Chapter 71 She's Alive 3

My eyes slid open. My vision was blurr. l flickered my lashes softly to clear the blurry vision. "Hazel!" I heard the familiar deep voice, the one I despised the most, I frowned. I felt his hands on my shoulder. "You're awake!" He said calmly, I turned my head to the side his voice echoed from.

Slowly my vision was clear, and I could see his face again. I could remember all my memories before now. "You're awake!" His voice was filled with warmth, I never thought Alex could be this caring. If I could see Alex that means I was not dead. He saved me again. I thought

"Do you feel pain anywhere!" He asked, "No!" Came my reply. Coming back to life and seeing him again made me cry. Thinking of the pain I went through before passing out made me cry. And after everything I still couldn't see my mum. I was already dead so why did he save me? I cleaned my wet eyes with the back of my hands "Are you sure, you're okay?" "Hmm!" I hummed a yes. "So why cry?" He asked. "Alex I feel pain.... In my chest!" I said calmly.

"Your chest?" He asked perplexed, then I continued "Please Alex, I know my mum is dead, but for once, can you just let me see her. Just once please!" Alex said nothing but rather he stared at me with narrowed eyes. 

"You finally got off your two months Coma and the first person you talk about is your mum!" He sighed. "You'd see her. She's alive, she's not dead. But after your three months punishment!" He added. "What punishment?" "The agreement we had, you broke it remember?" He said his face back to being expressionless. I was astonished at what he was talking about. But I was too weak to argue with him especially now I was bleeding through my nose.

 My entire body was different from usual, but that's not something I would let him to know. I sat up to clean the blood that rolled down my face. First he lied to me about my mum being dead, he made me try to kill myself, and he never once said he was lying. How much more heartless can this monster be. I noticed the band aid on my hands and legs were off as I tried to clean the blood.

I needed to get out of this place, but I can't leave without my mother, no one knows where he has kept her. Thinking about this I felt dizzy, "Alex please let's get divorced, please!". "I don't want to be your wife anymore, I'm tired of your punishments!" I said sternly.

"Don't get tired yet honey a deal is a deal. Now get some rest, Phil will be here tomorrow morning to check you!" He said unhurriedly. I needed a towel to clean the blood that rushed down my nose. I dropped my feet on the cold floor, "Hazel you're not yet strong to move alone!" I said nothing to him. Alex held me back, "what do you need? I'll get it for you!" He got off the bed and i sat back on the bed.

"I need a towel!" I said not daring to look at him, cause I just didn't want him to see my bleeding nose. Alex walked into the bathroom. He got back into the room almost immediately with a white towel in his hands. He sat close to me, raised my chin with his hands.

"You're nose bleeding, I told you not to stress yourself!" He used a towel to wipe the blood from my nose. "Why can't I move my legs?". "Cause you've been in bed for two months now!" He said briefly. "You need a week or two weeks practice to be able to work again!" He added. 

"Don't cry you know how irritating your cries are in my ears!" He said cause of the tears that welled up in my eyes. "Why didn't you let me die, when I had the chance to?" I asked him. "You're blaming me now? Why did you refuse to die when you had the chance to?" He said.

"When I refused to die, you would have cut off my head!"  "Get some rest Hazel, you'll pass out soon if you keep pretending to be tough!" He said and helped me lay on the bed tenderly. Alex covered me with the duvet and perked my lips. I didn't have the strength in me to bash him so I just let it slide, just this once. I laid down backing him so I would not see his face.

He climbed the bed and laid beside me, his hands on my waist, "I'm sorry for putting you through this!" He whispered in my ears. I didn't utter a word and little by little my eyes became heavy and i just didn't know when I slept off.

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