101: Damaged

Angelina was utterly and completely dumbstruck. She just remained sitting there, with both her mouth and eyes wide open in utter shock. It took a long while before she could get control of her vocal cords and stutter incredulously,

"M--my h--hus— what? I--am married?!"

Nick nodded in confirmation.

"Yes Jolie. You're married. And from what I've heard, it has been a year now since the two of you got married. You had even come here to Croatia on a celebratory anniversary trip only to end up getting into an accident."

With her eyes as wide as saucers, Angelina turned to look at the frozen-still Maxwell with shock, disbelief, horror and many other emotions evident in her eyes. Then all of a sudden, she started shaking her head vigorously while repeatedly chanting,

"No, no, no, this can't be happening. It cannot be! It's only a dream. Only a bad, bad dream!"

As she said that, her body began trembling and as Nick put his arms around her while gently consoling her, just like mag