Chapter 14

Anna decided to use that opportunity to ask him what she had been longing to ask him, she wanted to know what was going on and about his state of health.

"I need your help Joseph, please will you help me?

That was the first time she was looking directly at him without looking down shyly, he noticed that even though she had tears in her eyes she was still beautiful, her sad face was so smookth that he felt like reaching to it, but he didn't want to be in so much hurry, he had gotten so far so he was not going to relent now, he would take his time to achieve what he wants.

"Why not, anything dear, just anything.

Anna sighed hard, she didn't know she had been holding that breath for so long, she released it before looking back at him.

"I want to know about my husband's health status, I know he is sick, please tell me what the problem is.

"You know it is unethical of me to share reports of my patients with someone else"

"But I am not just anybody, I am his wife, legally we are married, tell me what is wrong with my husband, is there a cure, is he dieing. I need to know, I cannot have all these questions in my heart and not get answers I will find out no matter what"

Joseph knew it would be difficult for him to win this war, he wanted to hurt Andrew using her but she was determined to help him, she was even more determined than the man he was so against.

Anna realised she must have sounded too harshly towards him, so she decided to calm down and speak in a low tone.

"I am sorry, I know you are keeping the secret for a reason, but it is destroying me, my home is shattered, I cannot just told my arms, I need you help, you have got to help me"

She said dragging his hands pleadingly. Joseph knew he had to think fast, he was loosing the game, Anna was about to change everything for him.

"Your husband is going to die, he contracted the newly discovered sexually transmitted virus.

"HIV?

Yes, his own is in the second stage and cannot be helped for now, I am still working on how to help him'

"Oh Andrew, he must be suffering so much, no wonder he was hiding, no wonder he wanted me to go away, he is trying to keep me safe"

That was not the reaction Joseph was expecting, how could her first reaction be about the man he hated the most, how could her first reaction show worry for him, this could not be happening, he has to be fast, he needs to make a fast move, he was not going to allow Anna spoil everything.

"Well you don't need to worry about him, he doesn't care about you, he wants to infect you, he said he would go away else he would make sure he infects you in the worse way possible"

It sounded strange to her, she didn't believe her ears, she wondered hwy her husband would be interested in hurting her, she had never wrong him before, she was a good wife to him, they had been so inlove that they seemed inseparable.

"That can't be right'

Now Joseph became even more shocked, was she trying to say he was telling lies, he was indeed loosing this war, but he has to put more effort, else his plans would be exposed.