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

croak out, my voice feeling

this while I go call you doctor. Your family will be

a glass of water before

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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.

and open it when the

tell him, my voice almost

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

and back.

asks

been hit by a train…what are you doing

my hand in his large one. I go to pull it away but

small voice. “I need this, I need to remind myself that you’re alive, that I’m

confusion. Did I wake up in an

head or something, right?” I ask,

with my other hand.

to answer because the door opens and

eyes

for a minute there” he begins with a smile. Now,

pushed me back when I

head from

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

almost died.

force of it blowing is what threw

what year is it?”

notes it down. Rowan squeezes my hand and I

his eyes but it gone before I can

be bombed. With the stress of everything, I feel a headache coming on

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year, you recognize your own

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

any type

“Okay” I whisper.

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

questions?”

since Rowan has refused to let go of

just makes everything that

long have I been here?”

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

will keep you here for a few

them out. Okay?”