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He named more and more.
Overall, she ended up having seventeen broken bones.
Seventeen.
“How long will the surgery last?” I asked.
Was that my voice?
“No telling,” he said. “Dr. Adaman is working on her spine. When he’s done, they’re going to reset her femur, then her ulna.”
So all I could do was wait.
I was asleep in the chair beside Pepper’s bed.
Forest was asleep on my chest and had been for the last two hours.
It was day five of Pepper not being awake.
They’d taken her off the medicine that was keeping her asleep three days ago, but she’d yet to wake up.
She…
“Cute baby,” a raspy, sweet voice said.
I opened my eyes and stared.
God, how I’d missed those eyes.
“Pepper.”
“His name is Pepper?” She looked adorably confused.
My stomach sank.
“Um, no,” I said. “Your name. It’s Pepper.”
“Oh,” she frowned. “I didn’t know that.”
I patted Forest’s back when he started to squirm.
Inside, however, my stomach was churning.
“What do you remember?” I asked carefully.
She tilted her head. “I can’t move my toes.”
No. No, she couldn’t.
“No,” I agreed. “You can’t.”
“How do you know?” she asked.
“Your doctor,” I said. “He told me that the surgery, although a success, wasn’t an instant fix. That if you wanted to walk again, you’d have to put in the hard work.”
She looked toward the window. “Oh.”
“As for your memory,” I said, “the doctor also said that you had a concussion. That’s why you were kept in a coma for two days, to allow the pressure to go down. You have a drain in the side of your head.”
