The Ruined Bride of Velvet Nights by Brick Moving Ant

Chapter 68

  • Chapter 14

  • 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.

  • starting anew,

  • could

  • for

  • thought became an unshakable shadow, always hanging

  • still being alive, hate that it wasn’t

  • not granting him a

  • I stood on the edge of

  • the very last moment, I

  • one Joseph gave everything

  • the

  • returned to work after my leave.

  • longer face cameras

  • transfer

  • yet I remained a walking corpse,

  • anymore and encouraged me to meet new

  • dragging me to

  • interest and only wanted to say

  • then I met

  • I saw that

  • face identical to Joseph’s–I froze.

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

  • out he was the brother Joseph had

  • as a stand–in

  • ordinary days were so

  • worked late, I would cook dinner and wait

  • on the couch

  • nights when nightmares woke me in terror,

  • lying quietly beside me would let me drift back

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