The Secret Pregnancy of the Billionaire's Ex-Wife

Chapter 226

Chapter 226: Memory Lost

Christopher POV

The words hit me like a physical blow.

Angela, it's me, Christopher, I said, leaning closet. "Don't you recognize me?"

She shook her head slightly, then winced at the movement. Her fingers clutched the white hospital sheets as confusion clouded her

eyes.

How was this possible? She'd only fallen-hit her head on the marble floor. Damn Jack for not reporting the severity immediately. A simple fall shouldn't cause memory loss.

"Ah!

Angela attempted to sit up, only to gasp in pain.

"Don't move," I said, gently pressing her shoulders back against the pillow. "You're injured. You need to rest."

"Where am I? What happened to me?"

"You're in a hospital. Do you remember why you came here? To my island?"

She closed her eyes, clearly trying to force the memories to surface. After several moments, her face contorted in pain.

"My head... it hurts so much when I try to remember."

"Don't push yourself," I said, reaching for a tissue to gently dab at the beads of sweat that had formed on her forehead.

She looked so vulnerable, so different from the strong, defiant woman I knew her to be.

"I want every test done immediately," I told Jack. " I don't care who's waiting, Angela goes first."

"Yes, sir. I'll arrange it now."Jack nodded, already pulling out his phone.

When they wheeled her bed toward radiology, I walked alongside, refusing to leave her.

she'd run from. I was her only familiar anchor in a world suddenly

had fallen by the time all tests

in the best private suite the hospital offered, exhaustion finally claiming her. Her breathing had settled

the blanket higher, tucking it carefully around her

said from the doorway, "we'll have the complete results by morning. We're expediting the

nodded, not taking my eyes off

dinner. Perhaps you

coldly. "I'll

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Chapter 226 Memory Lost

beside Angela's bed, watching the gentle rise and fall of her

Injured and lost in sleep, she was beautiful serene, elegit,

lost on me. Angela had come here to rescue Shaw, ly to lose her memory of him of everything. Including the fact that she'd

happened next, I knew one thing with absolute certainty: he could not return to Shaw. Even if she never chase me. I would ensure she never went back to the

A chance to define our relationship

the sound of footsteps. fack stood over me, draping

low. "There's no need to check on us. I don't want

filtered through the blinds when the doctor returned with

form. "The memory loss

she recover?"

amnesia can be temporary, resolving in days or weeks. But in some cases, it can persist much

his notes. "Familiar surroundings might help trigger her memory. Places, objects, people she knows well-these could all serve

him, already calculating how to control which memories might return- and which

the room after speaking with the doctor, I found

insisted, her voice tinged with desperation. "There's something important I have to

the doorway, respectfully but firmly. "I'm sorry, ma'am. Mr. Blake

approaching from behind the guard. "What's so

slightly as

with your doctor about your condition,"

clearly frustrated. "I need to go. Please understand, it's extremely

need to

then stopped. Confusion swept across her face as she realized she couldn't remember seemed so

know. But I feel like there's something critical

t had