Ex-Husband’s Regret by Evelyn M.M

14. Alternate universe

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My head is throbbing. Actually scratch that. My entire body is in pain. I try opening my eyes but I

can’t. It felt like they were weighed down by stones I try calling out to Noah, to anyone, but no

sound leaves my mouth.

I am moving. Or someone is moving me. Every movement jolts me and just makes the pain all the more excruciating. I wish they would go slowly. Or just stop all together.

“We need a doctor!” someone shouts.

I didn’t understand what they were talking about or why they needed a doctor. Or what was going on. I tried staying conscious but darkness embraced me once more and I fell into it willingly.

When I came back to myself again, I’m not in pain but I still can’t open my eyes. Nor can I move my body. I feel like my limbs were laden with cement. Like I was trapped inside my own body.

I can hear people talking but it all sounds so far away. As their words are submerged under water

or something. Nothing made sense and I didn’t understand why this was happening to me.

I was desperate to see Noah, to hear him. He must be so worried that I hadn’t called him. Yet there

was nothing I could do.

I fall back to the nothingness, unable to keep up with what was happening around me. My last

thought is Noah and how sad he would be that I haven’t called

I wake up and the room is shrouded in light. The brightness of it makes me wince.

“You’re awake” an unfamiliar female voice says,

I try opening my eyes again but with the lights accosting them it’s nearly impossible.

“I’m so sorry about this” she pauses and I hear movements. “You can now open your eyes, the light

won’t be a problem”

True to her words, when I open my eyes, curtains are closed and the light are turned low. I turn to

the woman who seems to be in her late thirties. She’s wearing a nurse uniform and a quick survey

the room makes me conclude that I’m

you” I croak out, my voice feeling

doctor. Your family will

me a glass of water

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I stare at the room I was in. It’s full of flowers,

1. me.

about to pick one and open it when the

look like hell” I tell him, my voice almost back to its

this. He is always impeccable and

and back.

you feeling?” he asks sitting

hit by a train…what

when he takes my hand in his large

this, I need to remind myself that you’re alive, that I’m not

pull together in confusion. Did I wake up in an alternate universe or something? Because things were just not adding

hit your head or something, right?” I ask, feeling

with my other hand.

opens and a doctor walks in. He looked at

his eyes find

so glad that you’re up…we were worried for a minute there” he begins with a smile. Now, do

head. “The hospital… something forceful pushed me back when I unlocked

head from the

out what happened to me since I woke up. Afraid of accepting the fact

almost died.

force of it blowing is what threw you

what year is it?”

tell him and he notes it down. Rowan squeezes my hand and I look at him

but it gone

shock. Never would I have thought that my car would be bombed. With the stress of everything, I feel

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know the year, you recognize your own name and you know who

We will have to perform more tests though, just to make sure

any type of

“Okay” I whisper.

injury which caused a buildup of fluid in your brain which we had to drain and also some swelling. The stitch from your shoulder

questions?”

my head since Rowan has refused to let go of my right. The bandage I

everything that happened

I been here?” I

your fourth day. We had to induce a coma

type of head injury so we will keep

them out. Okay?”