Phenomenal Alex Cole

Chapter 5 - Big Thief

Alex has traced a place he knew by memory in an area not so far from the Waltons Estate. Though the Waltons estate has changed because of the development, the areas around it still retained its old features so I could tell that I wasn’t in the wrong place.

He was standing in front of his Uncle, Victor Miller's house. Just as he was about to ring the doorbell, his phone rang, and he picked up,

“Hello?”

“Hello, Divine doctor, I am David bourne. the one that received your number after showing you the healer’s card that your sister had given me. I am calling to ask if you can come and check up on my daughter right now. She is in a critical condition, she is unable to breathe properly.”

"It is late now and it will be hard to find a taxi, send a car to the location I will send to you over a text.” he replied to him.

“Okay sir. But my wife happened to bring an orthodox doctor here and he claimed that he can stabilize my daughter’s breathing only that she will not be able to walk again.”

“I am a bit skeptical about letting him go on with the treatment because I want my daughter to be able to use her legs.”

Alex replied to him in a strict tone, “Send him away from your house if you want your daughter to live the rest of her life in a wheelchair.”

Then he hung up right away and rang the doorbell, a woman showed up in front of him and looked at him with disdain, just like Thea and done, she went ahead to scan him from head to toe. “You are the wrong address.”

“Er ma’am, I am here to see Uncle Miller,” he said.

Victor Miller used to be a poor man who his father helped before he passed away. He gave Miller a million dollars to fund his business which later became a big thing.

“Uncle Miller?” The woman repeated after him confusedly. “What could pauper possibly look for from my husband addressing him after he is close to him, calling him Uncle Miller? Who are you?”

Alex has never met Miller’s wife or kids, so it was impossible for them to recognize him at all. “Uncle Miller is my late father’s friend and I have come to see him.”

“You're so unbelievable, who comes to see his uncle at this time of the day without calling first and we do not have any poor friends. All my husbands and their children are all classy people.” She scanned his appearance from head to toe again, “I will say this again, you look nothing like someone my husband knows.”

Alex was beyond surprise, he wondered if classism was a general thing in Mericania because everyone kept bragging about the little they had as if they owned the whole world. How could she tell if she knew her husband just from us taking a look at him.

“Ma’am. Your husband was my father’s friend and he knows me. You don’t have to let me directly. Just tell him that Alex Cole is here for him.” He explained but it only fueled her doubt.

“I am quite familiar with your games, are you trying to distract me so that your group members have come to steal from us?”

“I’m not here to steal from you. Uncle Miller can testify to my identity when he sees me.”

“If my husband truly knew you, how about you give him a call?”

He heaved a heaven sigh as he was already exhausted. He opened his back and searched for his little pocket notes that he usually carried about but he didn’t find it there.

Alex didn't have Vcicot Miller’s phone number saved on his phone but he had written it alongside important things in his pocket note but now he could find it.

This woman would definitely think he waa a little even if he tried to explain to her. He had nowhere else to say, he wanted to even settle there before going to Bourne’s house to treat his daughter.

Miller’ wife who was already tired of standing by the door and eating for a non-existent proof , “Please leave before I call the police on you and I will make sure they take you to the part of the prison where you people will never see you before. You big thief.” She warned.

“Leave now!”

“But ma’am.” Alex was about defending himself when Viciot Miller walked to the door.

“What is going on?” he asked his wife, then he peeped outside and  saw Alex standing by the door. “Oh, Alex  Cole? Is that really you?

Alex nodded in agreement.”

“Please come in.” Victor Miller ushered him in immediately.