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.

out, my voice feeling

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

me a glass of water

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sip the water slowly, reveling in the cold water as it cooled my throat. I stare at the room I was

pick one and open it when the door

tell him, my voice almost back

and he looked tired. I have never seen Rowan like this. He is always impeccable and neat. His eyes are tortured and he seems he had

and back.

you feeling?” he asks sitting

hit by a train…what are you doing

me when he takes my hand in his large one.

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

an

you okay, Rowan, you didn’t hit your head or something, right?”

with my other hand.

to answer because the door opens and a doctor walks

his eyes find

there” he begins with a smile. Now, do you know

head. “The hospital… something forceful pushed me back when

head from

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

almost died.

force of it blowing

what year is it?”

and he notes it down. Rowan squeezes my hand and

in his eyes but it

thought that my car would be bombed. With

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your own name and

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

any type

“Okay” I whisper.

to set it right. You have three broken ribs, a ruptured spleen, traumatic brain injury which caused a buildup of fluid in

questions?”

other hand goes to my head since Rowan has refused to let go

makes everything

have I been here?” I

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