THE LIFE LEFT: A GRIPPING PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER by L.W. WEDGWOOD

Author:L.W. WEDGWOOD [WEDGWOOD, L.W.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-06-18T22:00:00+00:00

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It had been a harrowing couple of hours. Jane had arrived at the hospice at the usual time. Ron’s bed had been empty. And in a panic, she’d gone straight to reception where she’d been told the news she dreaded most. Ron had been wheeled out on a crash cart an hour earlier.

Now, as she sat in the waiting area outside surgery, she wondered if she would ever get the chance to speak to him again. There was so much she needed to say, so much she wished she’d said before. And now, here she was, possibly with no chance for those precious words to be said.

“Where is he! Where the Hell is my brother?” a voice boomed from down the hallway.

She looked up to see Ed pouring into view. Pouring seemed to be the only word capable of describing his entrance. He’d obviously been hitting the bottle hard the entire afternoon. Two nurses bordered him as he strode into the lounge. He looked angry to Jane—possessed even. She watched in horror as he flung his arms around, fending off the nurses as he moved.

“What in Hell have you idiots done with him? Where is he?” Ed bellowed.

“Sir, you need to calm down. This is a hospital,” said one of the nurses.

“Fuck you! I won’t calm down. I want to know where my brother is?” Ed demanded as he flung the restraining hand of a nurse from his shoulder.

“If you don’t calm down, we will have to call security,” said the nurse.

Jane watched Ed turn to the nurse and let a fist fly. The blow connected to the left side of her face with resounding force. She flew off her feet and hit the ground. Jane couldn’t move. Her horror flipped into outright terror. She’d seen Ed in the midst of his alcohol induced rages plenty of times, but she’d never seen him so violent.

“Get security!” yelled the other nurse who remained standing, but now at a safe distance.

Jane could see that Ed wasn’t waiting around. He began flinging doors open at random, yelling Ron’s name as he went, knocking over chairs, shoving past patients and visitors. From where she sat, she saw startled faces behind the doors—doctors seated in offices, surgeons hunched over patients, the naked form of an old man sitting on the side of a bed. Ron evaded Ed’s search at every turn.

Two burly security guards showed up while Ed was in the process of opening door number eight.

“Get the fuck away from me! You have no right!” Ed yelled.

“You need to calm down and come with us,” said one of the guards.

Ed ignored the request and moved to the next door only feet from where Jane sat. She looked on as the guards grabbed Ed by each arm and propelled him away from the door.

“Get the fuck away from me!” Ed yelled again while flinging himself in all directions, fighting to break free.

She could see that there was no overpowering the security guards.

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