The Rise Of The True Heir

chapter 4

"Emirian, you don't have to be kind to me. Listen to your mother, your future is not safe with someone like me " Greg said, gently bringing down her hand but it was firmly holding the door handle.

"I'm not asking you to marry me, I am only offering this help because of Ma Luci, she's a very kind woman, if I were the one in her position, I'm pretty sure she'll be so happy to help me" Emirian insisted.

Greg needed the money but he didn't want it to seem like he's taking advantage of a young girl who is still trying to start up her life.

"I sent you the money already, I'll ask around and see if I can get more" she said peering into her cellphone.

"How did you get my account details?" Greg asked. He was shocked to see an alert of $9000 adding to the $1.991 million that was already there. Emirian's 9000 just completed the money to $2million.

"From the family's payroll, you forgot you worked for the family" Emirian smiled, showing off her white teeth.

Greg quickly thanked her and boarded a cab to the hospital immediately. With $2million he hoped the hospital would consider his plea and start the surgery.

But contrary to what he thought, when he got to the hospital, Ma Luci was already moved from the ICU to the common ward.

"Your mother has only 24 hrs to live outside the ICU, hurry up and get the deposit" The doctor stated as a matter of factly, he was already calling for the next client when Greg fell to his knees and started begging for mercy.

"Please take the $2million I promised to complete before evening. '' Tears were already rolling down his eyes, flashes of memories with Ma Luci and the thought of losing her blurred his thinking. His eyes were red with hot tears, he didn't notice when the next client opened the door.

"Greg Alberto, son of The Great Pa Alberto!" Adolphus Marto called.

Greg cleaned his eyes to see clearly, Pa Santiago had asked him to change his name from Alberto to Santiago when he was about to enter highschool, so whomever called him by the name Alberto must have known him from childhood.

It was Pa Santiago's closest friend while he was alive, Adolphus Marto was a billionaire businessman and Pa Santiago's only friend back then.

"How dare you make the only descendant of the great Alberto family kneel before you? Do you even know who this young man is?" Adolphus asked the doctor.

Both the doctor and Greg were both looking perplexed, none of them had an idea of what Adolphus was talking about.

The doctor looked at Greg from head to toe and to be sincere, the details were not adding up.

A nurse came into the doctor's office to inform him that the woman that was just moved to the common ward is in critical condition and might die any time soon. The nurse was referring to Ma Luci.

"Young man, did you hear that? If I were you I'll beg Adolphus to help me, he's a billionaire " the doctor whispered to Greg, while Adolphus was busy with his phone.

Greg was ready to do anything, if the need be in order to save Ma Luci, so he fell to his knees and hugged Adolphus legs "Please help my mother, she is sick and needs an immediate kidney transplant" he cried.

He had completely forgotten what Adolphus said about him being the descendant of the Albertos family. The truth was that Adolphus was Pa Santiago's closest friend and confidant, so he knows all of Pa's secrets but Greg still believes that maybe due to old age, he might be mistaken for someone he thinks he knows.

Besides, it's been three years since Pa's death and three years since he last saw Adolphus, how sure is he that the old man still recognizes him.

"He must have mistaken me for someone, " he thought.

"Please Son, it's an honour for me to help someone like you, you don't have to beg me. As a former servant to your grandfather, it's my duty to always love and protect anyone connected to him" Adolphus said and instantly pulled out a cellphone from his bag again and made some calls to the Albertos office.

He had called earlier but the receivers seemed to be wasting more time than he expected.

Soon an ambulance from Elysium Medical Center, this is an extension of the hospital specifically made for the rich and prominent men and equipped with the best professional doctors and nurses. The ambulance was accompanied by an army of men putting on the Albertos Sarge, they arrived at the hospital.

The Albertos Sarge was a kind of identification badge of honour offered to individuals who have worked or helped Grandpa Alberto in one way or the other.

And Grandpa Alberto was the richest trillionaire godfather, known for his nobility and integrity all over the world. People come from far and wide just to pay homage to Grandpa Alberto because of his great influence through his wealth to different economies of different countries in the world. And every elected president of any country under the beneficiary of Grandpa Alberto's wealth, first visits his chamber after coronation for blessings and hopes to be given the Albertos Sarge, only a few eventually gets it.

So because of the honour and influence behind the Sarge and the respect given to anyone that has seen it before, people pulled out their phones at the hospital to take a picture of the Albertos men, some daring ones were at the verge of stampeding themselves just to touch the Sarge, but they were shooed away by hefty bodyguards that came with the ambulance.

Greg was amazed when he stepped out of the doctor's office and saw the commotion going on outside, the men with the Albertos Sarge immediately went on their knees and in unison and greeted Greg.

Greg sincerely believed there might be a mistake somewhere, it might be a prank or they might have mistaken him for someone, but he chose not to say anything yet at least to have them take care of Ma Luci and once she's fine, he can now let them know that he was not really who they are looking for. He'll tell them that he was just a poor boy from an orphanage adopted by a kind man who brought him home and made him his child.

But all these do not matter now, Ma Luci's health before anything else.

The audience in the hospital was rapidly increasing because people were posting in their socials that the only descendant of the Great Albertos family had been found. So many influencers, bloggers and celebrities were on their way racing to get to the hospital to behold the sight themselves.

Greg asked the bodyguards to lock up the doctor's office to prevent people from taking pictures.

"Excuse me sir, I don't understand what is happening. Are you really Grandpa Alberto's lost grandson? " the doctor who was now more confused than anyone in the room whispered to Greg.

"Is he saying the truth? If yes how come you don't have the $5 million for your mother's surgery? How come this woman is your mother? Your mother should be Jayne, the president's daughter that died years ago in a fatal clash" the doctor kept on questioning Greg on a low tone.