Fighting to Save US by Sarah Stevens

Author:Sarah Stevens [Stevens, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sarah Stevens Writes
Published: 2019-10-28T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Nine

Bren

I wake up, and I’m still surrounded by all my family. Max is right next to me, holding my hand, leaning over the edge of the bed, asleep. My mom is asleep in one chair and my dad in the other. I hate to wake them, but the pain has increased, and I need something for it. I shift a little, cringing as a sharp pain shoots through by lower stomach. Max stirs.

“Are you okay?” he asks as he shoots up like he was never asleep.

“Not really. The pain is really bad right now. Can you push that button for me?” He pushes the button and a look of worry rests on his face. I know he wants to help take the pain away, but he can’t. The nurse quietly comes into my room and checks my vitals after she asks me what my pain level is.

“I’d have to say a nine or a ten. I woke up, and it just hit me.” She checks my chart that is on a clipboard at the foot of my bed and reads that I can get a dose of pain meds. She goes out of the room to get the medicine, and Max still hasn’t let go of my hand.

He kisses my knuckles and whispers, “I love you.”

My nurse returns with the syringe containing my pain meds and puts it through the IV. Within seconds I start to feel the effects as my eyelids get heavy. “This is going to make her drowsy, and she still needs lots of rest. Visiting hours will end in about an hour, and everyone will need to leave then.”

“I’m not going anywhere,” Max states matter-of-fact to her and goes back to looking at me, kissing my knuckles.

“Well. I’ll have to see if the doctor will allow it.” She walks out of my room.

“You don’t have to be so rude to her. She’s just doing her job. I’ll be fine. Go on home, get some rest and a shower. I’ll be here waiting for you in the morning.”

“I don’t want to leave you, Bren. Please don’t make me,” he begs.

“I know you don’t, but I’ll be sleeping and being checked on all night. I’ll be fine. Go eat, rest and shower. I’ll see you in the morning. I love you.”

My parents wake up, and we talk for a few minutes before I really need to close my eyes and sleep. They leave with promises to come back first thing in the morning and press kisses to my forehead. All that is left is Max, and I have to try my hardest to convince him to leave. Jackson apparently sent Mike over earlier in the evening to take guard outside my door. Mike had returned to Portland around lunchtime with Max’s SUV, came by the hospital to get the key to the apartment and returned to the hospital around the end of visitor time.

“Max, I love you, but Mike will be here right outside my door, so no one will bother me.

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