Chapter 13: Acceptance

Waking up from the unconscious state, I felt dizzy and my body throbbed with pangs of heaviness and agony. I drifted my blurry sight across the familiar features of the unplastered walls.

Slowly darting my gaze to the left, Gabriella was dozing off beside me as she held my hands tightly, and Laura had slept off in her arms.

I wanted to get up and lay Laura on her mat but the more I tried to lift my back, the harder it was for me, and I fell back to the hard ground.

I used my other hand to clutch my head which felt like someone was banging a large nail into my skull with a metallic hammer.

The pain I was feeling right now made it seem as though Stephen just finished beating me. I didn't feel half of it when the medical department of the company attended to me this morning.

In fact, I could still talk and interact until I exhausted my energy trekking under the blazing sun.

They were about to put a bandage on my nose and other exposed bleeding parts of my body like my forehead when I re