Twist Of Fate: Three Little Miracles

10 pm, one seductive night!.

After drinking a little too much at her anniversary party, her husband, Jake picked her up and brought her home to their mansion.

Finally coming to her senses, she opened her eyes wearily, holding back an excruciating headache with a slight harrowing, she seemed to be experiencing an alcohol induced headache.

Her vision gradually cleared as she hauled herself into a sitting position. Them boom! She was taken aback with what was before her. She could make out the figure of a man and a woman kissing with strong emotions under the dimly lit room, on her matrimonial bed.

Like being struck by lightning, Diana looked at the two in shock as they continued to kiss passionately on her matrimonial bed. The anger inside her began to erupt and boil.

Who the fuck has the audacity to be getting intimate on her matrimonial bed?

"Hannah, stop messing around, Diana only just fell asleep!" the man warned as he restrained the woman by her hands and waist..

Diana clearly would recognize her husband's voice any time, any day. He was the one who had just spoken and he called Hannah? Her best friend?

Her husband was cheating? Can't it be true right?

The remaining effect of the alcohol had suddenly faded away upon being faced with this reality.

"What? Are you afraid your barren wife will wake up?" Hannah responded in an annoyed tone.

"Of course it was Diana... This can't be happening.." Diana whimper and pinched herself as if to wake herself from dream.

"We've been doing this since she got married to you!, Why should we stop this night? You know I can always break your walls of resistance each time". Hannah added, leaning forward to kiss the man, her body heated and yearning to envelope Jake, her husband.

"Babe, you are such a troublemaker, let's go to the other room," the man smiled seductively.

"No! I want to do it here! I want to do it right in front of her!" Hannah swiftly unbuttoned the man's shirt as their lips once again, locked. "You promised you'd get rid of her after this year's anniversary!" She complained as Jake jerked backward wanting to stop.

Diana tried to hold back her tears but could feel them slowly trickling down her face. Who would have thought, the man she is been married to for three years has been and would be cheating right under her nostrils with her close friend.

"Behave, let's go to the bathroom. Isn't the bathtub your favorite place?"

"Fine then, you go in and fill up the bathtub first..."

Hannah nudged the man's chest towards the bathroom. As soon as the man left the room, she sauntered over to crying Diana. Leaning over with a cold smile, she whispered, "Diana, barren chick! I'm pregnant, he's mine! He married you for your wealth and influence and now you have no choice but to file a divorce, of which would result to your properties being spitted into halves and a half for him since you're the wealthiest. Remember you both indulged in a court marriage and high chances you will be left with nothing!.

Diana tightened her hands into a fist as she held back her emotions - careful not to let out a sound as she spoke.

Her mind reeled, tears welled up in her eyes and her lips trembled.

It was not until she heard the moaning sounds of the couple coming from the bathroom did she feel her world had fallen apart totally.

Three years ago, Jake was a common security guard at Diana's oil company, the largest oil producing company in the world. Jake somehow managed to win her heart when she visited the company for an inspection and that was how their love story began.

She took Jake from grass to grace and now he was wealthy with established sub companies and even has a 90% stake at Diana's oil company.

Diana trusted him and had handed over almost everything to him but now it dawned on her she shouldn't have.

Being barren and unmarried for years, she finally decides to give love a second chance, after her last terrible relationship. And now she was going to lose everything if she filed for a divorce. She had always tolerated how Jake treated her since she handed over to him some of her companies and now, she was not going to tolerate his trashes anymore.

As it turned out, everything she did merely went towards preparing someone else's "food". No! This must be a dream, just a horrible nightmare, everything will be back to normal tomorrow!

Diana continued to lie to herself. Until halfway through the night, Hannah complained of feeling unwell as she led Jake out of the room but before that, she leaned over to Diana and whispered "File the divorce papers tomorrow! The law is the law! You're not above the supremacy of the law once you file it!

