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

  • how could I?

  • for me.

  • shadow, always hanging over me.

  • myself for still being alive, hate that it wasn’t me who

  • for not granting him

  • on the edge of a rooftop, wanting to follow him.

  • time, at the very last

  • Joseph gave everything to

  • longer had the right to abandon

  • returned to

  • I could no longer

  • a transfer to

  • remained a walking corpse,

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

  • dragging me to a

  • interest and only wanted to say a few polite words and leave.

  • I

  • moment I saw that

  • face identical to Joseph’s–I

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  • I had not to break

  • was the brother

  • as a stand–in did bring me

  • were so

  • dinner and wait for him to come home.

  • we’d curl up on the couch

  • nights when nightmares woke me in

  • quietly beside me would let me drift back

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