"Congratulations! You both are now husband and wife.”
Six hours before.
As soon as I heard those words, my body became numb. All my limbs froze, and my mind went blank. I couldn't process anything. Your father had a heart attack. These were the only words that were echoing in my ears. My dad had a heart attack. My breaths became uneven, and I felt a sudden fear grab my chest. The hold became tighter with each passing second. Erick's cold blue eyes moved all over my blank face. He exhaled deeply and started to pull my dress back into its place. He covered me properly, making me look decent, while I stayed numb over there. After that, he grabbed my face with both of his hands to get my attention. His touch made me look into his cold blue eyes.
“Get up, doll,” he said while looking straight into my blank eyes. I blinked my eyes. His words still echoed in my ear. They refused to believe it.
“We need to go to the hospital,'' he said softly while his worried, cold blue eyes moved all over my face. I just didn't know how I should react. All my emotions felt like they were frozen. I somehow managed to nod my head. He pulled me up, and he was the only one who walked me out of the house to his car. He didn't tell anyone about my father's condition because everyone was still busy enjoying the party. I would hate to ruin those celebrations, and he knows it. We left silently. I kept sitting quietly in my seat, looking out of the window. My eyes focused on the passing street lights. I was still struggling with myself and my emotions. An internal battle was going on inside me. For the first time, I didn't know who to reach. How to let the things I was feeling in my heart out. I felt Erick's eyes on me now and then. He was still driving in silence. I kept looking at the passing stress light with a blank look in my eyes. We reached the hospital, and after that, everything was chaos. Sabrina and Lily were waiting outside the lobby of the emergency room. As soon as Sabrina saw me, she started crying even more loudly. She came running to me and engulfed me in her embrace.
“Grace,” she said, taking my name while crying loudly.
"Dad, he had a heart attack,” she said while hiccuping in between her words. She sobbed loudly in my arms. My hands immediately wrapped around her. I wanted to say comforting words to her, but nothing came out of my mouth. I felt like my lips were sealed. A lone tear slipped from the corner of my left eye, and the pain I was feeling in my heart intensified. I saw Lilly crying silently, and she looked devastated after seeing her husband like that. My heart felt so much pain after looking at them in such a condition. Strangely, I was feeling pain after looking at their crying faces, but my heart refused to let any emotion out for my father. He was on a dead bed, fighting for his life. I averted my eyes from the glass wall and looked at my sister, who was sobbing in my arms. Always happy and smiling Sabrina was crying and always calm and composed. Lilly was breaking down in front of my eyes. All of these were getting hard for me to process in my already numb mind. Erick moved his hand on her back in a soothing manner.
“Everything will be alright. Doctors are operating on him. He will come out of this.” Erick said the comforting words that I was supposed to say to my crying little sister. She let go of me and hugged Erick, and he kept consoling her. She was crying like a baby, and my heart was breaking into millions of pieces. My eyes moved to Lilly, who kept standing in her place with a devastated look on her face. It looked like she had no power left in her body, but she was holding herself in front of her daughter. She kept leaning on the wall for support. My legs moved on their own, and as soon as I engulfed her in my arms, she broke down. My eyes moved to the glass wall where doctors were operating on my father. My heart started to beat fast when they gave him a shock. My breaths became uneven when I saw my father's unmoving, nonresponding body on the bed. A heavy feeling of fear spread all across my chest. I felt so scared. For the first time, I felt so cared for. It was the first emotion my heart let out.
“What will I do now?” she sobbed in my arms, and I held her body more tightly.
“What will I do if something happens to him?” she said while sobbing loudly. My heart broke even more when she said those words. I had no answer to her questions. How should I tell her my mind was blank? I can't process anything. How should I tell her that my numb mind was still processing and that I was finding it so hard to accept that my father had a heart attack? He was struggling for his life in front of my eyes, and I couldn't do anything to save him. My eyes welled up, but I kept holding my tears. My uneven breath and a big lump in the base of my throat were choking me. I swallowed it with so much difficulty.
“Nothing will happen to him. He will come out of this,” I said while making soothing circles on her back. I have unknowingly uttered the words Erick said earlier. I didn't know how to comfort her. I don't know how to comfort myself. She started to sob even more. I turned my face and looked at Erick with my teary eyes and wobbling lips. He saw helplessness in my teary eyes. He kept holding my gaze as if assuring me that he was there with me. A big lump formed in the base of my throat. My tears threatened to fall from my eyes. We both kept consoling them. Erick was the one who was doing most of the work. I was still finding it hard to deal with myself.
I just didn't know which emotions I should let out of my eyes. I always thought my father would be there to torment me all my life, but hearing he had a heart attack made me wonder how he could have a heart attack. He was the most heartless man in my life. His heart never melted looking at my crying face. He never gave a second glance to my pleading eyes. How could he get a heart attack? How could his heart stop beating when he doesn't have one? I always thought he had a stone over there. All those questions started to fog my mind. I thought I was not feeling anything. The news of him getting a heart attack shouldn't affect me. But then, why is my body shaking like that?
It hasn't stopped shaking till now.
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