The next day, as planned, Diana drove to her lawyers office with a bitter smile and filed for a divorce disregarding what consequences it would have on her. As she would always say 'Decisions determines consequences!. Her lawyer tried to talk her out of it but was however futile. She, being the only daughter of the aliko's couldn't help but file it. Her parents were abroad and they barely came back home.

She was done tolerating, she made a decision to file it regardless of her loss. She was keen on her happiness.

In the bid to drown away her sorrow she dropped by a night club the night of that day she officially divorced her husband and lost almost all of her wealths because Jake, her now ex-husband got more than half of her networth and properties as alimony.

She turned around at the night club party, she was sitting alone sipping alcoholic wine one after the other. The music is loud, and girls are swaying their hips to the sounds. The atmosphere of the clubhouse is a mixture of happiness, freedom, excitement, and tension......sexual tension. Everyone seemed to be happy except Diana.

She wants to be drunk in her sorrows. Tears are already streaming down her eyes then she was getting ready to leave, but at that moment, her eyes were drawn to a tall figure heading her way, the alcoholic wines were beginning to have their intoxicating effect on her.

Despite her tipsy drunken state, she couldn't help but notice the fitted dark blue retro suit which complimented the masculine body underneath and out of the front chest pocket, the corner of a wine-red handkerchief could be seen peering out subtly.

Glancing down, Diana could see a pair of perfectly straight legs leading to a pair of freshly polished brown leather shoes which glistened in the clubs light.

This man...had such a strong presence, like that of a medieval king!

Especially, as he got closer, although he was wearing glasses...his perfectly chiseled face and sexy lips were enough to drive any woman crazy. With Bar lights and neon lights that strobed the club, with indecently dressed young adults dancing to the amapiano songs and taking some powdery white substance they said gets them on cloud 9.

The figure sat beside her "Hello" he said - his breathe stinked of alcohol, his cerebellum were obviously altered just as Diana's.

Minutes later, the drunken duo started talking and sooner their conversations got animated, the spontaneity of it was that they were both drunk and was getting drunk the more. Diana vomited all over the man's suit and later staggered and rushed to the public lavatory.

She was in her black dancing dress. Its low, collar-less V neckline showed just a little more than proper for formal occasions.

The elastic, satiny fabric hugged the swells of her breasts and hips, the seamless body flaring into a slightly frilly skirt, also too short for the most polite of company.

She had no bra on that night, Delicate looking black three inch heels barley covered her feet and matched her tiny purse - just big enough for a compact, a lipstick, a key, a few bills, and a rolled up diaphragm.

She slammed the lavatory door behind her, shoes clicking, long fiery red hair streaming behind .

Diana had come to this club to even the score - find someone, to have a rough sex with and drink her sorrows away. It was stupid, she knew, but she didn't care at the moment.

In flash of motion that took less than a second, the door to the bathroom suddenly opened and closed, letting in a loud blast of music.

At the same time the lights were turned off and an instant later, just as Diana startled from the noise, one hand grabbed her right arm as another clamped over her mouth.

Her eyes opened wide in the sudden darkness and she let out a smothered squeal of surprise and fright.

And of course she was drunk, she could perceive the aroma of the figure, it was the same man she had had a couple of drinks with and had vomited all over.

The man released his firm grip and Diana ceased the opportunity before her, and yeah, the man was hot. She leaned over him and started kissing him, the man reciprocated, and the moment turned into a very intimate one and sooner, Diana gave the man a blowjob and they rolled in the hay in the lavatory.

It lasted for exactly forty five minutes and after they were exhausted they freed each other and the man wore back his trousers and pants and staggered out of the bathroom with his exhaustive looking face.

Diana wore back her clothes and then she saw a ring on the floor, it was a silver ring with a the initials K.O carved on it. The alcoholic wines intoxicating effect were beginning to wear off by this time, she thought it must belong to the man she had just rolled in the hay with - she picked it and dashed out of the bathroom wanting to give the ring back to him but he was nowhere to be found.

