
Tiredness after three hours of driving disappeared instantly, imagining that his worries would finally end. Soon she could find out the condition of her husband.
After receiving the shocking news, Ayline thought of nothing but to rush her vehicle quickly to the hospital. After he arrived at the hospital parking lot, then he remembered if he had forgotten the most important thing, which was to inform the Pallas's extended family. Contacting Father and Mother-in-law. Ayline cursed at his carelessness.
The sound of Ayline's footsteps twitched to each other as he ran down the hospital corridor. There was guilt as well as regret that now overshadowed his steps. Tears endlessly soaked his cheeks. Along with the incessant prayer he offered in his heart.
Oh my God, I hope Mas Oswald is okay. Save him, my God. Ayline continued to chant the prayer in her heart.
One of his indiscretions, he forgot to ask where Oswald was being treated. So for that she had to waste more time to visit the information section and find out where she could meet her husband.
“Excuse me.. I am Ayline Pallas, wife of Oswald Pallas. I was contacted if my husband had an accident. May I know where I can meet my husband?” ayline asked one of the hospital staffers.
“Good, Mistress. Please wait a moment, I will check.” The officer in a white uniform was apparently typing something on the computer in front of him.
“Sorry Madam, do you know when your husband had an accident and was brought here?”
Ayline tried to remember again. He was really panicked when he received the news. He even forgot to ask the name of the employee who contacted him. But, as she recalled said the employee her husband had just had an accident. Ayline concludes that Oswald had an accident today.
“Today. Maybe three or four hours ago,” he replied.
The officer checked the data on his computer. “Sorry, Mistress. Today we have not received any accident patients. But from our data, yesterday there was an accident patient named Oswald Pallas,” he explained.
“Burn?!” reset Ayline. Then why did they just call me this morning?
“Then where is my husband now?”
Ayline looked annoyed. He'll find out who the employee who contacted him was and reprimand him. Something as important as this should be reported as soon as possible.
“Mr Oswald is already in the VVIP room on the eighth floor. He has just been moved from the recovery room post-surgery,” explained the officer.
“What? Operation?!” Ayline covered her mouth with both hands. Tears that had dried up again began to inundate the two neutrals. How bad her husband is. Why have surgery, Ayline thought.
“Iya, Mistress. For more details Madam can directly ask the doctor who handles him.”
Ayline nodded in agreement. He rushed to the eighth floor of the hospital in an elevator, thanking the officer.
“How long is it anyway!” Ayline grumbled as she felt that the elevator that led her to the eighth floor was going very slowly.
Ting.
As the elevator doors opened, Ayline accelerated his way to the Oswald treatment room. It was not hard to find the room he was looking for. On the eighth floor of the hospital, there were only a few VVIP rooms that Ayline taxis were spacious in size.
Until he arrived in front of one of the rooms whose doors were not tightly closed. No sound could be heard from the room, but from the crack of the door Ayline could see if there were some people inside.
Slowly Ayline pushed the door open wider. The first person to notice his presence was Denis, Oswald's assistant. Ayline tries to hold back her surprise when she sees Denis' condition. His head was wrapped in bandages and many bruises on his face. One of his hands even wore a cast. His clothes were no longer a neat suit like the one he used to wear, but a typical hospital suit.
“Mistress, you've arrived,” her sweeps like a whispering person.
“You-you're okay right?” Actually Ayline's question was, if you're okay then Oswald should be. Why did the hospital official say her husband had been operated on.
Denis did not answer, but nodded and pointed his hand toward the bed. Look at yourself, madam, that's about the Denis movement.
Ayline rolled her eyeballs in front of Denis as she exhaled. From the very beginning of knowing Oswald, she never liked her husband's assistant. Too stiff, quiet, and unfriendly, according to Ayline.
As Ayline walked in and got closer to the patient's bed, Denis cleared his throat as the three people at the patient's side of the bed turned their heads.
“Sorry, Mrs Ayline has arrived,” Denis said.
Ayline stopped his steps. His body froze when he realized that the three people were Father and Mother-in-law were also doctors when viewed from his clothes.
“Ayline .. Dear,” greet Raya Pallas, Mother-in-law Ayline.
The woman who was still very beautiful at her age who was no longer young, hugged Ayline who was sculpting. “Honey, you are strong yes. For Oswald,” whispered. From her trembling voice, Ayline guessed that her mother-in-law was holding back her cries.
There's nothing Ayline can say. What happened to her husband, she doesn't know. Why am I being asked to be strong? How bad was Mas Oswald? Denis could stand up and walk. So, Mas Oswald? Ask Ayline inwardly.
He just got tapped this morning. The accident happened to her husband yesterday. It was even possible that she was the last person to be informed of this incident, and it deeply hurt Ayline as a wife. So, in response Ayline simply returned her Mother-in-law's embrace and gently rubbed her back without saying a word.
“Meet your husband, he really needs you,” said the woman called Mommy Raya.
Ayline nodded then approached the patient's bed after greeting her father-in-law. Surprisingly, his father-in-law did the same thing his wife did. He hugged Ayline while saying, “You guys can definitely get through this. Be strong, that your husband may be,” the advice of the man Ayline calls Daddy Jay.
Then the three men simultaneously moved away from the side of the patient's bed. The three gave the couple space to meet. However, that does not mean they leave the room, they just switch positions and sit on a large sofa in the room. The gaze of the three people was also Denis of course, still fixed on the patient bed. Honestly, Ayline felt uncomfortable because she felt like she was being watched.
However, Ayline's mind was immediately replaced with her shock upon seeing the condition of her husband's body. Her husband was lying weakly on the patient's bed. His head was not wrapped in bandages, there was only one small bandage on his forehead. The bruise on his face was not as much as the bruise on Denis's face. One of her hands was infused, Ayline observed it seemed like her hands were fine. There were only a few blisters on his arm. However, as Ayline stared at her husband's feet, it was there that she found a bandage wrapped around almost the length of her legs to her thighs.
Ayline is getting closer to the patient's bed. Her tears just somehow shed. She considered these tears as a form of gratitude because her husband survived the abuse that happened to her. However, as Ayline clasped one of Oswald's hands, the man remained unmoved. He did not even allow his face to welcome his wife.
“Ma-Mas Oswald, I have come,” said Ayline getting closer to him. He even hugged Oswald's body lying down and could feel it stiffening.
“Ma-I'm sorry I just came now, Mas. I just got notified this morning,”.
Ayline was still crying, somehow her gratitude had disappeared as if replaced with heartache because her husband ignored her presence. “A-me, I miss you, Mas. You have to be strong and heal fast, yes,” said Ayline.
“Cih!” Oswald. It surprised Ayline until he broke his embrace.
“Already! You better leave now. Go far away, don't mind me. While I still let you go,” Oswald said without looking at Ayline.
“A-what, Mas? What do you mean say that, Mas?”
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