Chapter 6: Chapter 6

For the next two days, Louis and Pamela's relationship didn't get back to normal. Louis got Emma out, using her father's death as an advantage. He simply told his attorney to return home and be calm.

No one knew it was Louis who did it. The credit went to Lucas silently. The latter had stopped answering Pamela's call and when she came to find him in his office, she was told he was gone on a vacation.

And Louis had told her if she doesn't get back with Lucas, he wasn't going to change his coldness towards her. Eventually, Lucas' cell phone number was no longer going through.

A week passed and she decided to visit his mansion. She arrived and was told Lucas' lawyer had sold the house the previous day and no one knows the whereabouts of its former owner.

Lucas took a few weeks off and travelled abroad. He needed a break, he wanted to think straight, and his boss understood his predicament.

After a week, Louis climbed into the bed and put off the bedside lamp when Pamela said "I want us to talk" she sat up and supported herself with the pillow behind.

Louis sat on the bed with his back to her. He was missing chatting with her but doesn't know why they should be experiencing this phase in their relationship so soon. Isn't it too early?

"Don't you love me anymore? You said you love me and confessed your feelings to me. You are making me go crazy Louis. I'm sorry about how I provoked Lucas.

I went to find him in his office and his penthouse. He was said to have gone on vacation. His house was sold and he wasn't answering my calls. Eventually his contact isn't going through.

But why are you ignoring me? We can't continue like this. We just got together and your coldness towards me is making me sick. Please forgive me, darling.." Pamela apologised.

"Why are you apologising to me? You should direct your apology to the right person. I just want Lucas to be your friend again, that's all" Louis insisted.

"I love you,"Pamela said, holding him from behind. "I love you too Pamela and you know it. But find Lucas and apologise to him and everything will be fine" he replied.

"I will. I promise I will have him investigated and find out wherever he is. But let's be us again. There's a lot I want to ask you about some investment and partnership. But will you give me the opportunity to learn something from you?" Pamela asked.

She circled her around his waist. She had missed him a lot. She wants to get cuddled by him. They were supposed to be in Europe but the trip was cancelled at the last minute.

"If you really want to talk about business, lunch and dinner time would be better. If there's nothing else, take your hands off me" he declared.

He gently moved her hands off him and laid on the bed. Pamela snuggled into him and circled her hands around his waist, placed her head on his torso and soon, raised herself and kissed him.

Louis just decided not to respond to her. He has to make her know he was serious about his instructions.

The next day, Pamela received a text from Louis, it was urgent. Off to Singapore. When Pamela received it, she sighed. She needs to find Lucas and apologise to him before Louis returns.

Meanwhile, in Middletown City, Great grandfather Johnson was at the verge of death. He had fallen into a coma in his sleep and had been hospitalised for several weeks already.

Tarvan Johnson and his wife Clarion had been restless. His highness isn't responding to treatment. In fact, it's like he was getting closer to his end each day than the previous.

The royal family were worried. Though great grandfather was old, no one wants to lose their parents. He was placed on life support, and that kept him alive for a while.

One morning, the senior among the consultants called Tarvan Johnson to his office and told him in plain words "His highness' heart is rejecting his body. No matter how long he is placed on life support, his chances of survival are slim.."

Those words weakened Tarvan. His father had lived longer than his predecessors, but then, he wished that he lived longer than he was at the moment.

"So what are you suggesting?" He asked. Every decision about the royal family was now on his shoulders from the moment his father was hospitalised, and that includes his father's life.

"You decide sir" the doctor replied and Tarvan said okay. That evening, he called the immediate family and told them what the doctor said. They could keep his highness on life support for years, but would they be doing his soul any good?

Resting in peace was way better than being kept in such torture. He asked that everyone sleep over it and the next morning, they would decide.

That night, Clarion saw the unhappiness in her husband. She knew that Jimmy's illness was not going well on Tarvan. He had tried to stay strong, not letting his father's health condition affect him.

But after the brief discussion the immediate family had, he couldn't pretend to be strong anymore, at least not in the privacy of their room.

No one was going to look strong when his father was dying. If everyone suggests that Jimmy be relieved of life support, it means, it will be a matter of hours before he will be no more.

And true to Clarion's thought, the royal family decided that the torture his highness was experiencing was much, they signed it that Jimmy should be released to rest in peace.

Tarvan's eyes went red. He couldn't concentrate on anything and he lingered until the evening before signing the consent form that the life support be retrieved from his father.

He and Clarion went to him in the ward and sobbed. Tarvan held his father "Father, please forgive me. I wish I could keep you alive forever. But then, I don't want you to remain in torture, where your soul lingers on the surface.

I prefer that you go, that you find rest and become a star forever in the sky. We love you, your highness and your dear daughter, Pamela loves you too.

You'll find Alice. Tell her that I love her very much. Her daughter Pamela is doing well and despite being in heaven, she's become a grandmother. We love you father…"Tarvan sobbed.

That night Tarvan Johnson and Clarion kept a vigil by his highness, Jimmy Johnson's bedside. They tried to stay awake and watched him take the last weak breath but suddenly dozed off.

In the dead of the night, when men are asleep and the air becomes chilling cold, when everything seems to standstill and the buzzy movement of men are reduced, Jimmy Johnson slipped off to become a star in the sky.