The Contingency Plan (The Lonely Heart Series)
“two days later by the time that Alex was moved from ICU to a room of his own. Having regained consciousness, he was ecstatic to find the first person that he laid eyes on to be his one and only Charlie. She gazed down at him with warmness and stroked the side of his caramel face with her index finger. A single tear fell from her eyes onto his lips as she tried to speak.
“Hey you,” she said, smiling.
“Hey yourself,” he moaned, looking down to realize that his leg was in a cast.
“W...here am I?” he asked, finally feeling pain shoot through his body. His throat still hurt from the tubes that had been recently removed, but he refused to stay quiet. “You’re at Jacobi Medical Center,” Charlie said, looking over to the station chief, who was finally rustling awake from his short nap.
“What happened?” Alex asked, trying to remember what had led him there.
“You went up to the attic to save a little girl in a house fire and the two of you got trapped. The boards fell on you, and you fell through the attic down into the second story of the house where more debris fell on top of you.” Charlie tried not to cry at the thought of nearly losing him so abruptly. “And the girl?”MoreLess
“Hey you,” she said, smiling.
“Hey yourself,” he moaned, looking down to realize that his leg was in a cast.
“W...here am I?” he asked, finally feeling pain shoot through his body. His throat still hurt from the tubes that had been recently removed, but he refused to stay quiet. “You’re at Jacobi Medical Center,” Charlie said, looking over to the station chief, who was finally rustling awake from his short nap.
“What happened?” Alex asked, trying to remember what had led him there.
“You went up to the attic to save a little girl in a house fire and the two of you got trapped. The boards fell on you, and you fell through the attic down into the second story of the house where more debris fell on top of you.” Charlie tried not to cry at the thought of nearly losing him so abruptly. “And the girl?”MoreLess
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