The Devil's Touch
#222
Xander lies helplessly in the ICU. Several life support tools were installed on his body, they were still waiting outside. Sky continued to walk back and forth waiting for news from his sister restlessly.
"Summer Mom ..." Maxime stroked his mother's shoulder to calm down.
"Darling ..." Javier also helped calm Sky by holding his hand.
"What a long time," muttered Secretary Han.
Then Aliandra walked out of the room with a lethargic face.
"How's Al?" ask Sky.
"She wants to talk to Maxime ..."
They turned to Maxime. "I'm going in first, Mom ..."
Maxime walked slowly closer to his frail-looking grandfather. Next to it is a heart-detecting monitor. Xander.
"Maxi ..." said.
"Grandpa ..." Maxime clasped Xander's cold hand by sitting next to the gurney.
"Winter ..."
"Winter and Summer in the mansion, many guarding them, Grandpa," Maxime cut.
"That child .. will be the successor?" xander asked in a weak voice.
Maxime sighed then shook his head slowly. "I hope not, Grandpa .. I wish there was a normal life for my two sons ..."
"Tell them martial arts. At least to protect yourself Maxi ..."
Maxime nodded. "Grandpa doesn't have to worry about them. Most importantly the grandpa must be healthy ..." Maxime clasped Xander's hand.
Then Xander smiled. "Grandpa happy ... Grandpa will meet Grandma Alexa ..."
Maxime looked down at his grandfather's two eyeballs that looked teary with a smile on his face. Xander, who loved Alexa all his life, always made a lot of people.
"Grandma must also be happy to be able to meet a grandpa. But, don't go now grandpa ... My son is still a baby, they would be happy if they could still see you when they're grown ..."
"Grandpa hopes your son is not like a great grandpa later, grandpa hope they do not feel left behind by women ..."
"Grandpa ..."
"Maxi ..." cut Xander. "I love you and your son ..."
Suddenly the monitor on the side rang loudly followed by a straight line on the screen. Maxime widened his eyes.
"Grandpa .. grandpa, wake up ..." Maxime shakes Xander's shoulder.
The door opened violently, Sky standing there widening his eyes when looking at the monitor at the side.
"Daddy ..." shouted Sky running to hug Xander with a loud cry.
"Mom ..." Maxime pulls his mother when Aliandra arrives with a pacemaker.
Sky cried in the arms of his son, the others looked listless standing by the door. Aliandra returned Xander's heartbeat with the pacemaker, occasionally looking at the monitor. No change at all, the line remains straight.
Maxime sighed with teary eyes, hoping that Grandpa would open his eyes again but what he got was the nod of his head from Aliandra. Which means Xander's really gone.
Javier walked rubbing the shoulder of Sky who was still crying in Maxime's arms.
"Record the hour of his death" Aliandra told one of the nurses.
Xander died at the age of 82 from heart disease. Sky could not help but cry, remembering how he was saved by Xander when he almost committed suicide because of Javier, how Xander gave his sincere love and affection to Sky. Xander loved Maxime and Miwa.
Those memories also brought her to remember Alexa's face. He imagined Xander who smiled happily because he met his mother, as Xander's love was so great that he did not want to marry again throughout his life.
They held a funeral service at a church. Many business colleagues who came to give condolences, those who became wives of entrepreneurs immediately embraced Sky who was still seen crying.
Miwa was crying in Arsen's arms. Daniel is seen embracing Tessa who is crying looking at Xander's photo. Maxime was sitting on the chair looking at the photo of Xander with a sad face, there was Milan beside him who accompanied.
Maxi .. I love you and your son ...
Those words were ringing in Maxime's mind. Making the man teary, Milan clasped her husband's hand. Maxime turned to Milan.
Maxime smiled then hugged his wife tightly, only to hold back his tears.
"Glandpa, want a pelmen." little Maxime ink.
"May, but don't tell Daddy and Mommy you are." Xander gives Maxime candy from his pocket.
"Glandpa, why doesn't glandpa sleep in glandma's room. Daddy slept with Mommy."
"Grandma Rania, not Grandpa's wife. Grandma Rania is your Daddy's mother."
"Whose Grandpa's palace?" little Maxime asked as he was busy opening the candy in his hand.
"Grandma Alexa .. but Grandma Alexa is already up there." Xander pointed at the sky.
"Glandpa wants to go upstairs too?" Little Maxime looked up at the sky.
"You, you will be happy to meet Grandma Alexa. Later Grandpa story about Maxi up there to Grandma Alexa ... Grandma must be happy to have a granddaughter like Maxi ..."
"Heheheh ..."
Maxime's defense collapses at once given his childhood ruffles with Xander, his cries held as strong as possible destroyed already, making the man sob in his wife's arms. Milan just stroked Maxime's calming back.
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