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His right hand took hold of her other hand and he grasped her wrist Come with me,” he said and she frowned, dropping her hand
from his hair.
“Benjamin,” she quickly shut up as he glared down at her.
“Your heart is racing, and don’t even get me started on your breathing.”
She slowly stood but felt a wave of dizziness come over her. Benjamin’s arm wrapped around her and he pulled her closer to him.
‘I’m waiting to get seen… you should be with Maisey,” she told him. He seemed to swallow and looked unsure. Suddenly, a cold feeling rippled over her, and she covered her mouth. “I’m going to be
Before she could finish her warning, she dropped down to her knees and vomited all over the floor.
“Sorry. I’m so sorry. I’ll clean this up,” she muttered as she felt Benjamin’s hand run up and down her back.
“We here paid staff that will clean it up,” Benjamin whispered to her. “Come on,” he said firmly. A few seconds later, he seemed to get tired of waiting and picked her up.
Benjamin gently placed her on a bed and started to look her over without saying a word. “I am going to get an EKG on you,” he
informed her as he walked out of the room.
She swallowed, shaking her head. She felt so much better–safer–now that Benjamin was with her. But deep down, she knew that he
needed to be with his wife.
She heard her cell ring and sighed before picking it up. “Hey,” she whispered.
“Pandora, what the hell has happened? I saw your car on a tow truck Keira yelled, sounding frantic.
“My car broke down on the freeway… I was so scared,” Pandora admitted, feeling the panic coming back over her.
“What- your car’s only a few years old?”
“I don’t know. The policeman that helped me drove me to the hospital, and I have to get an EKG.”
“Shit! Ron and I are on our way,” she told Pandora.
Immediately she protested, “I’m fine.”
“Bullshit, and if Derrik caused this or any of the other shit that’s been happening, then I am going to kick his ass myself!”
“Come on, Keira. Derrik wouldn’t do this to the car. Putting the Kool–Aid in my bed or listing the furniture on Craigslist, maybe because those are pranks in his eyes. I just don’t think he’d mess up my car so that it broke down on me. I could have been killed,” Pandora gasped.
She wanted to believe this had nothing to do with Derrik, but another part of her knew better. Derrik was not the man she always thought he was.
“We’ll be there soon.”
“I have the EKG machine,” Benjamin announced, sounding tight–lipped. “You need to remove your blouse and bra,” he said as Emily walked in with a gown.
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“You should be with Malsey, Candora said, trying to make herself sound strong as he taped little round discs with wires on them to her.
“She’s fine; my mom and dad are with her,” he said as he looked at the machine. “I am riot happy with your heart rate or oxygen fevel,” he announced, acting like a doctor again. “Your blood pressure is high as well.”
Pandora looked at him as he pulled his hair.
“Do you think you could give me a urine sample?”
She nodded at him, and he passed her the cup, Emily then helped her to the toilet. When she was finished, Emily walked her back to the bed. Once she was situated, Emily moved out of the room with the sample with her.
“What happened?”
Pandora sighed, knowing that she was going to have to tell him what had happened. The fact that his wife just had a car accident would make it hard on him. She took her time going through what had happened, and she was barely able to keep herself together as she told him about the entire time she was trapped on the road alone.
“Fuck Benjamin hissed. “That is literally one of the busiest roadways in the city. You could have been killed.”
“I know,” she whispered. “I think that’s why I am so out of it.”
“It sounds like your body is in shock–not a good thing on most days, and more so when you’re pregnant.”
“Pandora!” Keira called as she and Ron burst through the door.
“I’ll come back in an hour to see you,” Benjamin announced as he left quickly.
*See, I told you, he doesn’t like me,” Ron whined to Keira.
“Hello? Pandora almost died, whiney–ass,” Keira scolded, pointing at her.
It took no time for Keira and Ron to have her laughing.
“Hey, Emily,” she said smiling as she walked in to do another round of checks. “Can I go downstairs for
calmer now?”
a cup of cocoa,
since I’m
Emily sighed. “If you take the wheelchair, I’d say yes.”
Pandora pouted at her and gave her puppy–dog eyes. It didn’t work as she just raised her brow at her in return. “Pandora, your heart rate is still fast, as well as your blood pressure, so a wheelchair or you stay here.”
“Fine,” she huffed and Emily smirked as she walked away. A few minutes later, she came back with a wheelchair and helped her into
- it.
“No more than thirty minutes and you need to be back here, okay?” Pandora nodded enthusiastically and Ron wheeled her out of the room and down the hallway. They had just made it to the cafeteria when Sia came running toward her.
“Hey, girl,” she said, hugging Pandora.
“Hi,” she replied softly.
“I’ll get some coffee and cocoa for the two of you,” Ron announced.
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“Shit, girl, what the hell did you do? And tell me exactly who you have offended to get this bad karma?
Pandora shook her head at the other. “I don’t know anymore, but In feels as if it’s only getting hard. I have two weeks left at work, but
seven and a half months pregnant, and as the weeks go on, it
have yet to make it in this week at all.”
“Yeah. I’ll tell you, the whole blue thing sounds like Derrik. But do you think he messed with the car? I mean, I think he loved it more than he ever loved you.”
Pandora shook her head as Sia talked. She still had no idea wh
things were happening to her.
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