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

conclude that

croak out, my voice

Your

a glass of

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stare at the room I was in. It’s full of flowers, balloons and teddy bears.

1. me.

was about to pick one and open it when the door opens

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

like this. He is always impeccable and

and back.

are you feeling?” he asks sitting down next to

hit by a train…what are

his large one. I go to pull it away but

small voice. “I need this, I need to remind myself

up in an alternate universe or something? Because things were just not

okay, Rowan, you didn’t hit your head

with my other hand.

get to answer because the door opens and

his eyes

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

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

head from

to me since I woke up.

almost died.

was bombed and the force of it blowing is what

what year is it?”

Rowan squeezes my hand and

eyes but it gone before

would I have thought that my car would be bombed. With the stress of everything,

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recognize your own name and you know who Mr. Wood is,

perform more tests though, just

type of

“Okay” I whisper.

spleen, traumatic brain injury which caused a buildup of fluid in your

questions?”

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

everything

been here?” I

to induce

with your type of head injury so we will keep you here for a few

them out. Okay?”