Chapter 49: The Tragic Trip to Germany

Gerhard had to go to Germany to have a series of meeting with the German bank. That was one reason he had wanted to get Sharon's answer before he left. The two days before he left, though he did not ask Sharon for the answer to his proposal, he kept looking at her hopefully but she would look away, and he would swallow the pain her continued rejection caused him. 'Ensure that you do not leave until I get back', was his last plea to her before embarking on his trip. The day he took the flight to Germany, the weather was not too good and the plan had wanted to land somewhere till it was clearer to go on but in trying to avoid a disaster, the plane crashed. Gerhard was seriously injured and unconscious for more than twenty four hours. Marie, his mother flew put immediately to be at his bedside. She had been alerted that the son she had been expecting back in Germany had been involved in a crash. It was she who contacted Sharon. 'He's regained consciousness, thank God', she said on the pho