CHAPTER 87

The Surprise Visit

Alexa looked at the lobby with questions wondering if she should run away or not, but after a while she kicked against it.

'Why am I running away? Did I do something wrong to be ashamed of' Alexa wondered, and she shook her head seeing that there was none.

"Then let's just wait and hear what he is here for, and for all I know he might not be for me, this is a hospital after all," Alexa said, but she gave up seeing that the man was walking towards her.

"Maybe I was wrong," Alexa mumbled as she watched the man take brisk steps toward her.

Jason walked towards Alexa who was looking at him confused about what he was doing at the place.

"Alexa!" Jason called after getting to Alexa, and she hummed in reply.

"How are you? What are you doing in the hospital?" Alexa asked, even though she knew that his visitation was deliberate.

"Ermm…about that.." Jason trailed off scratching his head trying to look for a reasonable lie, but looking into Alexa's eyes decided not to lie to her…again.

"I came here for you," he says without a reservation, and Alexa was surprised to hear his truthful words because she was already expecting him to tell a lie yet again.

"Ohhh..but why is that?" She asked, confused, wondering why the man came to visit her in the hospital.

"I actually got to know from Selina that you were in the hospital that your mom is sick and that was the reason you missed work…I thought it was something else," Jason says, hinting at what transpired at the coffee shop the other day.

Alexa bit her lips hearing what Jason said, and she knew that the man must have been fooled because that was the reason she didn't go to work, but since she hadn't resigned she was going to follow the story.

"Yeah..but how did you get through to Selina?" Alexa asked, and Jason told her that he exchanged numbers with her the day she came to the coffee shop.

"Okay then, you know the reason I am not at work you can go back, right?" Alexa asked, trying to dismiss the man but Jason was not leaving.

"Ok, but before that I have to see Aunty," he says, walking towards the elevator and Alexa's eyes widened and she wondered where the man was going.

"What Aunty?" She asked, and Jason told her that he was going to see her mother and Alexa tried to talk him out of it, but the man was reluctant.

Jason got into the woman's ward and Alexa's mother fell in love with him immediately saying he had a polite smile, and he knew how to warm up to elders.

"Who is this man again sis?" Priscilla asked, looking at Jason and Alexa sighed.

"Just ignore him..he his someone I would not be seeing soon," Alexa says and she sighed, going to take a seat while she watched Jason warm up to her mother.

The hollow glow of the sun shines on the city as the sun sets slowly.

Alexa pushed Jason out of her mother's room seeing that the man was not leaving, and she heaved a sigh of relief seeing the man was gone and she decided to go back inside and tell her mother that she was leaving, but she was surprised by a sight instead.

"Is that Maurice!" Alexa asked, looking at the upright handsome man who looked outstanding under the setting sun with a basket of fruits in his hands and a flower.

People cooed seeing the handsome man with flowers which they were sure was for a patient and some of them wished that they were sick so that they could receive that kind of treatment from the man.

Alexa rushed to the man when it clicked about the probability of what the man might be in the hospital to do..to see her mother.

"Maurice!" Alexa yelled, getting to his front and she smiled brightly, stretching her hands forward.

"Are those for me?" She asked, hoping that the man could give it to her. "Did you like flowers?" Maurice asked cluelessly, and he sighed seeing that he didn't know anything about his wife.

"Yes, I like flowers so much," Alexa says, with a thick smile. "Ok then I will get one for you next time but this is for your mom instead," Maurice says, and Alexa's heart aches seeing that she wasn't wrong.

"What! My mom! Why all of a sudden?" Alexa asked, and Maurice looked awkward.

"I am sorry that I am just coming now, I should have come a long time ago," he said, and Alexa shook her head.

"No, that's not what I meant, I mean why are you visiting her now!" She asked, and Maurice walked inside the hospital with Alexa trailing after her.

"Because I have to introduce myself," Maurice said, and Alexa panicked.

"But it is past visiting time!" Alexa yelled, blocking the man's oath but Maurice dragged her off with a cunning smile.

"And you forget who I am?" He asked with a smirk and he walked off leaving the woman.

Alexa panicked and she prayed that her mother would not say anything to Maurice.

Maurice opened the door to the room and he was a little bit anxious, but seeing the middle-aged woman chatting happily with Priscilla made him relax.

"Good evening ma'am," Maurice greeted looking at the two women in the room, and Priscilla gasped seeing Maurice's face.

"You!" She gasped looking at the man's face, and it was like her weird got stuck in her throat as she looked away from the man to get her sister who just entered.

Alexa told Priscilla to keep calm, and that she was going to explain everything later.

Alexa's mother, who was still clueless about what was going on, was surprised to see another man visiting her, and she wondered when her daughter suddenly got popular with men.

"Who are you, please? Because you looked different from the other man that came in earlier, I think you are more handsome too," Alexa's mother says, and Maurice's ears perked hearing that.

"What! Other men come in here?" Maurice asked, his face twitching and Alexa bit her lips anxiously looking at the man she wondered why so much was happening that day.

Three men came to see her mother on the same day…how was she going to exonerate herself?

"Then I must believe that you are also her friend?" Alexa's mother asked, and Alexa's eyes widened hearing her question and she quickly volunteered to answer the question.

"Yes!" Alexa screamed, but at the same time, Maurice also answered the question and their answers were so different from each other.

"No!" Maurice's deep baritone voice rang through the room and Alexa looked at him weirdly wondering why the man was sabotaging her.

"Yes? No? Which should I believe?" Alexa's mother asked, looking at her daughter sternly and Alexa was ashamed to see her questioning eyes.

"So I am going to ask again mister, who are you to my daughter? Are you a friend or not?" Alexa's mother asked, directing this question toward Maurice, and Priscilla who was watching from the sidelines was curious to know what Maurice's answer would be.

"No, I am not her friend, instead I am…" Maurice says, and Alexa sucked on her breath waiting for his reply.

What did you think his reply would be?