LOVE HAS COME AROUND novel Chapter 16

The dust that blew directly in his face was suffocating. Flying debris kept scratching his skin. He had to hold his breath, rummaging through the wreckage of the car like crazy.

The car was already reduced to tiny pieces. He found the electronic shackles he had forced Vivian to wear near the damaged car.

He had despised those shackles. Now the very sight of it was heartbreaking.

“No…” He was stunned and totally unprepared for the unexpected disaster.

The police and paramedics arrived soon. The scene was chaotic.

“Sir, you are injured.” A white-coated doctor took him out to check his wounds.

Despite the doctor’s advice, he grabbed a police officer who was surveying the scene of accident and said anxiously, “My wife, my wife is still in there. Please go find her. Why couldn’t I find her? Why…”

The police officer saw his desperation and confusion, yet he didn’t know how to comfort the poor man who had just lost his wife.

Several paramedics worked together to push the deranged widower into the ambulance.

The tremendous impact of the explosion had sent Christian temporarily insane. He yelled and struggled for a while, and then fell into a deep sleep.

The car explosion happened suddenly and it was his car. As soon as he woke up, he was questioned by the police.

Apart from his bandaged face and some cuts and bruises on his body, he wasn’t badly injured.

“Sir, since you are the injured party in the explosion, I’d like to ask you some questions.”

Standing by Christian’s bed, the officer was very serious, which suggested that the accident wasn’t as simple as it looked.

Christian wearily raised his eyelids, and ignored the officer’s demand.

“Where is my wife?”

He had failed to find Vivian, and he didn’t take it very well.

Looking at the haggard man in the bed, the young officer awkwardly opened his mouth and hesitated to tell him the bad news.

“I’m sorry, Sir, your wife was killed in the explosion. My deepest condolences.”

Christian’s eyes were suddenly wide open. He looked pale and mournful.

“Who allows you to say that she is dead? She isn’t! She would never die!”

He knocked over the nightstand angrily. His wounds hurt more and he couldn’t help crying out in pain.

Now that Christian was extremely uncooperative, the officer had to stand by the bed perplexedly. He hesitated before handing the report to Christian.

The torn wounds had brought Christian to his senses. Although he had witnessed it all, he found it hard to accept the fact that Vivian had passed away in this way and he hadn't even have the chance to save her.

He reluctantly took the report.