Rewriting My Heart's Fate

Chapter 130

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surgery and wouldn't wake up for a while.

Ethan was still under anesthesia from the surgen

Twanted to leave, but my feet felt glued to the floor. After sitting for a bit, discomfort began to spread throughout my body.

Two hours later, Andy stepped out. "Ms. Wiley, Mr. Grayson has woken up."

He was awake

Hook a deep breath, the weight in my chest finally lifting.

Nedding, I stood up, but as soon as I did, the room spun. The next moment, I plunged into darkness. When I woke again, sunlight filtered through the thin curtains

As I opened my eyes, Ethan's voice reached me. "Are you awake? Is anything bothering you?

He then added, "Katie, go call the doctor!"

head, I saw Ethan's face, bruised from fighting the kidnappers. He was in a wheelchair with an IV

dropped to his abdomen, but his clothes concealed the extent of

dream, just

I woke

images of

to save me, but when he fought against the

couldn't help but wonder if he had considered the life threatening risk he faced to rescue me. Seeing him wounded in that moment shattered any

safe and healthy in

all feelings of love, hate, and

hadn't moved and looked a

shifted slightly, pushing against the side of the bed, trying to sit up.

as I moved, the room

me, but his movement caused him to pull at his

tuming to look at him, my tone filled with unintentional urgency. "I won't move, and you shouldn't either. Have you forgotten that you're

my shoulders, and upon hearing my words, he suddenly smiled, adjusting himself in the wheelchair to sit more comfortably. "Okay, I won't move." Our eyes met unexpectedly. Tooked into his eyes, and he looked into

threatened to spill as a tide of repressed fear and anxiety washed over me. I quickly turned my gaze

afraid to speak, worried that if

over now. I won't