บททั้งหมดของ In His World : บทที่ 41 - บทที่ 50

Elena POV Six months had passed since Adrian was shot and I was twenty-eight weeks pregnant now on complete bed rest at home, and I hadn't seen Adrian in person for two weeks because the doctors said the stress of visiting him was too dangerous for the babies. Lily had left an hour ago after making sure I had dinner and everything I needed within reach, and now I was alone in the too-quiet penthouse lying in bed with my laptop open showing the video feed from Adrian's hospital room. "Hi," I said to the screen even though I'd already talked to him three times today. "I know you can't hear me but I'm going to talk anyway." His chest rose and fell with the ventilator and I watched the rhythm that I'd memorized over the past six months. "I miss you so much," I said. "I miss being able to sit next to you and hold your hand and feel like we're going through this together." I shifted trying to get comfortable but at twenty-eight weeks pregnant with twins there was no comfortable positi

Elena POVI woke up to pain and at first I thought I was dreaming but the ache in my lower back was too real to be part of sleep, and I shifted in bed trying to find a position that didn't hurt.The pain didn't go away and I felt pressure low in my pelvis that I hadn't felt before, and my hands went to my stomach where Rose and Violet were moving restlessly like they could sense something was wrong.I reached for my phone on the nightstand and checked the date through blurry eyes.Thirty-two weeks."Please not yet," I whispered to my belly. "Not yet, you need more time."The pressure got worse and I sat up carefully, my heart pounding because this felt different from the false labor I'd had at twenty-six weeks, felt more insistent and urgent.I called Dr. Chen even though it was barely six in the morning."Mrs. Blackwell?" She answered on the third ring sounding alert. "What's wrong?""I'm having pain, in my lower back and there's pressure." I pressed my hand against my stomach. "It's

Elena POVThe words hung in the air and I couldn't process them at first, couldn't make sense of what Dr. Patterson was saying through the phone speaker."He's waking up?" I asked taking the phone from Lily and my voice came out strange. "Adrian is waking up?""His brain activity has increased significantly in the last hour and he's showing clear signs of emerging from the coma." Dr. Patterson sounded genuinely excited. "We're seeing REM activity which we haven't seen before and he's responding to stimuli.""What does that mean? When will he wake up?" I gripped the side of the gurney."We don't know exactly when, it could be hours or it could be days, but everything points to him coming out of the coma soon." Dr. Patterson paused. "I wanted to let you know before your surgery."I looked at Lily and then at the surgeon who was standing in the doorway waiting to take me into the operating room. "Can we wait? Can we delay the surgery?""Mrs. Blackwell—" the surgeon started."Just for a f

Adrian POVThe darkness was still there surrounding me like it had for months but it felt different now, thinner somehow, like fog that was starting to lift instead of the thick heavy blackness that had trapped me before.I could hear more clearly than I'd been able to in a long time and sounds were sharper and more distinct instead of muffled and distant, and I focused on the voices floating through the darkness trying to understand what they were saying."Increased REM activity," a voice said that I recognized as Dr. Patterson. "Look at these readings, he's much closer to consciousness than he was yesterday.""How close?" Another voice I didn't recognize."Very close, I'd say within hours if this pattern continues." Dr. Patterson sounded excited. "He's fighting his way back."I tried to respond, tried to tell them I could hear them and I was trying so hard to wake up, but my mouth wouldn't work and no sound came out.Another voice spoke and this one I knew, it was Marcus and he soun

Adrian POVI was still fighting and the darkness was cracking apart piece by piece like ice breaking under pressure, and I pushed harder than I'd ever pushed before because I could hear Elena's voice and that meant she was close.She sounded exhausted and like she was in pain but she was alive and talking to me, and I concentrated on every word she was saying trying to use her voice as a rope to pull myself toward consciousness."We have daughters," she said. "Rose and Violet were born this morning."Daughters.Rose and Violet.Born this morning.My daughters were here, they were real, they'd been born and I'd missed it but they were alive and I had to meet them.I had to see them and hold them and tell Elena I was sorry for missing their birth, and the desperation gave me strength I didn't know I still had.The light was getting brighter through my closed eyelids and I could feel my body more clearly now, could feel Elena's hand holding mine and could feel the ventilator tube down my