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 feeling

have this while I go call you doctor. Your family will

me a glass of

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slowly, reveling in the cold water as it cooled my throat. I stare at the room I was in. It’s full of flowers, balloons

about to pick one and open it

I tell him, my voice almost back to its normal

clothes were wrinkled and he looked tired. I have never seen Rowan like this. He is always impeccable and neat. His eyes are

and back.

feeling?” he asks

hit by a train…what are

me when he takes my hand in his large one.

voice. “I need this, I need to remind myself that you’re alive, that

together in confusion. Did I wake up in an alternate universe or something? Because things were

head

with my other hand.

door opens and a doctor walks in. He looked

his eyes

there” he begins with a smile.

pushed

from

tried blocking out what happened to me since I woke up. Afraid of accepting the

almost died.

bombed and the force of it blowing is what threw you back “he

what year is it?”

notes it down. Rowan squeezes my hand and I

it gone before I can

would I have thought that my car would be bombed. With

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the year, you recognize your own name and

good sign. We will have to perform more tests though,

any type of

“Okay” I whisper.

caused a buildup of fluid in your brain which we had to drain and also some swelling. The stitch from your shoulder wound reopened and we

questions?”

Rowan has refused to let go of my right.

makes everything that happened more

I been here?”

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