All Chapters of THE PREGNANT VIRGIN AND THE RUTHLESS HEIR : Chapter 1 - Chapter 5

GesareThe first thing I notice is the sound of machines, beep beepA slow, rhythmic sound that seems to echo inside my skull.My eyelids feel heavy, like someone glued them shut, but I force them open anyway. The bright white light above me stings my eyes, making me squint and for a moment I just lie there, confused.Then the pain hits.My muscles ache, my head throbs, and every breath feels like it drags glass through my chest, I try to move my fingers twitch slightly and my arms feel completely weak. But when I try to move my legs nothing happens, they feel heavy. A cold wave of panic spreads through my chest as I try to move the again but still nothing moves. “Where am I?” My voice comes out dry and hoarse, barely louder than a whisper. I glance around the unfamiliar room, searching for something, anything that might explain where I am or what's happening to me. “Why can’t I feel my legs?” I ask trying to hold back the tears threatening my eyes. “It’s okay,” a gentle female vo

Gesare. The first thing I noticed when I woke up was how quiet it was apart from the machines humming and the soft murmurs of the nurses talking at the station down the corridor.The second thing I noticed was the pain.It throbbed through my leg like a slow drumbeat, dull but heavy, reminding me every few seconds that trying to escape the hospital earlier had been a spectacularly bad idea.I groaned softly and shifted a little which was a bad move, the movement sent a sharp ache through my stomach and my leg at the same time. I sucked in a breath and squeezed my eyes shut for a moment.“Turns out you can't handle the pain well huh?” a deep familiar voice said and my eyes were wide open. I turned my head slowly and saw him sitting in the chair beside my bed, the man from the elevator.For a second I just stared at him, trying to remember how much of what happened earlier was real and how much had been the pain medication messing with my head.He was leaning back in the chair like he