Chapter 109


    Chapter 108 It had been a full week and she was yet to wake up. I was now in that phase where hope


    was dwindling. I called in Dr. Nyawatoka from Japan. He was known to be one of the best


    neurosurgeons in the world and he had offered me the same advice that the rest of these people had. It


    was all a waiting game. “You need to eat. Damon” Corinna walked in with Daniel behind her. “You’ve


    been with her all week. You need to get out and breathe some fresh air. It will do you some good to be


    away from all of this.” “I can’t, what if she wakes up and I’m not here?” I looked at my wife who still had


    not moved an inch unless it had been me or the nurses who were moving her. “She needs me here.”


    “Then I’ll be here.” She walked up behind me and patted her hands on my shoulders. “Do this for her,


    Damon. Daniel can even join you in the cafeteria.” I looked to the door where her boyfriend stood. I had


    come to like him after he had basically babysat me that time when Adie was in Switzend. He had


    been a friend to me even when he didn’t need to be. And though I knew he had been doing it to get


    some brownie points with my sister-inw he was still nicepany to talk to. “Come on, man. They


    have decent burgers here too” I looked up at Corinna who smiled back at me. “Go and get some rest


    time, brother dearest “Okay,” I sighed. They were right, I would be of no use to my wife if I was


    depleted of energy. She needed me at my best. I got out of my seat and leaned forward to kiss her


    forehead. Her skin was cool to the touch and her cheeks were still pale in color. There was still brain


    activity going on in there but she still had note back to thend of living “I’ll be right back, baby I


    walked out of the room with Daniel in tow behind me. The entire walk to the cafeteria downstairs was


    spent in silence. I don’t know if he wanted me to break the ice or maybe he just wasn’t in a speaking


    mood. But as soon as I exited out of the elevator I came face to face with a man holding a bouquet of


    flowers and a somber expression. “Gabriel, Daniel piped up, first stepping toward the man who had


    been a thorn in my side from the moment I learned of his existence. “Strange seeing you here. Are you


    here to visit someone?” Gabriel’s eyes shifted to me slowly before they moved back to Daniel. “Yeah. I


    just heard about it today and I was a little shocked to say the least.” “Leave.” I stepped up toward him.


    “This is a private family matter and you don’t need to be here.” “She’s still my friend.” “And I’m her


    husband and I am telling you to leave. She doesn’t need your flowers or sympathy.” Gabriel had theContentt bel0ngs to N0ve/lDra/ma.O(r)g!


    audacity to roll his eyes at me. “I get you may be insecure about your marriage but trust me when I say


    your wife has made it abundantly clear that she doesn’t want me. But that doesn’t mean that I had


    stopped caring about her and wanting to wish her well. We work in the same movie for Christ’s sake.


    We’re all worried about her.” “We’ll take that worry and leave.” I had gotten into it with Ang, thest


    thing I needed was to get into it with him as well. “I just want to see her.” The nerve of this man. “You


    don’t need to see her. I can tell you how she is and she’s doing fine, she will be awake soon and you


    don’t need to worry yourself. So you can just leave and go back to the hole that you crawled out of”


    Gabriel’s nostrils red a little. He was getting angry but when the fuck had I cared about that before?


    He had no right to be here. He may have considered Adie a friend but I was her husband. “Okay,”


    Daniel interjected, “how about we take this outside? People are beginning to stare and thest thing


    that we need is another page-six story.” I looked around the area and sure enough there were people


    staring at us. They had their heads close to each other all whispering underneath their breath. I was


    about to blow up at them but then I remembered who I was and what I did reflected on my wife. “We


    can just go our separate ways and call this a day. You don’t need to be around me and my wife. You


    will see her on set when she’s better.” “Are you for real right now?” Gabriele stood his ground like the


    arrogant little twat he was “I’m not leaving until I see her for myself. I get you have no real reason to like


    me. I wanted your wife and if I’m beingpletely honest I still do but she made it more than clear that


    she did not want me. She chose you and I respected that but that doesn’t mean that I can just Turn off


    my emotions for her I was livid Not only did he confess to having feelings for my woman but he has just


    confessed to not letting her go even though she was married to me. “Tim going to give you ten seconds


    to get out of my face before I beat your face in 1 know you actors are cautious with your faces. After all,


    it’s your money maker” Daniel stepped in between us this time and looked at me first “Outside, now.”


    “Are you serious right now? You’re telling me to leave when he “Both of you.” Daniel held my gaze.


    “Outside Now” There was no room in his tone for discussion And with the people around us with their


    phones out I knew that I needed to exit out of here before a new story somehow popped out in the


    headlines and I had another fire to put out. I nodded my head and walked toward the exit of the hospital


    with the two men in tow. When we broke past the doors I turned to face Gabriel. I knew that I needed to


    have a calmer approach here. I hade out to calm myself and to breathe and thest thing I needed


    was to be a raging banshee. So I closed my eyes, let out one long winded sigh and turned to


    Gabriel. “I understand that you are here for her but understand from my point of view. You just came


    here and professed your romantic feelings to my wife. And now you want me to just say ‘yeah okay


    buddy you can see my wife whenever and wherever you like?. Not going to happen.” “I get I shouldn’t


    have said that but I was only trying to be honest. I just want to be there for a friend. She’s nothing more


    to me than a friend and you can even ask her yourself. She never wanted to get close to me because


    you were the constant on her mind. She never swayed from you.” “I was never concerned that she did


    sway from me. It’s not her I’m worried about, it’s you. I just don’t feelfortable you being around my


    wife. And I’m hoping that as a man you will respect that.” was silent but I knew that he heard me. But


    before he could give his response Corinna burst outside, her eyes wi Shevawake