THE LEGENDARY DOCTOR

Elias had just finished preparing the Tea when the door gilded open.

"Just at the right time." He smiles genuinely as he sets two mugs of streaming tea on the table.

Amara, his wife of three years stepped inside the room with a tired eyes after a stressful day at the hospital. But everything was worth it. The Medical licensing company had just approved her company and PrimeCare hospital is finally going public tomorrow.

"Amara," Elia welcomed her with a smile, stepping forward to meet her. "I prepared a warm tea. It'll calm your nerves after the stressful day."

Amara pressed the door shut behind and simply let out a shaky sigh, shaking her head and walking past him to sink into the chair lounge. She kicked off her heels.

"Never get tired of rotating the same duty to impress me, Elias." She said without even looking at him, without even glancing at the steaming cup of tea he'd prepared for her on the table.

"It's responsibility." His voice clipped.

Amara paused and sat straighter, finally looking at him now. The irritation behind her lashes was obvious despite how hard she never wanted to show it.

"Responsibility?" Her voice was tight. "Responsibility is knowing that being a husband, you have certain role to play."

"And have I been lacking in the aspect?" Elias stepped forward to her gently, his voice calm despite her growing hostility. "Tell me what I am doing wrong, tell me what's not enough and I'll make it up to you."

Silence stretched for a few seconds that felt longer than It.

"You don't get it, Elias." Amara broke it. "My company is going public tomorrow. Full backing from the Medical agency. The city is depending on me now."

Elias' eyes brightened. A genuine smile crossed his face. He stepped closer to her. Maybe he'd simply misunderstood her. After everything he'd been doing; pulling stings from the shadow, sending theories and Meta-analysis through the anonymous account, quietly funding her operation with people he intentionally placed around her, her dream was finally coming true.

"Congratulations, sweetheart," Elias said, unaware about what was about to go down. His smile was genuine and he reached out to hold her arm but he paused midway. "Then I should have prepared something more than tea and dinner." He said and quickly turned in the direction of his room to bring out the wine he'd kept in his shelf all along.

Then it happened.

"I want a Divorce, Elias."

The Statement landed like a curse and immediately, the roof pattered with the sound of dropping rain.

Elias froze in place, his hand sliding from the brass door handle. He turned to her with a raised brow. Confusion. Amara held her gaze. The envelope was already waiting on the table.

"What are you talking about?" Elias' voice was raspy.

"I can't continue with this anymore." She said, her voice tired like she'd been holding on for too long.

"Do what anymore?" He repeated. "What is going on, Amara?"

The rain drummed against the roof with growing intensity.

"This marriage. I want it to end. I can't continue with you anymore." She said, her voice controlled like absolute clarity would break would break everything that was already slipping off.

The Statement hit Elias like a thunder bolt. And the effect was physical. He blinked. But he smiled through it. Broken, like a man grasping at the straw.

"C'mon Amara," He urged, his smile crooked. "Is this a joke? Are you over excited because your company is finally going public. I get it—"

"You're smarter than this, Eli," she Cut through his words, her tone going from cold to ice wrapped in steel. "I'm tired of living with a man who had no idea what I went through before I arrived. How does It sound, Huh? CEO of primeCare married to a Construction worker?" She shook her head, her tone getting intense now. "You don't know what it takes, you have no idea how my life is transforming fast now and you can't catch up. Never can't. I'm tired of living with a man who has nothing to offer but Tea and Love."

The words cut deeper than any injury.

Each words caught Elias off guard.

He too one step forward and surprisingly his weight had became heavy.

"I have been there for you Amara. Always been. Your research protocols, your Peer review...." He paused and continued immediately. "..when you came back home after your first surgery went bad, I was there for you. When you told me no one was ready to take a chance on you, I was your shoulder. I told you the world will see. I didn't just stand by, I was there what you needed me."

Amara blinked.

Someone cracked in her expression that wasn't really acceptance. Maybe pity.

Then she recovered immediately— her expression cold as ice.

"Any random person could have done whatever you did, Elias." That was what said. "It's not a big deal so don't make it look like you move mountain for me to prove you're responsible."

Elias' expression dropped. The Statement cut more than everything she'd ever said that night.

Then the truth hit him hard and bitter. Amara never valued him, and three years in the marriage suddenly felt like they were never really together.

"I guess you were never really here with me then." He said, grabbed his coat. The whithered that still smell of effort she couldn't perceive. He slid it on, grabbed the paper on the table and wrote his signature clean without fighting it.

Amara expected something different. She expected him to kick at something, to lash out against her choice, but Elias didn't do any of it.

Elias dropped the pen and walked to the door, her words burning somewhere in his heart where love lives.

Outside, the rain had turned heavy.

"Where are you going, Elias?" Even still her tone was ice.

Elias turned to her to glance at her for the last time.

"Henceforth," His voice was calm even though her words still sting. "I have nothing to do with you anymore so you shouldn't question me."

And Elais Kade walked away with his honor and soon Amara Blake will come to release what really fell that night was more than rain.