Substitute Wife For The Blind CEO
Chapter 188
Substitute Wife For The Blind CEO
Chapter 188 - 188: She Moved
hree days passed like an eternity. The world outside continued as usual — the sun rose, the sun set, footsteps echoed in the corridors, machines hummed — but Stefan's world had narrowed to the four walls of Ruby's ward.
He never left her side. Every hour, he held her hand. Every minute, he searched her face for some flicker of life. Every second, he whispered prayers and pleas to a God he wasn't even sure existed.
He was there again now, sitting hunched in the chair beside her bed, his shoulders rounded with exhaustion, his hair unkempt, his eyes shadowed with sleeplessness. His bandaged hand rested on the edge of her blanket, his uninjured one wrapped around Ruby's fingers.
The door opened softly behind him. Stefan looked up, expecting Rayna or Ethan — but instead, his breath caught when he saw who it was.
"Mom?"
Elizabeth stood there, frailer than he remembered, but with color in her cheeks again and clarity in her eyes. She had been discharged the previous day but Elizabeth had asked them not to let him know.
Elizabeth looked at him with a mixture of relief and sorrow, her gaze lingering on the dark circles under his eyes.
Stefan let out a sigh, his lips twitching into the smallest ghost of a smile. "How are you feeling? I didn't even know you could go home."
"It's fine. I asked them not to tell you anything. Didn't want to add to your stress," she said, waving it off.
"How are you feeling now?" he asked, after a while.
Elizabeth stepped in, her movements careful but steady. "I'm fine," she said gently, coming closer. Her eyes shifted to Ruby on the bed before returning to her son.
take a bath. Eat something warm and rest
shook his head immediately even before she could finish. "No. I need to
properly in days. And besides, you're not fully recovered yourself. The smoke… the burns…
betrayed the exhaustion weighing on him. His jaw tightened, eyes still fixed on Ruby. "The only thing that matters now is her, Mom. I just want to be here when she wakes up. I don't care if I collapse a hundred
at the steel in his words. She wanted to argue, to tell him it was good he wanted to be here and that it won't matter if he collapsed and she woke up while he's still bedridden —
his eyes
followed his gaze, but saw nothing. "What is it? Are you
hand twitched," he
after a few seconds, she shook her head. "I didn't see anything, Stefan. Maybe it was your imagination," she said with
Stefan's voice was
think you should go have some rest now. You're beginning to see things," Elizabeth said, but Stefan
his, clutching it tightly. "Ruby. Baby, it's
tightened, fear crawling up his throat. Did he really see it, or had he just been imagining it? He asked himself
he felt it. The faintest twitch of her fingers against
"Mom! Did you see that? She moved.
too — a slight, deliberate movement, as
Rayna!" Stefan shouted, his voice breaking with urgency.
at the sound of his voice and rushed in. "What happened?" she asked, panic surging through
voice was trembling with hope and
up as she spun on her heel and darted down
About Substitute Wife For The Blind CEO - Chapter 188
Substitute Wife For The Blind CEO is the best current series of the author BabyAngel2. With the below Chapter 188 content will make us lost in the world of love and hatred interchangeably, despite all the tricks to achieve the goal without any concern for the other half, and then regret. late. Please read chapter Chapter 188 and update the next chapters of this series at booktrk.com