All Chapters of broken pieces : Chapter 1 - Chapter 5

The room was quiet.Too quiet.Saria lay awake, staring at the pale ceiling of the hospital room. The beeping of the heart monitor had become the only thing keeping her company since Dan and Lucas had been escorted out after their heated argument.Neither man had left her mind.One claimed to be her husband.The other claimed she had been planning to leave that husband.Which one was telling the truth?Or was neither of them innocent?A soft knock interrupted her thoughts.The nurse entered with a warm smile.“Good morning, Miss Ben. How are you feeling today?”“My body aches less,” Saria admitted. “But my head…” She pressed two fingers against her temple. “It feels like there’s a locked door inside my mind.”The nurse nodded sympathetically.“That’s common with memory loss.Don’t force yourself to remember.Sometimes memories return when you least expect them.”“When I least expect them…”The words echoed in Saria's head.She thanked the nurse, who checked her bandages before lea

The hospital corridor erupted into chaos.Doctors and nurses rushed from room to room while security officers searched every exit.But the man with the scar had vanished.It was as though he had never been there.Saria sat frozen on the hospital bed, her hands wrapped tightly around the blanket.She could still see the syringe.Still hear the nurse’s trembling voice.It would have stopped her heart within minutes.Someone wanted her dead.The terrifying part wasn’t that someone had tried to kill her.It was that they had failed before.The car accident hadn’t been an accident at all.“You can’t stay here anymore.”The voice belonged to Detective Noah Zayes.He stood near the door, flipping through a thin file containing Saria’s medical records.He was in his early thirties, dressed in a black suit instead of a police uniform, with observant hazel eyes that seemed to miss nothing.“I’m assigning officers outside your room until you’re discharged,” he said.Dan folded his arms.“My priv