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?

is always so poised, it's so strange seeing her shaken

snaps inside me and

feels like I have a family that loves

like a

they forgive me when they find out what Alex and I are keeping from them? They've been nothing but

been nothing but a liar

me and ruin my life while at

thing I know, is that The

forget. I've seen firsthand how it

Just the thought of what they will do to me, makes me

had just

so scared," Giana Mumurs,

my own death sentence. "You took a terrible

sweetheart. What happened?"

Fall.

crash into me like

The stairs.

The pain.

someone push me

swallow, wincing at the dryness of

above a whisper. “I... I

a few sips of water. The cool liquid

it does

raging inside me.

Then, I feel it.

A presence.

My pulse stutters, my breath catching as my

And there he is.

Alex.

the corner of the room, his tall frame

his expression unreadable. But it's his

in forever, I see something in

Worry?

Pain?.

maybe I'm just

I fell too hard and I'm now

about

he heard I was in

a bitter smile, my voice hoarse as I

think I'd see

you?"

if reminding himself that they're

to play the role

une concerned husband...

for a split second flickers and dies, leaving nothing

void in its place.

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