FAMILY

21| Healing

Elena's POV:

Everything hurt. The only thing I could do was open my eyes. The room I was in, was softly lit by an aroma lamp next to a big plant on a table in the corner. I was laying on a bed.

A hospital bed.

I noticed the wires and the infusion in my left arm. I heard a heart rate monitor next to me. The rhythm was calm and slow.

I searched the room. It was a typical hospital room, except for the fact that it was so big. It must be a VIP room. I spotted Amelia and dad asleep on one of the couches, Theo was spread out on the other one.

Then my eyes fell on my bed. Hector had his arms crossed on top of the right side of my bed. His head softly resting on his arms. On the other side was my mom. She had a pillow to put her head on and she was holding my left hand softly.

My parents were here?

"Elena?"

Hector woke up. He had dark circles underneath his eyes and looked like he hadn't been sleeping for a while. I felt slightly confused.

How did I get here?

"Don't move too much. Your ribs are still fractured." He warned me when I tried to sit up.

I froze. My ribs were fractured?

Then everything came back like a flood. Ronan did this to me. I suddenly strongly remembered everything he did to me.

He tried to rape me. He beat me so hard my ribs were fractured.

"Hey, calm down. You're safe, little one." Hector cupped my chin softly.

Tears burned in my eyes and I looked up at him. He gave me a soft look and wiped away the tears that fell down.

"He's dead. He'll never get to you again." He told me firmly.

Ronan was dead.

I just felt so confused. There were gaps in my memory. I knew that my brothers saved me but I don't remember what happened afterwards.

"You passed out before we arrived at the hospital. You were taken into emergency surgery two days ago. The doctors told us it would take a while for you to wake up because you were in a weak condition." He picked up on my confusion.

"Two days?"

My voice sounded like a dead cat. I had to cough but that hurt so much. More tears streamed down as I tried to grab onto something to stop the pain.

"Baby?" Mom woke up.

"I'm going to get the nurse." Hector hurried out.

Mom cupped my face softly and wiped away my tears. The pain was so horrible that it made me want to throw up.

"Oh, my poor baby."

Hector came back almost immediately with a nurse. She quickly gave me a painkiller but that took me out very fast.

I was only just awake but I fell into another slumber.

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A week passed before I could talk again. The painkillers really helped and I felt a bit better. My family visited me in the hospital. Mom and dad stayed by my side the entire time, but my siblings came every day for a few hours.

Victor was sitting at the end of my bed and we were talking about whatever. Our parents sat on the couch having lunch. They've been with me the entire week, making sure that I was alright.