Chapter 18: Plot, Revenge and Murder- Part 2
Ashlene has been waiting for this day earnestly. There is no nervousness in her. She is way too eager to finish off her task as soon as she can. She has thought multiple times about any teensy mistake she would come across but with all preparation, she didn't.
Fred was on leave today. Her duty was in morning hours which mean more Doctors and rush in which she would complete it easily. She notes that Mr. Reynolds is by his wife's side and talks about the papers. She becomes curious and wants to hear them. However she is called by another Doctor who orders her to perform a few tests. She finishes them within an hour and hands the reports.
"I hope I've done it perfectly, sir," she smiles sheepishly, trying her best to impress the man, "Sorry if it's little inconvenient,"
"Haha, its okay, Ash," The doctor says as he analyzes some previous reports and sits on his table,
Ashlene stares him nervously and gulps, "The patient in ward 23 is having her attender since from morning, is it fine?" she asks as she pretends to write other reports on side table.
"Hmm," he barely responses,
"Uh,"
"Ash, please hand this reports to Dr. James on first floor," The man says quickly and heads to some other ward,
Ashlene sighs but nods and heads to first floor, "Ash! One second, I'm not finding Lana here; just tell her if she is on first floor to look after the patient in ward 23,"
"I will do that myself, Doc," Ashlene says immediately, "I-I mean, Lana must be busy. We don't go well a-actually,"
The Doctor blinks but smiles, "Alright, thanks Ash!"
"You're welcome," she darts towards the desired ward and walks slowly towards it cursing that her Uncle is still talking some shit. She spots Michelle.
"Michelle!" she calls him, "Can you please ask that attender to go out. I've to remove the glucose and it's a little uncomfortable there, please," Ashlene asks with fake naïve eyes,
Michelle rolls his eyes and walks in the ward. Ashlene's heart is beating for some reason and she is a nervous wreck. However she shakes her head and tries to calm down.
"Alright now," Michelle gives thumbs up and Ashlene immediately turns when her Uncle walks out and heads out in the direction to elevator. She sighs and glances carefully looking at the contents of the bottle.
There are at least five minutes before I could remove it. Fuck!
She wears surgical mask and cap. She walks inside and notices that the occupant who is her aunt is slowly falling asleep. She pretends to silently prepare another glucose bottle and add the assigned antibiotic in it which is to be given to her actually. She readies the new canola. She keeps on glancing the woman and prays silently that she falls asleep,
She takes a deep breath and realizes that the bottle must be immediately changed.
She walks towards the lady who seemed to be peacefully asleep. She nods very slowly to herself. She unplugs the glucose tube and dumbs it in the pin silently. She gulps as she takes out KCL injection from her pocket and injects it through the canola. After few seconds, she is done injecting it. Her hands shake as she removes the canola which is blood stained lightly and stuff in her tissues and keep in her pocket. She injects another canola and bends down so if she wakes up, she doesn't see her face. The lady moans lightly and Ashlene panics mentally but continues putting the new canola that she prepared a few minutes back and the woman calms down. She fixes the new Glucose bottle and walks out silently.
She walks out and her shoulder lightly brushes with her uncle who walks in. She mumbles sorry and walks out quietly, her heart throbbing hysterically.
She is relaxed that it went well. The Doctor spots her, "Thanks for checking out there. Lana was busy with other reports I'd allotted her."
"No problem, Doc," Ashlene smiled, "I will immediately give these reports to Dr. James now,"
"Sure, I will check the pulse rate and her condition once," The Doctor rushes to the ward,
Ashlene is scared shitless but knows well that this will be an accident. She checks her watch but doesn't remember how much more time is left for her aunt to die. She seriously feels nausea and heads down to first floor.
She waits for Dr. James to clear up his patient and stands patiently.
"Ash, you may come,"
"Thanks, Doc. Dr. Dain asked me to handle you this reports and case sheet," she says coolly and gives him,
"Hmm, alright. Ash, just give a normal Dolo 360 to patient in 255 and handle it. I'm seriously too worried about this case," Dr. James says looking at the case sheet,
"Sure," Ashlene sighs.
…
"How many times did she have heart strokes?" Dr. Dain asks worriedly but keeps on adding the required antibiotic continually in the glucose,
"Just once," The man answers,
"Are you sure? This isn't possible. Her potassium levels are rising incredibly." Dr. Dain calls another Doctor and they try to assist the situation,
"I'm not sure, Mr. Reynolds, but your wife's potassium levels are soaring and it's due to constant strokes that remained untreated,"
"I said that she had only one!" The man yells and panics as his wife looks paled up and dangerously weak.
