Romance Ecstasy

By Bright Mills

Romance ecstasy is a comprised of a two short romance fiction stories entitled, golden tears and dream in the wind. It is a very intriguing and touching story that will captivate the readers to read them often and often again. Golden tears is about true love that knows no boundary, pain and circumstances. Sometimes it can be crazy, behaves stupi

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ukiyoto Publishing
• Release date: Nov 17, 2022
• ISBN: 9789360499846

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Chapter 1

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he time was 5.45 am. Nurse Ann hurried down the long corridor of the hospital to the patient’s ward. She was as usual, fifteen minutes early for her shift but she liked to arrive outside the ward so that she can enter at exactly 6.00am. She allowed the minutes to go by then she tapped the door gently and pushed the door open.

Good morning! She smiled. And how is my favorite patient feeling today? she asked the man lying on the bed. There was no response from the man and neither did Ann expect one. This was because the man lying motionlessly on the bed was in a state of coma and he had been in coma for the past seven months.

His body was covered with drips and a wire tied round his wrist was connected to a computer to measure his heartbeat. Ann came over to the man’s bed. She observed the trip and decided it needed adjustment, and then she injected it to pump in more blood into his body. She was the nurse in charge of the man’s healthy, even though the position was unofficial since the hospital management had not bestowed it upon her. Even since he was first wheeled into the operation room that faithful day in September, Ann had left this strange affinity for him. She kept staring at his handsome face throughout the whole operation and when he was declared to be to be in a state of coma, she had felt a certain sense of personal responsibility towards him and she was determined to ensure that he stayed alive. His name was simply giving as Alex, and that was about the only bit of information she and all the other employees of the hospital for that matter, knew about him. There’s a wedding band his left hand but for the past seven months that he had been in the hospital. Ann had never seen a woman come tom visit him. He was brought to the hospital in a private vehicle and was said to have been involved in a motor accident that left all the other victims involved- a total of about nine-dead. So far he was the only one with a chance of surviving. The company he worked for were the ones paying his medical bills. Ann did not know what the company did not or what position he held with them but she reckoned that it must be a  position if they could afford to keep paying his medical bills even though his condition seemed not to improve.

Although the hospital had long giving up hope on him, and the Management would have on a professional team to advice his company that his case was hopeless and that he had no chance to coming out of his coma, Ann’s persistent attitude towards him, as well as her faith and belief in his recovery had made them change their minds. She knew everyone in the hospital probably thought she was out of her mine. She treated him as if he was alive and conscious of her presence. Even though she wasn’t officially assigned to attend to him and she had other patients to attend to she always made herself available to him, she talks to him, reads to him, shaved him, washed and clothed him. Once she was even caught dancing for him, because she felt he was bored. There was nothing she wouldn’t do for him. She would strip off her clothes for him if it would make him get better.

Her daily life and routine revolved around attending to his need and taking care of him.

Everybody felt she was wasting not only her time but her life as well, because Ann was indeed a very beautiful young woman. At twenty-four she was a delight for any man. She was five feet eleven inches, with a long graceful leg, her long neck fitted perfectly into her small firm nose was straight and pointed and her scarlet lips had beauty to her dark ebony face. Nearly all the male doctors at Mainland hospital had at one time or the other made a pass at her and none of them had succeeded. They were the angriest with her for her fuss over the patient named Alex. Her seemingly devotion and affection for a semi dead person over them did not go down well with them and Dr Kelvin, the most persistent of her suitors now consistently victimized her.

He made sure she was preoccupied with other patients in other wards so that she would have barely have the time to attend to Alex but Ann and been able to strike a deal with the nurse he had assigned to Alex. Nurse Sarah, who didn’t like her job of tending a partially dead person.

Both of them had shifted their duty positions. Dr Kelvin had been very angry when he found out.

"You had better be very careful in the hospital Ann; otherwise you would end up having no patient at all to attend to! He fumed.

Even the other nurses gossiped and ran comments about her.

Do you know Ann has falling in love with a dead patient?" one of them said.

They said she was even caught lying next to him on the same bed once, volunteered another one in the hospital. Even the cleaners and attendants were not left out but she didn’t care.

Actually she was genuinely happy and fulfilled for the first time since her five years nursing career began. She had finally come face to face with her destiny.

She stared into Alex’s unconscious face. She had just finished changing his pillow case. She used a dry cloth to mop away the small bead of sweat that covered the center of her forehead

and gazed fondly at his eyelids. She had no doubts whatever that those eyes would one day open and gaze right back at her.

Guess what I brought you today, she said.

