The Ruined Bride of Velvet Nights by Brick Moving Ant

Chapter 68

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  • When I woke up, the faint scent of antiseptic lingered in the air.

  • I had been transferred to a hospital back home.

  • The doctor told me I had spent two full weeks in the ICU.

  • My internal organs were severely injured, and I had taken a bullet to the shoulder.

  • But by some stroke of luck,

  • my spleen wasn’t ruptured, and the bullet hadn’t caused an exit wound.

  • The blood loss wasn’t severe, and that’s how I managed to survive until the peacekeepers rescued

  • me.

  • I knew clearly in my heart–it was because Joseph shielded me twice.

  • He saved my life.

  • I reached out to everyone I could, trying to find any trace of him.

  • But they all said the chaos at the time made it impossible to recover Joseph’s body.

  • With casualties mounting, Doctors Without Borders had suspended its projects in North Kivu.

  • I had no chance to go back and look for him.

  • Just like that, Joseph vanished.

  • Every night, I woke up screaming, gripped by terror.

  • His dying moments replayed endlessly in my mind, refusing to fade.

  • The doctor diagnosed me with PTSD.

  • I began taking medication, attending therapy sessions, even resorting to alcohol.

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  • But nothing worked.

  • urged me to try starting anew, to stop dwelling on the

  • could I?

  • for

  • an unshakable shadow, always

  • being alive, hate that it wasn’t me who died,

  • not granting him a

  • stood on the edge of

  • very last

  • one Joseph

  • had the right to abandon it.

  • returned to work after

  • I could no longer face cameras or photographs.

  • a transfer to a

  • day, yet I remained a

  • couldn’t stand it anymore and encouraged me to meet

  • to a blind date.

  • and only wanted to say a few polite words and

  • I met Jackson.

  • saw that face-

  • face identical to Joseph’s–I froze.

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  • ounce of strength I had not to break down in tears right there.

  • the brother Joseph had once mentioned.

  • treating him as a stand–in did bring

  • days were so

  • would cook dinner and wait for him to

  • on the couch and

  • when nightmares woke

  • me would let me drift back into sleep.

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