She dropped the ring into her handbag and alongside her shoes on her hands she exited the club party, entered her car and started driving home.

To be continued.....

On her way home, at a stop sign, a truck running at very high speed hits her car from behind and climbs on top of her can, then she crashes through the windshield and lands some miles away and passed out, with blood sipping from her head and bruises all over her body, incidentally landed on the floor with a brutal force on her head. She was rushed to the emergency room and though she was in a wrong lane she is put into an induced coma.

In other words, a medically induced coma (MIC), or barbiturates induced coma – a temporary coma (a deep state of unconsciousness) brought on by a controlled dose of an anesthetic drug, often a barbiturate such as pentobarbital or thiopental. Other intravenous anesthetic drugs such as midazolam or propofol may be used.

It was used on her to protect her brain during the major neurosurgery she underwent, as a last line of treatment in refractory intracranial hypertension following her traumatic brain injury resulting from the car accident.

It resulted her in a significant systemic adverse effect. She lost respiratory drive and required mechanical ventilation; gut motility was reduced; hypertension was used to complicate the efforts to maintain her cerebral perfusion pressure and often required the use of vasopressor drugs. Hypokalemia also resulted. Diana was at increased risk of bed sores as well as infection from catheters.

Few weeks later.....

Diana's eyelids felt as if they had been sewed shut. She imagined she could feel tearing skin as she peeled them slowly open and blinked for the first time in weeks. Diana's eyes opened suddenly, immediately being blinded by the light that shone directly into them. Somehow, the room was completely dark when the light went away. Breathing heavily, she tried to make sense of the audible confusion. She heard the quick tempo of a beeping heart monitor to her right.

"Where am I? What is happening?"

She wasn't quite sure until she regained her vision and her heartbeat slowed. Blinking slowly and taking a deep breath, she finally was able to take a look around the room she had woken up in.

The room had pale cream walls and a white ceiling, which reminded her of a gloomy nursing home. Again she tried to move again, this time with more success. She craned her neck to face the window, the white curtains was drawn in to prevent the bright light from fully entering into the rehabilitation room.

It was an hospital room.

"What could have happened to her to make her end up in the hospital bed?" She questioned.

The blurred figures was a doctor and a nurse assistant checking her vitals and replacing the drip; an intravenous fluid. And now, the room was empty.

After hours listening to the hustling voices,Diana slept again, only to be woken by a piercing flash back. A car accident. That was all she could remember. Outside she could hear a faint conversation. She strained to hear.

"I don't know what to do. She doesn't respond much."

"Do you think she still remembers the accident?"

"Don't know. After all she's been in a coma for three weeks...."

Diana didn't hear the rest. She closed her eyes and cried unceasingly, she remembers the scene as clear as lightening, the image of her head smashing through the windscreen. Three weeks have passed from that awful day but what happened before the accident she couldn't quite remember. She tried to remember something but it all faded away like a nail dropped into an ocean.

Then a female doctor walked into the hospital room, she was wearing a white coat which complimented her spectacles and a stethoscope around her neck with a file on her left hands. She dropped the files on the shelf by the left and walked towards Diana on the hospital bed who was looking confused.

"You're awake. You've been put into an induced coma to save your life. You met with an accident!" The doctor cleared her throat and explained, she was able to discern the confusion in Diana's facial expressions.

"Yea, I remember getting into an accident. I overheard I have been like this for three weeks?" Diana spoke for the first time in three weeks. Her voice was crackling and like she was on a death bed and the next second coughed out and a sudden, stabbing pain made her clutch at her stomach. She gasped.

The doctor looked at her in alarm. "Are you okay?"

The pain was attenuating, but Diana was aware of an acid feeling in the back of her throat and a strange light-headedness.

"My stomach"

"Oh, right. Time to give you this,...." The Doctor grabbed for the injection on top the shelf beside the hospital bed Diana was on, it was a vial packaged pharmaceutical intramuscular glucose injection. Diana needed energy and the stimulation necessary.

