A stolen life

My story

How did I get here? How could all this happen? 

After all these years, I realize now that I was living a lie. That illusion of power and control was like a mirage on a dessert, I didn't have an option of choice. 

How? How did I let this happened? How could I be so blind and arrogant, let happiness slip away from me? The two women I had to protect with my own life, I let them both down. One the woman I love and the other our daughter, my only child, my flesh and blood. 

"Mr. Robert, I don't know when or even if she will wake up. Coma patience can be very unpredictable and each case is unique and complicated. Let's just hope for the best" - the doctor said to me. I flew him here from Japan, he was supposed to be the best doctor in the world in his field, and yet he kept chanting the same word over and over again. 

I look over the delicate face of my daughter, she is pale and has bruises, but is so beautiful. It pains me seeing her with so many wires linked to her, looking so defenseless. I feel guilt, regret, and shame eating me alive, making each breath I take difficult. 

" Why is Rea sleeping still? She is not a baby anymore, please tell her to wake up. I miss her, I am her mother, she hasn't spoken with me in weeks" -  Aurora asked me. She looked up at me, her beautiful eyes were filled with fresh tears and her lips trembled. She still has the beauty that she did more than 20 years ago when I first meet her. And not just that, she is just as innocent, almost like out of this world.... She has been mentally unstable for years, living in an institute... and I ... I thought she had abounded and betrayed me. I feel like a villain. 

" She will wake up soon love" - I said, caressing her cheek lovingly. 

Aurora gives me a big smile, her whole face lights up with hope and enthusiasm, almost like a happy child. 

" If you say so, then she will. You always keep your word" - she nods at me. Oh, how I wished that would have screamed at me, paunches me straight at my face, telling me that I am a man of no honor. But instead, my love still trusts me. 

I kissed her delicate hand, trying to hold back some tears. We sat down on the sofa, in the private room at the hospital, where our only daughter was fighting for her life, for weeks now. 

Years ago, we have dreamed so much to have a child, a family together. Aurora so much wanted a girl and I have imagined her to have her beautiful face and my strong character. That did come true, even though nothing else was like I imagined.

Everything started 23 years ago. I was an ambitious young man, without a penny in my pocket. She was a beautiful young student, from a rich family. We were madly in love,  a kind of love you only read in books about, but I was lucky enough to experience. 

But I was also a fool enough to lose it. Now I am rich and powerful, but God knows how miserable I feel.      This is my story. A story of love and betrayal, of passion and hate. A fight of good and evil. I thought, I was always on the right side, but now, knowing the whole truth I am not sure about that. 

Is also the story of my only daughter, Rea. The beautiful, strong-willed girl that turned my life upside-down, even though I did not know who she was.