When the World Stood Still by Kate Eastham

Author:Kate Eastham [Eastham, Kate]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781800194878
Published: 2021-02-21T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

The light hurt as Emily blinked her eyes open. She couldn’t think where she was, and then she saw Sister’s frowning face looming over her and she thought she must be in some kind of trouble. She tried to get up; she was lying down on something hard, but it was all too much and now Sister was trying to speak to her but she couldn’t catch what she was saying and her face was starting to go all blurry. She felt someone with firm hands take hold of her feet and lift them onto something soft. Her heart was thudding in her chest now and she was trying to take in a deep breath but her lungs felt stiff. Don’t say I’ve got it as well, she thought fleetingly, before drifting off to some shadowy place where nothing made sense.

‘Nurse Burdon,’ said a man’s voice, a nice voice. ‘Nurse Burdon?’ insisting now, and a firm hand was shaking her shoulder.

‘What?’ she groaned, trying to move her head and then attempting to open her eyes, but the light seemed so bright, like she was in an operating theatre. Her heart jumped a beat. What if she was dying, what if she was going to have an operation? She knew that she needed to get up and show them that she was all right and so she took a deep breath and then forced herself to open her eyes.

James was looking down at her, and he was smiling.

‘You are so handsome…’ she groaned, but her voice wasn’t coming out properly.

‘What was that she said?’ snapped Sister’s voice.

She heard James’s laugh and then he said, ‘Oh, I don’t know, she’s just coming round. Emily, Emily?’ he said, patting her face.

‘You mean, Nurse Burdon, don’t you doctor?’

He laughed again and muttered something.

Emily sucked in more air and tried to sit up. This was all too much, having them looking down at her, talking over her. ‘I’m fine,’ she croaked at last, struggling up.

‘Oh no you don’t,’ ordered James, using a hand to gently force her back down, ‘You went into a dead faint – you looked awful. You’re not ready to sit up just yet.’

‘But what about the patients… I need to make sure…’

Then she remembered what she’d seen. She groaned, the memory of it flooding back, making her feel that she couldn’t breathe. She wondered if that woman was still next to Lewis’s bed, saying that she was his fiancée. Emily clung to the thought that the woman might still have been mistaken. But then, she’d said his name out loud…

‘Emily?’ She could hear the concern in James’s voice but before she could say anything, her head was spinning again and her heart was thudding out of control.

‘We need to get some sugar inside her,’ she heard him call, before she slipped into oblivion once more.

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