A CRAZY LOVE - Episode 123
“Then what does Evie want?” Victor said while carrying Evie out of this place, followed by Nicole, who was a little surprised to see a male being this good and patient with some random kid.
“Evie wants Kizy.” Evie said, her tiny voice sounding cute to Victor and Nicole.
“Should I take Evie to meet Kizy?” Nicole asked with a smile.
Evie just nodded at it.
“But Evie will have to do one thing for uncle and aunty.” Nicole said, making Evie blink her cute doe-like innocent eyes.
“We want Evie to give us a smile. A big one. Only then Evie will meet Kizy.” Nicole said in a playful tone.
Evie turned to look at Victor who was carrying her. Victor nodded at her, confirming what Nicole said.
Evie looked at Nicole, before looking back at Victor, and then gave them a big smile, showing her cute little teeths.
“Let’s go and meet Kizy then.” Victor said before he, Nicole and Evie left the place.
Victor first took her back to the orphanage, informing the owner that Evie was safe.
They were leaving the orphanage, heading towards Aaron’s base when Victor received a call from Harry, informing him about Kizy’s condition and telling that they were moving back to A city.
“I don’t think it will be a good idea to take Evie with us.” Nicole said, after knowing how severe Kizy’s condition was.
“Will Evie be a good girl and wait for some days to meet Kizy?” Victor asked, his tone pleading and gentle.
“No. Evie wants to meet Kizy now.” Evie immediately said with a pout.
“But Kizy is resting for sometime. Evie can not meet her right now.” Nicole tried to convince Evie.
“Evie will wait like a good girl.” Evie said stubbornly.
“But Evie will have to wait for a long time.” Victor said, still trying to persuade her.
“No… Evie won’t go.. go back… bad people come… orphanage.. Evie is not.. going… Evie wants.. Kizy…” with that Evie immediately broke down in tears, crying her heart out.
“Okay okay.. don’t cry. Uncle will take you to Kizy. But promise uncle that Evie won’t cry. Only then will I take Evie to Kizy.” Victor said, immediately wiping her tears away, not being able to bear to make such a cute little child cry, especially a girl child.
“Evie.. Evie is not cr.. cry..” Evie said through her cries, wiping her tears away, even when she couldn’t stop her tears.
Nicole felt this so cute that she wanted to pinch Evie’s cheeks, but stopped, knowing how hurt the girl was.
She had thought that Evie had forgotten the incident of her kidnapping, and thus was talking with them nicely.
But it was now, when Evie said the reason for not going back, that she knew how traumatised and scared Evie was.
Afterall Evie was just a young child. How could she not be afraid of huge men, pointing guns at all children, taking her away when she was crying and treating her rudely, even sealing her mouth with a tape to muffle her cries.
Evie didn’t want to go back to the orphanage where such bad people would come. Thus she wanted to meet Kizy, the first person or place after her orphanage where she felt safe.
Because though Evie was way more mature than the children her age, at the end she was just a child. She knew that Kizy was always good to her, even taking her side when she would have a fight with other children in an orphanage.
Thus she only wanted to go to Kizy and stay with her.
“Okay. Now smile a little for your uncle.” Victor said, trying his best to make her stop crying.
And Evie immediately tried smiling in between her cries, making Victor sigh.
Thus Victor and Nicole ended up taking Evie back to A city with them.
And true to her words, Evie just stayed by Kizy’s side once she was out of the operating theatre.
Even Nicole and Victor had never expected that Kizy would fall into a coma.
But Evie never even questioned them once. She would come to the hospital with Nicole, Mary, grandpa or grandma in the morning and return back with them to the Evans mansion.
In fact on the first day, she even stayed quietly by Kizy’s side, without creating any trouble and accompanying Markus. Though none of them said a word to each other, they both just peacefully looked at Kizy, both of them waiting for Kizy to wake up soon.
*PRESENT TIME, VIP WARD, UNITY HOSPITAL*
It had been four days since Kizy had fallen into a coma and Markus hadn’t stepped out of the Vip ward.
His friends had come to visit him and Kizy, but Markus didn’t talk much, only answering when needed.
Coincidentally they had come at the same time when Evie had accompanied Nicole here.
Nicole, being Markus’s only close cousin from childhood, knew his friends. Though she wasn’t much acquainted with their wives, it took her no time in getting to know the two women.
She explained the entire scenario in short to all four of them, as they all knew Markus’s background.
“Markus’s image has been improving a little. We were able to present witnesses against three out of twenty nine girls. So, some of the people are believing him a little, but the majority of the news is concentrated on that minor girl.” Felix said, informing Nicole about the recent situation.
With Markus being in such a bad position, grandpa, Joel and Nicole had taken the responsibility of ‘Stardust’ while his friends were finding clues against the accusation made against Markus, knowing all the details about when and where Markus was at the mentioned time.
“Don’t worry. Everything will be sorted. We just need more time. At least the shares have stopped dropping.
In fact some of our old clients are coming forward to support us. And I am going to remember every single member out of them, because their trust is precious at such times.” Nicole said.
