The scene that happened yesterday at the hospital is now all over in papers, television and other press media. Michelo took Mrs Kumwenda with her at home, while Brianna remained behind to correct the medicine and other medical report.
After she correct everything, she decides to pass by the palace to go and apologize on behalf of her mother. Without giving it a second thought, she made a turn to the palace.
King Yachi is very disappointed with Mrs Kumwenda's behavior. He sit quietly in his sit with a newspaper in his hand. Helena came in, shouting and throw the paper to her brother. " Have you seen now where your tolerance has lead us?You have given these paupers so much freedom, now you see? This insolent woman had opened her Stinky mouth and utter such insults, how dare she!"
"I have come to apologise on her behalf." Brianna speaks unexpectedly.
Everyone turned towards her. She approached the king and when she was close enough, she bowed in arknowledging him as a king he is. She stayed bowed until he gave her a go ahead, but Helena had to interrupt, by attacking her.
"No, brother lord! I will not give an opportunity to this opportunist. Get out from here, you demon!" Push her away.
" Auntie, top it!" Held her up. "What are you doing?" He turned to Brianna and asked, "Are you ok?"
She nod a yes.
The king ordered Helena to excuse them as a punishment for her action. She walked out in furious. He then made her sit and explain to him what happened for his son to disappear. She narrated the who story of that night, how Gabriel went missing.
After she explained everything, and described the place, the cop in charge of the case who was present, had to speak. "I know that place very well, your majesty. So many cases of such has been happening and only one place I suspect they might have taken him." The officer stood up and shake hands with Brianna for her cooperation, "Thank you very much, miss Kumwenda. Your information is more than enough to help us find the prince."
He turned to the king and queen, then bowed, "i will take my leave, your majesty. We will continue giving you updates on how we go."
The king agreed and he left.
After he was gone, Brianna also excused herself, but before she walked out the gate, prince Lawrence run after her. "Wait, Brianna."
She stopped, he walked up to her, stopped by as though thinking about something then Pulled her into a hug. He hold her so tight, but affectionate. "I missed you."
She slowly hugged him back, "I miss you too." She rolled her eyes up and found Princess Helena gazing at them from up the balcony. Brianna had to pull out guilty. "I have to go, mum is waiting for her medication." She walked out, leaving him standing and staring where she was going.
Helena walked back inside before he saw him. She took out her phone and dialed princess Shelly. "When will you come back from your so called princess workshop? That good for nothing is back, but not the prince. You better come back as soon as possible and deal with her."
A voice from the other side, speaks, "Don't worry auntie, I will be coming coming back in two days time. I have already assigned some men to look for the prince, too."
"Alright, bye.
Today is the day manoah has decided to meet Gabriel, face to face. All the way he's been communicating with his men who where giving him direction on how to find the place, until he was finally there
Gabriel has been tortured since the day they took him. He demanded to see who wants him dead, but not once has he been told who is behind his kidnap. One of the men guarding him, came in to shut him up with a fist on his tummy. "You wanted to see who is behind your misery, don't you? You wait a little bit, because today is your death day." He stood up and give way to Manoah.
He stood before him, then gesture to man to uncover his face, which he did immediately. Upon seeing Manoah, Gabriel got furious, "You? I should have guest who could be behind this nonsense.
Manoah did answer to him back, but just gave him a hot punch that he coughed blood.
This is for taking my woman away from me, for this long!"Then he hit him again and again in furious. He continued punching him even when he had seen him bleeding terribly, until his men hold him back.
"Boss, calm down. You can't kill him now."
On the other hand, the police received a report from a certain villager who saw the men holding someone captive. Very, fast they where approaching.
"Get up, you moron!" kick on him. Gabriel finched in pain. The two men held him, stand on his feet. Manoah, hold his head up by the Chin, making him look at him. Gabriel raised his weak, disfigured, bleeding face and then laughed at him.
"You coward... You are a looser!"He yelled on his face. "Give up persuing Brianna, because she is mine, now, and we love each other!"
"Hearing him boast like this, manoah roared like an angry lion, and produced a gun, pointing it on his head to shot. One of his men guarding outside came in running with a report that the police are coming. "Boss, the cops are here!"
"Oh shit! How did they knew about this place?" He hide the pistol then grab Gabriel by the neck, dragging him out in to the forest. The police had already invaded the place.
"Hands up!" Point a gun at him. When the men saw it was the cops,so they tried to run, but one of the cops fired a gun which hit one of them on the back. Seeing that, manoah grabbed Gabriel and point him a gun.
"Let me go or I shoot this fool. Tell your men to put the guns down, now!" He ordered the officer in charge, while he was making back moves, slowly.
The officer gestured his men to put guns down and surrender, which they did. Officer in charge recognized Manoah's face. "Manoah?" He called.
He gave out a sinister laughter, "are you surprised?" He laughed.
"How did you find yourself, here?" He asked.
At that moment, he was moving away with Gabriel, slow but sure as the police watched him. Some of the cops had already in camped him without knowing. A gun was point at him that made him let go of Gabriel in surrender.
Brianna and prince Lawrence then came running, "Gabby..... She called while running after him. "My Gabriel!" Fell in a hug, in a moment, he lost strength and passed out. "No my love , please, you need to survive for me." She fell down with him in her arms.
Prince Lawrence stood by watching, Brianna crying for his brother, he sensed that, they where in love. He swallowed in sadness, he loved Brianna, all along, but what can he do, now that she and his young brother are in love?" He approached her with a comforting Pat on her back, "Calm down, he will be fine." He said, but even so, his eyes could tell just how much he was hurt."
The cops carried his unconscious brother into a cop's van and they rushed him to the hospital .
