Getting Back His ‘Dead’ Wife novel Chapter 2

Chapter 2

Chapter 2

I couldn’t watch anymore.

I spun around and stumbled toward the ele or, legs shaking, stomach in knots.

Out of nowhere a huge hand clamped over my mouth.

Hard. Smelling like cheap whiskey and sweat

I tried to scream-nothing came out.

It was the drunk guy Kendrick had just pounded in the restaurant

Face swollen, eyes wild with rage.

“That was your man, right? He beat me half to death.

So you’re gonna pay for it

This book had been added on your bookshelf.

His fist slammed into m

Air whooshed out of me.

Then punches-slaps-fists everywhere. Face. Ribs. Back.

I tasted blood. Felt ribs crack.

The world blurred and tilted.

I hit the floor hard.

I thought this was it.

I was going to die in a hotel hallway, alone, while Kendrick was still kissing her somewhere

Then-footsteps. Shouts.

A stranger tackled the guy off me.

Security Hotel staff Someone yelling for an ambulance

I blacked out.

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When I came to. I was in the ER.

Doctor’s face grim.

“Multiple contusions. Broken ribs. Possible internal bleeding.

We need family consent for surgery.”

The nurse grabbed my phone.

Dialed the first number in contacts.

Kendrick

It rang forever.

Finally picked up.

Silence first.

Then… a soft, breathy sound.

A woman’s quiet moan.

The rustle of sheets.

This book had been added on your bookshelf.

My face burned. Shame hotter than the pain.

A few seconds later Kendrick’s voice-calm, too calm-came through.

“Hey, Tilda. Sony. Got a last-minute Zoom with the company.

Drive home safe. I’ll be back as soon as I finish.”

He hung up.

Didn’t even wait for me to speak.

I lay there on the gurney.

Forced a smile-more bitter than any tears.

Voice raw, cracked.

“I don’t have any family.

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الدان

Chapter 2

I can sign it myself.”

I scrawled my name.

The pen slipped in the blood on my fingers.

Then darkness swallowed me again.

Coma.

When I woke up the room smelled like bleach and antiseptic.

Head pounding. Body on fire.

A familiar voice-soft, worried-right beside me.

“Tilda? You’re awake. How do you feel? Does it still hurt?”

Kendrick.

Leaning close.

Concern all over his face.

A fresh red mark on his neck-hickey-shaped.

Still there.

I stared at it.

Stomach twisted.

He took my hand. Squeezed gently.

Eyes sincere.

“Don’t worry. The guy who attacked you is taken care of.

Anyone who hurts my girl pays for it.

My girl.

I looked at the man I’d loved for over ten years.

The man who’d begged me to drop charges for Lavinia.

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Who’d spent three years playing perfect hustund

Who’d just hang up on me while she moaned in his em

He felt like a stranger nom

The mistake should’ve ended the first time he made in

Some hearts, o don’t come back

I slowly pulled my hand fee

Had the hurt. The disapointment

Nodded once-gentle, quet

Kendrick let out a long breath

Relief washed over his face.

He thought I’d forgive him

Again

Like always.

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