Waiting for you: A troubled vulnerable hero romance by E.V. White

Author:E.V. White [White, E.V.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-08-04T05:00:00+00:00

Alex was sitting on the chair next to Emilyʼs bed. The sound that came from the machines connected to the girlʼs chest and arms no longer distressed him. The sun was rising and hit his face as it beamed through the window. He looked younger when he slept, though those deep dark circles under his eyes accentuated his tiredness. He had worried so much about her the night before that he believed he had suffered a heart attack while holding her in his arms. He literally felt his heart ache to death in his chest. The pain was so strong he had stopped breathing to the point of almost fainting. When the paramedics arrived, they had to break through the door to enter and encountered some difficulties extracting Emily from his arms.

The door opened and a nurse came in to check the girl. Alex emerged from his exhaustion and took a moment to remember where he was.

“How is she?” He asked the woman, his voice hoarse and slurred.

The nurse turned and smiled at him.

“You should ask the doctor. Sheʼs at the front desk right now if you would like to talk to her,” she suggested gently.

Alex left the room and looked for the doctor. He found her at the entrance, as the nurse had said. He went up to her in a sluggish pace. He wanted to know how she was, but at the same time, he was terrified by what he would find out. What would happen if she had suffered permanent damage? It was his fault. He had helped her get the drugs; he had almost helped her kill herself.

“Hello...” he said in a whisper; his voice was much more uncertain than he wished.

The doctor turned and looked at him straight in those terrified eyes of his. At first, her expression was hard and focused, but when she saw the desperation in his eyes, her features softened.

“Are you her boyfriend?” She asked without even asking his name or what he wanted; the boyʼs hysteria while they were taking the girl in one of the rooms in the ER might have remained stuck in her mind.

Alex wanted to tell her no, that they had just met but then he thought that if he were not someone close to her, they would probably not answer his questions.

“Yes...” he said shyly; that woman had the ability to make him feel like a schoolchild in front of his teacher.

“Do you know how to find her family?” She said with a smile. “Parents, brothers, sisters... she didn’t have any ID with her,” she tried to guide him.

“I’m her family. She’s got no one but me,” he said hoping no one entered the front door and unmask his charade. He did not know anything about her.

The doctor sighed and looked at him with concern.

“Sheʼll be fine,” she tried to reassure him, but the expression on her face did not back up her words.

Alex partially exhaled a breath he was holding, but he knew that the bad news was yet to come.

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