Manoah couldn't accept loosing Brianna, he escaped from the cop's van, yelling Brianna's name. "Brianna... !!!! I will come for you, you can't just dump me like that for that moron!!!! He runs. The police shoot him on the leg, but he kept on running and limping. The police lost him when he runs into a stranger's house, whom he threaten with a gun to keep quiet.
They reached the hospital, only to find the mob and the media already gathered by the hospital, ready to interview. Cameras where already flashing at them as they walked out from the cops car. Questions where coming from every press group, but no single answer was given, the cops protected them as they enter the hospital building. Brianna Cried all the way.
The prince was in critical condition that they reached him direct in ICU. Lawrence sit with Brianna, giving her a shoulder to cry on. Doctor Marcos , with nurses over past them, from the visitor's sit, into the ICU, but before he could go in, Brianna hurried after him. "Please doctor, save his life, please." She cried, as she pleaded with him.
Doctor Marcos didn't believe, she was really crying for him. His face turned low, sorrowful but he nod, assuring her that he would do his best, then he went in with his team.
In an hour, the doctor came out with good news, as soon as he came out, Brianna was the first to approach him with questions. Doctor, what happened, tell me he's alright." Holding him on his white coat, shooking him, but he was just standing there like a statue, not believing her reactions.
Doctor, tell us!" Said the queen. They all turned back and saw the whole royal family members standing behind them.
The king didn't say it, but he noticed Brianna's tears. "How is he?" He asked.
"He is out of critical, you may all go in and see him, excuse me." Took his leave. Lawrence escorted him with eyes of suspicion.
The queen was the first to go in, then the king. After him, the prince invited Brianna to go in with him, but princess Helena blocked her way. "I don't remember, you having any business with royalty." She took a step close to her and said on her face, "You are nothing but a commoner. Stop deceiving yourself with whatever you fell for the prince, because it will never happen. Get lost." She turned and walked into the ICU.
Mr Mandela and his son, pumulo where not surprised by her behavior, they know her to be a cold Person. Brianna run out in tears, hurt by the princess's words. Lawrence gave a go ahead to his uncle and cousin, then he runs after Brianna. She was about to enter a taxi, when Lawrence held her hand. "Hold on, Brianna."
"What do you want from me?"
"I know you have fallen in love with each other."
Brianna looked at him, hopelessly. A tear fell off from her eyes, looked away, avoiding eye contact with him, shamefully. "What difference does it make." She said so, then enter the car and ordered the driver to start the car. Before it moved, Lawrence also jumped in.
As they drive, Prince Lawrence ordered the taxi man to take them to the palace.
"Why to the palace? I booked this taxi, not you. If you want one to take you to the palace, then get out from mine and book yours."
"I could have done so, but we are in the middle of the road. We are almost there, please."
She spoke no further words in contradiction. In five minutes they where there. After the car parked by the palace gate, Lawrence came out and then called Brianna out. "Come with me, I want to show you something.
"I'm sorry, I have to go home, my mother must be looking for me."
"Please Brianna, I won't wast much of your time. Just come with me, then after that you can decide whether to go for good or not."
Now she is curious to see what he wanted to show her. After he insisted, she had to come out and follow him inside. Together, they walkef to the living room, but she stopped there and watch him climb the stairs. He realized that she remained back, so he turned and called her to follow him up. "Come on."
"To where?"
"You will see, just follow me." He called again.
Slowly and in fear, she followed him up to a room she's never enter before. "Come in " Holding the door, open for her. She stepped in, in that fearful step, staring around the room.
"This is Gabriel's room." He softly spoke.
As soon as she heard him say that, her facial expression changed in wondering, what he was trying to do.
He took her by hand and opened another inner door of that same room which look colourful, with different kinds of arts. He continues to speak, while she listens, quietly. "This is Gabriel's favorite room. It is always Locked, kept hidden from everyone else, but do you know why it is so?" He asked this question while staring in her eyes tearfully. She waited for him to say, why he had said so. "It's because, he hides sketches of you, in this room."
Brianna looked at him with surprising eyes.
"Yes, my dear. Despite of being an ego man, You, Brianna had managed to cut off his wings, by turning him hopeless at your sight. He hated you, not because he mean it, but because he felt defeated, by you." Lawrence went talking, but she uttered not a single word, only staring at him with shocking eyes.
"If you don't believe me, then check this." He pull the white clothe, away from the drawing board and a big, beautiful painting of her beautiful, smiling face was there. Her face glow in great surprise and her eyes widened.
He revealed another and another until they where six. In all of them, amazing caption where written on. complementing her face parts, the smile, the beautiful big, to the point eyes, the lips, including the hair in her head, that is very black, thick but soft and shiny.
"My brother loves you a lot, Brianna. He loves you like he had never loved anyone before, and I know that you have learnt to love him too." He held her tiny hands as compared to his, in his palms and speak again. "The choice Is now yours to decide, to whether believe his love for you and accept him, or not."
Brianna didn't know what to say now. She walked out, just like that, without a single word said, until she was out in street, walking home. Pictures started coming back in her mind, prince Lawrence's voice kept on ringing around, in her head. Now even the memories of him and her in Bulawayo, came rushing back in her mind that she almost got hit by a car as she tried to cross the road without concentration.
Luckily, the driver was able to hit the breaks, right on her legs, before could touch her. She stood freeze in the middle of the road, in shock of what could have happened to her, if the driver hadn't stopped, prompt.
The driver to princess Shelly shouts, "Stupid woman, aren't you ashamed? Get out of the way!"
She runs out of the road with a sorry. The princess who was sitting at the back of the car, being driven to the hospital, didn't really recognize the woman's face, but she stared through the window at her in suspicion of who she could be.