Chapter 25
Wheeler/Linka
The next morning, Linka woke up feeling nauseous, ran to the toilet, and when she raised her head, "Oh my God, what's going on, my stomach hasn't been so good for about a week?"
Then she finished getting herself ready to go to work, when she arrived Gi and Karen were already there, "Oh, Boshy moy, for God's sake, girls, it's an office, not a perfume store." she opened the window and waved her hands, "That's too much."
"Linka, what's wrong with you? You weren't bothered by perfume smell before, and you wear perfume the most among us" Gi said in surprise
"You must have changed the perfume, that's why"
"No, it's the same perfume, the one you used to like. Really, what's wrong with you, girl?"
"Oh boshy moy, this smell makes me dizzy, I'm going out of here sorry girls, I'll be back soon"
"Didn't you notice anything about Linka lately ?" Gi said she seems worried about her friend
"Yes she's been acting like a bitch lately" Karen said sarcastically
"I'm worried about her, she looks tired all the time"
"Yes, her temper has changed, she can't stand the smell of the food we bring, even though she used to share with us, and now she doesn't like our perfume, she goes to the bathroom constantly, I just think that the issue of her broken up with her boyfriend, which you told me about two weeks ago, affected her emotionally and physically as well." Karen said while looking in the file drawer
"Yes, but I think it is more than that"
Everyone raise your hands, you are under arrest," Wheeler said when he broke into the suspicious bar, which is suspected of having a group of thieves who steal bank accounts using fraudulent electronic links, and it is a suspicious strip club as well, and Wheeler wished that Victoria or Chelsea as she claim was there
The policemen handcuffed everyone in that suspicious room where there are laptops and a lot of cables thrown around carelessly, the light was dim and people's features were blurred.
"Wheeler, check that girl," Kwame said to Wheeler whispering, putting the handcuffs in the hands of the detainees.
"Which girl "
"There in the corner"
When Wheeler approached her and tied her up, he looked at her face so well, he knew her right away, he would never forget her features.
"Do you remember me?"
"No, I have a lot of clients, I don't remember which one you are."
I'm not one of your customers, I'm Wheeler, the policeman." He took off his hat so she could recognize him. She looked at him but didn't recognize him. "No, officer, I don't remember you."
"I'm Linka's boyfriend, the blonde, Russian, you accused me of having an affair with you when I was dating her."
"No, I don't remember that," her words were different from her own body language, as she showed that she remembered the subject, and she was the one who played that game, that Wheeler knew exactly how to read criminals' body language
"Why did you do this, who's behind it all?"
"I... I will only speak in the presence of a lawyer."
Wheeler was keen to arrest Chelsea, and tried to suppress his nerves not to yell at her and not to get angry at her
Calm down, my friend, there must be a gang behind her that forced her to do so. She is the thread that will lead us to the gang.
"Well done officers, I'm proud of all of you," Captain David said after the criminals arrived at the police station and put them in the cell.
"Captain, please. I want to know who is behind Victoria or Chelsea, when will the investigation start? I can't wait" said Wheeler as he took the captain to the side.
"Don't worry son, in two days maximum we will finish the investigation with all of them, I promise you and thank you for getting the information from the phone company quickly, it helped us a lot"
The girls were in their office getting some work done while Gi grumbled about her period because it had just come today. "Oh, my back hurts so much... I need to take some painkillers" She looks in her handbag
"What's the matter?" Karen asks
"It's my period, it just came, and I'm feeling very sick, do you have any painkillers Karen? I didn't bring any today."
"Oh.. I'm sorry dear, I didn't bring any precautions with me today, my period ended a week and a few days ago, you may find with Linka"
"I don't think so, I remember her period coincides with yours, right, Linka?"
"What," said Linka, surprised, she forgot about her period after all the terrible things that happened to her last month.
"Didn't you hear us? Do you happen to have any painkillers in your handbag, I feel the pain" Gi puts her hand on her stomach and arches her head to her desk
"Hey, we didn't hear you complaining this time, usually you and I are tired in a certain week of the month, our menstrual cycles are synchronized" Karen stares at Linka with a surprised look
Linka looked at the calendar on her desk, grabbed it quickly, counting the days, and the worry was evident on her face
"Didn't you get your period this month, girl?" Gi is looking at Linka, if this is true then her predictions have come true
"No, I mean, yes, it came, but without pain this time." Then she ran out of the office quickly.
she did not know where to go, nor why she left her office in the first place, all she knows is that she wants to get away, be alone with her thoughts, if she wishes to escape from her destiny, but to where? she walked into one of the empty meeting rooms, and randomly wandered around the hall
"Nyte...Nyte .That's impossible, oh god please don't let this happen, please" She put her hand over her mouth, trying to hide the tears in her eyes
She thinks that her period is late for about a week and a few days. She usually has a steady period. It is very rare for her to be late.
Although she was very afraid that her prediction would be correct, she decided to do what had to be done. "I must make sure of that." She ran out of the building and took her car to the nearest pharmacy. She bought more than one thing just to scatter the cashier, a set of creams, a toothbrush, a shower gel and pregnancy test.
After she paid, she took the things to her car, she took the pregnancy test in her purse, and left the rest of the things in the car.
