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

croak out, my voice

while I go call you doctor. Your family will

me a glass of water

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the cold water as it cooled my throat. I stare at the room I was in. It’s full of flowers, balloons

1. me.

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

look like hell” I tell him, my

I have never seen Rowan like this. He is always impeccable and neat. His eyes are tortured and he seems he had been

and back.

he asks

a train…what

surprises me when he takes my hand in his large one. I go to pull

he pleads in a small voice. “I need this, I need to remind myself

I wake up in an

you didn’t hit your head

with my other hand.

because the door opens and a doctor walks

eyes find

minute there” he begins with a smile. Now, do you

pushed me back when I unlocked my car. I

from the

I woke up. Afraid of accepting the fact that

almost died.

your car was bombed and the force of it blowing is what threw you back “he pauses.

what year is it?”

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

his eyes but it gone

would be bombed.

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fact that you know the year, you recognize your own

perform more tests though,

any type of

“Okay” I whisper.

a buildup of fluid in your brain which we

questions?”

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

just makes everything that happened more

have I been here?” I

to induce a coma

your type of head injury so we will

them out. Okay?”