Between life and fear

Chapter sixty-one EmilyThe stretcher stopped three feet away from me, and for a moment, my entire world narrowed down to the man lying on it.I didn't recognize him.That was the first thought that tore through me, irrational and cruel. I didn't recognize him because Seth Hernandez was never supposed to look like this. Not pale. Not still. Not with blood matting the side of his hair and a tube taped across his mouth, forcing air into lungs that couldn't be trusted to do it themselves."Seth."His name left me with barely a breath.A paramedic barked numbers I couldn't process, blood pressure, pulse, something about internal bleeding, and the words slid past me like water over stone. None of it stuck. None of it made sense next to the image in front of me."Ma'am, you need to step back."A hand landed on my shoulder. I shrugged it off without even looking to see whose it was."That's my husband." My voice didn't sound like mine. It came out low, guttural, torn from somewhere I didn't

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The brakes

Chapter sixty-twoEmily"How is he?"The doctor's eyes flicked briefly toward the small crowd gathered behind me, Mr. Hernandez, Daniel, Xena, all of them holding their breath the same way I was, before settling back on me."He's stable. For now." He exhaled, the kind of exhale that told me he'd been holding it since he walked through those doors. "Multiple fractures, a collapsed lung we managed to re-inflate, and significant blood loss from a laceration along his side. We've stopped the bleeding and he's being moved to the ICU.""Will he wake up?""We won't know the extent of everything until he's more stable. Head trauma is always the hardest to predict." He paused, softening, professional distance cracking just slightly. "But he's fighting. I've worked with Dr. Seth for three years. If anyone can pull through this, it's him."Relief and terror hit me in the same breath, so tangled together I couldn't tell which one made my knees buckle. Xena caught my arm before I hit the floor a s

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Eleven days with him

Chapter sixty-threeEmilyDay three of Seth being admitted, I stopped going home entirely.Xena brought me a change of clothes and didn't argue about it, just set the bag down beside the chair I'd claimed as mine and squeezed my shoulder before leaving again to cover for me at the hospital I was supposed to be running.I barely registered the days passing. They blurred into one long stretch of monitors beeping, nurses checking vitals, and Seth's chest rising and falling beneath a sheet, steady, mechanical, alive but absent.I held his hand more than I let myself think about.Daniel found me there on the fifth day, dark circles under his own eyes that mirrored mine."You should eat something," he said, setting a paper bag on the table beside me. I didn't touch it."Tell me you have news." I said instead.He hesitated, glancing at the door before pulling the visitor chair closer and lowering his voice. "The specialist finished the report on the brakes."My whole body went still. "And?"

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Awake

Chapter sixty-fourSethConsciousness came back in pieces, first sound, muffled and distant, then light, harsh even through closed eyelids, then pain, a dull, full-body ache that told me exactly how much time my body had lost before my mind had even caught up to where I was.The steady beep beside me confirmed it before I opened my eyes.Hospital.I forced my eyes open, blinking against the brightness, and it took several seconds for the ceiling above me to resolve into something my brain could process. White tiles. A monitor. An IV line taped to the back of my hand, the skin around it faintly bruised, the kind of bruising that came from days of use, not hours.Days.Something in the back of my mind told me it had been longer than a night.And warmth.Something warm was wrapped around my fingers.I turned my head, slowly, every movement costing more effort than it should have, and found her.Emily.She was asleep in the chair beside my bed, her upper body folded forward against the ma

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Lahat ng Kabanata ng The Billionaire Doctor's Unwilling Wife : Kabanata 61 - Kabanata 64

Between life and fear

The brakes

Eleven days with him

Awake