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Liege clinic.

It was very busy as there were many cases of accidents to be settled but just like every private hospital, there was a VIP room. Angelica's husband was treated in that room while Angela was in the room next to his with Bruce and Dorothy chatting with her.

Andre on the other hand sat in Angelica's husband's room on a couch and glared at him.

"You...what's your name?"Andre asked.

"G... George!" the man replied.

"Oh, George. My Lil sister asked me to be nice to you which I'm currently doing. Now I want you to be honest with me. Why did you beat my sister up? Reports reaching me was that you never even yelled at her once say less of beat her from your first day of marriage till now. So tell me, why did you treat my sister badly. Do you think she cheated on you? Answer me!" Andre almost yelled.

"Y...you see, I didn't deliberately do it. In fact, it's never even occurred to me to hit my wife even in my dreams. I had to do it coz I was threatened. She would die if I didn't do so. I know you're mad at me. You have every right, Andre. I'm in the wrong. I indeed deserve to die but please listen to me this once. The city will be in danger if the evil isn't curbed in time." George tried to explain.

"What gibberish are you muttering now? If it weren't for Angelica, you'd be in jail by now. You want to push off the responsibility and consequences of your actions onto a non-existent person, huh?" Andre was inches away from teaching this man a lesson again.

"Andre, please listen to me. I'm not lying. It hurts me a lot that I had to do that to my beloved but I had no choice. I had to do it to save her. For three days, I've been getting nightmares about a beautiful lady stabbing my wife's belly multiple times. And then, I met the lady yesterday. Believe me, Andre, that lady can disappear and appear whenever she wants. She has magic powers. She held a dagger and told me that she's here to kill my wife as she needed my unborn child's foetus to make her look beautiful. But she offered me another option and that was for me to give up my potency and beat her in the presence of neighbours and ruin my reputation. I agreed to it immediately but I didn't want to act on it at first but I kept seeing a dagger flying above my wife's head. I had no choice but to act sooner. I just wanted to hit her a little but the dagger kept going close to her neck, I had no choice but to hit her a little harder. Then I felt something enter me and I didn't have any more control over my body. Thank you for stopping me. You've done a great deed." said George and he tried to get up but the pain wouldn't let him.

Clap! Clap!

"So you expect me to believe that?" Andre rose from his seat and walked to him, hands in his pockets.

"I have proof." he (George) took out a golden dagger from his jeans pocket that immediately began to fly in mid-air, emitting dark mist.

Andre nearly fell when he saw it.

"You ain't lying?"

"I'm not! When you punched me, the dagger fell to the ground so after mother-in-law stopped you, I secretly took it since it had become visible," George affirmed. "Please take my wife away for the time being and monitor her. Andre, please do me this favour" he begged.

"Naturally, I will care for my sister"

Surprisingly, his eyes changed to pure gold and the flying dagger headed for him.

George did not see Andre's eyes coz he had turned away, no longer facing him and so he was alarmed when the dagger headed for him (Andre) and yelled: "Watch out!"

But to his surprise, Andre easily caught the evil dagger and subdued it. Then it changed into a bracelet that wrapped around his right wrist.

He then turned to face George with his gold eyes. George gasped in shock, his eyes wide open like saucers.

"I will protect my sister and investigate this evil. Do not tell anyone about this. I will try to pacify Angelica and my parents and see if they can forgive you. Okay with that?" Andre coldly asked as he caressed the ring.

"Yes, more than ok" George quickly replied.

"Good. Now rest" Andre then walked out of the VIP room frowning. His eyes had returned to normal.



McDermott hospital.

Lisa's life was in great danger and the doctors treating her this time were sweating profusely. Any mistake and Lisa might be a vegetable. There was a rather tricky blood clot in her brain. But Jack had requested that she shouldn't have an operation. He sat outside eating and browsing the internet about business, stock market, and many more things that the author knows nothing about. :)

Beside him were two cold bodyguards whose aura scared many from approaching.

"You, find me that lady," Jack suddenly commanded.

"Sir, please make yourself clearer," said one of the bodyguards.

"Oh, do you mean my words are not understandable? You got a problem with your ears?" Jack thundered, but the bodyguards did not cower. This was one of the intrinsic qualities his best bodyguards possessed.

"Sir, this one doesn't get you clearly. Which lady, in particular, do you seek, Sir?" the bodyguard asked again.

"That ugly lady with blonde hair. Get her for me," he ordered.

"Boss, she's no longer in this hospital but has discharged yesterday. Also, the lady lost her ability to speak," the bodyguard stated immediately.

"Then, find her for me by all means, dimwit," Jack barked.

"Yes, boss. But will you be safe by yourself?" the other bodyguard asked.

"Get lost, nincompoop"

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Liege hospital.

Andre bade goodbye to his parents, saying he wanted to settle the issue with the police, and then left. When he had driven farther from the hospital, he parked by a lonely roadside and examined the ring.

"This is troubling. Who could this evil rising be? George said it's a woman, and this weapon smells like the ocean." Andre pondered and then started the car engine and drove off.

Bruce and Dorothy had gone to visit George in his assigned private room, and he sighed, looking away from them.

"Speak, George. Why did you hit my child? What wrong did she commit that you'll hurt her when she's going to birth a child soon, huh?" Dorothy raged.

"Jane, calm down" Bruce rubbed her shoulders.

"Go, be with Angelica. She needs you by her side. I'll talk to him. We'll get to the root of the matter" he promised, and she reluctantly left after cursing his (George's) ancestors. Bruce shook his head with a sigh.

All these years, he'd never seen her curse this much or show this much anger. But it was understandable. No mom would stand seeing their child being maltreated!

Bruce walked towards George and sat on a chair beside the bed.

"Raise your colossal head," Bruce demanded, and his son-in-law obeyed.

"My son, I won't make it hard for you coz I know you're in so much pain. Whose spell was controlling you? How does the woman look like?" he asked.

Hearing these words, George's eyes became round like saucers. What was happening? What he's said to Andre was a secret. How did...

"I have very sharp hearing and possess the demonic eye which can identify all evil existence in my surrounding. I saw a black mist above you back at your home on your head. Don't attempt to act shrewd before me. I want to help you." Bruce stated.

What was George's response? Bogus fainting!