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4. 4.

Josh was apologizing for things I didn't understand, but I let him.

His voice was raw, cracking under the weight of something I couldn't quite grasp, and yet-his words barely made sense to me. If it had been three years... how could I blame him for anything?

If I could have spoken, if I had known what was happening to me, I would have told him to be happy.

He couldn't have known I would wake up.

Hell, I defied all logic by being here right now. The way my body felt-the sheer weakness, the heaviness in my limbs, the foreign weight of tubes and wires attached to me-was proof that my survival wasn't something anyone had expected. Whatever Josh had done, whatever choices he had made, I'd already forgiven him.

I knew I had.

Because if I had been in his place, I didn't know if I would have been strong enough to hold on, either.

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had apparently gained over the years.

I hated it.

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I hated the way I felt-like I wasn't even a person anymore but a project they had to fix, a problem to solve.

to be normal

to be

years had done to me. And for now,

didn't want him to look at me and see

wasn't

www.

to be from before all of

www

I got back to normal-if I got back to normal-we could

But not now.

www

a moment, letting the silence settle over me

It didn't last.

The door creaked open.

was just another nurse coming to poke and prod

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choked, muffled sound filled the

blinked, shifting slightly, just enough to see a

Jess.

eyes were red-rimmed, her lips trembling, and for a moment, she just stood

the room in a few hurried steps,

shook against mine, and I felt the warm, damp press of

I'm okay, I'm here-but nothing would come out, the damn tube in my throat

as hard as my frail body

back, swiping furiously at her tears, then sniffed and

He was stiff, his face unreadable, his body half-turned like he wasn't sure if he should

give her a damn

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breath. But he moved, crossing the

hug wasn't as tight as Jess's. It

But it was real.

closed my eyes, breathing them in, letting them hold me up because I couldn't do

This was home.

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