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

makes me conclude that I’m in

out,

I go call you doctor. Your family will be relieved

glass of

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

1. me.

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

my voice almost back to

this. He is

and back.

feeling?” he asks sitting down next

by a

large one. I go to pull it away but he

a small voice. “I need this, I need to remind myself that you’re alive, that I’m not

an alternate universe or

didn’t hit your head or something, right?” I ask, feeling his

with my other hand.

the door opens and

eyes find

he begins with a smile.

forceful pushed me back

from

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

almost died.

it blowing is what threw

what year is it?”

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

it gone before I can

be bombed. With the stress of everything, I

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

will have to perform more tests though, just to

any type of

“Okay” I whisper.

on to your injuries, you dislocated your shoulder so we had to set it right. You have three broken ribs, a ruptured spleen, traumatic brain injury which caused a buildup of fluid in your brain which we had to drain and also some swelling. The stitch from your shoulder wound reopened and

questions?”

goes to my head since Rowan has refused to let go

makes everything that happened

been here?” I ask

is your fourth day. We had to induce a coma because of the swelling….Some

of head injury so we will keep you here for a

them out. Okay?”