Ex-Husband’s Regret by Evelyn M.M

115. In a coma

Chapter 115

I stand rooted in my spot as the words keep ringing in my ears.

A baby girl.

Ava has a baby girl. She has a little daughter. Noah is going to be so fucking happy. He has been praying that he gets a sister, and his prayer has been answered.

“Can I see her?”

“I know you’re eager to see your daughter, Mr. Woods, but you’ll have to wait a bit until we’re done checking her,” he says.

At first, his words don’t make sense to me, but soon enough, I realize that he assumed that I was the baby’s father. I don’t mind it at all; it just came as a fucking shock.

“She’s premature since she’s only twenty–six weeks old, and given the trauma she faced when Ava was shot and fell to the ground, we’ll place her in an incubator. She’ll be in NICU until we feel she’s healthy enough to be with family.” O

I notice that he has not mentioned anything about Ava. Does that mean they have no hopes of her

surviving?

My heart rate increases at that possibility. She has to survive. She just has to. Otherwise, how are we supposed to live without her?

“You have to be prepared though. We will do everything in our power to make sure she survives, but you

have to know that she may not. If she does, she may have severe disability such as cerebral palsy,

learning difficulties or hearing and vision problems”

“But that is just a probability, right? It is not something that is set in stone.” I ask him, already feeling sorry

for the little girl.

She came into the world too early, and already she’s faced and will face more than most people will ever

face in their entire lives.

“Yes. It’s just a possibility, but it doesn’t always happen. We just prefer giving parents all the angles in

case something happens.”

I nod my head.

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ask before he can turn

as of now we aren’t sure how things will turn out.” He doesn’t give

numbly as his words hit me like sharp shards of glass. They pierce my heart and soul

us know that Ava is now in surgery. I thought I would see her before they took her to surgery, but she told me that

said that her wounds, especially the one on her head, wasn’t pretty. They couldn’t allow her family

my seat and continue praying to a God I have lost touch with. I bargain with him, I threaten him, and finally, I fucking beg him. Beg him to listen to my prayers. Beg him to save

I get you something to eat, Ro?” My mom

right now, let alone eat it. I was a nervous fucking wreck. Food was

mom vacates it. With dad sitting on my other side. I don’t like admitting weakness, but in this moment, I am. I am weak and helpless, and I

passes with no word from the doctors. Before I know it, the waiting room door opens, and Noah comes running to me. His body collides

not by

Calvin entering with Gunner. I give him a nod to say thank you, which

seeing them, but Kate’s eyes fill with tears when her

mom? I asked Cal why he was picking me up instead of mom, but he said,

a mask of concern

had time to come up with a way of delivering the news, but words fail

baby? Is that why we

a calming breath before opening my

doctors

sure that she’ll

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breaks at seeing the tears that fill his eyes. He shouldn’t be

about

His voice is hoarse when she asks

baby sister, Noah. Just like you wanted

wonder fills his face, right

“Can I see her?”

done checking her out to make sure

place for a while until it starts slowly slipping. The

his cheek. He doesn’t make a sound though. He silently

her to leave me, dad.” His voices catches

into my arms.

hug him to my chest while fighting my emotions and

a question he shouldn’t have to

Ava was going to pay dearly. He or she messed with the wrong person. For the

are going to feel it

sure that she’ll pull through” I murmur in his

while before he lets me go and climbs on my

Noah is a strong boy, and the

vulnerable he is.

pace, and then sit down over and over again. Noah never leaves

without a word, I slowly die inside. I was

weren’t going as

Ava had been taken in for surgery when

my daughter?” Nora rushes in. Her eyes