while for him to pick up the phone and when he did, she brought the phone up to her ear and spoke, "It's me" she said.

She heard shuffling from the other end of the line, and then silence followed afterwards.

Her brows furrowed in confusion. Why wasn't he answering? "Hey..."

"I'm here" his gruff voice came out strained as though he's struggling to talk. She had never heard him like this before, so it scared her.

As much as she tries not to care for the man, she did, a lot. Even though she knew that is a bad idea, she still didn't think about that, especially knowing his after. "Are you okay?" she asked, making the mistake of letting the emotion of her worrying about him become distinct in her tone. She somehow thought it will help him.

"That's none of your problem!" he rebuked.

Perhaps, she was wrong. It wasn't going to soothe him. When had it ever?

She inhaled sharply as her passive façade came back to her face masking away all that emotions as if it wasn't there to begin with. "I'm in front of Jannah's house. Daihaah's not here yet but I have a feeling she will be, she stayed here yesterday till after Isha" she went ahead and gave him the information as she was told to do.

Silence came from the other side again before a low cackle was heard, "You did good with the parents" he said.

It was as if his words had set something on in Sarah as the minute he said those words her thoughts wandered off to the day before and all that happened.

Sarah all dressed up in the nurses' outfit had a surgical mask covering the lower half her face. She scribbled something down on the notepad in her hand as she stood in front of the receptionist.

"Are you new here?" The receptionist asked Sarah politely as she had never seen her there. And she would know because she's the biggest gossipmonger in the hospital.

Sarah fixed the big round glasses that covered her eyes and refused the look up. She pretended to not have heard the nosy receptionist and scribbled something down on the notepad again to seem busy.

"Um...hey?" the receptionist called out again, and just like the other time, Sarah ignored her making the receptionist mutter, "Rude..." under her breath.

Just as she's said that, Sarah noticed someone walk in from her peripheral view. Raising her head up she walked over to an old woman walking alone slowly into the hospital and helped her only to get a close view of Jannah whom walked into the premises.

With her gaze on Jannah alone, she watched as Jannah walked to her father's hospital room. Sarah tucked a strand of the raven wig she had on behind her ear and smiled at the old woman that she just helped before walking away in the direction of the hospital's mosque.

She spotted Mama walking out of the mosque and kept her head down still walking in the woman's direction. 'Accidentally' which wasn't an accident by the way, she bumped into Mama who looked up to see the young 'nurse'.

"I'm so sorry Ma'am" Sarah quickly apologized raising her head up to look at the woman.

Mama smiled, "It is okay child"

Sarah returned back the smiled before her eyes widened slightly, "You're Mrs. Maikano right?" she asked as if she was unsure of the fact.

Mama nodded, a look of worry suddenly etched on her face, "Yes I am. Did something happen to my husband?" she asked making Sarah shake her head.