Ella’s POV
“Don’t worry. She will be fine.” I said to Gabby who sat beside Melody and crying her out loud, looking worried.
“I hope so.” She nodded, looking at me with red eyes. She sniffed and then looked away. “Thank you.”
“It’s no problem.” I said to her, shaking my head. “Melody is as important to me as she is to yours.” I said to her, meaning it.
It wasn’t a lie. If Melody died or something happened to her, it would be that our mission here was a failure and Kevin wouldn’t get his ten years back. It would be annoying if I wasted the trip here and didn’t get what I wanted.
“You are an angel, Ella.” She said, smiling at me as she rubbed gently at her daughter’s hand, as if she was willing her to wake up right there.
I nodded, my throat stiff as I couldn’t find it in me to speak. I knew I was a good person and could lay everything I’ve got down for people but calling me an angel was a long stretch.
If only she knew why I was actually concerned about her daughter, I wondered how she was going to react.
“Hmmm,” I added when I realized that she was expecting me to say something.
“What do you think happened out there?” She asked, looking at me for clarity. It was obvious she was battling with what happened and still couldn’t believe what happened.
I understood her. I could understand how she felt. I would have been bothered about what happened if I was the one that happened to. I would hate not being able to fill the blanks in my head and feeling guilty that I was partially responsible for my kid lying there unconscious.
Melody had been here for more than one hour and the doctor who had attended to her had checked out her wounds, said they weren’t serious. He had said that she was unconscious because of the shock of what she had suffered and would soon be up.
He had told us an hour ago that she would soon be up but that soon was yet to be here that I wondered if the doctor’s vocabulary needed to be checked.
“I don’t know.” I shrugged, making sure my face didn’t betray how I felt.
“I locked the door at the back.” She said to me. “I was sure that I did.” She repeated, needing me to assure her that she wasn’t crazy and hadn’t made mistake.
“I know. I believe you.” I said.
“You do?” She gasped in surprise.
I nodded. “I do. I know you wouldn’t have done anything to hurt your kid willingly.”
“Thank you, Ella.”
I nodded again. I would have nodded up to thirty times now, trying to console Gabby and was certain that I would have to do much more than that before I had to leave her.
I also hoped Melody woke up soon as my boys were distraught, more than I had ever seen. The last time I had seen them which was fifteen minutes ago when I had excused myself from Gabby to check up on them, they had been crying and asking for Melody, wondering if she was awake yet.
They had seemed like they were grieving someone who was lost to them that I had had to leave them in the care of Kevin and Liam without going to check up on them again. I couldn’t deal with the sight of them.
“Let’s hope she wakes up soon.”
“She will.” A nurse said as she walked into the room, carrying her a tray with her.
She placed the tray on the stool beside Melody’s bed and stared at her.
“Let’s check your daughter’s vitals.” She said as she stared at Melody. “Isn’t she pretty? Like an angel.”
I felt uncomfortable with this nurse. One, the doctor hadn’t told us that a nurse would be coming to check up on Melody. He had only told us to let her rest and that she would be waking up soon.
Two, she was being too chatty and I felt like she was trying to hide something. I knew I shouldn’t judge her for being chatty as Gabby was also chatty and she was the sweetest person that I knew here in the human world but I was getting a different vibe from this strange nurse that we hadn’t been expecting instead of how I felt with Gabby.
“Will she be fine?” Gabby asked, oblivious to the weird vibe that I was getting from the nurse.
“She should after getting this injection.” The nurse replied as she picked a syringe from the tray.
Injection? I hadn’t heard anything of that and my senses went into full blown cold alert mode.
I pinned my gaze on the nurse, unable to shake the nasty feeling I got from her. “What sort of injection are you trying to give her?”
“Something that would wake her up.”
“What is it?”
“An injection.”
I frowned. I was expecting her to say something like other nurses would do, mentioning the name of the drug but she didn’t. She was starting to seem like an impostor to me and I wondered if I was being unnecessarily paranoid. Well, I ought to be with everything strange that had begun to happen and was going on at the moment.
“The doctor never mentioned an injection.” I said.
“He changed his mind.” She huffed out a breath as she replied, sounding like she was mad at me.
“How could he change his mind after assuring us that she would be fine? Doesn’t that make him sound like a quack?”
The nurse didn’t respond but Gabby did. “What is with the questions, Ella?”
I winced. I had hoped that she wouldn’t say anything but I should have known that she would be bothered by my attitude.
The nurse seemed relieved that she had spoken and suspected that a stop had definitely been put to the unending questions that I was asking.
“Can I continue with injecting her?” She asked.
Gabby nodded. “Please do.” She cried. “Please make my daughter wake up.”
The nurse nodded, a strange small smile playing on her lips. I glared at her intently, certain I wasn’t making things up. I noticed that she didn’t have a name tag on her uniform like the rest of the nurses and doctors I had seen all day. There was this strange scent coming off her that I had noticed since she came in but couldn’t identify.
I could tell she felt uncomfortable with my scrutiny but I didn’t care. I wasn’t going to lower my gaze to make her feel better. If she wasn’t here to do anything bad, she shouldn’t feel bothered.
She was about to place the tip of the syringe on Melody’s skin when my eyes caught on the inside of her wrist and I gasped in shock and relief that I could finally recognize who she was.
I found what it was that I was looking for but I wasn’t too happy about it.