Love And Ashes

000 from?" My hands and feet were shaking

perhaps I saw wrongly but I didn't, it was exactly $200,000, I gasped

olleague Maryann ask

ug anyone with my issues, I w

n't look okay to me, what's going

t, I'm not okay, my sister is sick and she needs urgent

o sorry about your sister, b

r to her, I didn't kno

oney! Where are you going to ge

d my head with my hands wrapped in b

htened, I looked up at her, there came that pitiful l

ugh a lot right now Selena, you don't deser

treating me, it has been totally unfair with me snatching people I

is, he is very wealthy and he seems to lik

would do no such th

undred years would never be able give you that type of money Sel

"did he pay you t

ding silly Selena, I heard Mr. Ch

o a man old enough to be my father?"

e you I would gladly say yes to him, it's obvious

ime I felt Maryann was being totally unfair by asking me

I heard Mr.

s sagged "n

hated the fact that I had to relate my issues wit

et of my trouser heading into the res

attend to his numerous customers, I cou

t me and asked me

ver to where the old man sat to take his o

at the clock, I shook my head at the though

doing today?" He as

answered no

get for you

elena, is their a problem?"

telling him anything, after all I

n I get for you?" I asked ove

would do"

I was totally off from my environment that day, I couldn't wait to be done with work

another word to me, I was so mad at myself and everything else around me, m

found it's way out of my eyes, I felt l

were freezing in fear at the thought of th

eing kidnapped in the neighborhood and traf

ard a familiar voic

Chancy, my mood grew worse "

't you hop in while I give

fer Mr. Chancy but I would rather use a taxi than sit

t at once opening it's door, the cab

o Mr. Chancy but I didn'

f the hospital as I hurried insid

ught some food and fruit drink from a shop

nabelle's room,

r moving quick

sed her forehead,

elena" she said

and I wiped them off quickly

would have my kid sister lying in a hospital bed like

ging, I quickly pull

ked the call at onc

u doing?" He asked

wered running my h

ther yet neither is your sister, what's goin

home from work, Anabelle might be in he

I'm home now"

and wouldn't have to insist on waiting for me to get

e stare

d to her running my

you want him to know I'm ill?" An

ut us, he has done more than enough for us already, besides he has his fa

r "don't stress yourself, just rest Anabelle,

better when I know she needs surgery for t

I was cool, I didn't want to tell her anything abou

wiped them "I can't loose you to

phone on the des

in the living room with

bamboo sticks but was lar

room, Louis lived with his pa

eading to the kitchen, she dropped it on a small table loca

ot notice s

ed out on seeing th

bit looking

He called

e walked up to him and sat quietly beside him, it has