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

out, my

Your family will be

glass of

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

1. me.

it when the door opens and

I tell him, my voice almost back to its normal

looked tired. I have never seen Rowan like this. He is always

and back.

asks sitting

by a

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

in a small voice. “I need this, I need

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

you okay, Rowan, you didn’t hit your head

with my other hand.

get to answer because the door opens and a doctor walks in. He

his eyes find

were worried for a minute there” he begins with a smile. Now, do you know where you are and what

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

from

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

almost died.

of it

what year is it?”

it down. Rowan squeezes my hand

in his eyes but it gone before I can

in shock. Never would I have thought that my car would be bombed. With the stress of everything, I feel a headache coming on and pain sipping

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recognize your own name

will have to perform more tests

type of

“Okay” I whisper.

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

questions?”

Rowan has refused to let go of my right.

just makes everything that

I been here?” I

had to induce

type of head injury so we will keep you here for

them out. Okay?”