Nalani looked at the pale and haggard woman lying on the bed with her hands tied up, she felt her heart ache. She turned to look angrily at the two women.
''What are you people doing? Are you still human? How can you do this to a fellow woman. This is against the law. You're going to pay for this'' She shouted, berating them.
The old woman scrowed, glaring angrily back at Nalani and pointing her finger at her, she berated ''You disrespectful shrew, get out of here. You have no business here anyway. This matter is between me and my granddaughter-in-law. It's a family matter''.
"Family matters my foot. You people are committing a crime " Nalani shouted back.
Infuriated, the old woman rushed over with her hand raised to hit Nalani, ignoring the tall man standing beside her who's eyes darkened dangerously seeing her eyes filled with malice towards his beloved. Just as the old woman could hit Nalani, Davian quickly stood in front of her, using his towering figure to protect her from harm. He raised his leg and unceremoniously kicked the mad dog approaching them away without mercy. The old woman was instantly sent flying. She lost her momentum and fell heavily on the hard floor. She instantly froze as she felt her waist bones breaking at the impact.
"Ah!!" She screamed like a pig being slaughtered, experiencing excruciating pain. Her wrinkled face crunched up in pain. Her daughter-in-law immediately rushed over to help her but she angrily pushed her away.
The old woman was so mad that she wanted to go crazy. In her seventy years of life, she has always been the one who was domineering and ruthless and others could only suffer in her hand. When has she ever been dealt with and humiliated like this.
Staring venomously at the ruthless Davian, the old woman felt shivers down her spine, not daring to utter another word of defiance. This man was more dangerous and cruel than her and she would only suffer losses if she said anything but thinking of her beloved grandson who was sick and bedridden back at home, her heart felt unwilling to leave like this.
They had planned excessively to get this chance to get the fetus to save him. Holding her daughter in law's hand for support, she stood up while gritting her teeth in pain. "You people are strangers with ill intent,trespassing in someone's home. My daughter in law is about to give birth and we're helping her deliver the baby. You people should leave right now before we report you to the police" the middle aged woman spoke, anger and impatience written all over her face.
Nalani hiding behind Davian couldn't help roll her eyes.What bullsh*t. Did they think they were all stupid. That woman was tied up and begging for help.
By now, the tour guide had successfully managed to untie the pregnant woman's hands. "Mommy are you okay?" The little girl asked,her pure eyes looked curiously at her mother. The woman's forehead was covered in fine beads of sweat, her eyes were red from crying too much and she was breathing heavily. Her now freed hands gripped the bedsheets tightly, enduring the pain of childbirth. However, when she heard her little girl asking if she was okay, she couldn't help forcing a smile and assuring her, "Mommy is fine. Mommy is here with you". Seeing her condition, Nalani rushed to her side to check up on her. "Don't worry, we'll get you to the hospital soon" She said. She tried to help the woman off the bed but another contraction forced her back on the bed.
"I can't. The baby is coming" she cried in pain. Nalani panicked wondering how to handle the situation. She has no idea how to help a pregnant woman give birth. "Miss, the town hospital is really far from here. She really won't make it". The tour guide said. "I'm her mother in law and I'll help her...." Before the middle aged woman could finished speaking, the pregnant woman interrupted with a scream, "No..no..no. Please don't let them near me. They want to harm my baby".
Her words infuriated the old woman further, "You little slut. How dare you open your mouth to spat out nonesense. You're the jinx that has cursed my family " She yelled, wishing she could rush over and tear her mouth apart but she doesn't dare act rashly with Davian blocking their way and looking at them coldly.
"Love, please drive this people out".Nalani asked Davian.
He nodded, looked at the two nuisance in front of him with a cold gaze and pointed at the door. They either leave or he'll make them. The old woman gritted her teeth in hate, glared viciously at them but she has no choice but to leave with the help of her daughter in law.
After they walked out, Davian locked the door. Standing outside and seeing all their efforts gone down the drain, they felt like crying. "Mother, what about my son's condition?",the middle aged woman spoke, unwilling to accept defeat. The old woman snorted and replied,"We'll find another way".
Inside the house, It was only after those two women had left that the pregnant woman could finally breath a sigh of relief as she felt that she was finally safe. She was the daughter of the village's herbalist daughter and got married into the Aden family at nineteen years.
Her mother in law and the old matriarch never liked her and they made her life miserable. She took care of everything in the family, working from dawn to dusk to please her in laws but instead of their gratitude, she received their scorn and contempt. The only person who made life bearable was her good husband who would shield and protect her from his family's mistreatment.
At twenty, she gave birth to her first child, a girl but she passed away at just one year old. Three years later, she gave birth to another daughter who died at birth. At Twenty four, she got pregnant and gave birth to another girl but just like the previous two children, she also didn't make it and passed away two years later. After losing three children, she became depressed and her in-laws treated her even worse claiming she was a jinx sent to end their family bloodline. Three years ago she got pregnant again and managed to give birth to a daughter once more and that was the little girl now.
However, after the birth of their fourth daughter, her husband suddenly fell sick and with the years passing, his health had completely deteriorated so much so that he was now bedridden and waiting for death.
Her life became miserable with no hope. Who knew where her in-laws heard from that by digging out the unborn child in her belly and using it to make a sacrificial ritual, her husband will be saved. Although she wasn't highly educated but she knew that such a thing was absurd. Fearful for her life and that of her children, she run away from her in-laws family and returned to her mother's house with her children. All this months she had been fearful that her evil in-laws will come and force her to return with them but her mother fiercely protected her all this while.
Only today, her mother went to the town for a consultation and those two demons took the chance to come and find her, determined to dig out her unborn baby. Their family lived at the outskirts of town and quite isolated. With no one insight to help her, she could only send her three years old daughter to look for help for her.
Under the pregnant woman's instructions and guidance, they got a bowl of warm water and towel to help with the delivery. The tour guide took the little girl and waited outside leaving Davian inside to assist with the delivery. If not for Nalani insistence that he helped her out, Davian wanted to also wait outside.