She ran back to the building where she was working and headed to the ladies' bathroom. She used the pregnancy test as described on the attached flyer "It takes fifteen minutes for the results to appear, oh boshy moy, this is a long time."
She came out of the bathroom to the sink to wash her hands, and she was waiting for the columns, wishing that only one column would appear. The first column appeared clearly, and it was the longest minute in her life while she was waiting for the results of the second column. "Please don't show up, please don't show up, please..." The second column started to look faded and blurred, and seconds later it was just as clear as the first.
She put one hand over her mouth and the other held a pregnancy test with a positive result, and collapsed on the bathroom floor in disbelief. "I can't believe, no way, I'm pregnant, with a baby I don't know whose father is !, boshy moy,... why , why... I wish it was a wheeler's baby and not . Oh… nyte "
At this moment, Gi entered the bathroom, she shocked when she saw her friend collapse and cry on the bathroom floor, "Oh my God, Linka... are you okay? Is there a problem?" Gi hugged her friend, thought someone had died, or that there was serious bad news
Linka nodded to her friend pointing to a pregnancy test in her hand
"What is this? A pregnancy test?" Gi took the small stick from her friend's hand and looked at the result in disbelief as well
"Oh my God, Linka... you... you're pregnant!"
LInka remains silent, not wanting to answer, or even think, she feels it is just a nightmare from which she wants to wake up. Sat with her head between her knees
"LIn, you should tell Wheeler."
"Oh no Gi, Wheeler shouldn't know about this." is holding her friend's shoulders
"Linka, this is something you cannot hide, unless you intend to abort the baby."
What, I can't kill a bird, how I could kill my own baby? No Gi, I can't"
"Then you should tell Wheeler Linka, he should know."
"Gi, you don't know... you just don't know." She started crying and put her head between her knee again
"I don't know what Linka?" tries to rub her friend's shoulders to comfort her
"I can't... I can't let anyone know... No one should know."
"Linka… promise to tell Wheeler, he should know, if you don't tell him I will tell him."
"No..no..please don't tell him, I...I'll tell him..but..give me some time." Linka knew that her friend was right, and that in the end she had to gather her strength and face it, that she would be a mother anyway, But she's not sure how long she'll need, the last time she saw Wheeler was when she kicked him out of her apartment, he was begging her not to, he hurt her deeply, and she still suffers from his betrayal.
"Okay, wash your face and freshen up your make-up. Try to recover your strength, my dear. Robert was asking about you a while ago, he wanted to talk to you."
A few minutes later, when Linka stood up and looked at her beautiful, pale face in the mirror, "I can't believe this is happening to me, all my life I thought that when I had a child I would be married, and I would know who his father was, the only man in my life...but now Oh boshy moy, I can't believe this is happening to me"
When Linka arrived at Robert's office after she fixed her make-up and gathered her strength
"Robert, did you call me?"
"Yes, please, Linka, will you sit down at my desk and explain this email to me?" Robert was nervous and angry, hovering back and forth in his office
When Lenka sat at Robert's desk, she couldn't believe her eyes when she read the email from Greg
Dear Mr. Robert,
I hope my email finds you well
Allow me to complain about the poor service provided by your company (which I did not expect from you, frankly)
When we met in my office about two and a half months ago, your employee, Linka, promised me that she would always be willing to track and correct pitfalls of the program in line with our mission as an international company.
You have thankfully installed the program, BUT, there are some defects that I have told Linka to correct so that we can follow up on our achievements as members of the Board of Directors.
And as CEO, and director of the board of directors, I did not expect this negligence from her, she does not answer my calls and argues that she is not the right person to fix the flaws
Please send her with or without her support team as soon as possible, and I will have to regret it to cancel the deal with you
Waiting for your reply
Greg Hanson
CEO and Chair of the Board of Directors
Hanko International Co
Linka didn't expect Greg to dare to demand her to come from her manager, she knows very well that an engineer can fix the fictitious defects of which he talked about of "what a wretched bastard!"
"Robert Listen, what Greg says isn't true, I..."
"I don't care about Linka, listen, in short, Hanco company is a red line. I don't want Greg Hanson to get upset with us. He's not just a special customer, he's our gold customer."
"He's just trying to drag me into his trap, Robert."
"Solve all your personal problems with anyone in your own time, I will be honest with you, , your career path in this company is threatened if you do not fix the situation with Greg. This is the greatest achievement I ever do as a manager of this company and I will not allow anyone to take it away from me... do I make myself clear"
Normally Linka would quit, she will not allow any company to treat her that way, but now, she's pregnant, she needs this job to be able to provide for her baby, she knows how hard it is for a pregnant woman to find another job, so she kept silent staring at Robert in disapproval.
"I already replied to his email a while ago and told him that tomorrow morning you will be with the assistant team in his company, you can leave now"
Linka came out of Robert's office angry, her head was hurting and she wasn't sure exactly what the reason was, is it because of pregnancy, is it because of her thinking about Wheeler and longing for him all the time, is it because of Greg and what he did to her personally and professionally. She doesn't know how someone like him would desire infinity to destroy others…" Oh my God, what monster did I fall into his hands… Wheeler was right, Greg is a very bad guy, I should have gotten away from him, I shouldn't have let him into my life, I'm paying for that now and I don't know how long." She sat in her office, silent, and completed her daily tasks sad and absent-minded