Chapter 138 We are family

Lenora POV

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Few days ago

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"Today is the day for the test Mrs Nielson." Joan Jett, my friend and the manager of the hospital said as we both walked back to my office.

I had insisted that we do a round check on some of the patients in the top floor, something I started to do after the lady, Rachel Andrews was admitted her.

I found myself being drawn to her in many ways than one, and was extremely dishearten after I heard she was arrested for a murder crime.

It even became worse after I heard from my niece who was her doctor than she was rushed to an hospital after gotten almost beaten to death by a jail warder.

She did look like a stubborn lady, but what could she possibly have said to a jail warden for the person to want to kill her with a beating?

"... Mrs Nielson".

"Huh?" I asked in confusion after I head Joan call my name.

" Are you alright ma'am? I've been calling you for the past few minutes". She said looking worried and I nodded.

"I'm fine, just thinking about stuffs. " I asked and she nodded, silently disagreeing with my excuse but taking it anyways.

" I was saying that today is the day we test the ladies and I just wanted to know if your ready. Are you ready ma'am?"

I blinked in surprise at what I heard. " It's today?"

" Yes it is. ".

' Wow, I can't believe I forgot '

I had never forgotten this day, not in the past ten years of my life.

Today was the day I lost my one and only daughter, my princess, Emerald.

Twenty two years ago today, Emerald got away from me and ever since then I has been trying all I could to find her.

I went to different orphanages in the area to see if she may have ended up there, but got no good result. My husband and I made reports in police stations, we printed missing person papers, we even went as far as putting it out in the news and other papers, but still nothing good came out of it.

After searching for over twelve years and still yet with nothing, the rest of the family just gave up on finding her but I didn't.

After searching for a long time, I stopped. Since I couldn't find her, well she'll find me.

I secretly created a program that launched everything year, on the exact day I lost Emerald. Different girls all of the same age would come to get their blood rested for any DNA similarities with the family, but ten years and still I had not found her.

"Do you still think she's alive?" I asked in a lost voice.

It's been twenty two years already. If Emerald were still alive, I would have found her by now.

"Well Mrs Nielson, I don't really know. But the girls this year look really promising". Joan answered and i sighed.

They always did.

" Collect samples of their blood and hand them over to me after you're done. I'll be in my office. " I said softly, turning towards another corner that lead to my office.

I had started to lose faith in finding my daughter, it was starting to dawn on me that she was gone forever and I might never see her again.

For the past few years, I anticipated this day every year. The day the probably of finding my lost child increased by a lot.

But every year I got disappointed.

I sighed again as I unlocked the door to my office and got in, shutting it back behind me.

Joan would send the samples to me in a few hours and I'll start working on them, would it be another disappointment?

I plumbed my butt on my large chair.

I had my work cut out for me today, and that was because I would have to do the testing of all the yound ladies all by myself.

Over the years, dozens of young ambitious lady's would come to be tested, some despite knowing who their biological parents were, and some would even go as far as bribing some of the doctors in the hospital, to change the results for them.

I shut my eyes remembering how I got deceived by one of them.

Five years ago, a lady gave the doctor who was performing the test so much money so she could be my daughter.

I remembered how much I cried in joy that day, thinking I had found my Emerald.

My husband didn't believe the lady, so he refused a huge party for her, while me... I welcomed her into my home with opened arms.

For the next two weeks, I treated her like my daughter which I thought she was, and it was until the doctor came out to confess before I knew I was being tricked.

Apparently, my 'daughter' was yet to give her the balance of the promised money and was threatening her new position.

Ever since that day, I had taken it upon myself to be the one to perform the test.

"But the girl sure have me something."

She gave me hope that my daughter could still be alive somewhere, but after five years since that's incident, that hope was starting to disappear again.

"Let's just get this done and over with already". I mumbled standing up from my chair and walking out of my office to the lab.

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" Is that the last one?" I asked after I was done with the last test I saw on the desk.

Joan was about nodding her head when a nurse came in.

"Mrs Nielson, I found this one kept away somewhere". The nurse said respectfully, keeping her head bowed as she presented the test tube to me.

I squinted at her before looking back at Joan who shook her head.

I cleared my throat taking the tube from the young lady " I don't believe I've seen you before."

The lady instantly nodded. "Yes ma'am, I started work only this morning."

This morning?

"When did we start accepting new employees?" I asked Joan who let out a little nervous laugh.

"It was em... " She stammered, clearly intimidated by me. "Mrs Paulina, the manager of the lab department, took a leave of absence since she was a getting close to her due date and then I... I had to get someone to replace her for the time being."

Mrs Paulina?

I nodded as soon as I remembered her.

She was heavily pregnant, it was only right she went on a break, but I made it a law that whenever I was around, I would be the one to interview the new employees, so what the fuck was this?

It wasn't that I didn't trust Joan, but it was just... today was a really sensitive day for me. I didn't want anything, I meant anything to jeopardize it.

I glared at Joan who trembled releasing a small nervous smile. " You have been so busy the past few days that I couldn't dare disturb you for such a trivial matter as this ".

Busy? Yeah I had been busy.

Every year, I came back a month before this day to see if I could find my daughter. Because of that, for that entire month, I would make myself busy, completely taking over the work of the manger, the PR department, and even some of the doctors sometimes, so I wouldn't think of Emerald too much.

But that still mean she... But well she has been doing all of these even before I came back. What was the big deal about it?

I looked back to the lady was standing quietly by the side with her lips pursed to a line.

She looked young, really young. "How old are you?"

"Me?"