Blemished Love - Season 1 - Episode 50

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Blemished Love - Season 1 - Episode 50

‘You would need to towel bath her later.’ He announced.


She nodded slightly. ‘Reed loves his daughter so why would he abandon her at school.’
‘I don’t know what went wrong so stop working yourself up.’ Tom cautioned her.
‘Who are you trying to call?’
‘I’m trying Lisa. Maybe they eloped together.’ Tom said naively.
‘You think this is funny?’ She asked obviously pissed.
‘I’m sorry.’ He walked to her hugging her tightly.
‘Don’t suffocate me.’ She said angrily.
He let her go instantly knowing it was her hormones talking. ‘You don’t have to get angry. Shirley is fine.’
‘I would go and towel bath her now.’ Grissel said ignoring him.
‘Okay, see you soon.’ Tom replied hastily.
She just hissed and left him in the hall. Tom knew she blames him now.


He admired her walking upstairs and he smiled.


It was already eight in the evening when Tom went upstairs and met Grissel watching her daughter sleep soundly while rubbing her belly. She gave Shirley a kiss and walked out with Tom to their bedroom.

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‘I’m glad we made this decision together.’ Bryan told Melisa who had agreed that morning to move into their new house which was just a thirty minutes’ drive from the hospital she works at.


‘Do you think he followed us here earlier?’ She asked.


‘Haven’t heard from him since we left the shop in the afternoon.’ Bryan replied her.
He had told Melisa Henry threatened to harm her and Grissel and that was the reason he was holding all his affection from her.
When they were moving earlier that afternoon, they saw him tailing them and called Morris to alert the police but Henry probably figured it out and took another path.
Melisa had said some awful things to Bryan in the middle of their argument when he opened up about why he wouldn’t touch her yet and knew she had to apologize.
‘Look, I’m sorry for calling you a girl earlier.’
‘It’s alright, I guess I have to man up.’ He smiled.


‘Good. Can we unpack the rest of the bags tomorrow?’ Melisa asked him smiling cheekily when her phone rang.


She frowned at the screen knowing whatever she had in mind had been ruined.


It was the hospital and she stared at the screen repeatedly. She had two days off and didn’t want to be disturbed.


At the same time she knew hanging up would mean she has denied someone life. She looked up at Bryan who nodded.
She picked up her car keys and rushed off while calling the hospital back because the call had ended earlier.

‘Dr. Lisa, we’ve been trying to get a hold of you all afternoon and your phone had been off.’ One of the nurses told her.

‘Sorry, I had to turn it off so I could do some packing.’ She replied her quickly changing into her robe.
Melisa knew there was only one thing that could drag her out of her house at ten in the evening when it was her day off besides the staff who called made mention of an emergency surgery.
She fixed her hair net and then dropped on her knees to fix her white theater boots.
‘Can I scrub in with you?’ The nurse asked her.
‘Great, let’s get going already.’ Melisa led the way quickly knowing she had about thirty minutes to prepare.
‘I heard it’s a laparoscopy.’ The nurse said again when they got to the board.
She checked the board and read the surgery was in thirty minutes time.
‘Patients name?’ She was asking when Michelle called her from behind.



In no time she was standing in front of them. Michelle signaled the nurse to leave.
‘I’m glad you could make it. Can we talk in my office?’
Melisa didn’t like the sound of that. ‘But I have surgery.’
‘Yes, I know but you can’t operate this time.’
‘What are you talking about? I was paged.’
‘I know all that Lisa, but just come with me.’ She said dragging Melisa to her office.
When they got there, she dropped a tissue in front of her and asked her to have a seat.
‘Michelle, I’m not a kid. Who’s the patient?’ Melisa asked sensing something was wrong.
She handed Melisa a card stained with blood. She remembered giving her card to Henry when she was working at her old hospital.
Melisa kept staring at her and stood up to leave. She knew it was Henry and there was no way they were going to let her operate.
‘Wait, there’s something else.’
‘Whatever it is I don’t want to be part of it. I can do my job as a doctor if you need me but don’t ask me to make any decisions for him.’


‘Relax, Lisa. Henry is no more.’ Michelle said without budging her eyes.

‘What?’ She yelled and sat down abruptly.
‘He came in late and was shot in the abdomen. I’m sorry.’ Michelle narrated.
Melisa pushed her tears back and asked to leave when Michelle drew her attention to the file on the table. Still standing she glanced at it and looked up at her.
‘Why is my name on that?’ She asked softly with pain across her face.
‘I have no idea but you need to sit down first. I understand you both have history.’ Michelle told her faintly.
‘Yes and I don’t think I’m needed here right now.’ Melisa replied with a sad tone.
‘You are and might just save a life in the next one hour.’


She gave her the other file she kept aside earlier on. Melisa glanced through still pushing her tears back.


She then slumped into the chair and her tears begun to flow. She didn’t want to cry earlier because Henry doesn’t deserve her tears.
Her mind was all over the place. She tried to reach out for her phone when Michelle rushed up to help her.

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