2025-02-18 22:46:42“What the heck is going on here?!”
“Why isn't his body already in the cremation service center as I had requested?!”
“What kind of poor hospital service is this?!”
Tiffany Raymond asked angrily, her heavy gold plated circular earrings dangling in the rhythm of her anger as she stared into the face of Nurse Diana.
“Ma'am…I can't just pass his body off to the cremation services, we have to wait for some hours after his death confirmation.It's standard hospital procedures” Nurse Diana explained.
The scent of disinfectant and the usual hospital aura filled ward three where Carl Gerald's lifeless body was lying in a fully zipped body bag.
“Are you kidding me right now?!”
“Tell me, who is in charge here?!”
“You’ve been doing nothing but wasting my time! I know you have a supervisor or something, get him or her immediately! ” Tiffany Raymond ordered impatiently.
Cough!
Just then, with that abrupt cough, Carl Gerald suddenly sat up in the body bag he was being covered.
“Oh my God!...Mr Carl Gerald…is alive!”
Nurse Diana yelled in shock as trepidation and shock washed all over the face of herself and Tiffany Raymond.
She immediately raced towards Mr Carl Gerald.
Frantically she unzipped the body bag and Mr Carl Gerald immediately let out a heavy gasp for air.
“What happened…where am I?”
His voice quaked as he spoke, his sight was still blurry.
His head still ached as he tried to recollect his thoughts, he tried to stand up but fell back onto the table.
“Calm down Mr Carl I will go and get the doctor immediately!”
Nurse Diana said her voice was laced with a mixture of anxiety, exhilaration and curiosity as she raced off to get Doctor Thompson, the doctor in charge of Mr Carl Gerald's case.
Carl Gerald's sight was still blurry, he slowly took a deep breath and stared at the woman almost close to him.
“Tiffany?”
But there was no response from Tiffany Raymond who still had her face etched in bewilderment.
Carl Gerald immediately recalled what had just happened earlier.
He recalled having left the building construction site where he doubled down as a labourer after working on his pizza delivery job, on returning home, he met the back door open which was unusual.
Entering the house, he heard his sister Sara’s scream.
He rushed outside to see a thug dragging her into the street while their mother, Mrs. Amber Gerald, desperately tried to protect her.
Carl had grabbed a crowbar to intervene, but before he could even react, a sharp blow struck his neck from behind. He remembered a surge of power running through him as his vision went black.
As Carl Gerald tried to recollect his thoughts, his head ached him even more.
The room was quiet as Carl stood up slowly, his eyes fixed on his wife, Tiffany.
"Tiffany, what really happened to me? Where are my mom and my sister, Sara?"
Carl’s voice was weak, laced with a mix of confusion and urgency.
Tiffany Raymond who was still in shock immediately snapped out of it and snorted indifferently.
“Your mom? She’s dead, killed in the struggle.”She paused for a moment, her lips curling slightly as if the words left a bad taste in her mouth, ”And your sister, I don’t know, perhaps taken away by those thugs.”
There was no shock in her eyes, no empathy.It was almost as if she were discussing an insignificant event in a stranger’s life.
Carl’s heart sank, his entire body freezing.
"Tiffany... that’s impossible..." Carl’s voice trembled, desperation creeping into his words. He could hardly breathe, the pain suffocating him. "Tell me it’s a lie! Please, tell me it’s a joke!"
Carl Gerald couldn't take it as he plopped back into the table.
Tears slowly welling down his eyes as he beat himself up emotionally for not being there for his family.
“It should have been me!”
“It should have been me! Why did I have to pass out and let my mom die?!”
Carl Gerald yelled into the empty air.
His fists slammed against the table, the sound of his pain deafening in the silence. But Tiffany didn’t even flinch.
She simply stood there, emotionless, her arms crossed as she glanced at him briefly, a hint of impatience flickering in her eyes.
Slowly Carl Gerald took a deep breath, with tears still streaming down his eyes.
“ I will find those bastards and I will make them pay dearly for everything they did!” His voice was colder now, but filled with a quiet rage.
Just as Carl’s words hung in the air, Tiffany broke the silence with her chillingly calm voice.
"Well, enough for crying? Now I have something to say."
Her eyes, devoid of compassion, glinted coldly as she threw a brown envelope in his direction. It landed softly against his chest, and Carl looked down at it, confused and trembling.
Tiffany’s voice was ice-cold. "I want a divorce."
