Sweet Surrender: The Ceo’s Second Wife - Chapter 268 He's Gone

The following day.

Rudy woke up early in the morning, after drinking his coffee in the kitchen, he picked up the dustpan and broomstick and proceed to the beachfront to sweep the leaves there.

Saling called after him. “Is Sir Greg, still in his room?” she asked.

“Maybe…” Rudy answered. “Why?”

“Because when I open the door in the living room early in the morning, the door was already opened. I thought you wake up first or… is it, Sir Greg?” Saling wondered.

“I dunno…you can try knocking on his door,” Rudy suggested.

“Okay, I’ll go upstairs now and check on his room,” she said.

Saling climbs the stairs while Rudy proceeds to the beachfront.

When she arrived in the room, she was about to knock but she noticed that the door was partially open. “Huh? Where is Sir Greg?” she pushed the door slightly and saw no one side the room. She closed the door and went back downstairs. She exited the house going to find Sir Greg on the beach, she was going to ask him if he likes to eat fried rice, bacon, and sunny side up egg for breakfast.

Suddenly she heard a scream from the beachfront.

“Salingggggggg! I found Sir Greg’s body in the beach! He is already dead!” Rudy dashed to her side, his whole body shaking.

Saling’s eyes widened and her jaw fell open in shock. “Where is he!?”

“On the beach!” Rudy said.

They rushed to the beach and found Greg’s lifeless body washed ashore.

Saling made a sign of the cross. “Jesus Christ! Did you already apply chest compression on his body?” she asked.

“Yes, I have done several times but it’s useless, his body is already cold. I think he was already dead for several hours,” Rudy replied, his face white.

Saling lowered herself on the ground and touched Greg’s arm, his skin was cold to touch already. “C-could it be…that…that he exited the house last night when we are already asleep? But why did he committed suicide?” she asked in confusion. Tears welled up in her eyes.

“I dunno…” Rudy answered. Then he remembered that he was wearing a forlorn expression in his eyes while they were eating dinner last night. He didn’t give it much thought because he was used to seeing Greg act that way, ever since Madam Allison passed away. He thought that it was nothing to worry about.

Damn! How could he be so careless! Rudy blamed himself.

Saling rose to her feet. “Stay with Sir Greg, I’ll call an ambulance. He needs to be taken to the hospital right away, the doctor needs to pronounce him dead,” she said and walked hurriedly going back to the house.

She entered the house and rushed to her room, she picked up her phone from the drawer of her cabinet and dial the city hospital requesting an ambulance.

After talking to the hospital operator and told him the address, they told her that the ambulance was already on the way.

Saling was debating to call Sir Alex or not yet? or she will just call him later after Greg’s body was already taken to the hospital and the doctor can give an initial diagnosis of the reason for his sudden death.

After a few minutes of thinking, she finally decided to call Sir Alex after Greg’s body was already taken to the hospital.

She excited her room clutching her phone and went out of the house. She sits down on the wooden chair on the porch, waiting for the ambulance, still wearing a shock expression on her face.

Twenty minutes later.

The siren of the ambulance can be heard in the distance. Saling stood up ready to bring the paramedics to Greg’s dead body.

The ambulance stopped for a moment in front of the house. “Where is the dead body, Ma’am?” the driver asked.

Saling pointed her right hand to the location of the beach. “Just proceed there, my companion was already waiting on the beach with the body,” she answered.

The ambulance moved towards the beach.

Saling followed behind.

The ambulance reached the beach and the paramedics pulled out the stretcher, they checked the lifeless body and put it in the stretcher, then they brought it inside the ambulance. Going to the hospital. Rudy accompanied the ambulance riding his motorcycle.

Saling was left in the house, sighing heavily. She will let Rudy be the one to inform Sir Alex that his brother was found dead on the shore.

Evergreen Hill.

Alex woke up late, he had been drinking wine last night and he got drunk. He rose from the bed and entered the bathroom. He relieved himself on the toilet bowl and splashed water on his face.

He exited the bathroom and went to the kitchen looking for something to eat.

Ah, he did bring some ready to eat foods with him. There are canned foods, 1-kilo rice, coffee and noddles, and some bottle of energy drinks.

He went to the kitchen and washed the rice cooker and boiled the rice. Next, he washed the frying pan in the sink and opened the canned ham with the can opener and began slicing it on the chopping board, then put them on the platter. He turned on the induction cooker and put the frying pan, then add a few cooking oils, he heated the ham with it.

A few minutes later, the rice was already cooked.

Alex prepared his mug of coffee and began eating breakfast.

After eating, he washed the dirty dishes. Done in the kitchen, he then went back to the bedroom and picked up his laptop, and brought it with him to the terrace overlooking the ocean. He placed the laptop on the center table and turned it on.

He was about to check on his email’s when his phone starts ringing, he checked the caller and answered the call.

“Hello Rudy…” he said.

“S-sir…”

There were a few seconds of silence at the other end.

Alex brows furrowed. “Hello, Rudy…what is it?” he asked.

“Sir…I’m so sorry… we found Sir Greg’s dead body on the shore this morning,” Rudy said sadly.

“Whaaat?” Alex’s hand that was holding the phone trembled. His whole body was frozen in shock. “A-are you sure? he asked, even though he knows that Rudy was not joking. ” H-how did it happened?”

Rudy released a deep sigh at the other end. “We sleep early last night because it’s raining here the whole night. Then…when we wake up in the morning…Saling noticed that the door was opened and Sir Greg was not in his room. I was going to the beach to sweep leaves there…that is when I found Sir Greg’s lifeless body lying on the shore. I tried applying chest compression but his body was already cold. I have a theory that he exited the house while we’re sleeping and swim into the ocean. “I’m so sorry, Sir, I failed to watch Sir Greg,” Rudy said apologetically.

It took a few seconds before Alex speak again, his whole system was in shock.

“Sir…”

“Rudy, don’t blame yourself. It’s not your fault. I guess, my brother didn’t go for a swim in the middle of the night. He committed suicide and there’s nothing you can do about it,” he said.

“What I’m going to do now, Sir?” Rudy asked waiting for further instruction.

“Where is my brother’s body?” he asked as tears stats falling from his eyes.

“He is here in the hospital morgue. The same hospital where Madam Allison was taken after her accident,” replied Rudy.

“Okay, stay there for a while. I’ll call you back,” he said and cut their conversation abruptly because he just can’t take it anymore. His hand was shaking due to the extreme sorrow and sadness of losing a loved one.

He put his phone down on the table and stared at the ocean in front of him. He let the tears fall on his face. He will cry a river today because he loses another sibling. He was alone now.

He grabbed his phone and typed a message. I just want you to know that my beloved brother Greg passed away today.

He sent the text message to Caroline and resumed grieving for his brother’s sudden passing.