She was still discussing other details with them when she felt a tug on her sleeves.
Nicole looked down, only to find Evie, looking back at her with her doe eyes.
“What is it Evie?” Nicole asked with a gentle tone.
“Is Kizy sleeping peacefully? If not, can Evie read a story to her?” Evie asked innocently, her baby voice making all the people like her instantly.
But Nicole looked at Markus, seeking permission about what to do.
Markus just nodded his head, while Evie came back to sit beside Markus, reciting an entire story, her baby voice filling the whole room.
By the time Evie ended her story, Catherine was emotional, not understanding how such a young child could be so mature.
All of them stayed for some more time, before leaving one after another, deciding to meet soon again.
On the fifth day, Kizy’ mom, Kate arrived at the hospital, her face tearstained after watching her daughter being in such bed ridden condition.
But none of them had disclosed any information about the professor or this masteran to Kate.
After all, Kizy was the one who had kept it hidden from Kate, so how could they reveal such an important piece of news without asking her.
Thus they made up a fake story, saying that Kizy was hit by a car in a road side accident. The driver was supposedly drunk, and after hitting Kizy, it collided with a huge bus, with the driver dying on the spot.
Kate was informed about all this the day the doctor had announced about Kizy being in a coma.
But Kate was out of station, doing some social work. Thus she got this information yesterday at midnight, and she travelled through the night to reach the hospital in the morning.
It had been very difficult for Markus and Mary to compose Kate, asking her to calm down.
Once she had calmed down significantly, she saw Markus and Mary properly.
Markus looked dead tired, his face covered with dark circles, hair undone, clothes creased.
While Mary had lost weight running to and fro between ‘Stardust’ and ‘Purple’.
“Child you should rest for sometime.” Kate said, thinking that Markus had been awake last night, making him look so tired.
“No mother. I am fine.” Markus replied immediately.
“You look tired.” Kate said, pointing out the obvious.
“No no. I am not tired.” Markus said once again.
Mary felt emotional, watching her son being as sensible as his late father, her beloved late husband.
Kate and Mary talked a little, Kate deciding to stay in A city till Kizy was back to normal.
This way almost a week had passed, but Kizy never woke up or did even the slightest movement.
Markus would only look at her, occasionally talking with her when no one else was present in the room except those two.
*TENTH DAY IN HOSPITAL*
“Stop giving her that mournful look.” Jason said while entering the room.
No matter how much he tried, he couldn’t make it in himself to come to this place where Kizy was present.
Markus just looked at Jason before reverting back to his original posture, looking towards Kizy.
“I said stop giving those negative sad vibes. You should be talking to her, telling her some cheerful news, making her excited to come back from her deep sleep.” Jason said, though his voice cracked a little at the end, showing how emotional he was.
“You love her, don’t you?” Suddenly Markus said, making Jason freeze at his place.
Luckily he had closed the door behind him, plus he was the only person visiting today, thus nobody heard this.
Jason paused for a minute before he resumed walking towards the bed, where Kizy was lying lifelessly.
“What’s the use? She will never know that.” He said with a sigh.
“Why did you let her go? She told me about how she met you, the reasons why she joined your group and how successfully it was working, even being invited to the gala.” Markus asked, wanting to know everything clearly.
“Then did she mention the things that happened at Gala?” Jason asked, not knowing how much information Kizy had already revealed.
“Yeah. About the professor as well.” Markus said, showing he knew about the entire incident.
“Exactly. That’s the reason why.” Jason said, his tone full of disappointment.
“What do you mean?” Markus asked again.
“When did she tell you about all this?” Jason asked.
“On her birthday.” Markus said.
“Why though?” Jason asked back, his eyebrows knitting.
“We received a parcel on her birthday. From the professor.” Markus said, his tone serious.
“What??” Jason asked, not being able to keep his cool anymore.
“Yes.” Markus reolied in one word.
“What was the parcel?” Jason asked, panicking, knowing how much Kizy was scared of the professor.
“The mask she had left behind at the gala. Along with a cake. I tried to trace back its sender, but it wasn’t possible.” Markus said, his voice dejected.
“No matter what you try, you can’t trace them easily.” Jason said from his own experience.
“So you were talking about why she left the group.” Markus said, bringing attention back to the original topic.
“After returning back from the gala, I increased security around our place, knowing that because of hacking into their monitors, they would find our identities soon.
Plus the professor was crazy about her. I could understand that from the beginning.
Thus we didn’t accept any missions for the first month after returning.
After a month, we finally took a big mission, but we didn’t let Diamond accompany us, knowing her safety was more important than our missions.
We completed almost seven missions without Diamond, all of them big huge ones. No matter how sad or irritated she would become, we never allowed her on missions.
But she couldn’t wait like this anymore. You won’t believe it, but Diamond had her first argument with me in the past two years over this topic.
Thus finally we took her on the mission, and the thing I wanted to avoid actually happened.” Jason paused, taking a deep breath, remembering old memories.
“We were trapped inside a bungalow, a bait laid by the professor.” Jason continued.