The Lies He Told Me (Grace and Antonio)

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My surgery was supposed to provide Eloise with valuable data.

However, shortly after the procedure started, I experienced a brief brain. shock due to excessive bleeding.

During the emergency, Antonio and Eloise were nowhere to be found.

"How can her surgeons just vanish?" a nurse asked anxiously.

It was a very on question, I could not see my husband anywhere.

"I heard Dr. Pitts needed some data for her paper, so Dr. Kaufman let her operate," one replied. "Abandoning their patient for data? They should just quit," a doctor fumed.

Their conversation hit me like a ton of bricks, leaving me disoriented and weak. I didn't know if it was due to my condition or the shock.

An intern looked at me and said, "She is in critical condition, but the attending doctors are not here. How are we supposed to proceed?" As they were at a loss, my condition deteriorated.

Their faces began to blur, and I could only faintly sense my surroundings, catching fragmented voices.

"Dr. Kaufman isn't answering his phone? What now?" one nurse said.

"Neither is Dr. Pitts," another added.

Just before I completely lost consciousness, I heard the surgical team was ready.

It was all thanks to another surgeon with glasses stepping in, who swiftly took charge.

I faintly heard him say, "Don't worry. You won't die." But I wasn't sure if this was a hallucination due to the anesthesia.

the third time, and this time, I did not remember anything. I did not see colors, I did not feel helpless and anxious. I was simply asleep. Apparently, the surgery didn't take long.

person I saw when I opened my eyes was

me with anger in his eyes. "You lived. Why did

shouted loudly enough for everyone in the hallway to

you, they did, because you are my husband!" I tried to yell, but

said, you survived!

stepped in. "Dr. Kaufinan, she's your wife. As a doctor, why

when she

she's always pretended to be sick. Who knows

out. I was too weak to take care of myself, and my parents weren't around

he made when

my ten-day stay in the ICU, I never saw him

me. I heard that

So.

who came to mind was Antonio. But they told me it

I asked one of

hesitated before

extended leave. He

overly

doctoral studies." fo

clenched the bedsheets

the white ceiling, thinking how awful everything had

divorced and remarried, they had new families and stopped caring about me. Chad finally married the

my life was saved by

irony was cruel and unrelenting, as if the universe had a twisted sense of