We had been patrolling the ER (emergency room), since Yusuf had been rushed in. The doctors and nurses were going and coming out of the room. They were carrying out some tests on him. One of the doctors came out and told us he was fine but we should wait for some hours for the medical report.

Yusuf's mother had called Khadijah that the wedding has been shifted because of Yusuf unexpectedly collapsed and called his husband to come to the hospital.

He had been moved to a private room after he had regained his breath but hadn't opened his eyes yet. The doctor said we could go meet him in the room but no shouting and he told Yusuf's father to see him in his office.

We entered the room saying our teslim, Yusuf was lying on the bed unconsciously with the IV connected to his blood stream. His face looked pale.

Yusuf's mother sat beside him on his bed, crying softly, urging him to wake up while I stood at the corner looking at his mother.

I was the cause of this.

If I had stop when he told me to stop, this would not have happened.

If I had not visited him.

Too many if's were going through my minds.

Ya Allah!, the giver of healness, please heal him.

The doctor had said not to triggered him but I had done the opposite.

This was what his mother was protecting him for.

I felt guilty.

If I....

Khadijah barged in without greeting anyone and glared at me  with so much hatred.

You caused her wedding to not take place today. My brain replied.

"Why was he not taken to the family hospital? And why was he not given his drug when he was having his episode" she scowled at Yusuf's mother who was crying.

"Erm.." she cut me off.

"I'm not talking to you" she clenched her teeth, "I'm talking to her" she growled, pointing to Yusuf's mother.

"When Sophia came this morning, she was talking to him when he started holding his head then I told Sophia to bring his medicine but it slipped and fell and when we were coming we thought the family hospital was far that was why we brought him here" she replied, wiping the tears.

"What?" she exclaimed loudly.

"You" she yelled at me, "You are always the cause of everything. The drug should have calmed him down but you let it slip" she said with so much venom.

"You destroyed my plan, since the first day I saw you I knew you were an abomination. You let the drug slip when it was one hour for me to achieve my plans but you" she lunged at me and clawed my face with her artificial nails.

"I've been planning this for so long that I couldn't wait to rejoice" she cried and at that moment Yusuf's mother coughed painfully, using her handkerchief to covered her mouth as she removed it there was blood stain on it.

I went to her worriedly, "What happened" I asked.

"Oh dear, it has been a while that I've been coughing blood but it will soon go" she smile and started coughing then khadijah started laughing maniacally.

"It can never leaves you" she smiled sardonically  while I stared up at her like she had grown another head.

"What do you mean?" she asked her in between her coughing while I patted her back.

"Because the Aconitum flower that I planted in your room is poisonous as you are inhaling it, it is deterring your health. It will kill you slow" she sat on the extra chair while picking her nails.

"God loves your son sincerely, he supposed to have dead because the drug he was using was mixed with benzodiazepines, propranolol and  lead. Truth he didn't remember you when he woke up but with the use of that drug, it would be slowing it down" she sighed, rubbing her forehead dramatically.

"I remembered you straight away when I saw you five years ago when Yusuf was rushed on after his accident. I knew the opportunity has came for me to destroy your family how it was destroyed by yours. Yusuf was not supposed to be in coma for two years but I used that two years to plan. The nurse in charged of Yusuf that time was indebted to me and I told her to do anything that could make Yusuf to be coma when she was transferred that was why Yusuf woke up. She didn't have any choice but to do it. Your family doctor was also part of the plan because I'd the s.e.xtape he and the nurse with me. I told him to lie to you guys. I told him that you should not let me to be triggered and I should be his personal nurse so that I could monitor him how he should be using the drugs" I was a sobbing mess, I was sobbing heresticaly while Yusuf's mother was coughing, cursing her in between her coughing but she just stood up and walked around the room as if it was hers.

"Then I heard that Yusuf had a son. I convinced Yusuf to let me write an application letter to be a teacher so that I could be familiar with kids. Do you know what?" she directed her question to me.

"Your son's accident was not a mistake" my breath hitched, "because I was the one who hit him and it was intentional, I wanted him gone" she smirked. "But by the time I reached home Yusuf has gone to donated his blood because" she paused, "this witch" she shouted, glaring at Yusuf's mother "told him that one of his favorite pupils was in need of blood blah blah..." she trailed.

"But you came along" she sneered at me, "I supposed to have deleted you".

"Why are you doing all this?" Yusuf's father whispered as he was coming in.

"Because I do not want any Umar's bloodline alive. I wanted them to die as my family too" she shouted breathing heavily.

"You killed my family" she pointed an accusation finger at Yusuf's father. "You made me an orphan"sje shouted." Yoruba people do say,'Eni to su le gbagbe sugbon Eni to ko o le gbagbe'*. You've forgotten. Fifteen years ago because my father stole from you, you removed him from his workplace. The money he wanted to used to pay for my mom's health. But because of your selfish self, you fired him. My mother died, my father died because of the pain and depression. I dropped out from school and became a begger. I came to revenge. Your family will pay for it because Yusuf would have already being diagnosed with poisonous in his system. Your wife also will soon die and I know the pain of your son and wife death will rise your already BP (blood pressure). You be depressed and you will die afterward and all your properties will be mine but this girl came to crash everything" she snarled and pushed me to the wall. I hit my head on the nearest wall. She tackled me on the floor while choking me, screaming "die". I was thrashing on the floor, trying to pushed her off but her strength surpassed mine. (*that's you could forget you hurt or wrong someone but the person you wrong or hurt could never forget).

"Security" I was hearing at the background. I felt my consciousness slipping as she was choking tightly. People were entering and shouting but my hearing and sight organs were not working.

My breathing slow down, I couldn't feel my body and I succ.u.mbed into darkness not before hearing...

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"SOFIA"