Trapped in Love

“Friends?” Kenny derided.

“How dare you say that?” Neil gave Kenny a sidelong glance but was interrupted by his phone ringing.

He fished out his phone to find a call from Greta and immediately picked it up.

“Neil!” Greta exclaimed excitedly.

“Carol is awake!” Neil’s hand trembled, and his throat tightened at the news.

“She’s awake? Really?” “What?” Flabbergasted, Kenny asked, “Is she awake and out of danger?” Greta sobbed and said, “Yeah! You and Kenny should come now!” “Okay.” Neil hurried out of the private room.

“We’ll be on our way there.” Watching them leave, Scott took up his seat on the sofa again.

Calmly, he made a call and instructed, “Do it.” “Okay, Mr.

Hendrix.” Neil drove fast on the way back to the hospital, and Kenny even played the music in the car.

After getting on the bridge, Kenny lowered the car window and took a deep breath of the refreshing air.

” Caroline is awake, Neil, and I feel the air is freaking fresh now!” Smiling, Neil agreed, “Yeah, Carol is pretty tough.

the fourth day, isn’t it?” “Well, to be more specific, it’s three days

doctor said it would take five days,

Neil nodded.

put his palms together and looked

must have heard my prayers and helped Caroline wake up.”

to exchange my life for Caroline to wake upl” Kenny replied

could you say that casually?”

it’s just a

It wouldn’t be true.

rear of Neil’s

because of

didn’t expect the truck to keep charging forward

minds went blank the moment they were lifted in midair and fell hard into the

in the hospital, the doctor came and

her when he found that her vitals

was muddled–headed, and her limbs were weak, but she remembered that she was

she had survived the

around in exhaustion

grabbed her heart because her