Chapter {44}

Emrys Belle:

He's awake.

The words kept running in my head

He's awake.

There's hope.

"Is he really, like not that you are a liar mum but this is Damon aka the laziest person. He would do anything for a good sleep." Wolf pipped up.

"Do you want to or shall I do it?" Rose questioned her mother nodding towards her brother.

"Together?" Everleigh tilted her head.

"What? What are you going to– Aie" both women had slapped him upside the head.

"This is why I stay around dad more. You women are violent." he rubbed where he was hit.

"And my wife doesn't even come to my rescue! Honestly." Wolf rolled his eyes like a child and crossed his arms over his chest leaning further into his seat.

All I could think about was the love of my life, awake in hospital after just over a month of being in a coma. And I'm not there to greet him when he wakes up. I should have stayed at the hospital.

I just stood up and slowly made my way towards the door.

"Emrys? Where are you going?" Everleigh called out following me.

"To the hospital. Am I the only one that is concerned for Damon? I want to see him." I calmly stated, putting my coat back on.

"I know honey, we all want to see him but he just got up. The doctors need to run some tests and everything. It may take a while." she reasoned but I was having none of it.

"I want to see him so I'm going. He needs me." I pleaded with her.

"Honey, I don't think it's a good idea." Everleigh wrung her hands nervously.

"Why not?" I questioned curiously.

"He just has to go through several tests, it might be overwhelming for him." she tried but her eyes told a different story.

I knew there was something else, something she wasn't telling me.

"Everleigh, please, I need to see him." I all but begged.

She sighed and nodded her head.

"Let me get my keys, we are all going."

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I was face to face with the corridor I had gone down so many times to get to his room. I knew the route even with my eyes closed I had been down it so many times.

I knew Everleigh had gone ahead while Wolf, Freyah and Rose with the baby had stayed back in the waiting room.

I took a deep breath and waddled my way to his room. I peeked through the little see-through glass that was on the door and saw my beautiful man, sat up in his bed, smiling away and talking to his mother. He was awake, smiling and breathing.

He was there, back with us.

Excitement and nerves building up inside me as I turned the doorknob to enter.

I smiled so brightly, he was still engrossed with the conversation with his mom that he didn't see me walk in. I placed a hand on my belly, rubbing small circles to calm me down.

I took a quick look around the room seeing that the drawings that were on the wall beside his bed were no longer there, not where the flowers that I had placed.

I decided to ignore that for the moment and focus back on the man in front of me.

My smile never failing.

"Hey, Damon," I spoke softly catching his attention.

He still had a patch of gauze where he had been operated on but other than that he looked like the man I loved.

"Umm, hello," he said questioningly.

"How are you feeling? How's your head?" I asked concerned for his well being.

"Umm, I'm alright I guess," he spoke in the same tone.

"Mum, who is this woman?" Damon leaned closer to his mother, giving me a side glance.

"I'm sorry, what was that?" my ears deceiving me.

"Who are you?"

My heart stopped.

Who are you?

I gave a panicked look towards Everleigh who just gave me a sad smile.

"Damo, baby. This is Emrys, don't you remember Emrys?" she enquired speaking softly to her son as if to not confuse him more than he already was.

"I've never seen this woman in my life. Is she one of the nurses?" he looked at me again, his brown eyes boring into my blue ones.

Before Everleigh could contradict him I quickly jumped in seeing as I was still in my scrubs so I understand his confusion.

"Doctor actually. I just came to check up on you." I spoke quickly.

"A pregnant doctor? Isn't that unsafe for the baby? Does your husband let you work in these conditions?"

Damon asked worried for my safety and the safety of the baby, the baby of a stranger in his eyes. Of a baby, he does not remember creating or having.

"My fiance actually, he doesn't want me to work but my job is saving lives and that's just something I cannot stop doing," I spoke honestly.

"Well, be careful, I wouldn't want my doctor to get into any harm. If you were my wife I wouldn't let you step foot here." he chuckled but held a promise in his voice.

If only you remembered Damon.

Everleigh gave me another look of sympathy but I had so many questions running through my mind and all I wanted was for the ground to swallow me whole.

I just stood there, not quite knowing what to do so I acted as if I was checking his charts, not wanting to leave him this soon.

"Mum, when is Melodie coming? I phoned her earlier telling her that I was awake and she sounded confused." Damon asked his mother as if I was not in the room.

"Melodie?" Everleigh exclaimed.

"Well yeah, who else mum? She is my fiancee after all." he shrugged nonchalantly.

I dropped the chart at his words.

His fiancee? I am his fiancee. Who is this Melodie woman?

"You alright there doc?" Damon's voice rang in my ears but all I was hearing was the erratic beating of my heart.