"And yea! Mrs Diana, you'll be fine in few days time!" She stated as she inserted the syringes needle into the deltoid muscle of Diana's arm,The barrel holding the medicine and has millimeters markings on it like a rule is compressed by the the force exerted on the plunger by the doctor, and the liquid medicine is into Diana's deltoid muscle and out of the syringe.

It sure did hurt Diana at first but then gradually weakened in force and intensity as the doctor withdrew the needle. The pain got excited and with a cotton wet with a spirit (95% methanol and 5% ethanol) rubbed over the spot the needle was injected, the pain began to subside.

Diana jerked up as if trying to recollect a fragment of something, then finally back to what the doctor had addressed her as "You called me Mrs Diana? Is that my name?" She asked in surprise.

"You're! Don't tell me you don't remember who you're?" The doctor leaned closer in concern and besieged her to lie down.

"Who am I? Doctor?" Diana spoke as tears burned the back of her eyes, a ball of tear was beginning to cover her eyes.

"Calm down Mrs Diana" the doctor spoke. "I feared this might happen..." She added murmuring.

"What might happened? And who am I really?" The hitherto weak patient has somehow gotten strength from nowhere and was trying to haul up into a sitting position. Painfully she successfully hauled herself into a sitting position with the assistance of the doctor. Every part of her ached, especially the back of her head. The breathing apparatus by this time had been removed by the doctor.

She was still on her hospital patient scrubs and a gauze roll wrapped around her head like a sweatband and taped in a place and tied off at the ends. It was not tightly. It was snug enough to keep the bleeding under control, but not so tight that it cuts off circulation or irritates the injury.

In confusion , Diana received a news that if she were to have her memories, she would be the happiest woman on earth and on the other hand a very bad news.

"Mrs Diana, you're pregnant with triplets and unfortunately I guess you must have lost your memories from the accident." Said the doctor.

A comatose pregnancy......

Silence enveloped the room as the doctor walked towards the window to shift the curtains aside. "And you're Aliko Diana, the CEO of Diana's oil company!" She spoke with a gracious tone. She picked back the file she had earlier dropped on the shelf and brought out a national identification card of which belonged to Diana

"What? I'm pregnant?"

"The only thing I remember is I met with an accident?"

Wait....

Obviously, she lost her memories, she couldn't remember or recall anything aside the accident that happened. And about who she was? She got more confused.

"See this, this is your ID card and sorry you lost the memories of the events before you met with the accident and who you're. You may as well not be able to remember some persons-" the doctor explained handling over the ID card to Diana.

Her head was flooded with questions. Everything was new. At first, the questions were small and simple and very much in the present. Who am I? What happened before I met with the accident ? She clenched her fist tightly trying to recollect fragments of her memories but all to no avail.

"I still remember how to turn on the music, I still have knowledge of everything but not that of myself. I seem to be forgetting an event as well " Diana was moving her hands trying to recollect something.

"It's amnesia - A rare medical condition where there is a loss of memories that formed before a traumatic head injury sometimes accompanied with forgetting who we're and some persons". The doctor explained further trying to make Diana understand.

Diana couldn't ask more questions, everything got her confused the more...

It took Diana the entire afternoon to finally realize that she seemed to have been reborn.

It felt like there were alarm bells going off in her head, pounding and making a great din.

-She is pregnant

-Lost memories of the event that happened before her accident.

-May not remember some persons and some events.

-Its like starting life afresh.

Diana rapped herself on her head. "I got it, got it already. It's a new beginning for me".

Something seemed a little familiar and weird. A ray of white light flashed by in her head, and suddenly a fragment came back to her. In her previous lifetime, she seemed to be barren and was always shamed, but by who? - she couldn't tell. But that's by the way, she was barren but now she was pregnant. She suddenly recalled what the doctor said "Triplets?" Joy overwhelmed her greatly. She was pregnant with triplets, it was the best news she could ever receive.

Time and speed, She has been blessed with triplets that makes up for the years she had been barren. The system of speed she had curried.

