vivikul: Sorry pls forgv me av nt bin comenting. Nyc work n tanx for making d picture more clearer by d day

Thanks dear.

Puleez I'm hungry Queen...feed me.

Kathy had really suffered. Weldone Queen

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'My daddy died and had to be buried. I couldn't do that on my own so I called my uncles. They came and decided to bury him in the cemetery but I wanted him buried in the house. Their will prevailed despite my objection. They left me after that.'

'How can they leave just like that, after everything your parents did for them.' Kelvin frowned.

Katherine laughed heartily and then held her throat. 'They left me just like that, not even interested in my welfare or how I would cope.'

Kelvin shook his head.

'Two days after my dad's burial, I went to their various office to ask for advise and help. They told me same thing.' She smiled bitterly and wiped her face. 'They told me looking me straight in the eyes that life was a ''scratch my back, I scratch yours affair". That was the first time I heard that, so I didn't understand what it meant and I did ask them to explain and they told me, I will be having coitus with them and they in turn would take care of everything I needed.

'Jeez! You were only sixteen! '

She pursed her lips and tears flowed. 'Right there in their office, I felt as though a bomb had exploded in the premises. '

'Oh my God...I thought this only happens in the imagination of a writer. This is ridiculous. '

'I guess I was like you until I was a victim.'

'What did you do? ' He searched her facial expression.

'Tears just welled in my eyes...I was too disappointed, too dazed to utter a word. I picked my bag and left their office. By the time I got home, I was seriously comtemplating suicide. I knew I would rather die than do want they wanted. '

Kelvin exhaled pained.

'I picked to knife to stab myself but I couldn't because I knew my family especially God would be disappointed in me and I wouldn't go to the resting place up above...I wouldn't go where my parents and Kennedy were.' She sobbed.

Kelvin stared at her with so much respect trying not to think of what he would have done in her shoes. He would have been a trained assassin. He took her palms in his.

'A week later, my eldest uncle came to the house and told me he was giving me twenty fours to vacate my father's house. He asked for the documents of the three plot of land. 

Three days before my dad passed on, he handed them over to me. One part of me wanted to deny knowledge of it, so I could burn them before vacating. I suppressed that part and handed them over to him.'

My brother girlfriend came that evening and I narrated the latest to her. She arranged for a lorry and people who helped move everything movable property in the house.
The house I am living in was giving to me by her as a parting gift. She left to live abroad where her family was.' She looked at him.
'I wished so many times that everything that had happened to me was a horrible dream. Nineteen months had gone and many months after, it is still difficult for me...loosing them all. It is still like an horrible nightmare. Do you know it means to lose people you've know all your life and learn to live life without them? Do you know the pain and emptiness that engulfs me anytime I wake just to realise they are no more? Do you know Kel... do you? ' She clasped a palm over quivering lips.

Kelvin heaved. 'No dear I don't, I can only imagine.'

'Imagination can never do, never.' She sniffed and her tears began rolling down her tears-stained cheeks. 'Those who have a suffered a broken relationship don't even know how it hurts because family is very important. ' Katherine closed her eyes momentarily.

Kelvin was heartbroken to see she still had more tears in spite of the multitude she had shed already.

'My brother girlfriend left two days after I moved in, her family were aware of their relationship and were on her neck for her to come over knowing she was devastated.

The days that followed...' She stared into space. 'I slumped in and out of consciousness. I hardly ate, I lived behind closed door for about three moon, I longed for death as though it was natural. When I saw it wasn't forthcoming, I went back to God and his words. I got uplifted, little by little, I was able to pick up the broken pieces of my heart and put them together.

I willed my heart to forget special dates and days like my birthday for me to move on. '

Kelvin remembered the look on her face when she came to his office with the birthday gift. He understood it all, all the lack of trust she had put up. It was all clear.

'I took jobs, I was a cook in the first and soon enough the boss son wouldn't let me be, my colleagues got jealous and I had to quit.
Same for other jobs I took, it's either the boss, the son or their guests. I worked in one as a companion to three children for two years before their father started giving me unnecessary attention. The man was an engineer and the wife a bank manager. When I told the children I was leaving, they wept because I more like a mum to them. I made them promise not to forget all I taught them. They made promise to check on them someday. I wish I could see them. ' She smiled.

'Nothing is holding you back darling, when you're ready, I'll come with you.'

'Kelvin.' She whispered and her smile widened. 'You are crying.'

'Am I? ' He touched his face. 'Oh my...' He chuckled embarrassed and wiped his tears.

'It was when I was going back home, I saw SIC and the advert for a cleaner. You know the rest of the story.'

'I do darling. ' He took her palm and kissed it.

