Taming the Bitch (COMPLETED) Wattys2018

Chapter LIX - THE AWAKENING

"Dada..." another day has passed that led to a painful week. The condition of Vincent remained the same for a couple of weeks until now that he's already more than a month in a comatose condition. Gabrielle goes to his hospital room everyday... practically talking and begging him to stay strong.

Telling him and informing him about what's happening in the company while he lies on the hospital bed.

"We can only be safe if you stay strong Vince... I can't do it all alone. I need you... Veronica and I need you..." she said crying one time, overwhelmed and at the same time worried that the investigation of Vincent's tragic accident is promptly leading to a hideous plan done by who she really thought would want him or them, dead.

Yes, the accident is planned and executed by her father's supposed allies in the company. The same people who wanted her out of their ways...

Gabrielle looks at Veronica who is now sitting on the bed right beside her father. Vincent's face is no longer bruised and his handsome features are also recognizable now that he's no longer wearing any mask for his oxygen. It has been days now when they finally removed his life support having to finally be able to breathe on his own. It may be a good sign... but he, still not waking up is still rattling her inside not just in the sense that he might not wake up at all. She knows he has to heal and be in coma after the head surgeries he'd been through. But more than anything else, what rattles her is the question of what would be of him if he ever wakes up...

The sterile gauze remains wrapped around his head, the tube for feeding is still inserted through his nose down to his stomach.
He lost too much weight in a month time and although his face is almost back to normal now that the bruises are healed, his body built is another thing. The tall muscular man he has always been is now turned into a tall weak-looking man on the hospital bed.

"Dada, I'm here again... do you wanna hear a stowy? I can wead now." Nic lies down next to him as she opens the book she's brought him today.

Gabrielle waited for Vince to at least recover from the wounds before she allowed their daughter to see him. She just couldn't let Nic be traumatized by the way how he looked like in the first week of being in the ICU. And now, Nic would spend her every day with Vincent. Telling him stories or reading to him. Sometimes she would sing herself to sleep for her nap time when Gab isn't around to take care of the company during the day. Very early in the morning, she would drop Nic in Vincent's private room that is monitored by tens of their security to be sure that he won't be harmed again in any way and for their child's safety as well whenever she visits her father in the hospital. Adrijan and his mother would also look after Nic while she's with her father.

At night, before heading back to their London home, Gabrielle would go back to the hospital to speak to Vince, attend to his needs like turning him around to be sure he wouldn't have a bedsore, or cleaning his surgeries as well before fetching their daughter.

Painfully watching her bid her father goodbye by kissing his cheeks and wrapping his still body in a warm embrace.

Now, at least she is off from having to face all the bullshits in the company. She could focus on both Vincent and Veronica here inside his private suite in the hospital.

"Be careful with dada's head and knees..." she whispers softly reminding Nic of her father's delicate condition when she got near her before kissing the top of her head and takes the seat just beside the bed while Nic replies to her with a smile.
She's even addressing Vince now as their daughter's "dada". Before, it was just "him" or "he".

She continues to watch her daughter slowly reading the lines on her book, looking up to her father every now and then to check if he's reacting to her voice she knows he could hear.