I’m not going to like this.
I looked down at my legs.
Empty space.
My brain refused to accept what my eyes saw.
I wiggled my toes.
I can only feel the right ones moving.
“Austin, the doctors tried, they really did,” Bryce waited for me to look at him. “But they couldn’t save your leg.”
I looked back down.
There’s nothing where my left foot should be.
“It’s gone?”
Bryce squeezed my shoulder.
“They had to amputate it, just above the knee.”
My left leg was gone.
My heart beat too fast.
My left leg is gone.
My breaths came too fast, but I couldn’t get enough air.
The alarm on my EKG sounded as memories flooded my mind, bringing with them pain and panic.
“Austin,” Bryce hit the call button on my bed. “You have to breathe.”
Two nurses ran into the room. Within seconds, morphine flooded my system, and I stopped caring that I’d lost my left leg.
Chapter 65
Nina
“Miss Novak, all your stats look fine, so we’re ready to discharge you,” the doctor said. “I assume someone from the army of people outside can give you a ride home?” The older female doctor asked.
Army of people?
“I’ll make sure she gets home safely,” John answered before I could.
“Good. I’ll send the nurse in with the paperwork.”
After the doctor left, I said, “Mr. Sheppard, I don’t want to leave without seeing Austin.”
I wouldn’t leave without seeing him.
It’d kill me to see him in his current condition, but there was no way I’d leave without seeing that he was okay,as okay as he can be, and saying thank you.
“I know. While you do the paperwork, I’ll check in with Bryce.”
When John walked out, Ryan walked in.
