Chapter 36

The morning sun shone into the ward room where the couple were sleeping peacefully, one on the bed the other on the sofa. Alicia was the first to wake up after the rays of light splashed on her face, she stood up from the couch and went to the bed. She opened the windows and went to the bathroom to wash her face. Nathan was still sleeping so she could quickly go home and bring him breakfast, she left the ward and left the hospital after informing the nurse she would be back soon.

In the Fontainebleau Villa

"Good morning Madam", the old housekeeper greeted Alicia as soon as she saw her

"Morning Housekeeper Tan", Alicia replied

"Can you please have breakfast and soup made for Nathan and I, Please pack it in a lunch box I will just shower and be right down",

"Alright madam, but sir can't have spicy food and you don't like bland meals so why don't I make you the spicy one and you can have it before leaving",

"No Housekeeper Tan, there is no need for that just make the non spicy one I will have that as well, there is no one at the hospital so I can't stay long", Alicia said with a smile

"Okay Madam", the housekeeper said and left while Alicia went upstairs to her room.

She had just come out if the shower when she received Zia's phone call.

"Hey Zia", she said after picking up the call

"Alicia how are you", Zia replied

"I am okay", Alicia said and picked up the bag she had packed with Nathan's clothes

"How is Mr Nathan's health now", Zia asked entering her car

"He is better now, he has been moved to the ward yesterday"

"That's such good news, Zack and Jay were worried since neither of us turned up at the restaurant two days ago and Brother Jack didn't inform Zack about the accident so I didn't either, I told them something cropped up and we would tell them later. Is that okay", Zia informed

"Yes Zia you did the right thing, Grandpa and father think that the accident was planned murder so they don't want anyone to find out and it might affect the company if it get revealed" Alicia said feeling quite confused about the whole thing

"Don't worry Alicia am sure that they will get to the bottom of it so just relax, I am coming to the hospital later today for my antenatal checkup, I will see you then okay"

"Okay Zia take care", Alicia said and hung up.

"Madam, here are the lunch boxes", Housekeeper Tan said and handed a bag over to Alicia.

"Thank you Housekeeper Tan", Alicia replied and left. She was on her way to the hospital when she noticed two black cars had been following her ever since she left and there was another suspicious back car in front.

She gathered her courage and stopped the car and the other cars stopped moving as well, she got down and went to knock on the window of one of the cars behind, The people in the car rolled down the car window immediately and looked at her astonished.

"Why have you people been following me, who are you" Alicia asked with her hands on her hips

The four men in the car bowed immediately

"Madam, we are your personal guards and we are meant to follow you and protect you discreetly on Sir's orders, we didn't know you would notice us. Sorry" the man beside the driver if the car replied apologetically

"You people were so obvious why wouldn't I notice you and since when have you been following me", Alicia asked obviously annoyed

"We were only four before and we have been following you ever since Sir went on the trip but after the accident yesterday Sir increased us to twelve, eight behind you and four in front of you", the man replied again respectfully."Their madam was surely fiesty, its better not to get on her wrong side",

"How come I never noticed you, anyways can you be more discreet its quite uncomfortable to be followed at such close distances", Alicia said

"Okay Madam sorry for the inconvenience", the man replied and Alicia nodded and went back to her car.

The guards moved more discreetly and Alicia didn't notice them any longer but her mind was in disarray because of what the guard said and her heart was threatening to jump out of her chest

"Why did he assign guards for me?, was he worried about me?, then why didn't he call me when he was there he didn't even inform me before he left, I was so worried. What is wrong with me this days..... I just find myself daydreaming about my husband, and my heart beats so fast whenever I think I about him or he comes near me, this has never happened before, my heart doesn't even beat this fast when I think about Mickey, not even when I had a crush on the hotttest guy in school back in high school .....I think you are going crazy Alicia, you need a doctor", Alicia thought shaking her head at the changes in her.

She got to the hospital a few minutes later and went to the VVIP floor of the hospital, she heard some noises when she was outside the door and pushed the door open with curiosity and all eyes turned to her once she pushed the door open

"Alicia, you are here. We were just talking about you", a beautiful young woman whose name Alicia rembered to be Rena greeted her.

"Yes I had gone home for a while", Alicia replied and placed the bag in her hand on the bedside table looking everywhere but the man on the bed who gaze hadn't shifted from her ever since she entered the room.

"How are you Alicia", Jack asked smiling at her

"I am fine brother Jack, you", Alicia replied with a smile ignorant of the drop in temperature in the room after she called Jack "brother". The other people in the room realized it but chose to ignore the change.

"This friend of ours must have had you all tensed by landing himself here, right", Paul asked feeling pity for the young girl

"No its nothing like that Brother Paul", Alicia replied shaking her head frantically and they all laughed.

"We came to check up on him, but we will get going now Alicia, Take care of yourself okay", Paul added

"Take care Nathan and don't you dare stress Alicia", Mike threatened and they all glared at Nathan in support of what Mike said. Nathan just looked at all of them lazily and didn't bother to reply, they were all expecting that so they just turned to Alicia

"Bye Alicia", Rena said and hugged her

"Sure bye", Alicia replied returning the hug and they all left and she finally turned to look at the man on the bed whose face was contorted in a frown.

"Why is he angry now", Alicia thought and moved closer to serve him breakfast.

"I didn't know you were so close to my friends, this is your second meeting right", Nathan picked up his spoon and asked in a blank tone but if one listened carefully there was a hint of anger and jealousy but Alicia didn't notice, she smiled brightly and replied

"Your friends are such great people, anyone would love them. Brother Paul and Brother Jack are so humorous and sweet especially brother Paul he cracks the funniest jokes and brother Mike is just like the big brother next door: caring and loving, her doesn't talk much but he loves a lot and Sister Rena is the sweetest", Alicia blabbered on not realizing the man beside her had stop eating long ago and his expression had become so cold and murderous.

"That day we all went out, I had been eyeing a ring for a while and before I could even say it out that I liked it, brother Paul noticed I had been eyeing the ring and bought it for me, Look", Alicia beamed spreading out her hand for Nathan to see, Nathan's expression became even darker on seeing the diamond ring on her finger, it perfectly complemented her snow white hands, Alicia looked at him and finally noticed his eyebrows squeezed together so tightly it could kill a butterfly.

"What's wrong", "is the ring not nice", Alicia asked expectantly, Nathan was going to say it was very bad when he noticed the expression on her face it looked like she would start crying if he said anything bad about the ring so he changed his words

"Its nice", he replied curtly and Alicia smiled excitedly, he gazed at her completely mesmerized by the big smile on her face but soon came out if his reverie when Alicia shouted

"Oh no, I brought food without water, I had forgotten you don't like the hospital's water", she said smacking her forehead

"I will quickly go get you a packaged water", she said and ran out before Nathan could reply.

"What is wrong with me?, why was I so concerned about her closeness with my friends?, and I for a second had the thought to kill Paul when she said he bought her a ring?, I can't even bear the thought of her smiling at some one else the way she does at me?, when did you start paying attention to a woman's smile Nathan?, what's wrong with you?,