Secretly Married To A Billionaire

Chapter 2

I heard several murmurs inside my hospital room. I opened my eyes and groaned as the surge of light entered my eyes, blinding me momentarily. I looked around, only to see my parents inside my room. Dad and Mom rushed to my side when they noticed that I was already awake. They both held each of my hands and they looked at me with so much concern in their eyes that I almost cried but I forced my tears not to drop because I don’t want them to worry once more. I know that I have been so reckless and I never thought of them before acting so drastically about my decisions in life. I regret everything that happened that pushed me to be like this but who can I blame except for myself.

“My baby!” Mom cried. She still calls me baby saying that I am her only baby and I just let her call me that. I love my Mom too much to contradict her and her likes.

“Can… can you still remember us baby? Mom is so sorry for knowing it so late!” Mom’s tears dropped from her lonely eyes. Seeing my Mom like this makes my heart tear into pieces. She’s been so good to me and now she’s hurting because of me, because I was selfish. I saw how Dad wiped his tears as he looks at me and my Mom. It pains me to see them cry and I just want to slap my face multiple times because I never even thought about it when I tried that dangerous stunt.

“M-mommy…” my throat hurt as I said that word. Until now, I can still regret whatever stupid decision that I had done causing me to be here inside the hospital and under coma for months. It only didn’t resolve my problem but added another problem again. Now, I know why old people says that never do a decision when you are sad or angry or feel a strong emotion because it will affect your choice and instead of being rational like a person that you are supposed to be, you’ll judge based on your feelings rather than intuition and now I experienced the consequences of that.

“My baby, thanks heavens you can still remember us. Oh lord! Thank you! How do you feel baby? Does it still hurt huh? What will Mommy do?”

Mom was anxious and she keeps on examining my entire body as if she never knew that I am not missing any limb. But I just let her be. Maybe she was so shocked to react like this months ago. I reached my arm out and let my fingers wipe her tears.

“Don’t cry Mom. I’m okay now. Dry your tears please. It hurts me to see you like this. I’m so sorry for not thinking first Mom, Dad. I’m so sorry that I am a burden to the both of you. Sorry.”

I cried as my heart constricts in my chest. I wasn’t able to hold back my tears and I let my pain go. All I can think now is regret.

“Don’t say that you are a burden. You will never be a burden to the both of us Jane. You are godsent to us. You worked hard for our family and yet you never said a word and just constantly think about us. We are so sorry Jane. If only I knew about your agony, then I could have at least prevented all of this to happen,” Dad said sadly as he held my hand tight. I missed the warmth of my father’s hand and the caring embrace of my Mom. It’s such a blessing that I can still feel those things. And I am really grateful to anything and anyone that helped in order for me to survive.

“Don’t involve yourself in this anymore Dad. Just take care of your health and Mom too. I am okay now. You don’t need to worry about me anymore, okay? By the way, the hospital bill…”

Shoot! I remember the hospital bill will be too much by now. Every single day that I am inside this facility will cost thousands and God knows if it’s not hundreds of thousands then even exceeding million for the bill will be possible. I can remember all the treatments and surgeries that the doctor told me earlier and I am sure that they cost much too. Oh heavens! What a life! How could I not thought this through before I drove recklessly? You are really so so stupid Jane!

“The company paid for it already baby. You don’t need to worry about that. And your car was also ensured so there’s a new car with the same model at our garage now.”

Eh? The company saved me right there. Was it because of the fact that I am one of their best employees? Oh thanks goodness! My money is safe. Well, I know that my car has suffered a lot from the impact so its inrepairable now. Good thing that I ensured it before I got into an accident. But I am worrying where did Mom and Dad get all their money from the past months that I don’t have a salary and I wasn’t giving them money.

“Mom, Dad, where did you get your budget for the last three months? Don’t tell me that you were hungry and…”

“Calm down baby. We are fine. Do you remember the money you gave us on Christmas as a gift?” Last December? That was a long long time ago.

“What about that? Did you let someone borrow the money and…”

“No, we purchased a small farm land with that and now, the business is doing good. We are constantly delivering vegetables and chilli peppers to small restaurants in our town. You gave us a big amount of money and we can’t let it go to waste. If you go out from the hospital, we will tour you there.”

I can see excitement from Mom’s eyes. She’s been so proud of their new farm business. I’m glad they were not hungry while I was here in coma. Our bonding time was cut short when a nurse came inside the hospital room with a wheelchair.

“Excuse me Ma’am and Sir. I will just fetch the patient for her therapy with Doctor Lebrex,” she said as she pushed the wheelchair towards my direction.

“Oh sure.”

My Dad helped the nurse to put me on the wheelchair. And then the nurse pushed the wheelchair towards the door. As I was outside my room, I saw a lot of people too. Some were sitting on the benches while some of them are walking around probably visited their friends or someone close to them. We entered a cozy room and I saw another nurse and a doctor inside.

“Hello Ms. Crystal! I am Doctor Lebrex and I am the one who will conduct the therapy. According to Doctor Scot, your muscles needs therapy because they went stiff after three months of being in coma. You see, your muscles forgot their function and thus made them unable to function properly. Now, just relax and try your best okay? Are you ready?”

“I am,” I answered shortly.

I am constantly thinking about a life reform after I get discharged here in the hospital. I will surely change my lifestyle and I promise not to make the same idiotic mistake once more. I swear that in the name of all the hospital equipments and syringe needles that touched my body and all the damages that this sh!t caused me.

“That’s good. Now, try to lift up your fingers on your right hand,” Doctor Lebrex instructed.

I tried to lift them and I did the same with my left ones. The doctor slowly flexed my arms and then she went on to my legs. I admit that this feels weird. It’s like I am trying to walk and move again but I need to do this and bear with the consequences of my actions. The therapy lasted for six long hours and heaven knows how bad I felt about this time wasting experience.

“This is good. You are actually responding from the therapy. I have seen improvements now. You can now lift your arms and you can start moving your feet. However, you might still fall if ever you force yourself to walk now. Just make sure that you will continue to practice alone in your room or you can let someone assist you. Two to three days and you can walk, of course with aid or help of someone.”

“That’s such a relief. Thank you so much Doc,” I answered sincerely. I am really relieved that it will only take two or three days before I can move around again. I don’t want to waste more time in the hospital.

“You are welcome. Congratulations on your fast recovery.”

The nurses assisted me so that I can go back to my room. When I came back, Mom and Dad was not there. I guess they went out for dinner or something. I leaned back on my pillow while I was sitting and started to exercise my arms again. I tried to reach for an apple on the bedside table and I was glad that I was able to do it.

“Good job Crystal. You deserve an applause. Anyway, I still need to work on making my legs functional. Too much time have been wasted being stuck in here. But I am still thankful though, the impact on my head was not that serious to cause me an amnesia but I have broken bones that still needs to heal,” I said to myself and shook my head. Just thinking about the time that passed by and the salary that I will receive if ever I worked during those times makes my heart constrict. Too much waste on important things in life.