Chapter 82

It's just silence among us, a few more minutes then the doorknob jiggles and the door opens.

What's wrong with me?

The water is stopped and I'm picked up, as we enter the room I can tell the temperature has risen.

I shiver at the contrast of temperatures, he sets me on the bed and pats me dry in a towel before dressing me up and covering me up in layers of blankets.

"You were there," I find myself saying.

He gets on his knees before me and looks up at me with fearful eyes, "where was I?"

Tears well in my eyes, I don't think I'm talking for myself anymore as something says everything I never knew.

"In the car, you were angry, hurt, scared,"

"We were in a hospital, you we're crying," a flash of realization passed through his eyes.

"You don't have to continu–"

"You begged me, called out my name many times," I bite my inner lip and furrow my eyebrows while my knee bounces.

He places his hand on my knee to stop it from bouncing, it does