Revenge of The Furtive Billionaire Heir by Ryker Helios

Chapter 21

  1. A special allergy?

Numbed down pain.

I

That’s all I feel when I find myself waking up, a low, drawled groan leaving my mouth as I slowly regain consciousness. My throat is scratchy, and it feels like something died in my mouth. Faintly, I hear a beeping sound coming next to me, and I slowly turn my head to see what it is.

A machine. A machine to measure my heartbeat, the kind you see in hospital rooms with serious patients.

Why was I a serious patient, then?

That’s when all the memories came back to me through the haze of my mind.

Stone and his goons. The beating in the cafeteria. Falling unconscious as soon as the security guards managed to get the attackers off me. Someone screaming the word ‘hospital’ while I faded to black.

Crap.

I use my tired eyes to look around the room. The walls are painted white with accents of light yellow, and there’s a window. It’s a private room, and there is even a TV mounted in the corner. All around me, there are various machines taking my reading there’s, and an IV poked into my hand dripping saline. There are wires hooked onto my chest. Many parts of my body are bandaged.

Just as I end up taking in the room, the door opens, and a nurse strides in. Upon seeing my open eyes, her face lights up, and she immediately presses a button on the side of the bed.

I’m glad to see you’re awake,” the nurse greets

and lips are too dry. So, I croak, “water.”

“The doctor was anticipating you waking up soon, so she instructed us to be ready. You are due another change of bandages as well, and we were waiting for you

like heaven, and their moisture trickling down my arid throat

get you into the ER immediately, of course. You were out cold and bleeding all over the place. One of your assailants used a brass knuckles weapon on you, bruising your ribs quite badly. You’re very lucky that they aren’t broken. Apart from that, your midriff was damaged, your left arm was sprained, and your right pinky is broken. It will take

to heal.”

are there wires hooked to me?” I question, confused because I haven’t seen assault victims with my injuries hooked to machines

bites her lower lip, “there was a complication with a painkiller we administered to you. Were you aware

brows lift to my

sent into anaphylactic shock as soon as the painkiller medicine was administered, and

like I’ve been

her honestly, “I didn’t know I had

of my bed to move my head to a more vertical position, and switches to liquid water.

of everything, I had a silver allergy and had to have an operation performed on

stay here?” I ask

is up to the doctor to decide, he will

were to estimate based on my condition, how much will it be? Can you

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