Chapter 89

Olivia slumped, a few minutes after the meeting with the newly formed committee of her great political party, she was immediately rushed to the family owned specialist hospital for checkup and possible treatment. The doctors nurses on duty turned their attention towards her, making sure she regained consciousness. They had already collected samples of her blood for examination. It was a hospital well equiped with state-of-the-art facilities, so there was no doubt they would do a thorough job on her. As expected, in less than an hour, she came back to consiousness. It took her quite sometime to recognize and recall what actually happened to her. She knew she had left the US in their family jet, sent by her Dad, when her presence was needed, coupled with the fact that she was already experiencing signs and symptoms of ill health. Lucy was surprised too, both of them with Brains had gone to the LOGISTICS, where they inspected the remaining armoury they were to supply, the director was helpful too in the sense that he knew he had delayed them lot, eventhough it wasnt entirely his fault. He made sure that day, they finalized the inspection and went further to let the shipping company know that they had some consignment for onward movement to France. They thanked the director and left the company after signing the remaining documents and papers that were deemed important. It was while they were in the car going back to the hotel that Olivia began to complain of how she was feeling. She started with being weak and feeling like she was going to vomit, the. It got to shivers. Coincidentally, Mira had called to inform her of her needed attention in Paris in the next few days and the need for her to return. Lucy who was holding Olivia at the rear seat, at some point during the call had to take the phone and told Mira the situation of things. That was how the dad got to know that she was down and sent the jet. She could only send a message to both Pat and Mike informing them of the urgency of her leaving the country back to France. Aside the the medical doctor that was onboard the jet, there was a nurse and some first aid materials handy in case of emergency on air. 

What Olivia never knew was that Chase carried out the entire plan, as their Dad was busy on a trip. When Mira had reached out to her, and got the feedback concerning her being sick, she quickly called their Dad, whose phone was on voice mail prompts, so she dropped a message. The Dad when he saw the message, reached Chase and ask him to work out modalities of bringing her back to paris. That was how Chase got in touch with Mary and secured access to Harts family jet that was sent for her return.

Pat was outside when the message came in, she checked and saw it was from Olivia, she had wanted to ignore it, but she changed her mind. When she opened the message and read it, she knew that it must be something related to health. There was no other emergency that would cause Olivia to leave just like that, she thought. She searched through and got Mira's number, which she dialled. She waited as the first one rang all through without response, she redialed it the second time, that was when Mira's voice came at the other end;

Hi Pat, I thought you were coming with Olivia? She asked.

Pat didnt know what to answer, she thought for a while, before something came to her mind.

No, I would have loved to, but something came up, she replied

At that point, Mira told her why she expected her, being that Olivia was not feeling fine and how their Dad sent the family jet to pick her up. Finally she told Pat, that she shouldn't forget to make haste and return as her presence would soon be needed in the job she was offered. Pat thanked her and prayed her friend Olivia get well quick. She was walking into the ward, when she saw Mike with his phone on his hand, and his face not looking bright. She walked up to him, too the phone and behold it was same message that Olivia had sent to her. With that, she knew Mike wasn't happy that Olivia left the way she did, without seeing him. Every effort made  by Pat to get his attention, didn't work. She took a paper and wrote to him, that she knew he was feeling bad cos of the message Olivia sent him, but that he should know that Olivia left because of her health condition. Although this seemed to have calmed him down a bit, the truth remained that in his heart, he wasn't okay. 

When the jet touched down the France international airport, there was the specialist hospital ambulance waiting, so Olivia was quickly taking through the VIP lounge to the place the ambulance was parked. It was from there she went to the guest house. The doctor who was with her in the jet advised that she should get enough rest, she did so for just a day and felt strong. At that point,  She decided to visit the committee of her political party having recieved a memo on the scheduled meeting. Initially she had wanted Mira to represent her as usual, but being around this time, she decided otherwise. It was a successful meeting, everyone was pleased, especially with her speech which was very promising, she aslo unveiled her manifesto. At the end of the meeting, she got into the car, was heading home when sheot a call from her aunt Mary. That was were it happened, she just got down from the car, felt dizzy then slumped. Lucy was first to hold her down on the seat, before Mary rushed down and the ambulance that was stationed for the clinic was brought in to convey them to the specialist hospital. 

Chase was waiting at the guest house with Alicia, when the information on Olivia got to him, he and Alicia had taken it upon them to be directly in charge of securing her every move. Chase told Alica the news, she suggested they move to the hospital immediately. They left the house in the car, Alicia driving with experienced and the knowledge of the routes. They were able to arrive the hospital on time. She parked at the visitors parking lot, they got down and walked to the receptionist, who directed them to the Medical directors office. Once there, they introduced themselves, the director didn't waste time to give them access to the ward. Immediately Olivia saw Chase, she was so happy, it looked like she was strong again to go, but upon discussing it with him, Chase advised that she waited for the results of all the tests carried out o her, to ascertain what went wrong. He introduced Alicia to her, and promised her they would be incharge of the security in the hospital all through her stay until she was ready to go home.

Brains was not aware Olivia had been hospitalized, he tried various times to reach her on phone, all he got was voice mail prompts. He became bothered, on one hand because he wouldn't know how she was fairing as regards her health, while on the other hand, he felt he lost Olivia out of his carelessness. He would have seized the opportunity he had to open up to her by telling her what he had in mind regarding them. Now that she had gone back to Paris, it would be a difficult task going back to thy country the second time for the same reason. He wouldn't know how to look Mira in the face again not to talk of explaining to her the confusion that led to their meeting. All these, he thought might not even happen as he knew it was nearly impossible to get audience from Mira. He decided to continue trying Olivia's line until he could reach her and figure out the best possible way to see her.

When the results came out, they weren't out all at once. The director fortunately was around when most of them cake out, so he passed the message to Olivia as all the test showed negative on all those parameters checked. She was being checked to know what led to her slumping. The lab scientist, had done the last test, but the result he got surprised him. Being that he knew very well the family he was handling their case, he needed to be sure of the result, so he went back to have a confirmation test. When the result came out same, he took it to the medical director, by then he had stepped out, so the secretary took the result sheet and kept it for her director.