The Accidental Wife by Sara Islam

Chapter 69

They toldthat the bullet hit a very delicate part of her stomach and she lost a

lot of blood. They didn't tellanything else before rushing her to the emergency room. | knew that doctors

didn't make any promises to save a patient's life, because a patient might die at any moment, but | needed any

sort of assurance. They didn't providewith that, "Mr. Kensington, I'm detective Black and this is detective

Wilsons. We know that the timing isn't right, but we would like to ask you squestions about what happened

to Ms. Eddings. Detective Black was tall and his hair had a buzz cut "Sure," | nodded, getting up from my place.

"Can you please tell us what happened?" Detective Wilsons asked me. Her blonde hair was tied back in a tight

bun and she had a notepad in her hands.

"I was standing outside the restaurant with her. Everything seemed fine, then we heard gunshots. | tried to

protect her by covering her body withand getting her on the ground, but when the shooting stopped, |

looked at her and found blood on her clothes," | recounted "Did you manage to see who fired the gunshots?"

Detective Black asked me

"No." | shook my head. "My priority was to protect her." And | failed to do so. | promised her before that | would

protect her and | failed her

"Do you have any animosity with anyone?" he wondered. At first, | was going to say no because | didn't think

that anybody might be malicious and envious enough to try to kill Emily. But then | knew speople who were

evil enough to commit such an attorcious act. "Jeffrey Harolds and his family. He is her father, but they're not on

speaking terms," | said. | didn't know to which extent their hatred for her had reached. | knew that they hated

her, but would they really try to kill her.

"Is there anything else you'd like to add, Mr. Kensington? Detective Winstons asked me.

"1 would like to know as soon as you catch the perpetrator, please," | told them.

When they left, | made my way to my family and took a seat beside Maya. She looked exhausted and pale. When

I took a closer look at her face, 1 www.tearstains on her cheeks.

1 like to believe that she's going to get out of the operating room alive," | told her.

"I don't want to lose her" she whispered. "It was already hard when she decided to disappear. She didn't call us

for a year or more because she was scared that Sam might be able to locate her. That period was the worst one

in my life because | missed my best friend so m the operating room alive, there would be nothing forto make

the pain go away or even sedate it. More tears fell down her cheeks and Sam pulled her towards him, gently

rubbing her arm.

| took my phone out of my pocket and texted Rosie's nanny, to make sure that my daughter was okay. | asked

her to tell her that we had something important to do and we couldn't get back home. | didn't want her to know

anything, at least for the tbring

1

"Hey, man, | got you these clothes," Ansel said as he stood in front of me. | didn't even notice that he had been

gone for a while. My mind had been preoccupied with Emily and the worry that filledabout her.

| took the bag from him and thanked him, | walked to the nearest bathroom and took off my clothes. Her blood

leaked through my shirt and tainted body. | needed to take a shower, but | couldn't just do that here and | wasn't

going to leave to take a shower then cback tcleaned myself up as best as | could and put on the new

sweatpants and sweater Ansel got me

When | walked back inside, | sat down and waited for any news about her. Dark thoughts haunted my mind and

all I wanted to do was scream at the top of my lungs. | experienced that fear once when | received a call about

my mum having a heartattack, It was an atro1 didn't know for how long | waited for anybody to tell me

anything about her, but the moment | saw a doctor walking towards me, | jumped up from my place. My hands

were shaking and my knees threatened to buckle at any given moment. My chest tightened and it was harder to

breathe. | was on the verge of having a panic attack

"It was hard to get the fiullet out without harming a viral organ and she needed blood, but luckily we managed to

save her und she is going to a full recovery. She is currently in the ICU and is going to stay there for twenty-four

hours

just to make sure that she's okay" When the doctor finished walking, relief took overand | was finally able to

breathe again.

She was okay.

She made it.

She wasn't going to leaveon my ow

1 kept repeating those words to calm myself down,

make

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Chapter 69

"When can | see her? | need to see her," | asked her. | just wanted to lay my eyes on her to make sure that she

was still here with me

"She is currently asleep and as | said, in the ICU, but if you'd like to check on her, only one person can do that

and it will be for just five minutes." | immediately nodded.

All I wanted was to see her. | wanted to see her breathing to make sure that she was truly alive.

The doctor guidedto where Emily was and the moment | saw her, | smiled. She was unconscious, but she

wasn't as pale as she used to be and her lips were almost back to their normal colour.

"You scaredso much, sunshine," | whispered as | took a seat beside her on the chair placed to her right. "I

know how much you hate hospitals and I'm sorry that | can't stay the night with you, but | promise that | will be

here first thing in the morning I just need to check

| looked at the heart monitor and found it beeping steadily, assuringthat my soulmate was okay. The past

few hours had been the worst in my life. | was so close to losing her forever. | must have done something great

in my life because God didn't let her die. "Sir. you

you

need to go now," the doctor told me.

| nodded and stood up. "She hates hospitals and I'm not sure how she may react once she wakes up and finds

herself in a hospital bed, so please keep a close eye on her." | didn't want her to freak out and end up undoing

her stitches. "She's also a well- known fashion designer, photographers may try to sneak in to take pictures of

her. She wouldn't want her pictures taken and neither do I, to be honest."

"Don't worry. She is in good hands," the doctor assured me.

It tooka while to convince myself to leave her on her own, but | knew that I didn't have a

choice. | kept telling myself that | needed to get back to Rosie since she was alone. | wasn't going to completely

lie to her as | planned on telling her that Emily had fallen sick, but | was worried about how she might react. She

is extremely attached to her mother and there 1. Tandu to handle all of that heruice Emilu was our and it was

hasta matter of tuntil Lcould make her home