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.

it?” “Well, to be more specific,

it would take five days,

Neil nodded.

Kenny put his palms together

and helped Caroline wake up.” “Prayers?”

was willing to exchange my

you say that casually?” Kenny

just

It wouldn’t be true.

truck hit the rear of Neil’s car and interrupted

braked the car because of

charging forward and hitting his car against the

blank the moment they were lifted

woke up in the hospital, the doctor

the ventilator for her when he

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

she

looked around in exhaustion and

the glass window, guilt grabbed her heart because her uncle and aunt seemed to have aged a