Then Comes Spring When Winter Ends - Chapter 118 Light Up The City

“Father, do you recognised the alphabets? Can you point to the letter A?” Jade asked.

Father Lee pointed correctly to the letter A, Jade tested a few more and was pleased that he could recognised all the letters.

“Father, you can try to speak your mind first but if the words don’t come easily after a few try, you can communicate by typing on the laptop or phone. We can deal with this, there are medications to improve speech and there is a speech therapist to help with this. Most importantly is you are alive. Can you move all your limbs?” Jade spoke to calm Father Lee’s frustration.

Father Lee managed to move all of his limbs but the left side is slightly weaker. The doctor who was observing Jade was impressed, she basically figured out a communication method and had did assessment for speech and muscle power. She is better than some of the junior doctors.

“Madam Lee, I didn’t think you would have a medical background as well.” said Dr Ching.

“I don’t but I myself had a lot of personal experience with therapist and my husband he reads medical books whenever he is free. I guessed his habits had rubbed off on me. What caused the stroke doctor? Embolic stroke? From the heart?” she asked.

“You guessed right. Your father in law has atrial fibrillation, a type of heart arrhythmia, erratic heart beat, prone to clot formation in the heart and the clot broke off and travelled to the brain, thankfully the clot was small and did not cause a lot of major damaged to the brain plus we had also performed a clot removal earlier on by the interventional radiologist. Therefore outcome should be great. He will need further training by our physiotherapist and occupational therapist. I think within a week he should be walking fine but the speech component will take a longer time and i have started him on piracetam to help with his speech. For his arrhythmia, he is on a novel anticoagulant. Your father in law has to stay in for at least a month for full recovery, earlier discharge if he is cooperative and all goes well.”

“Father, do you hear that? It is indeed good news. We will work hard for an earlier discharge. We can do this father. I believe in you. Don’t be sad and don’t think about anything else. Derek is arriving Russia soon, he’ll call again. Uncle’s matter, I will sort it out. Okay?” Jade spoke.

Father Lee nodded his head and squeezed his beloved daughter in law hand. He gave her a weak smile for reassurance that he is handling the news of his stroke well.

Jason was discussing with Kwi Shan regarding Lee Han Ping’s location. They had inserted a tracker on the two when they were here. Somehow it only managed to tracked to a location and the signal disappeared. Kwi Shan hypothesised that it must be an underground base that has an anti tracker signal device. They were trying to pinpoint the exact location based on where the tracker last seen.

While they were busy, Heather’s men were also busy tracking Crystal and Tom. Tom was feeling paranoid recently and initially wanted to keep it from Crystal but thinking it was their safety on stake, he decided to share his worries with her.

“You felt like we’ve been put under surveillance as well? I thought it was just me. When did you first felt it?” Crystal asked.

“Two days ago. Something just felt off.’ he replied.

“Same here. What do we do? It’s Heather I know it’s her. I don’t want to run my whole life. What do we do?” she asked frantically. Finally she found inner peace and happiness. The sudden feeling of losing it made her feel afraid. She calmed her heart down and started to think of a plan.

“Crystal, darling, whatever it is, I will follow you where ever and I am not afraid of dying because life has no meaning if you are not beside me.” he said while staring into her eyes.

“We need to act as if we don’t know they are watching us meanwhile we need to plan an escape route. Best is to fake our death while we are at it. You go on and work like usual and act as if you know nothing, I’ll do the rest, trust me.” she said confidently. We are going to make it out alive. She said to herself to comfort herself.

April’s wedding is in two weeks and they’ve been busy making the final preparations. Both Adam and April were notified against possible attack from Heather. Hence, every details were comb with a fine tooth comb. Even small details were paid extra attention especially to security details and staffs. They can’t afford to let in any people with bad intention.

Heather was preparing a grand present for Adam and April. She was smiling to herself. She will light up Beijing City that night. She laughed happily to herself.

Derek and his team had arrived Russia and was greeted by the Russian army, he was led into their base camp. The camp will be their base for their operation. The Russian government has made their stand not to interfere with the purge of Heather’s clan. They will not assist nor stop them from doing anything. Their assistance stop at providing a base for them. As long as civilians are not harm, they won’t put a stop to Derek’s intentions.