After Victory: A Searching for Glory Novel (A Second Chance Love Story) by Hunter J. Keane

Author:Hunter J. Keane [Keane, Hunter J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2016-09-08T21:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

Glory

It took four hours to complete the surgery. I hardly moved the entire time. My body was too numb. When the doctor entered the waiting room to give us an update, it took all of my strength to stand up.

“He’s still in very serious condition, but the surgery went as well as we could have hoped. They are moving him into Intensive Care. You’ll be able to see him in a little while.” The surgeon delivered the words like lines from a speech. I wondered how many times he had done this exact thing. Did he even notice the people he spoke with or were they all just nameless faces that vanished from his head the second he turned around?

I took a second to call Kate, getting her number from Jake. She still had Jack and insisted she was fine watching him for as long as I needed. When she asked how Johnny was doing, I nearly broke down as I answered.

We were escorted to the ICU by a young nurse that didn’t look much older than Julia. She gave me several sympathetic smiles as we walked and I wondered how traumatized I must look to her. If I looked as bad as I felt, I was sorry to be inflicting it upon her.

“You can go in,” she said when we stopped in front of a small room. “He’s still unconscious, but you should talk to him. It might help.”

Mr. Carter led us into the room and marched straight over to the bed. Jake stood near the foot of the bed, uncertain what to do. I stayed near the door, unable to move forward. I had expected to find Johnny lying under a sterile white sheet, a few bandages here and there. Instead, I found something much more horrifying.

Johnny lay on the bed, mostly exposed except for thin sheet that covered his lower-half. His torso was covered in bruises and bandages with wires seeming to run in every direction. His head had been covered in thick white gauze and his face was bruised. In fact, it seemed every inch of exposed skin was bruised. If the nurse hadn’t told us it was Johnny, I wouldn’t have recognized him.

“Glor.” Jake turned to me, waving me forward. “He needs you.”

That was the moment that it clicked. This accident wasn’t something that had happened to me. I had been sitting around feeling sorry for myself, but it was Johnny that was a whisper away from death. He was the one that was fighting to live and he needed me to be strong. I owed him that.

Jake stepped aside as I moved forward, taking my place next to the bed. I looked down at Johnny- my best friend and the love of my life. His hand rested on the bed, the only part of his body that seemed to be uninjured. My fingers crept forward slowly until I was touching him. His hand was cold, so I covered it with mine, clutching it like a drowning person would clutch a life preserver.

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