The monitor scanning the heart is doing unhealthy beats and the Doctors admit that it is impossible to save her now.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT'S IMPOSSIBLE!"
"Your wife must have hidden from you about it, we are helpless." The Doctors says calmly as Dr. Dain is held by his collar. With one strike of voice, the cardio graph goes into straight line and the lady's head limply falls on her side,
"I'm sorry but sudden Intense Cardiac Arrests can't be helped. It's all on metabolic system," The other Doctor explains. The man leaves him and shakes his wife who is …dead by the moment.
There are laments and curses but the Doctors apologize and doesn't pay any heed and rush to another ward.
"That idiot," Dr. Dain grumbles and the other Doctor pats him and they ignore the situation for once. It's like it was a complete accident.
Ashlene is done with the new Outpatient and hears the screams from upstairs. She smirks and texts Julia,
'I'll be arriving home coolly,' implying that she had done her part quite well.
Ashlene see the wheel bed carrying her aunt and her uncle lamenting and she refrains from giving a cruel smile. She turns and tries to be calm.
She heads to meet Dr. Dain upstairs.
She casually walks to the ward and pretends to be confused though there is no on to notice. "Dr. Dain, where is that patient in ward 23?" she asks in panicky tone,
"Ah, she got a sudden arrest. Poor lady. Ash, please get me some coffee from downstairs," The doctor says relentlessly,
Normally Ashlene would have frowned at this constant orders but she's way too active at her success right now that she doesn't mind giving coffees to the entire staff of Doctors.
"Uh, poor lady, sure Doc," she says in a sad tone but rushes down,
There are three more hours for her shift to complete and she can't wait to go to her home and give Julia the good news. She clobbers her fist in air.
…
Julia nods as she gets up from her seat in PS.
"Thank you, officer," she heads out after giving all the details of how her friend has been done injustice for these many years.
Seriously, Julia didn't have any idea about Police officers who are known to be cunning for money and are interested in only ransoms. She contacted Zane and the girl was quick enough to give her reach to the most suitable officer she have known.
Julia waited for Ashlene to return. She just couldn't wait for Ashlene to return and give her a huge hug. She is sitting on the couch and glancing at the door and the watch twice in a minute. Ellie and Raul are sleeping in her room and she is fine.
Julia's heart picks its pace when the door opens revealing the brunette and her ever grinning face. Julia hugs her while Ashlene closes the door. Ashlene gulps and wraps her feeble arms around her,
"I did it Julia, I did it." Ashlene silently let the tears fall down,
"Hmm," Julia says strongly. They sit on the couch and starts discussion,
"I've filed the report as well, immediately after you texted me." Julia says,
"Yeah?"
"I've told them everything about you except the last time you met Duke. I managed to convince him that he did try to rape you and said that the colony members are the witness and he could ask them however he wants. Raul doesn't know anything. Better stay quiet."
Ashlene nodded.
"We have to report at PS now. I was waiting for you," Julia said,
"Sure. What about Duke?"
"He IS at PS." Julia sighed.
"Oh," Ashlene smirked, "I guess that manager of papers who have been payed ransom few years back is also caught, must be,"
"Will see," they rushed to PS after locking the door carefully,
…
"Police officer I'm telling you that I didn't rape her! She is lying!" Duke screamed at the top of his lungs as he was standing behind the bars,
Ashlene looked at him and blinked, sarcastically pretending to believe that it's incredible,
"Shut up, Mr. Duke. This property originally belonged and was owned by Ashlene's dad, Kousair Reynolds, and not your father, Koburo Reynolds. It's not acceptable that Ashlene being their only daughter, he would transfer his entire will except some cash in her bank account and a villa in outskirts for her. It is a definite game, a pre-plan. Ashlene was just twelve years old when her parents passed and you all took advantage of it," This police officer looked dark and he was talking snidely,
"Officer! My mother just passed today! How can't I be allowed to attend her funeral?"
"Because you have a big case on you and your father's shoulders right now!"
Koburo Reynolds entered the PS with a dejected sardonic look, seething at Ashlene.
"Don't worry Mr. Koburo, I've called your manager, please have a seat,"
Koburo blanches at the statement,
"This is a changed will. Isn't it?" The dark man asks plainly,
Koburo doesn't answer, "Answer me or else I will put in lock up and beat the crap out of you!"
