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Bedmates Soulmates novel Chapter 701

The Wedding Photos 

We are looking at the photo album!Jennie said excitedly

It was an AGsized album filled with photos of the twins

Austyn watched them grow up from tiny babies into the energetic and healthy toddlers they were now

He paused when he reached the second last page

Mummy and Daddy’s wedding photos! Joshua saw it, too

What?Kira was confused

She and Austyn got married without a ceremony and of course, without taking wedding pictures

Austyn recognised himself in the photo

He was standing in profile, staring into Kira’s eyes

He had both hands wrapped around her waist

She was looking up at him with a brilliant smile

More fragments of memory returned to him

They were strolling in a mall, hand in hand

They stopped at an ice cream shop, where Kira threw a tantrum when he refused to buy her an ice cream cone. They went to a movie

She didn’t belleve him when he said it was the first official date he had ever been on 

Austyn dropped the album when the familiar pain returned to his forehead

He cradled his head with both hands, enduring the blinding headache

Daddy

Jennie was startled

Kira rushed over. Are you okay?” 

Austyn blinked 

He wiped away beads of sweat from his forehead, looked up, and saw three faces staring at him, all with concern

I’m fine.He got up and removed a bottle of pills from his jacket pocket

Kira fetched him a glass of water from the kitchen

Thanks.Austyn took a couple of the pills and waited for the pounding pain to ease up

He forced a smile as he turned to look at the twins. Sorry, I must have scared you

Go wash your face and brush your teeth,Kira said to the kids

Her voice shook a little

The twins left the living room grudgingly

Jennie kept looking back at Austyn 

Kira took them into the bathroom to get washed up

Austyn waited for them to leave before letting out a sigh 

Kira returned two minutes later

She hesitated before saying, The kids are worried about you. They don’t know what’swhat’s wrong with you. Could you explain it to them later

He nodded

Sure.‘ 

Kira checked his face, which had an unhealthy pallor

I told you about the amnesia, Austyn said

Uhhuh

hammer

Which is the reason for the headache. Every time I try to recall the past, I would get this pain in my head. It’s like someone is pounding my brain with 

Austyn’s poor flicked over to the photo album, When I Saw Kira picked up the album from the floor

the photos, the headache came back.” 

The wedding photos the kids were referring to were the ones taken at a mall

It was her first official date with Austyn 

She had lost all digital coples of the photos, but hiclely, she printed them out as a memento 

What did the doctor say?” she asked

The headache and the amnesia are both the consequences of a traumatic event, though the doctors can’t be sure of the exact reason.” 

Austyn had seen more than a dozen neurologists over the years

They speculated that he might have hit his head on a hard object when he fell into the river, like a big rock 

And he must have been struck repeatedly for the consequences to be so severe

There’s no cure,he said, ‘But the pain will ease as time passes.” 

So the pills are painkillers? Kita asked

Yes. I take them when the pain becomes too much.” 

The neurologist had warned him that the pills could be addictive 

He advised Austyn to only take them when absolutely necessary

Kira fell silent 

Austyn used to be a soldier

He was trained to have a higher tolerance for pain than the average person

The way he looked just now made it clear that the headache wasn’t as mild as he was malding it sound

He must be in a lot of pain

Kira clenched her hands

If the price for regaining his memory was so much pain, maybe it was better for him to forget it. She slammed the album shut

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