chapter 10

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by Vysella

by Vysella

FIVE YEARS PASS

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I pack Adeline's school bag with her lunch box and homework as she puts her school shoes on, Julian kisses myself and her goodbye as he leaves for work. I pick my car keys up and we leave for school; we wait outside the school for the gates to open I watch Adeline as she plays with one of her school friends her golden brown hair shines in the summer sun. The gates open and I walk Adeline to her classroom before giving her a kiss and leave for work, mid way through the day my phone rings; a private number was all that was shown as I answer.

"Hello?"

"Mrs Bennett?" A voice asks

"Yes?" I answer questionably

"My name is Amber I'm a nurse at rosetown university hospital, I'm afraid your husband has been brought in with a stab wound to the abdomen; he's in surgery..." I end the call and rush out of work and drive to the hospital.

I sit in the relatives room waiting for the doctor to come see me when the thought hits me. Adeline. she would be finishing school soon, I dig through my bag for my phone and call Isla

"Isla?" I ask when she answers

"Jade? what's the matter?"

"Can you pick up Adeline from school, I'm... I'm at the hospital, I'm fine its Julian." I tremble

"Yeah, I'll leave now"

"Thank you" I say I say fighting back tears. I hang up and take a deep breath and dial Julian's mothers number,

"Lorraine, its Julian" I cry I manage to squeeze out where I am and what's happened and she rushes down. Lorraine joins me in the waiting room; it's been hours when a doctor comes in and tells us Julian is out of surgery and that we can see him. We go to his room and I see him laying there with tubes coming out of him, I take the hand that has nothing coming out of it and kiss it; Lorraine and I spend a while there when is happens. Alarms start going off around him and nurses and doctors come rushing in ushering us out; We sat in the relatives room and waited.

My phone kept buzzing with messages from Ernest and my mother, I don't read them I keep my eyes on the door; a nurse walks in and I knew by the look on her face what had happened.