She coughed, her body ached and felt hot. 'Thank you for everything... everything. I can't begin to express... '

'Shhhh...thank you for being you.' He beamed at her. 'I have learnt a lot from you today.' He said and opened another bottled water. 'Drink water.'

She shook her head.

'I'm not asking you Sweetie, I'm telling you. You've lost so much fluid.'

She obeyed him.

He poured some water on a napkin and wiped her face and then dabbed her neck.

He took all they brought for picnic to the car.

Katherine bend over rocking herself with a palm over her forehead with shut eyes. She winced in pain.

Soon, they were walking to where the car was parked with Kelvin hand around her waist supporting her.

Suddenly, she lurched and he felt her become limp against him.

He grabbed her as panick surged him through him.

'Katherine... ' He shook her arms.

As her head fell back, he saw only the white of her eyes before it closed.

He swept her off her feet and hurried as fast as he could to the car.

He laid her and felt for pulse on her wrist. He didn't feel any.

'Katherine please... don't give up on me....' He slammed the back door shut and entered the driver side.

'Oh God please...help me... help me please... ' He let a shaky breath as he glanced at the side mirror and then reversed. 'God please... no traffic.' He muttered. ' Katherine... ' He called and glanced at the inner mirror, hoping she would stir to no avail. 'Stay with me darling. ' He muttered as he gripped the steering wheel and joined the express road leaving dust behind.

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crislyn: Puleez I'm hungry Queen...feed me.

Oya o, food is served.

TiffanyJ: Kathy had really suffered. Weldone Queen

Suffer no be small. Thanks for your royal pence Sweetie.

Hmmm, poor Kathy, i do hope she will be okay:|. She has really passed thru HELL ooo. Dearie, great job n well done ooo

nnekamezor: Hmmm, poor Kathy, i do hope she will be okay:|. She has really passed thru HELL ooo. Dearie, great job n well done ooo

I do hope she would be okay too, thanks dearie.

Great update. I'm sure Kathy's fine. Just fatigue.

Nyc one queen

Hmmm ds is so heart wrenching.

crislyn: Hmmm ds is so heart wrenching.

mmmh... tell me about it darling.

jaymomma: Great update. I'm sure Kathy's fine. Just fatigue.

Nyc one queen

I just hope it's fatigue really Sweetie.

Hi Queenxstar...hope you won't mind checking out my poems. Pls read and comment on my poems on this link: https://www.nairaland.com/1877890/taiwos-anthology

Oooh Katty don't leave me
tanx queen

Mind blowing!

TaiwoAdeyemi054: Hi Queenxstar...hope you won't mind checking out my poems. Pls read and comment on my poems on this link: https://www.nairaland.com/1877890/taiwos-anthology

I don't mind.

Candis009: Oooh Katty don't leave me
tanx queen

Thanks dear

adeyemikenny5: Mind blowing!

Good to see you dear.

Weldone maam. But pls I dnt undastand d relatnship btwn dis tWo. Aw did she get so free as to accept going on picnic with kel n telling him her story? N dis whole darling ting, ah me I no too code oo. Or sister queen did I miss an episode

vivikul: Weldone maam. But pls I dnt undastand d relatnship btwn dis tWo. Aw did she get so free as to accept going on picnic with kel n telling him her story? N dis whole darling ting, ah me I no too code oo. Or sister queen did I miss an episode

I'll rather the house answer your questions.

I have been a secret follower......but today is different cant jst leave without not dropping anytin. Tanks for d update more graces on ur spiritual life

oh katty must not die oooo else............

Queenxstar: I'll rather the house answer your questions.

probably he has not been following. just tell him to start from d beginning of the work.

GTG members please help answer Vivi 's question.

boladex1: oh katty must not die oooo else............

Else we will... ooo

Benjaminbest: I have been a secret follower......but today is different cant jst leave without not dropping anytin. Tanks for d update more graces on ur spiritual life

Amen, thanks darling.

U r jxt da bxt Queeny, may ur fountain of knowledge neva run dry. @vivi, dear u nid 2go bck 2d vry beginning so u cn undastnd better.

Daintydaisy: U r jxt da bxt Queeny, may ur fountain of knowledge neva run dry. @vivi, dear u nid 2go bck 2d vry beginning so u cn undastnd better.

Amen.

Ma'am! C'mon get busy now, I mean our update.... Pls

*panting*

vivikul: Weldone maam. But pls I dnt undastand d relatnship btwn dis tWo. Aw did she get so free as to accept going on picnic with kel n telling him her story? N dis whole darling ting, ah me I no too code oo. Or sister queen did I miss an episode

o sisterly, u miss a lot, are u not aware that Kathy is now a senior patner in SIC and has brought so much good to d organization, hence all that VIP treatment

My ppl tanx for d clerification nah me no read inbtwn lines. Dear keep up d good work