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Carl Gerald exhaled sharply. He was finding it hard to believe what he was hearing.However, at the moment, the information the woman kept spilling was unimportant to him. His heart was grieved by the recent loss of his adoptive mother and an ever-rising worry about the safety of his sister.“Just stop it!” Carl yelled at Debra Zach.He didn’t wait for her to respond, tossing the black handkerchief at her weakly. “Just stop it. Stop spouting lies!”Carl Gerald pulled his hospital gown, he stormed through the woman and her seven security guards.“Wait,” Debra Zach reached for his hand, “Take this, it’s yours.”“This—”“It’s a Supreme Black Card from Vesta Bank, It contains earnings you’ve made from all your missions. I believe your pin should be your birthday.” Debra cut him off before he could give her orders.“I don’t want all this right now… I need to go home!” Carl Gerald added impatiently.“I know you don’t’ believe me so you can just check at the bank. It holds an Immense fortun
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The situation was intense as Carl Gerald demanded that he see the watch on Lara Peterson's wrist.“It's nothing General Carl Gerald, it's just an old watch that I got from my father before he disappeared some years ago.”Lara Peterson said as she moved her wrist forward as General Carl Gerald, Lieutenant Alex and Debra Zachs stared at the watch.“You said this watch belonged to your dad?” Lieutenant Alex asked as he touched the ultra military grade watch and it lit up almost immediately.Lara Peterson took a deep breath before answering, “Yes, my dad used to be a military personnel before his sudden disappearance.”“This watch is all that I have left of him.” Lara Peterson said as tears began dripping down her eyes and hitting the metal floor of the moving All Terrain Vehicle (ATV).Geny Carl Gerald immediately stared at Lieutenant Alex and Debra Zachs who immediately felt sorry for Lara Peterson's loss.“We are really very sorry for your loss and we sympathize with you, this is the m
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General Carl Gerald was surprised by the question as he turned to look at Lieutenant Alex.He shook his head immediately and stared at Debra Zachs and back at Lieutenant Alex,”She told me her name some moments ago, now let's go find out the useful information that Lara Peterson knows which can help us find and rescue my sister Sara Gerald.”General Carl Gerald's voice was laced with a mixture of authority and determination, the kind that both Debra Zachs and hadn't seen in a long time.“Yes General, Lieutenant Alex and Debra Zachs immediately said as they saluted Carl Gerald and made their way to the other side to organise the team for any further movement.As they walked you could hear the sound of their boots hitting on the grassy floor, as soon as they were away from the eyes of General Carl Gerald, Debra Zachs immediately stopped dead in her tracks.“What?” Lieutenant Alex asked as he stopped and gazed at Debra Zachs who had this weird look on her face.It was a look that he had s
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Lieutenant Alex, Debra Zachs and the entire team went crazy as they stared at the rumble in front of them, there really was no way that someone could walk out from this one alive.The heavy blast from the Class-4 explosive had brought the whole building down.“General Carl!” Debra Zachs yelled as tears wells down her eyes slowly hitting the rumbles on the floor.The whole place was a mess and dust from the collapse had covered the whole place.“Spread out, team! Raise every block and find the General now!”Lieutenant Alex immediately yelled, his emotions almost got the best of him as wiped his face clean with a dry military coloured handkerchief.The team went straight into work, everyone stormed back into the building area, raising up every block as they looked for signs of General Carl Gerald.“General!”“General Carl!!!”Lieutenant Alex, Debra Zachs and the entire team yelled all day, but all to no avail.They still couldn't find General Carl Gerald, just as they were about to give
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The situation was intense and palpable as Carl Gerald immediately walked towards the person in the middle of the room.His feet hit frantically as he paced towards the person. “Sara…is that you…”Carl Gerald was immediately frozen in his speech as he turned the chair that the supposed person was sitting on and to his surprise it wasn't Sara Gerald.It was another girl, Carl Gerald immediately staggered backwards almost immediately holding his head.Jolts of memories immediately hit him, almost sending him to the floor.“Who…who are you?!”“And…and where is Sara Gerald, my sister?!”Carl Gerald asked as he stared at the girl who was now crying, he immediately remembers having seen this particular little girl at a soldier's burial ceremony back at the Elite Forces Divisions.Only now the girl looked a little bit older than Carl Gerald remembered.“Sir…you have got to help me!”“Please, he strapped a heavy loaded C-4 explosive on this chair and rigged it to explode! Please help me out, I
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Back at where Sara Gerald was being held, distressed eyes fluttered open in a room that was dark.The only thing keeping the owner of those pale green eyes assured that she wasn’t blind, was the slight increase of brightness in the starless sky outside.Sara Gerald let out a deranged chuckle. It was strange that she could see high rise buildings through the small and high window. A victim of kidnapping out in the open, and no one knew where she was.The most ironic part was the fact that the kidnappers never took her to abandoned locations.“Hehe…” Sara chuckled again. It was strange, truly strange. “Everybody… everyone has left me…” Amidst the laughter lacking sanity, was a voice full of tears.Sara was scared of being alone, she began to doubt if her brother had even seen the message she sent, or maybe he never tracked the signal, or even worse, he never saw her distress call.“Carl, are you still at that … military base?” Sara cried, fear gripping her at the thought of her brother
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Carl Gerald jolted awake in the back of the car.It was just the crack of dawn, the dark sky seemed to recede into a shade of a dull and dark sky blue.As he slowly took in his surroundings, and processed the dream—or rather—memory, a stray tear fell down the sides of Carl Gerald’s face.“What’s…” Carl Gerald raised his hand to his face, touching the tear that rolled down his face.Above all other thoughts, resided the last words he managed to grab from the memory fragment.The ‘Zed family’“Ah, General.” Lieutenant Alex’s voice rang through the head of Carl Gerald, interrupting further dwelling on the memory. As Lieutenant Alex got close to the car, the oddly happy expression he had dwindled when he saw a dazed look on Carl Gerald’s face. To Lieutenant Alex, it was only once he had seen that face. It was when the 15-year-old Carl Gerald lost his parents due to the greed of unknown collaborators.“General… is everything alright?” Lieutenant Alex asked, his tone laced with concern as
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Carl Gerald and Lieutenant Alex raced to Bismarck street, Carl was mumbling frantically under his breath, drawing concern from Lieutenant Alex.Lieutenant Alex refrained from asking more questions, he was aware about the fragile state of mind that Carl Gerald was in, more so due to not getting sleep in a little over forty-eight hours.After a while, Lieutenant Alex couldn’t take it anymore. “General, I think it would be better if you would rest until we arrived.” He sighed.“What if—”“Bud, there are no ‘what of's’ or ‘what ifs’, but what is. Worrying won’t be able to help your state of mind right now, get your act together.” Lieutenant Alex spoke Carl Gerald, his voice was a bit loud but laced with humility.Carl listened intently, a bitter expression replaced the worried look on his face. “I know, Alex… It’s just that I can’t help it.” “Don’t bother about it, your sister will be fine. Those kidnappers haven’t done anything to her yet, it won’t change all of a sudden.” Lieutenant Al