Despite being overjoyed, thoughts and questions didn't stop sipping into her seats of thought, they began to creep and pump into her head like a stream flowing naturally towards her.

"Who was she pregnant for?" Was the most that got her more worried but she thought with time everything will unfold, hoping for a memory resurgence and recollection.

She even couldn't remember her own name, talk more of who she was really, but then the doctor had told her and called her Mrs Diana, the owner of Diana's oil company.

To be continued......

"Don't you have a relative around? Brother, sister, parents, cousin...... etcetera to take care of you, it'll take approximately two months for full recovery. We have to ensure your babies are safe." The nurse who was checking her vitals asked out of curiosity.

Since Diana was taken to the emergency room of the hospital down to the operating theatre and then to the rehabilitation room, during post surgery, no one, not even a friend had come to check up on her and it's been three weeks. She is a wealthy woman, influential as well but how could she not have friends? Or even a husband? Or does she?

"I can't seem to remember any of that and yes....". After a pause she continued "My parents. They're out of town and I won't bother them, after all I'm getting better now" Diana answered trying to stall and end the conversation the nurse had initiated, but ,that was a lie that formed up in her head immediately, which incidentally was the truth she didn't know.

"Was she not married? How then was she pregnant? Was she a one night stand type of a woman?". It didn't stop there, questions continually began to flow in, some she would disburse off with a bitter smile.

After the nurse was done, Diana picked up her ID and stared at it for a minute, specifically at the passport by the upper left corner. Then, she looked at her reflection at the reflective surface by her corner.

"It is same person. It's me! " She squinted her eyes. She was trying to confirm if she was the actual person on the ID card.

Then the TV got turned on..

She fixated her gaze on the TV screen when she heard the same name the female doctor had called her earlier 'Aliko Diana' .

"What was happening? " Diana wept as she arranged herself into a better position to watch and listen to the 6'o clock news.

News headline "Diana's oil company and other owners other companies has officially changed ownership and names to One Mr Jake and Jake's oil company.

The second news headline was that "The ownership and name was changed after an alleged divorce between the married duo, Mrs Diana and Mr Jake"

Since the doctor had earlier called her Aliko Diana; the CEO of Diana's oil company and her ID card confirming that as well overwhelmed Diana with what she couldn't even relate. She has no slightest memories of all that.

An alleged divorce? Was she married? Was she divorced? And even if why would she be in the hospital with no one around to assist her? And why was she pregnant if divorced?

"These are the news details" the new broadcaster began.

"After an alleged divorce between billionaire Aliko Diana and Jake Bernard, the property of Aliko Diana got shared and Jake being the less wealthy took more than half of Diana's property according to the law that binds court marriage. Properties include the Largest oil producing company in the world. The Diana oils company now named and known as Jake's oil company "

"The reason for the said Divorce was that Mrs Diana filed for it reasons being infidelity"

"Until date, the whereabouts of Aliko Diana is unknown, Cases are reported that she left the city after the divorce." The news broadcaster continued after he caught his breathe.

"What a wicked man? How could he do this to his wife? And I'm most likely the wife? How could he do this to me, even though I don't remember him? Could they just display his picture already!" Diana could feel anger erupting inside her already, like she was going to make the man she doesn't remember pay.

After a brief advertisement on the TV, the news broadcaster continued with the session by introducing himself and as the news broadcaster on Delta city.

That got Diana, she was not in her city, rather a different city the news broadcaster just called "Delta city!" No wonder, they said her whereabouts were yet to be known since the divorce.

It was finally making sense.

Could it be that after the divorce she was leaving the city having lost everything to the man and then she got into the accident which landed her here in the hospital?

If that's the case, she thought there were no need going back. But what if that wasn't the case?

Diana fixated her focus and eyes on the TV anticipating to see the man's picture and of course hers. The news broadcasting wouldn't be complete without that.

Then her picture was showed with little formal introductions ...

