Broken Vows by Tessa Montgomery

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My surgery was supposed to provide Eloise with valuable data.

However, shortly after the procedure started, I experienced a brief brain shock due to excessive bleeding.

During the emergency, Antonio and Eloise were nowhere to be found.

“How can her surgeons just vanish?” a nurse asked anxiously.

It was a very good question, I could not see my husband anywhere.

“I heard Dr. Pitts needed some data for her paper, so Dr. Kaufman let her operate,” one replied. “Abandoning their patient for data? They should just quit,” a doctor fumed

Their conversation hit me like a ton of bricks, leaving me disoriented and weak. I didn’t know if it was due to my condition or the shock.

An intern looked at me and said, “She is in critical condition, but the attending doctors are not here. How are we supposed to proceed?”

As they were at a loss, my condition deteriorated.

Their faces began to blur, and I could only faintly sense my surroundings, catching fragmented voices.

“Dr. Kaufman isn’t answering his phone? What now?” one

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nurse said.

“Neither is Dr. Pitts,” another added.

I heard

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all thanks to another surgeon with glasses stepping in, who swiftly

faintly heard him say, “Don’t worry. You won’t die.” But I wasn’t sure if this was a hallucination

this time, I did not remember anything. I did not see colors, I did not feel helpless and anxious. I was

the surgery didn’t take long. A nurse

But the first person

Antonio.

opened

with anger

enough for everyone in

just woke up? I did

you are my husband!” I tried to yell, but my voice

you survived! Nos leave us alone!” Antonio

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nurse stepped in. “Dr. Kaufman, she’s your wife. As a doctor, why weren’t

pretended to be sick. Who knows if she’s

that, he walked out. I was too weak to take care of myself, and my parents weren’t around

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trusting he would be there, like the promise he made when we married, but he

my ten–day stay in the ICU,

a few nurses took turns attending to me. I heard that someone had specifically asked them to

was Antonio. But they told me it was

I asked

before saying, “Dr. Kaufman took an extended leave. He took Dr. Pitts out to relax, thinking she was overly stressed from

clenched the bedsheets

white ceiling,

divorced and remarried, they had new families and stopped caring about me. I

my

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