The Love Affair(Good Wife Better Mistress)

In His Touch

Alex tries to open the door of the dressing room but finds that it's locked. He raises his legs and kicks it and the door shudders in its frame. He kicks again and it splinters and swings open with a loud crash.

john and the bodyguards sprint to the door, almost slamming into Alex in their haste. Alex enters the room and immediately feels ice cold water spraying his head.

"Find the emergency valve and turn it off," he orders.

The bodyguards rush away and the water stops pouring from the ceiling. Alex splashes across the room and his eyes struggle to adjust to the darkness. He hears a soft m.o.a.n and sees Nicole curled into a fetal position on the floor.

She's completely n.a.k.e.d and half-submerged in a puddle of icy water. Alex squints and sees that blood has mixed with the water.

"Shit," he whispers. His blood seems to have frozen in his veins.

Nicole moves slightly and m.o.a.ns again. Her head and waist ache and her entire body feel numb and cold. She hears someone splashing across the floor, but she has no idea who it is. She hopes its someone who has come to save her and not Gabriela.

"Damn it," Alex groans, "How badly do you hurt?"

Nicole doesn't respond. With a quick movement, Alex bends down and scoops Nicole into his arms. He reaches for a bench and grabs a handful of towels and a robe and wraps his wife's body in the damp fabric. Her skin is almost as icy as a corpse and he wants to scream.

alex quickly runs out of the changing room and into the hall. In the sudden light, he sees that the blood has already seeped onto one of the towels. He curses under his breath.

"Quick get the doctor!" he screams.

"The hotel doesn't have a doctor anymore," john whispers, "He quit this morning."

Alex's face pales and he runs out of the hotel and toward his car. Nicole's head still aches, but she can hear Alex's rapid breathing and the sound of the air rushing past them as he sprints with her in his arms.

The door of waits open for them and Alex packs his wife into the backseat. Sensing his boss' urgency, the chauffeur begins to drive before Alex has even shut the door. He speeds down the winding mountain roads but is forced to slam the brakes at a traffic jam at the bottom of the mountain.

"Keep driving," he growls, "I don't care what color the light is."

The chauffeur runs the red light but is quickly forced to stop for other cars. The limousine is large and it's impossible to weave through traffic in it.

"Mr. Romano, it'll take at least half an hour to get to the hospital from here," John says fearfully, "I don't know what happened to Mrs. Romano, but she seems to be bleeding a lot. We don't have time to lose."

Before John can finish talking, Alex opens the car door and takes Nicole into his arms. He runs out into traffic and toward a large pharmacy nearby. John and the bodyguards chase after him.

When Alex runs into the pharmacy carrying a half-unconscious woman in his arms, everyone stops and stares. John and the bodyguards round up the clerks and pharmacists and select the most likely looking woman to examine Nicole.

Thought the clerk is not a trained doctor, she does her best with the examination. Fortunately for her, Nicole's problem is easy to diagnose. Nicole begins to regain consciousness as the clerk examines her, and she notices Alex watching the woman's every move.

"Don't worry," the clerk says, "It appears that the lady had simply strained or torn a muscle in her waist. Her temperature is a little high, but not dangerously so."