Ex-Husband's Regret

Chapter 13

Alternate universe
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My head is throbbing. Actually scratch that. My entire body is in pain. I try opening my eyes but I

can’t. It felt like they were weighed down by stones I try calling out to Noah, to anyone, but no

sound leaves my mouth.

I am moving. Or someone is moving me. Every movement jolts me and just makes the pain all the more excruciating. I wish they would go slowly. Or just stop all together.

“We need a doctor!” someone shouts.

I didn’t understand what they were talking about or why they needed a doctor. Or what was going on. I tried staying conscious but darkness embraced me once more and I fell into it willingly.

When I came back to myself again, I’m not in pain but I still can’t open my eyes. Nor can I move my body. I feel like my limbs were laden with cement. Like I was trapped inside my own body.

I can hear people talking but it all sounds so far away. As their words are submerged under water

or something. Nothing made sense and I didn’t understand why this was happening to me.

I was desperate to see Noah, to hear him. He must be so worried that I hadn’t called him. Yet there

was nothing I could do.

I fall back to the nothingness, unable to keep up with what was happening around me. My last

thought is Noah and how sad he would be that I haven’t called

I wake up and the room is shrouded in light. The brightness of it makes me wince.

“You’re awake” an unfamiliar female voice says,

I try opening my eyes again but with the lights accosting them it’s nearly impossible.

“I’m so sorry about this” she pauses and I hear movements. “You can now open your eyes, the light

won’t be a problem”

True to her words, when I open my eyes, curtains are closed and the light are turned low. I turn to

the woman who seems to be in her late thirties. She’s wearing a nurse uniform and a quick survey

of the room makes me conclude that I’m in a hospital.

croak out, my voice

I go call you doctor. Your family will be relieved

glass of water before

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was in. It’s full

one and open it

I tell him, my voice almost back to its normal

like this. He is always impeccable and neat. His eyes are tortured and he seems

and back.

asks sitting down next to

I’ve been hit by a train…what

me when he takes my hand in his large one. I

in a small voice. “I need this, I

an alternate

didn’t hit your head or something, right?” I ask,

with my other hand.

because the door opens and a doctor walks in. He looked at

eyes find

minute there” he begins with

nod my head. “The hospital… something forceful pushed me back when I unlocked

head from

to me since I woke up. Afraid of accepting the

almost died.

bombed and the force of it blowing

what year is it?”

it down. Rowan squeezes

his eyes but it gone

thought that my car would be bombed. With the stress of everything, I feel a headache

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you recognize your

perform more tests

any type of

“Okay” I whisper.

dislocated your shoulder so we had to set it right. You have three broken ribs, a ruptured spleen, traumatic brain injury which caused a buildup of fluid in your brain which we

questions?”

since Rowan has refused to

makes everything that happened

have I been

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