Me: Pierre-Aimé, take my phone and call your dad please, I feel bad.

P-A: Is the baby hurting you mum?

Me: Yes honey, please call daddy, hurry up.

P-A (phone to ear): Dad help...

Pierre at the end of the line: What's going on P-A? Why is your voice weird? Hello ?

P-A: Mom feels very bad dad, she says to come very quickly, she is writhing in pain.

Pierre: Hey shit, I'm at the other end of town and there's traffic jams, pass me mum please.

Me to P-A: Shit he's not hurrying, I'm in the middle of work and I'm in extreme pain, where is he?

P-A hands me the phone, I'm waiting for his father to speak because I'm on the verge of freaking out and I'm in a lot of pain.

Peter: Honey?

Me: Now is not the time! I HAVE PAIN, "Darling" WILL TAKE THIS PAIN OFF ME? I'm in labor, the baby is coming and where are you? Still outside?

***Pierre OBAME***

I listen to her yelling at me, she is soft and calm, but there! I understand that she is in labor, if I dare to contradict her, I am dead.

Me: I know it won't take anything away, baby bear with it please, I'm on the other side of town...

Leaticia (cutting me off): AND I HAVE TO REMAIN TO SUFFER ALONE BECAUSE MR IS IN OWENDO TO SIGN A CONTRACT? Don't piss me off Pierre and get here.

Me (nodding): I'm going to do my best baby, I'm already done with the contract.

I can't hear anything for a few seconds

Me: Hello?

Her (in tears): I have blood flowing, Pierre, I have blood flowing profusely, I'm going to lose...

I hear a thud and P-A shouting: MOM!

All my senses are on alert, not my wife!

Me (on the phone): Pierre-Aimé? mom has what? Pierre-Aime?

Him (trembling voice): the blood daddy, mummy has fallen and she's not answering me.

My blood has only taken a turn, I accelerate, I overtake cars, I honk like crazy.

My heart beats, not my wife, not our baby.

Inside I ask God to protect them, she was alone at home with P-A because the nanny is on the weekend and Will is with his mom. I just went out to sign a contract in Owendo, I don't want to lose my Leaticia, no.

We live in Agondjé and you know the monster traffic jam at the airport, so my tears flow before I even get there. Yes I'm a man, I'm supposed to be strong, but when it comes to my family, I can't be strong for very long.

I arrive at the airport, and I don't know by what magic, the road is quite empty, I rush, I rush.

In a few minutes, I arrive in front of the house, I do not try to close the vehicle, or even open the gate, I go straight into the house and there, vision of horror.

My wife lying in a pool of blood, P-A in tears by her side. I lift her, I ask P-A to take the baby's bag (we had left it by the door because the baby was due to be born in a few days).

I rush to the nearest clinic, I shout HELP ME PLEASE, My wife (in tears)!

Nurses are running towards me and a few minutes later I am being asked to pay for my wife to be taken care of, I am freaking out with them as I believe human life is more important than money, I have freaked out so much that they took it over.

A phone call to my brother who stays in the area, so that he can come find me at the hospital with cash. What he does 5 minutes later, I pay and I wait, in tears, with my son next to me who is also in tears because the only maternal face he has, is between life and death; and especially his little sister whom he is impatiently awaiting is in the belly.

When suddenly a doctor appears in front of me

Doctor: Are you the lady's family?

Me (panicked): Yes doctor, where is my wife?

Him (sad face): I'm sorry sir

Me (incomprehension + panic): Sorry doctor? I want to see my wife, she is waiting for our precious...

Him: We couldn't save her, we could only

Me (cutting him off): JOKES HAVE LIMITS, I WANT TO SEE MY WIFE AND MY DAUGHTER. I say almost shaking it

Him: Calm down please, we could only save your daughter, I'm sorry. You can see your daughter in two minutes.

And then I'm crying, P-A is in tears in my brother's arms, he tries to calm us both down but I can't. I just lost my best friend, my everything. My sons and my precious just lost the most loving mom in the world.

**Two weeks after:

I said goodbye to my wife, she left me alone with our precious and I promised her before her grave was covered that our daughter will be loved, protected and fulfilled.

I look at my precious and I see in her her mother, today we decided to give her a full name, the one her mother had written in a diary: HALLEY OBAME Alexandria Jennifer, our precious.