Three days later, Nicole still laid cold in her hospital bed, she was responding to treatment but she wasn’t waking up, it was as if she didn’t want to wake up, Rafael was fed up with hearing the same story from the doctor, they were giving him anything new to hold on to just the same old story every time he asked them what was up with her and why she wasn’t waking up. it was clear even the doctor didn’t expect her to be this late, at least they made him believe that much even though they didn’t say that to him directly, he just knew by how confused they seemed too that they expected to be up earlier, he couldn’t lie that he was scared that she might not wake up again but he didn’t let himself dwell on negative things like that.
He couldn’t be with her all the time as he was still finding it hard to believe that she had disobeyed him which had lead to this, he still wasn’t happy with her but he wanted her to be awake that way he can scold her, yes he was going to scold her a lot for not doing as he said and also he needed to get Natalie to go to jail, Nicole needed to testify against her sister, Natalie had made things easy for him by confessing that she did push her sister, so she had been held at the station even though her parents had tried to bail her out, he made sure they couldn’t do it, the public who had been on Natalie’s side and also against his wife suddenly made a U-turn after what happened to Nicole broke out, they were suddenly a lot of people on her side and praying for her, not that he cared but at least they now knew who the real devil was and he was going to make sure that devil pays for everything she did to Nicole and their baby who was the biggest victim in this, his poor innocent child, she didn’t even get the chance to see the world or to even meet her parents, all because of a jealous freak
Rafael walked into the hospital, exhausted, he had a long day at work compound with the fact that he wasn’t getting enough sleep, he hoped to catch up on sleep tonight and hoped that his wife will wake up today, but he had wished the same thing for three days now still nothing, she just laid there like sleeping beauty but she didn’t wake up, not even when he kissed her or told her he loves her.
Rafael saw the doctor coming out of his wife’s room and greeted him, he was wary of the doctor already and just wanted Nicole to wake up so that they can go back home.
“Your wife is finally awake, Mr. Salvador,”
The doctor announced, at first, it didn’t register, then it dawn on him.
“Oh my God, really? She is up? Why didn’t you call me,”
“I was going to after we examine her but you came right in time, you can meet her now.”
The doctor said and he rushed over to his wife’s room, she was sitting there just staring, when she saw him, she covered her face with her hands, he walked fast to her side.
“Nicole, oh God, thank God you are awake,”
He said hugging her, he pulled back and wiped her tears.
“Hey, baby, welcome back,”
“Rafael, our baby,”
She cried.
“It’s fine, she is in a better place, watching over us,”
He consoled as she cried, he felt fresh pain watching her cry, she didn’t have to go through all of these, she shouldn’t have to go through this.
“It’s okay baby,”
“I am sorry, I shouldn’t have left the house, but she was spreading lies and I couldn’t take it anymore,”
“I know, I understand, even though I didn’t on the day it happened, I understand now and it is fine, don’t be sorry it’s not your fault, just focus on getting better for me, okay?”
“Yes,”
She nodded, he hugged her again and they stayed like that, her crying and him consoling her while nursing his own pain, he still couldn’t get over the death of his first fruit, he didn’t think he would ever get over it, that’s why he was glad Natalie confused and he made sure she wasn’t let off, all he needed now was Nicole’s statement and he would lick Natalie up for a long time, he wasn’t going to tell her just yet, let her recover first.
The next day, Nicole requested to see her parents, he didn’t want her to meet them but she insisted, he shouldn’t have let her see them because they told her about Natalie being in police custody and that was the first thing she asked him when they left.
“Why did you arrest my sister?”
She asked eyeing him, okay, that wasn’t the reaction he expected.
, “Isn’t that obvious, she caused this and she has to pay,”
At his words, she shook her head, clearly not agreeing with him which was strange.
“What? You can’t have my sister arrested, this was an accident,”
Nicole let out, Rafael looked at her puzzled, why would she say that? He thought she would be happy with his decision to arrest Natalie since she caused it.
“Why can’t I do that? She pushed you, stop saying it was an accident, you are remembering it wrongly, Natalie confused that she pushed you,”
He replied.
“No, that’s not what happened and I want you to let my sister go, I am not going to take my sister to court, no way, what happened was an accident, she didn’t do anything,”
“What?”
He yelled he couldn’t believe the words that she was saying, maybe she hit her head and forgot what happened, maybe she was missing things up, Natalie clearly said she pushed her…