*** **** **** ****

She is in the kitchen cooking. She is spending a long time doing it, taking her time because she wants to make it a delicacy. Several times she tastes the food to ensure that it is really delicious because she doesn’t want to give him any reason not to like the food. He is outside washing and warming up the car. In a short while they would both be on their way to the Tafawa Balewa square where they would be having a private picnic. Just the two of them. The way she has

always wanted it.

The day looked very beautiful, the sky was bright the weather though quite sunny was very warm. It was probably the most beautiful day in her life and undoubtedly going to be the happiest.

He is through with warming up the car and he comes into the house. He smells the aroma and he comes into the kitchen. Smells good, he says. He collects the serving spoon from her and takes a taste.

She watched him, anxious to see what his reaction would be and is greatly overjoyed when he says, taste good too. He kissed her and squeezed her buttocks. I need to take s shower. He walks over to the door; turns back and say, So do you. She laughed. He always made her laugh, that was why she loved him so.

Soon they were in the car and he is making her laugh all through the drive. There is never a dry moment with him. They parked their cat in the car park and walked over to a spot on the square where they spread down their picnic cloth and set their things. There are other people around the square but she felt as if they were only two people in the world. He teases her and insists that she fed him and she delightedly did so. Then when she insisted that he fed her, he stuffed

everything in his mouth. When she playfully chastised him, he apologizes and promised to be a good boy. He then made as if to feed her again but instead splashes everything on face and begins to laugh. That was it, she was no longer playing Mrs Nice girl. She carries the entire food and pours it on his head. And it was her turn to laugh. He makes to grab at the juice they had brought along and she begins to run. He runs after her, she was as fast as she can, but she knows that he would catch her…she wants him to catch her.

He dos catch her and playfully wrestles her to the ground begins to kiss all over. There are people around but they are both obvious to them. She laughter’s and giggles happily, there was nowhere else that she wanted to be in the world but this man forever. She throws her hand around his neck, her back lying on the soft square floor. She gazed into his eyes.

God! The effect those eyes had on her. There was nothing in this world that she wouldn’t do for him, nothing. Then she realized there was a faraway look in them, he was looking past her as if she wasn’t there. She had this sudden suck feeling that she was losing him that he was gradually slipping away from her grasp. She clung on to him tightly, desperately trying to draw him back to her, searching for a kiss that would assure her that he was still with her, that he had gone nowhere…was going nowhere. She closed her own eyes and parted her lips anticipating the thick-soft lips that had only a moment ago been sending shivers down her spine. She awaited the feel of the forceful tongue of his that seemed to communicate so effectively with hers. It was as she eagerly longed for the feel of his mouth upon hers, that Ann awoke from her dream.

The alarm bell that woke her up showed that the time was 4:30 am. Her whole body drenched and covered with sweat. Once again, she had dreamt about that man. She had seen his face in her dream. The same face she had seeing ever since she was ten years old. The face she had come to believe belonged to the man she was destined to marry and had thus preserved her body, mind and soul for the face of the man lying in the hospital.

An exactly 6:00 am, she tapped gently on his door and pushed it open. She was supposed to be doing night, but she was able to get Nurse Mary to switch shifts with her.

She hated for Alex to begin a new day with other nurse. She could not trust them to take proper care of him like she would. If only the hospital management were prepared to allow her, she was ready to attend to him from morning till night. She charged his clothes, washed him up and she was just beginning to read to him the day’s newspapers when Dr Kelvin walked in.

Where is Mary? he asked Ann. Without waiting for a reply he continued. I want to see you in my office immediately, he said angrily.

Ann dropped the newspaper she was reading to Alex and followed the doctor. In Dr Kelvin office, she stood in front of his desk while he sat learning on his chair.

Where you not supposed to be on night duty? he queried.

Yes sir, but Mary and I…

You managed to hoodwink Mary into shift duties with you, is that not correct? Kelvin said peering at her through his thick glasses.

Ann remained silent.

"Now look here Ann, this is the second and the last time I am going to warn you over this matter.

The next time I give you orders and you defy them, you are on your way out of this hospital.

Morning duty is morning duty, night shift is night shift, patient ward is patient ward, is that clear?"

Yes sir, Ann humble.

Dr Kelvin was the assistant Medical Director of the hospital. He is probably in his late forties or early fifties. He’s a Muslim, married to two wives. She wondered why he was so hell bent on making life difficult for her just because she had refused to have an illicit affair with him. She thought of reporting him to the Chief Medical Director, who had been a sort of father to her ever since she took up work with the hospital but she did not want to saddle the old man with her own problems. Dr Mathew had been very kind to her from the very first day she became an employee of Mainland Hospital. He had been the father