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Chapter 36

Nicholas's POV

"Laura!" I called as someone was already dragging me from her.

"Sir we need to help her. Please let us inside of the car!" Some guy said and I was already looking at them from a far as one paramedic man walked inside of the car instead of me with a first aid kit and some firefighters were trying to open the door on drivers side. I was numb as I watched them to rip out the door and help her. With haze I was looking at the rescue scene praying she will be okay.

"She is not breathing!" I heard one of them and I tought I will pass out right on the spot. My hands cold and shaky as I was standing there frozen to the spot. This can't be happening again. She can't die. We just got her back. The memory from five years ago resurfaced as I watched in horror how a boat with a woman with bag on her head who looked from distance like Laura blew up into the air.

"Go get the defibrillator!" The paramedic called at his colleague and I watched him as he quickly run to the ambulance grabbing some bag and quickly returning back to the wreckage. Meanwhile I saw as one of the firefighters somehow freed Lauras leg and the paramedics quickly but carefully put her on the first aid bed and they immediately started to perform CPR. I came closer. I needed to be with her. They put a support collar on her neck. Blood was still leaking from her forehead down through her cheek to her neck. She had an oxygen mask on as the guys were pushing on her chest trying to restart her heart. Another paramedic charged the defibrillator.

"Clear." The other one said and took a step back as he put the defibrillator on her chest and her body shook.

"Nothing." One of them said as I was watching the scene with horror. This can't end like this. This is not the time. I had another chance with her and I blew it? What if this was just one more chance and that's it? No. I will not let this happen again.

"Come on Laura!" I called out taking her hand. "Don't leave us again! We just got you back. You can't leave us. You have to fight. Please don't leave us." I was sobbing next to her. But her lifeless body was not responding to another electric shock. In that moment I would do anything. I would change my heart for hers. I would run under the car myself to exchange my life for hers.

"Sofia needs you." I was crying my tears were falling on her cold hand. "I need you." I was whispering caressing her hair. "We need you Laura. Please stay with us." I cried. The paramedics were again performing a CPR.

"Again." The paramedic said and they repeated the routine one more time. Her body shook and then I heared as the beeping from the machine finally started.

"Thank god!" I exclaimed taking a big breath kissing her hand tightly.

"We got her." The paramedic said. "We need to take her to the hospital as quickly as possible. It looks like she has an internal bleeding. She has to go immediately to the surgery. If we will not get there on time there is a possibility she will not make it." He told me when I watched as they quickly packed up their things and then run to the ambulance with her. I run to my car and I followed the ambulance to the hospital.

I was waiting in the hall infront of the door where they were performing the surgery. It was already two hours since we came to the hospital and it seemed like forever to be waiting for the doctors to walk out and tell me how she is doing. They said she had ruptured spleen causing massive internal bleeding. But I had no informations from the OR and I was getting crazy from it. I already made some calls. I called to Chloe and Kylie and I told them everything what happened. They said they will catch the first flight and come here. Kylie also said she will inform Detective Martin about Lombardi. Hopefully he will somehow help with the justice.

"Nicholas!" I saw Camille running down the hall to me. I called her too and I told her Angie had an accident. Now was the time for her to know the truth. Hopefully they will save her and everything will be okay. I wouldn't forgive myself if I didn't let Camille know that Laura is alive and then she would... I can't even think about it.

"Camille." I hugged her. I had finally someone at my side to support me.

"I am sorry to hear what happened Nicholas. I knew she shouldn't go behind the wheel when I saw her and she was so distracted." She replied worriedly. "But I couldn't stop her." She added with regret.

"I know Camille. Don't worry. It was some paparazzi who caused all this. He is already in the police custody." I replied to her. They took him immediately at the scene. He had only some scratches but there were many witnesses and the police acted immediately. But there is still a lot of journalists infront of the hospital already. He had to call them before he was arrested. There is no other chance how would they get the information Angie Cooper was in an accident.

"They will never leave us alone." Camille said disgusted. "They are already camping outside the hospital like some predators." She added. "But don't worry Nicholas. Angie will be okay." She tried to reassure me. I had to give a bow to this woman. Even though she didn't had to come here and calm me that the woman I was with now was in an accident she still came and made sure I was okay. And she cared about Angie too. As for her she was only a strange woman to her who is dating her son-in-law. Not even knowing she is in reality her own daughter.

"I hope so." I replied thinking how the doctors were very sceptic when she was admitted. Now she is fighting for her life behind those door. But I am not going to scare her with that information.

"Here sit down." I told her. She was looking at me surprised.

"What is going on Nicholas? I should be the one to be calming you. And here you are looking at me as if I am going to flip or something." She said and sit down onto the chair. Oh well she was always very smart. "Is Angie the reason you wanted to talk to me?" she asked me and after I was intensly looking at her I nodded. This is not that easy to say. I sat down next to her and took her hand.

"Yes Camille."I replied and took a deep breath. "Few days ago I found out something about Angie. And that something changed everything." I started and she was looking at me with expectations.

"I know it will be a tough story to explain. And don't ask me how that all happened because I don't have all the answeres to that. Only she has them and I am really curious to hear everything from her. And she finally remembers everything." I said and she was looking at me confused.