"It's not my fault that my brother loved me more than his own family, Officer," Koburo says calmly,
"Well, I'm pretty much impressed at your reasoning but I have already called your manager," The officer sniggers before he points in a dark corner where a man who seems to be the probable care taker of exploiting the will is sitting only in his shorts and seems to be beaten out of blue,
"Raiko…" Kobura mutters,
"Let's hear from him what he has to say about the will, because not all regular will exploiters manages to survive the torture that is given here," The officer said in snickering tone,
"Yes, Raiko, bark the truth,"
"Mr. Kausair didn't transfer any will to anyone, they died in a plane crash all of sudden and there was supposed to be only one legal heir of his property and money and it was Ashlene Reynolds. I knew and I came the next day of funeral to read the will. Mr. Kobura payed me 13,000 dollars for changing the will. I agreed" he seethed as he said the last part,
"There was no will written by Mr. Kousair though I won't hesitate to tell that Mr. Kousair loved his brother so much, yes, more than his own family,"
Ashlene's eyes filled as she heard the truth. Her guess was all right. Julia comforted her and pulled her close.
"Mr. Raiko! How can you do this! I've struggled so hard past these years! I'd to stay at various friends' house and suffered. You know what…I've a three year old daughter…" a tear escaped her eyes as she said it,
Everyone gasped at that. "What?" Koboro shot,
"We separated him and I've planned of never going back. I'm fine with Julia and Ellie,"
Koboro seethed and growled, Duke was supposed to enjoy this property and lavishly live this life. And now instead a bloody another stranger gets to enjoy that. Damn!
"I'm sorry for you, Miss Ashlene," The officer said,
Koboro glanced at his son who looked horrified. "Any more questions, Mr. Koboro?" The officer asked coolly, "Oh, if you're saying that Raiko is lying then, don't worry; the original papers are always with him, and currently with me,"
Koboro glanced at the papers which belonged to Kausair and dated till death. Koboro thought that it were destroyed, "These exploiters usually keep the original ones, at least a copy? I mean, they NEED a safety, isn't it?"
Koboro blanched and he was speechless. He was immediately kicked behind the bars along with Raiko.
"Miss Ashlene, for all the formalities to be completed and the will be transferred at your name, it would take a few days. Might be a week, you don't have quite idea, I will talk it with Miss Julia," The officer beckoned Julia to take a seat. Ashlene waited outside in the waiting room.
Ashlene couldn't believe that this happened so soon. It literally took two days for devasting this people's lives and it was quite astonishing for her and Julia to do. Her task wasn't tough and she planned it well. She just only prayed that the Officer don't stir the matters about Mrs. Koboro's death or else it would be complicated. Ashlene had to kill her because that would distract Mr. Koboro and he couldn't handle the things and meanwhile, the officer would get the truth spilled out by this manager.
"Thanks, officer," Julia payed some handsome handful of cash and bowed before him formally and walked out. She hoped that this patriotic officer of Zane wouldn't stir the matters more and keep quiet with this money given as thank-you,
"Done Julia?" she asked,
"Yes," Julia smiled, "Let's go home,"
Ashlene nodded.
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"It's just a matter of few days. I've some money saved and I need if you have any, we may need it. I've to contact another will manager to transfer this will legally at your name and the task might be a little daunting," Julia said, "I will contact Zane again if she knows someone, meanwhile we will arrange some cash,"
"Alright," Ashlene nodded, "If we are getting a proper person, I still have some money left in my account; we can use it. We will be anyway getting lot of money in the next days," Ashlene grinned,
"Well, not exactly cash. You will owe your house, a few plots that I will read for you," Julia took out the papers, "And a primary school that your father used to run, that was last run by your uncle, not money, Ash" Julia said nervously,
"Alright," Ashlene took the papers, "We can anyway sell a plot to get cash, lol"
"Oh, sure. Ashlene Reynolds, this is all yours," Julia smirked,
"This took lot less time, don't you think. You cried yesterday and you got what you wanted today!" Julia laughed,
"Lol, I must go to the church tomorrow, I guess," Ashlene said nervously,
"Yeah," Julia read the will along with her,
They talked about the spots of the plots and decided to meet Zane tomorrow. Ashlene couldn't be any happier. She just prayed that this process of transfer of will occurs easily.
A/N: Okay guys, I agree this chapter was quite delayed and I'm so late, but I'd my internals going on which ended today. They were fine, but somehow it feels like a huge relief now.
As for the chapter, I know it was probably a little rushed, and not so satisfactory but I can't wait longer for this to happen. Pardon all the errors! And do comment of what you think. Next chapter will be by Sunday, hopefully.
Also, thanks so much to the reviewers of the previous chapter! :D