Yesseca's mind was a mess.
She'd never expected Tremaine would catch the WT virus.
He always looked so fit and healthy, it wasn't possible for him to catch the virus.
"Yesseca? Yesseca? Why aren't you saying anything?" Montez shouted over the phone.
Yesseca then snapped back to reality.
She responded, sounding confused, "Give me a moment. I'll call you later."
Yesseca quickly hung up the phone.
She wondered if she had misheard.
Or maybe she remembered it wrong.
Maybe the WT virus wasn't as deadly as she remembered, maybe it was more like the common flu.
She had to find out.
Just as Yesseca was about to search for information on her smartphone, Preslie showed up.
She had brought a bag of fruits for Yesseca.
"Yesseca, have some fruits. These are really tasty,"
Preslie said with a smile.
Yesseca looked at her with her face growing pale. "Preslie, do you know anything about the WT virus?"
Preslie suddenly looked serious. "I do. It kills people. An elderly lady in my neighborhood got infected with the virus. It was very well known around the world a few years ago but then suddenly disappeared. I heard that it recently resurfaced. Many people have been infected with it. It's been reported than there are more than a dozen deaths in Agaphen city alone."
Upon hearing this, Yesseca's heart sank.
It seemed that she had remembered correctly.
It was a deadly virus that could cause death.
Yesseca's began breathing rapidly.
Oh no. She had to see Tremaine.
She didn't understand why she had to see Tremaine the very moment she heard that he had been infected with the WT virus. She didn't have time to think about it either. All she knew was that she had to see Tremaine right away.
Yesseca immediately said, "Please request for some time off for me. I have to leave right now."
After saying that, Yesseca ran off in a hurry.
Preslie was speechless.
Yesseca ran out of the mall and called Montez. She told him that she was coming to Nashaland.
Montez was elated to hear that. He was so happy he felt like he was flying in the sky.
He thought that Yesseca was coming to Nashaland to see him.
Montez immediately said, "Yesseca, I'll get the car to pick you up. You wait at home. I'll get the car to pick you up."
Yesseca agreed immediately.
If she wanted to travel to Nashaland, she'd have to wait for the bus. Since Montez would get his family's driver to pick her up, it would be much faster.
Yesseca had gone home.
She then waited.
She was very uncomfortable having to wait. She paced around her room.
Her mind was in an absolute mess.
How was it possible for Tremaine to have caught the WT virus?
All sorts of things were running in her mind.
The virus was life-threatening!
Tremaine was going to die!
When she thought about this, she felt as though her heart was being strangled by two large hands. She found it hard to breathe.
She spent the next two hours feeling this way.
Soon, Montez called her again.
The car that he had called to pick her up was waiting outside her apartment building.
Yesseca immediately ran downstairs.
She spotted a military jeep.
It had the Nashaland emblem on it.
Yesseca was stunned.
What was a military jeep doing here?
But then she realized that Tremaine was the personal bodyguard of the President of Nashaland. He must have some connections with their military. It wasn't surprising for him to have sent a military jeep over.
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