"Umm, yes sorry. I'm just a little clumsy." I tried to laugh it off, turning around so that neither of them would see the tears welling up in my eyes.

Just as I said that the door of the room burst open revealing one of the most beautiful women I had ever seen.

She had raven hair, light freckles dusting her cheeks and over her button nose. Her eyes were of a deep hazel, shining honey in the light. She wore tight black jeans and a simple grey knitted jumper that suited her so nicely. She was the definition of beauty.

"Melodie." the shift in Damon's voice and attitude when she came in was very noticeable.

"Damon." she breathed out, ignoring anyone else in the room.

She ran to him and kissed him passionately, shattering my heart into a million pieces.

Everleigh came by my side and ushered me away from this horrific scene.

"Shhh, honey. Here, wipe your tears," she spoke to me handing me a tissue in the process.

I hadn't even realised that I started crying.

"Thank you," I whispered out.

"I had no idea he had phoned Melodie." Everleigh gave an apologetic look, walking me to a seat nearby.

"Who is that bitch Melodie anyways? Why the hell is she anywhere near my man?!" I cried through the tears.

"Oop. Did I just hear that Melodie is back in town?"

Of course, at this moment Wolf had to appear holding little Leora in his arms, followed by Freyah and Rose.

"Who is Melodie?" Freyah's voice echoed my thoughts.

"Please, can someone tell me what the hell is going on?" I almost yelled.

"And who the hell is Melodie!"

Everleigh sat in the chair beside me and took my hand in hers.

"Melodie was Damon's fiancee years ago. She completely broke him, I'm surprised mum and dad let her go because she knows what business we are in." Wolf explained.

"Why did he not tell me about her? Damon knows everything about my relationship with Jeremy. Why did I not know about Melodie?" I rushed out again.

"That bitch took everything from him. She used him, broke him, cheated on him. She is the devil's spawn. Prancing around looking all innocent, I hate her." Rose sneered. I had never seen her that angry before.

"Rose watch your language. Children are present." Everleigh snapped indicating towards Leora asleep in Wolf's arms.

"She's my daughter mum and besides she is asleep." Rose rolled her eyes.

"Umm, I'm still confused as to everything that is going on," Freyah spoke up after a moment of silence.

"Damon doesn't remember me," I spoke sadly, letting the tears fall freely.

I felt arms embrace me knowing straight away it was Everleigh.

"Why doesn't he remember me?" I chanted.

"Doctor Nish said this might happen." Eveleigh stroked my hair lovingly.

"Why does he remember her and not me? I don't understand." I wiped my tears away feeling for weak and broken.

"Emmie Bells?" I hear Nish's voice.

"Nish." I cried and leapt into his arms crying again.

"I'm sorry bells." he pulled away from me and sat me back down.

"It seems the brain bleed put pressure on his hippocampus. His long term memory isn't affected but his short term, or in this case more recent memories that have not yet transferred into that part that takes care of long term memories." Nish started to explain.

"When I spoke to him, he remembers his family members, his nephews and he still thinks that Rose is pregnant. He has no memory of you and seems to be stuck in a time where he was with the woman in his room at the moment. I'm still trying to figure out why those two time periods clash with each other as they have not happened at the same time but his brain is still a little swollen. That would be the cause of his memory loss." Nish finished.

I sniffed and continued wiping my tears away.

"Do you think he will ever remember me?"

I had to ask. I had to know whether it was worth fighting against this Melodie person or preserve myself and my children the heartache.

"The chances are slim I'm not going to lie to you. However, that does not mean that it's a complete lost cause. Working slowly with him to jog his memory can help a lot." Nish answered.

"So there is a chance, as slim at it is," I asked, hopeful.

"Yes. But you have to be prepared for the eventuality that he may not remember anything from the past year at all."

I simply nodded taking all the information in.

There is a chance, a slim one but it's there.

I love Damon and I know deep down in him there is a little part of him that still loves and remembers me. Now all I have to do is find it, even though it will be hard and a very complicated situation with Melodie in the way but I know it will work.

It has to work.

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hello my loves!

two updates in the space of 48h! Look at me being all productive!

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I shall hopefully be updating a little more during xmas break but as I mentioned in the previous chapter I have a huge essay to write and work over the break so my time will be shared between everything and everyone and grief all over again.

I'm still trying to mend my broken heart, even wrote my final Philosophy of love essay on how can heartbreak be morally damaging haha.

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Damon is finally awake but lost all his memories of Emrys and their life together :/

what has Melodie got to do with all this? Why is she back? What is their story between her and Damon?

what does this mean for the rest of Emrys and Damon's relationship?

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