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 us

his words hit me like sharp shards of glass.

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 they used a

especially the one on her head, wasn’t pretty. They couldn’t allow her family to see

to a God I have lost touch with. I bargain with him, I threaten him, and

to eat, Ro?” My mom asks

right now, let alone

like admitting weakness, but in this moment, I am. I am weak and helpless, and I didn’t know how to stop feeling that

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 with mine and I take time

not by

give him a nod to

with tears when

where is mom? I asked Cal why he was picking me up instead of mom, but he said, You’ll

he says, a mask of concern

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

baby? Is that why we are at the

calming breath before opening my mouth to

mom was hurt really badly, Buddy. The doctors are with her

sure that she’ll be

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

worrying about

about the baby?” His voice is hoarse when

him. “You have a baby sister, Noah. Just

his face, right before a

“Can I see her?”

done checking her out to make

a while until it starts slowly slipping. The tears

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

want her to leave me, dad.” His

into my arms.

my

shouldn’t have to

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

they are going to

she won’t. Your mom is strong. I’m very sure that she’ll pull through” I murmur

that for a while before he lets me go and climbs

and holds me tightly. Noah is a strong boy, and the fact that he’s behaving this way shows just

vulnerable he is.

stand up, pace, and then sit down over and over again.

a word, I slowly die

things weren’t going as

was hours after Ava had been taken in

rushes in. Her