"Rose what is this?" said Sabrina and walked in the room with a glass of milk and continued, "I told you to drink milk before you went to bed. You forget didn't you?"
"Sorry mummy," said Rose and took the glass of milk from Sabrina and drank it.
Sabrina smiled and kissed her forehead and said goodnight but Rose stopped her and said "mummy, could you stay till I fall asleep"
Sabrina smiled and nodded.
Rose looked around and didn't see Sofia.
Sofia never showed up when Sabrina was around.
Rose slept on the bed and Sabrina sat near her head and slowly tipped her head to help her sleep.
"Mummy, you scare away all the demon from my life," said Rose.
"And I always will," said Sabrina.
Rose fell asleep and Sabrina covered her with a comforter and left the room.
Rose was not completely asleep.
She then heard "I will never leave you," said Sofia.
Rose held the comforter tight and cried herself to sleep.
After Sofia's death, Rose was left alone by her family after accusing her of supporting Sofia when Sofia wanted to leave Ermanno, abort the baby and not stopping her to get into her car and drive off before the accident.
Rose couldn't understand why she was blamed for those as they were impractical accusations.
When left alone for so long, Rose only prayed and wished Sofia would come back and be with her.
And one day Sofia did come back and Rose was not alone anymore.
Rose liked Sofia's company. Sofia's presence made Rose less lonely.
That's when both sisters together started making plans to take revenge on Ermanno.
As days went by Sofia became more real to Rose.
Rose did everything Sofia said.
Sabrina walked in Rose's bedroom and woke Rose the next morning.
"Rose, why are you still sleeping? It's almost 9" said Sabrina.
"I don't feel good mummy," said Rose moaning in pain.
Sabrina felt her forehead and said "oh dear. You have a fever. I'll call Mia" said Sabrina and left the room to call Mia.
Mia checked Rose and gave her pills for the fever.
Rose was in tears after Mia left.
"What's wrong?" asked Sabrina.
"Mummy, I don't want to be me. I am so tired. I want everything different. I want to die" said Rose.
"Don't say that and all this feeling are because you are pregnant. Pregnant women get a little emotional during pregnancy." Said Sabrina.
Rose nodded and slept on her bed after having her breakfast and pills.
Rose woke up in the afternoon and went outside her room and down the stairs and saw Sabrina with Emanuel, Enrique's 4-year-old son.
Rose smiled and went close to them.
Sabrina was playing a board game with him.
Sabrina looked up at Rose and said: "how are you feeling?"
"Much better," said Rose and looked at Emanuel.
"Master Emanuel Devonte here has a school holiday today and is spending time with me and Ella. You see Ruby works with Bruce in his company and this little guy comes back home from school to Ella or me" said Sabrina and tickled Emanuel.
"Stop" laughed Emanuel.
Rose laughed looking at them and asked: "where is Ella aunt?"
"She will be here soon. She was here till now. After lunch, Ella is taking this handsome young man to the park." Said Sabrina.
"I want to grow up to be strong as my dad. He lifts up even my mom" said Emanuel.
Sabrina and Rose laughed at his cuteness.
Ella came in after some time and Sabrina, Rose, Ella and Emanuel had lunch together.
Rose saw Sabrina feed Emanuel.
"I don't like feeding kids. It's all Sabrina. All the kids were always here with Sabrina. All basically grew by Sabrina" said Ella.
"May I ask you something?" Asked Rose.
"Sure," said Ella.
"Don't you feel angry when your children call Sabrina mummy, mummy?" Asked Rose.
"They call me mom. And to tell you the truth. Like every other parent, we all wanted nannies. And you see we all women in this family don't stay much at home. Everyone is doing something or the other. So taking care of children was not our first priority. You hire nannies to do that. But what happened here was Elisio never liked when Sabrina went out and Sabrina mostly went out of the mansion when it was with Elisio. So she was here all the time in the mansion and volunteered to babysit. And basically brought up all the kids. Now it is only fair to call her mummy as she was there for them more than us" laughed Ella.
Rose looked at Ella with anger and thought of her own mother who would leave her with nannies.
"So you agree that you are like those mothers who want the status of being called a mother but don't take responsibility for their kids. You are the mothers who allow strangers to come inside their house and you yourself stay out without thinking what those strangers do to your kids. You should all owe your kids life to mummy" said Rose with anger burning in her eyes like fire.
Ella was the most sensitive of all the women in the mansion. She saw Rose and got scared and started crying.
"Grandma is crying," said Emanuel.
"Rose that's uncalled for. Please apologise to Ella. She is an excellent mother who never ignored her children. Indeed she has bought them up to be ideal adults. I was nothing but a nanny who took care of children for few hours. The kids call me that out of respect nothing else. Please apologise Rose" said Sabrina.
Rose looked at Ella and said "I am sorry for telling the truth"
Rose got up from her place and left the dining table.