“Fuck!” He let out as he sat down and dropped the drink on the table without touching it. He needed to be sober in case the doctor called him. He pulled out the purple purse that lay on the table next to him and opened it. He let out another sigh when he saw the content of the bag. The more he saw the more he berated himself for not doing the barest minimum which was to check and be sure. If he had as much as checked her stuff, he would have known she was innocent but he had been blinded by his need for revenge that he had not even bothered to verify. Her purse contained her passport, her phone, and lip balms, that was it, nothing else. “Nora Morningstar,”He called out her name. Even her name didn’t sound like someone who could do a thing wrong. Her national identification card also bore the same details as her passport and as she had said, it was her first time in Italy as she only had just one stamp. “Fanculo!”He let out in his native language. He felt ashamed and stupid but th
Luca woke up the next morning on the couch, he must have fallen asleep while waiting to get the call from the doctor. He never got to rest after his flight yesterday. That explains a lot. He got up and walked to his restroom to take a bath after which he got dressed and hurried downstairs to get to his car, he commanded his driver to take him to the hospital and went directly to the doctor’s office. “Doc? I didn’t get your call last night. I waited up but it never came and I fell asleep because I had a long flight and didn’t have time to rest.”Luca told the doctor who stood up to greet him. “We tried calling you last night but you didn’t take your call, the surgery went well but she is still not waking up, whatever happened to her was more than anything her body could take, we are hoping she would wake up in the next couple of days,”The doctor disclosed. They must have called when he fell asleep and he hadn’t bothered to check his phone when he woke up. Luca sat down heavily, ever
“Oh, I am ready, anytime, any day. More than anything Luca, I am not scared of you. You act like you are one big tough boss when in reality you are just a soft weak male who doesn’t know when to stop. Everything that happened was your fault, you brought that calamity to your family and you should have died with them. My small mistake,”The woman went on. Yes, Luca already blamed himself for what happened to his family, he had a lot of enemies which is why it was hard for him to find out who could have wanted him out because a lot of people who he had crossed over the years had something against him. He did his best to keep his family out of his business and also protected so whoever found out about them knew a lot about him. “Fuck you, I will find you and make sure I give you a slow painful death woman,”Luca let out. He shouldn’t have to be on the phone like this with someone who killed his whole family and sent him the video, someone who went ahead and got him hospitalized for thre
Luca got busy for the rest of the week, he got a call from his Russia branch that something urgently needed his attention and he had to leave as soon as he arrived at the office. He called the doctor to tell him to make sure to keep him posted in case anything goes wrong and to be on a safer side, he had his men watch her twenty-hours a day without leaving her side. If his instance was correct which it always was, then that witch would want to show up around her when she was sure he wasn’t close. But she never showed her face and he spent the rest of the week in Russia. Everyday, he called to ask if she was awake but she remained asleep and he started to worry that she might take a long time to wake up like he had two years ago. He turned off her phone to avoid her getting any calls as he was sure he wasn’t ready to speak to anyone who might be looking for her. If she was awake, it would be a different case but she was yet to wake up so he had nothing to say to whoever would call her.
Nora felt herself floating, she couldn’t open her eyes even though she wanted to, it felt like a force was pulling into the abyss of nothingness that she was trying to escape from. She tried so hard to fight against it but the more she fought, the further the forces pulled her into the darkness, she felt trapped and wanted to get out of the trap but nothing was working and she was slowly losing her mind, she didn’t want the darkness to win but she didn’t know what to do to win either, she knew if she loses it might be the end of her and the last thing she wanted was to die now, she was too young to die, with that thought, she fought as much as she could but it was still fruitless. She paused to grab the situation and even that made things worse for her as the darkness slowly crept in and slowly started to win, she let out a deep-throated yell and opened her eyes in fear. She had to close them again as bright lights nearly blinded her, she stayed with her eyes closed for a moment and g
“Your vitals are okay and you are responding well to the treatments given so hopefully, you will heal faster than anticipated,”The doctor went on. Nora watched him jot something down, she knew she had to say something because once he leaves now, he would not be back until later and she would be stuck with the nurses who do not say anything to her and just go about their job. “How. Did. I. Get. Here?”Nora finally managed to ask, but her voice sounded dry and foreign even to her ears, she waited for the doctor to respond but he didn’t even acknowledge her words, she concluded that her voice must have been so low that he couldn’t hear her so she decided she wasn’t going to try and talk to him anymore, now that she could talk again, she would train her voice so that when he returns later, she can finally ask him the questions that were burning in her head to be asked. She lay there in silence and the doctor finally left. As soon as he did, Nora tried to move her hands again on her own
Jokes on her because the next morning, a new doctor came to attend to her and when she asked for the other doctor, she was told he was very busy, she didn’t see or hear from the doctor for the rest of the day. On the bright side, she was moved from the bed to a wheelchair and the doctor had told her she could sit on the wheelchair whenever she feels like getting off the bed, all she had to do was press the button next to her bed and a nurse would be in to help her get off the bed. Nora liked the idea as it would help her be able to get out of the hospital room and go find a place to call Rose herself. Surely, the hospital would have a call center or she might find someone kind enough to let her use their phone. The first time she asked the nurse to let her go out of her room, she had told her that wasn’t up to her and that she had to get the doctor’s approval so she told the doctor when he stopped by to see her that evening, at first, he had said no but after talking it over with him,
“If you are done checking me out, can you answer me now?”His voice, oh, she almost melted at his strong accented voice. Italian and hot. She had to shake herself out of her crazy thoughts. “What did you say?”Nora asked willing her heartbeat to return to normal, she couldn’t lose her morals over a hot looking Italian that she had quite literally just met. “I asked what you are doing here. Shouldn’t you still be in bed?”He asked as if he knew her. Maybe he was one of the doctors here. “You are a doctor? I got permission from my doctor, I can sit out but not for long,”She responded to him. She couldn’t believe just how fast his presence made her forget all the problems she had which should be her top priority. “I am not a doctor, I am the one who brought you here to be treated,”He informed her. At first, she was in awe when she heard him say he was the one that brought her to the hospital but then the reality of what that might mean dawned on her, and all the giggled feeling she