Anastia felt some heavy burden left her shoulders after telling the officer what she knew. She hopes that they will have answers from the investigations. "Miss Donovan please eat your meals and rest well. I'll take my leave." Doctor Drake excused himself and left the ward.
As Anastasia ate her meal, something caught her eyes. There was a stack of newspaper on top of the table by the window.'Has that always been there?'She tried to reach out to grab the newspaper and almost fell of the bed. 'So much for being a vegetative. I can't even move much. Such simple task has become so ardous.' She thought to herself while heaving and catching her breath.
After a couple of minutes, she finally stopped having labourous breath and laid motionless on the bed feeling pathetic for herself. 'Lets try one more time.' She struggled to sit up right. After struggling what seemed to be forever,she went to read the stack of newspaper. Her hand tremled as she read
[CEO OF DON CORP. DIED IN A CAR ACCIDENT]
"The CEO of Don Corporation Marcus Donovan and his wife, Ex- supermodel Clarrise Reginald Donovan died an unfortunate death last night when their car hit a tree and went a blaze.
The business magnate couple was rushed to the hospital but unfortunately died in the chopper while being brought to the nearest hospital. The driver was found dead on the scene where he suffered a severe head injury said the coroner. The power couple had a daughter,who was in the same car and she was found a few meters away from the car unconciouss.
The young Miss Donovan is the only heiress to the billion dollars corporation. Though her fate was slightly fortunate as she is still breathing, what would become the fate of the mega empire? The funeral for the Donovan couple will be held tomorrow at nine in the morning says Mr. Cedric Donovan, the younger brother of the late Mr. Marcus."
She kept reading page after page. There was so much exposure of the accident that it was impossible for one not to know about it. And the news changed to a new page from a different newspaper.
[DON CORP. STOCKS PLUMMET AFTER DEATH OF SECOND GENERATION MAGNATE AND CEO. BANKRUPTCY DECLARED?] 'Dad's company is bankrupt? What happened to the board of directors and stocks holders? There's no way its bankrupt.No.No.' The newspaper crumpled in her trembling hands.
She reached out to the button to call a nurse. The nurse came in the ward. "Did you call the help button?"
"Yes, can you pleas help me call my family? I would like to see them after so long."
"Oh,I'm Sorry Miss. But We tried calling your immediate family after you are admitted here but none of them could be reached."
"But there must be someone. I mean anyone would be able to be reached a phone call away."
"The administrative tried calling several times. We called your Uncle and Aunt but none of them could be reached. They ended up calling the Don Corporation but they said that all your hospital billls were to be handled by the Insurance Company. Maybe you can try talking to the Officer from the other day?"
Anastasia nodded instead of answering the nurse. That night Anastasia had a hard time trying to sleep. She felt more anxious than she had ever felt before. The was so uncertainty in her life. She did not understand why her uncle and aunt would not visit her in the past three years. 'Why didn't they answer the call from the hospital?Why did the company went bankrupt merely a few months after Daddy passed away?' There are so many question she wanted to ask but who could answer them now that her uncle and aunt does not care for her?
Birds could be heard chirping indicating that morning has come and she has yet taken any sleep last night thinking of so many things. The nurse came to take her blood pressure and body temperature as well as giving her some vitamin shots.
"You have a therapy scheduled at 8 o'clock. There will be someone from the psysiotherapy clinic coming to take you there." Anastasia nodded at the brief information. "Oh, I have informed the officer last night and Officer Brandy will be here before you go for theraphy. Then please excuse me,I will be making my rounds to the other patients."
Not long after the nurse excused herself,someone came in bringing her a tray of food for breakfast. She ate her meal slowly. Hospital foods have never been tasty as they have to take into consideration for the balanced diet varying from the type of food can consume. As for Anastasia, she was only given corn soup with soft bread and warm milk. It was enough for she should only take lighter foods so her stomach can digest it slowly after having been on fluids in the past three years.
She has no appetite and was just stirring the soup after having a few sipps. Staring blankly at the soup for a long time,she heard a knock on the door.
Knock knock knock
" Come in."
"Good morning Miss Donovan. How are you today?"
"I'm getting better,hopefully. Thank you Officer Clark for coming on such short notice. Sorry for troubling you."
"Its not a problem I'm happy to be of help. It should have been Officer Brandy but she was called by our Chief so I came in her stead. Is there anything I can help? I heard you were trying to find your family?" "Yes, I was wondering why there have not been any news of my family coming to visit now that I'm awake. But the nurse old me that they didn't answer any calls from the hospital and left it all in the hands of the Insurance Company."
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"Officer,is there something wrong?" Anastasia was confused by the silence.
"Actually, we were trying to locate the rest of your family Miss."
"Locate my family? They are in the mansion right?" The officer shook his head at her question. "No...No..There's no way they would abandon me and run away..No..They'll never do that!"
"Breathe, yes..just breathe..Calm yourself down. Here, have some water." After calming down, they began to have a proper conversation. After her parents' funeral, her maternal family came and picked a fight with her uncle. Then a fight broke out between the in-laws. Turns out her maternal family blamed her father for marrying her mother and now taking away a precious daughter in their family. The fight was stopped by the police guarding the funeral procession due to many people attending. The fight was exposed by the media and becme a hot gossip for months.
It was not weird if some big shot family to have some family feuds. The mystery was that the company suddenly went bankrupt. It went down very quickly,even faster than falling down a cliff. The public thought that It was normal since not just one or two company declared bankruptcy every day. The odd thing came after the company was declared bankrupt that very day. "What happened after the company was declared bankrupt?" The Officer stared at Anastasia with a pitiful look.
"The Donovan Mansion was burnt to the ground. Not one soul survived. We had the coroner of the homicide team checked and the results came out that the DNA found on the bones of the remnants matched." Anastasia covered her mouth with her hands and didn't believe what she was hearing. It was too shocking to hear that the mansion was burnt and no one survived.
"It can't be.Officer, how could that be possible? Didn't the fire brigade came and put off the fire?"
"They did come. When they came they fire was nearly put out by itself. There was no big fire as we had thought. It was already burnt that the fire put itself off since there was nothing left. It was very unusual. It was as if no one wanted to know that the mansion was on fire. It was too late by the time the fire brigade came from a call of a passerby jogging the area and saw the mansion engulfed in a huge fire."