Finding Oriana

Chapter 12

CHAPTER TWELVE

As soon we hit ward four, I see her Dad, standing outside of what I'm assuming is her room. He's talking to a doctor, and he looks like he's about to break in two. He smoothed his hands over his head. Seeing him like this drained the blood from my body. I'm thinking the worst, so I run towards her room, desperate to see her. I need to know she's okay, but I don't get that far because he pulled me back before I placed my hand on the door handle.

"What the fuck! Kaiden, you can't just go in!" He demands.
I'm fighting him, trying to get him off me, telling him "I need to see her. I need to know if she's okay. Please, Alex, tell me please tell me she's okay?"
Her mum walked out of her room, obviously hearing the commotion. Her eyes are red with tears on her face, but when she sees me, she gunned for me. I knew it would come, but she slapped my face. Hurt like hell, but I knew deserved it. I deserve so much more than that.
"Sarah! Baby, stop! Just stop!"
Alex pulled her back. She stayed back, but clung to her husband, sobbing into his chest, hurting my heart.
"Alex, Sarah... I'm sorry. I'm so fucking sorry. Please, please tell me." I plead, and he sighed before running his free hand over his tired face. I'm dreading the answer.
"She... She's awake, but..."
My eyes go wide. Holy shit!

I bolt again, and I don't stop when he called me back. I'm already barging my way into her room, desperate to see her. I have to tell her I'm so fucking sorry. Yet when I get there, I stop dead in my tracks. She's covered in bandages. The fall must've cut her to shreds. Oh god, baby. Tears fall from my eyes while I slowly walk over to her she's just staring at the ceiling not saying anything.

"Oriana, princess..."
I see a tear roll down from the corner of her eye and I swallow a lump down. Seeing it breaks my heart, but when she turned to look at me, my world crumbled to the ground. She finally speaks.
"Are, are you another doctor?" She asked with nipped brows. Wait...
"Ori, you, do you... you know who I am, right?"
Again she's just staring, trying to remember, but she shook her head and said no.

"Kaid," I hear Alex as he stands in the doorway.
I can't move though. I can't even look away from her eyes, only because I'm in shock. My heart's breaking because she doesn't remember me. I feel Alex take hold of my arm, telling me to come back outside.

"We need to talk, Kaid. You need to hear what's happening." But before I leave, I tell her I'm sorry.
"Alex, please tell me she'll remember me again? Please tell me this is just temporary."
I'm pleading with him pleading for him to tell me she will remember me again.
"Kaid, they the docs say, she'd taken a pretty hard knock on her head. And unfortunately, it's made her lose her memory. She... Fuck! She can't even remember us."
"But, but will it return? She will remember again won't she?" I ask again. Oh, god. I hope she will because this will kill me? If I can't be with her again, it will kill me.
"We don't know. They said the swelling on her brain, is pushing on a certain part. I didn't catch the name, but they said once it's gone down. Well, there's a chance it could come back. So, for now, it's just a case of waiting. We have to be patient and wait for her to come back to us and storm in on her when she's not prepared? Well, it could freak her out hence why we couldn't let you in yet."

"Okay, I can kinda get but what happens if she'll never come back to us? Alex, I can't live without her I won't survive not being next to her."

His brows nip together obviously with hearing my words. He doesn't get why I'm saying this. But again, I don't expect him to understand either because he has no clue how much I love her. Nobody does.

"Alex, she's my world. I can't walk away from her. I love her... I'm in love with her."
"You, you love her?" Sarah asks when she stands up from her seat. She's looking into my eyes when tell her I do.
"I love her. I've loved her since the moment I looked into her eyes. I've never loved anybody so much in my life."