Chapter 20 ~ A touch that hurts
Chapter 20 A touch that hurts
Athena
Pain.
It's the first thing I feel, a deep, searing ache that spreads through my entire body like wildfire. My limbs feel like dead weight,
my head is pounding, and my throat is raw as if I had
swallowed shards of glass. My lashes flutter open, and the bright, lights of
the hospital sting my vision. The beeping of a monitor echoes in my ears.
Am I dead?
Moving my neck tells me the answer because the pain I feel is excruciating.
I inhale slowly, but even that hurts.
"Athena?"
The voice
is soft, but also sounding panicked. I'm pretty sure my family doesn't give a shit about me so that can't be them.
Hell, they wouldn't cross the road just to check on how I'm doing.
So who is it?
My brain is mushy and there is an annoying ring in my ears as I
turn my head slightly-every movement like dragging through
molasses-and my gaze lands on Giana.
Her usually composed face is streaked with worry, her wrinkled hands trembling as they reach for me, smoothing my hair away from my damp forehead.
"Oh, my darling girl," she whispers, her voice a gentle whisper "You scared us.'
>>
Us.
I blink sluggishly, my eyes shifting past Giana, only to meet
Ariana's soft eyes watching me with tears in her eyes.
Was she crying?
For me?
always so poised, it's so strange seeing her shaken with an expression filled
inside me and
I have a family that
guilt hits me like a punch in the
when they find out what Alex and I are keeping from them? They've been nothing but
nothing but a
will probably hate me and ruin my life while at
one thing I know,
and never forget. I've seen firsthand how it
thought of what they will do to me, makes me
had
scared," Giana
snapping me out of my own death sentence.
sweetheart. What happened?"
Fall.
crash into me like a tidal
The stairs.
The pain.
someone push me
the dryness of my throat.
barely rises above a whisper. “I...
a few sips of water. The cool liquid soothes
but it does
raging inside me.
Then, I feel it.
A presence.
in the air, heavy and suffocating. My pulse stutters, my breath
And there he is.
Alex.
stands in the corner of the room,
His jaw is tight, his expression
time in forever, I see something in
Worry?
Pain?.
I'm just desperate to believe
too hard and I'm
about me. He probably
heard I
a bitter smile, my voice hoarse as
think I'd see
you?"
if reminding himself
play
une concerned husband...
hope that had ignited for a split second
void in its place.
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