"What? What does that mean that she rememberes?" she asked me confused. How to tell a woman that her dead daughter is not dead? But now she is fighting for her life again? There is no easy way or the right explanation. I took another deep breath looking straight into her eyes. "Angie is Laura." I said straight forward not backing up but she was looking at me intensely and she didn't even seemed surprised. She smiled but I saw her eyes water with tears.

"I don't know how but I knew it. I couldn't believe she would be dead. And when I saw her with you in Los Angeles. I knew it. I felt it. Ah Nicholas. But I don't understand why wouldn't she tell us who she was." She said trough her tears.

"That's because she lost her memory." I told her.

"Oh my goodness." She put her hand to her mouth with disbelief.

"But when I was with her after the car crashed and I was calming her after the accident she said she rememberes everything. She finally knew who she was. She just got her memory back." I told her painfully. She finally remembered and she got into this stupid accident. And now I can loose her again. My heart was aching only thinking about it.

"Oh I tought I was going crazy when she called me mom tonight. After five years I heard that name from her. I was with my girl." She was crying through her smile but then she suddenly went serious.

"But she will be okay right?" she stood up and asked me looking at the door to the surgery.

"She will." I told her uncertain trying to persuade myself too."She has to be." I added. She needs to come back to us.

We were sitting and waiting for another two hours. She was asking me about her and I explained her everything I knew. At least some distraction from thinking about what is going on in the OR.

"She said it was Lombardi who hired to take her and Sofia." I said to her and she looked at me surprised.

"I will destroy that man." I said matter of factly with hatred. She seemed taken aback for a while and angry at the same time. But then she took a deep breath.

"You have to be carefull Nicholas. Don't do something that you would regret later. Think about it first. As much as I want that man pay for what he has done and so much pain he caused. I want my daughter to be happy. Now you will have a chance to be with her again. Don't ruin it. You, Laura and Sofia can now live together again as a family as it always should be. I know maybe it is naïve from me to believe that the justice will be served. But let the police take care of it. Nothing good will comes from another act of violence and hatred. Please Nicholas. Think about it. " She said to me and then we stayed there sitting in quite for a while.

I hated to admit it but she was right. I need to think it all trough. I can't afford to ruin everything I have for a piece of a man like Lombardi.

"He will pay for what he has done to her." I said between the teeth. Maybe not how I imagined it but I will make sure that the justice will be served and he will end up in jail.

The door from the surgery opened and the doctors walked out. We immediately stood up and walked to them with anticipation.

"Is she okay?" I asked them eagerly my heart beating like crazy waiting for their answer.

Angie's POV

"And me and you and Sofia we all will be together and we will never let you go again." Nicholas was reassuring me and calming me while I was stucked in the car. My leg was stuck under the wheel and I couldn'd move. I felt terrible pain in my chest and I was dizzy. I was so tired. I couldn't leave my eyes opened. So I closed them. I will rest for a quite bit. Only for a few seconds. Only for...

All memories were playing trough my mind. The moment mom said she will allow me to go to study to London. The moment I turned eighteen and she made a party for me. When Alice my little sister broke her leg and I had to drive her to school everyday. The moment I met Nicholas and the day when he first kissed me. When we first made love and the moment when he purposed and when Sofia was born. I remembered everything. Even the moment my kidnappers caused my injury which lead to losing my memory.

When I was locked in some room I heard them to talk with Lombardi on the phone and I confronted them afterwards. They were really pissed and scared that I knew he was behind our kidnapping. One of the guys lost it and he hit me. Causing me to fall and hit my head hard on the corner of stairs. They tought they killed me. I heard them to talk and plan to replace me with some woman who resemble me so they would get the money from Nicholas. They dragged my body into some aisle and shot me to make sure I was really dead. They left me there and then I just woke up in the hospital. Not remembering anything. Doctors said it was caused by the wound on my head and my brain being swollen. I was lucky I survived.

But all this is already behind me. I remember the faces of the kidnappers. One of them was the guy who got into my house. Now I can describe the other one. And also Lombardi will not complicate Nicholas's life again. Our lifes. He will go to jail for what he had done. And we will live together again. But I feel so tired. My leg was hurting as well as my head and I felt a pressure in my chest. And then there was a darkness.

....

"We need you Laura. Please stay with us." I heard Nicholas's cries. What? Why would I leave you? I am not leaving you. Not a chance. I just found you. Why is everything so dark again?

...

I suddenly heard sirens from ambulance. I saw some parts of lights as I was strolling trough some halls. I heard strange voices. My chest was about to burst. That pain was reminding me the pain when I was shot. And then again there was darkness.

...

I heard some beeping. My chest and my leg were hurting. And I felt some pressure on my hand. My mouth were dry. I tried to open my eyes but the light blinded me for a while. Then I tried to open it again. I slowly and hazily looked around. I was in the hospital. I looked down and I saw what the cause of the pressure on my hand was. There was a woman resting her head on the bed next to my hand squeezing it. Then I remembered everything what happened. I lift my free hand and I caressed her hair. She immediately looked up at me surprised.

"Mom?" I said with a raspy voice.

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I think the song I chose quite fits the summary of this chapter. And I love everything from Sia.

Sia - Angel by the Wings