Richard_Caveman Instinct by Hazel Gower

Author:Hazel Gower [Gower, Hazel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hazel Gower
Published: 2015-08-27T23:00:00+00:00

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We hadn’t talked in the car. Richard had tried, but I was so anxious about Ethan, I wouldn’t have been able to hold much of a conversation. I felt terrible I was only seeing him now. I should have fought harder to see him yesterday. I shouldn’t have been so focused on Richard and myself and been more demanding about seeing him. Richard had been on the phone for most of the trip to the hospital. I tuned out when I knew it was business talk.

I now stood at the door to the room where my brother was staying. I was scared to open it and see what condition Ethan was in. The doctor had spoken to me when I arrived, telling me Ethan was now in stable condition, and it looked like he would make a full recovery. I told myself that was good, and maybe Ethan wouldn’t look that bad, but I was still scared. Ethan was the only family I had left. I didn’t want to ever have to live without him.

Richard stroked my back. “I can go in with you if you like? My appointment isn’t for another twenty minutes.”

I shook my head. I wanted to see Ethan by myself. I needed to talk to him just him and me. “I’ll be fine. I can do this.” Taking a deep breath in, I slowly let it out before I turned the knob and walked into the room.

Ethan lay in bed with machines surrounding him. He was hooked up to so many monitors. He looked small and weak and I couldn’t remember ever seeing or thinking of him as that. I walked slowly toward the bed so I could focus my eyes better to see him. His eyes were closed, but as I got closer, they fluttered open.

Smiling, I rushed the last couple of steps to him. “Ethan. I’m sorry. I’m so sorry.”

He moaned and cleared his throat. I searched around and saw a bed table with a jug of water and a cup with a straw. I poured the water into the cup and brought the straw to Ethan’s lips. He sipped and I sat it back on the table.

“What are you sorry for?” Ethan croaked out

“Everything.” I looked around and spotted a chair in the corner. Going to it, I picked it up and brought it next to Ethan’s bed.

“Everything. Why everything?” his voice was a little stronger but still weak.

“This is all my fault.”

Ethan raised his eyebrow. “Yeah, how?”

I sighed and closed my eyes as guilt assaulted me. “If it weren’t for me, you wouldn’t be an accountant, and you probably wouldn’t even be in Australia. You’d be in Hollywood being some big shot director by now, earning millions, in a ginormous mansion, fancy sport cars, with a gorgeous trophy wife and maybe even a baby, but because of me, you had to give up all your dreams and become my guardian, an accountant and have no life. When you finally get to have some time to yourself, you got shot at the job you should never be doing in the first place.

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