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.

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

the first person I saw when

around the room and then finally looked at me with anger in

for everyone in the hallway to

did not call you, they did, because you are my husband!" I tried to yell, but

survived! Nos leave us alone!" Antonio scolded me

Kaufinan, she's your wife. As a

she needed

scoffed, "I'm on my break, and she's always pretended to be sick. Who

I was too weak to take care of myself, and

would be there, like the promise he made when we married, but

my ten-day stay in the ICU, I never

nurses took turns attending to me. I heard that someone had specifically asked

So.

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

Antonio?" I asked

before saying,

an extended leave. He Pitts

overly

doctoral studies." fo

clenched the bedsheets and

I stared at the white ceiling, thinking how awful everything had turned

families and stopped caring about me. Chad finally married the man I loved most, but he

life was saved by Eloise. My

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