When it was about time to introduce the latter, the TV suddenly got switched off.

"Will you turn the TV on right now!" Diana shouted on top of her lungs. When she turned, she saw the chief of surgery, his barge stated it.

"You can't be allowed to strain yourself by watching the news! You've just woken up barely hours ago. Get yourself some rest!" The Doctor stated coldly and turned to the nurse beside, he whispered something into her ears and then turned to Diana.

"We were only able to recover your handbag from the ghastly accident, we couldn't find your credit card or any payments card, we found just a silver ring that cost almost a billion, we proceeded with your operation and treatment base on your status. You should be making arrangements on paying your medical fees". The doctor said and exited the room.

Anger suffused Diana on his affirmation and conclusion but she couldn't do anything and also about the ring? Was it hers? How could she buy something that expensive? Indeed, she has her medical fees to pay as well. Since she has no cash with her, she could willingly make the ring a substitute. But that was the only thing left for her from her previous life.

However, it was important she learnt everything, she can always find out anytime and anyway.

Few moments later, the dizzy effect of the intramuscular injection she had been giving made Diana fell asleep like a baby.

This is why you'd return back home . To find this man.

Diana stared silently into Jake's sad yet angry blue eyes. He exuded such an authority for a man of his ranks.

He was definitely flummoxed by her question.

"Who am I?" Diana repeated her question incredulously.

"Diana, what are you talking about?"

"I feel like I should recognize you," she admitted, feeling the heat rising to her cheeks. "No. I know I should. But I...I'm sorry. My mind isn't cooperating. I'd hoped well, if anything would give my memory the jolt it needed to return, this would have been it. And yet I don't know who you are, other than your name. Jake Bernard?"

His expression clouded with confusion.

"Of course, I am! He paused. "Wait. Are you trying to say you really don't know your own....... ?" He removed his hat by the crown and threaded his fingers through his thick blond hair.

"Holy shit, she is suffering from amnesia,she doesn't remember me! Opportunity comes but once I have to cease this opportunity for the second time." He said to himself. After all, he had lost all the fortunes he got from Diana through divorce to gambling and Hannah had left him for a much richer man after that.

He needed a haircut, Diana thought, but then realized what an odd observation that was for her to make. It was somehow...personal.

Suffering amnesia after a car accident, Diana arrives back home with her kids and seeking the babies father - her estranged husband, Jake. She is now a working class citizen to becoming established again.

" But will Diana recalling the tragic reason they separated only drive a bigger wedge between Diana and the man she's falling for all over again?"

After Jake lost all his fortunes to gambling he was now a common street man and his only way back up is a key, someone by the name Aliko Diana. And now he had to win her back and play the card game and even claim custody of the kids.

Then, everything was like and had been a haze of rage and sorrow and bone-deep weariness, as if she were dreaming while awake.

She calmed her thundering heart just as the she felt a cold sensation on her hands.

"Wake up, it's your last day here on the hospital".

And she woke up, gasping, her heart slamming painfully against her ribs. She was in her hospital bed in the hospital and afternoon light was filtering in through the curtains. Her hair was plastered to her neck with sweat, and her arm burned and ached. When she sat up and flipped on the bedside light, she saw her ID card.

Her mind swirled immediately with the memories of the dream, it looked so real but the she was battling with remembering the man's face but it faded. She couldn't even imagine the man's face.

The nurse by her side, Nurse Felicity tapped at her shoulders affectionately, she had grown fond of Diana ever since she had started taking care of her, since nobody visited or came for her.

"Calm down, it was just a dream and yeah get up! You're leaving the hospital today!"

" I paid the bills with my savings, you can keep the ring, it's the last thing left for you from your previous life. I figured it'd be important" The nurse explained.

Diana was overjoyed, she didn't know when tears began to flow down her cheeks, "After all,there were still kindhearted individuals on earth!"

Diana was filled with gratitude towards God for the helper he has sent her way 'Nurse felicity'.

To be continued...