Divorce to Destiny: Reclaiming My CEO Husband by Anney GW

525 Checking in on Reality

(Lisa)

The lights are too bright, the sheets too crisp, and everything feels weird. I blink slowly, my head pounding. My mouth tastes like I've been chewing cotton balls for breakfast. Where the hell am I?

Then it hits me. The office. The meeting. Lance.

I sit up too fast, and the room spins like I'm on some twisted carnival ride. I feel something in my arm and see an IV. There are monitors and things stuck on me. Shit, I'm in a hospital.

A groan slips out before I can stop it, and suddenly there's a nurse by my side, her face all sympathy and no-nonsense professionalism.

"Easy now," she says, pressing a cool hand to my wrist. "You fainted, remember? You weren't responsive for a while. But the drip has done its job."

Fainted? Right. That's what normal people do when they think they've seen their dead ex-lover casually standing in a boardroom like it's just another Tuesday.

"Okay... fainted," I mumble, rubbing my temples. "Great. That's just... fantastic."

The nurse offers me a small smile. "Your bloods all came back fine. Dehydration and a lack of proper nutrition likely caused your fainting spell. When was the last time you ate?"

"Ahhh, well, yesterday, lunch... or maybe it was breakfast. Stress eating isn't exactly my thing," I mutter. "More like stress not-eating." And stress seeing-ghosts.

She hands me a bottle of water. "I'll get you some sandwiches. Try to drink some water."

"I can't eat sandwiches."

"If you want to get discharged, you'll have to. Get your strength back."

Strength? Who has time for that when you're apparently hallucinating ghosts?

I take a sip from the water bottle, the cool liquid easing the dryness in my throat. "Okay. Sandwiches it is." I need to get out of here. "How did I get here?"

The nurse tilts her head. "Ambulance. Your friend Winona is waiting out there. But you'll have to see the doctor before anyone can come in here with you."

I nod and as if on cue, the curtain pulls sideways and in walks a doctor, all white coat and efficiency. "Lisa Forbes, right?"

I nod weakly.

my chart, flipping through it like it holds the answers to all of life's mysteries. "Well, Ms. Forbes, everything looks good now. No infections, no viruses, just a classic case of exhaustion and a little malnutrition. But," he pauses, giving me a careful look, "I do have some news you might not have

me whatever he's about to say, I won't like

""You're pregnant."

me?" I sit

slap me harder than the office floor did. My whole body goes cold. I think I'm going to faint again. My monitor beeps

and blood pressure

"I choke out a laugh. "That can't be right. Pregnancy? Are

"Positive, Ms. Forbes."

can I tell Winona I'm pregnant with a child I've never wanted when she's just lost her baby boy? I

off as stress, but stress doesn't

shaky breaths and calm myself down. "Okay...

not okay. Not even close to okay. But I'll never get out of here unless

per your request," he says. "It's early, around twelve weeks according to

ve

you've passed out. Ms. Forbes... Lisa, this is not

numbly.

you are stable and

"Thanks."

And now I

all the shit in the world,

carefree life. I'm supposed to be stepping into Lance's

an option,

really just hand over Lance's baby to

have an

jotting down notes and pats my arm gently. "Just relax. Here are your sandwiches. Eat up.

moment they leave, I bury my face in my hands. "What the actual fuck, Lance?"

can spiral any further, the curtain moves again and this time it's Winona. Her face is tight with concern, but there's something else- lingering in her eyes. I

Lisa," she says, as

going crazy because I swear it was

sits down beside the bed, her gaze steady. "You weren't hallucinating," she says softly. "That was real.

blink at her.

"No.

open. "You're shitting