Page 85 of Don't Forget Me
Jasmine ran in, her breath wheezing in and out.
“You!” Sherrie pointed a finger at her.
“Time to go.” Jasmine gestured to the door urgently.
“Someone tell me what is going on,” Sherrie shouted.
Elizabeth remembered everything Nick had said about her, all the lies and manipulations. She stepped toward her, dropping her voice. “I hope yours isn’t the first face he sees when he wakes.”
“Lizzy.” Her dad urged as he ushered the kids out.
Elizabeth shot Sherrie one more scathing look before following her family, trying not to let the knowledge that she couldn’t be there when Nick woke keep her from moving.
Her dad retrieved her duffle bag, and they were halfway down the hall when they heard it.
The alarms.
Nurses ran toward Nick’s room as a voice overhead called a code.
“Liz?”
She barely heard her dad calling after her, and her feet were moving before she could comprehend what was happening.
“We’re losing him!” someone yelled, she wasn’t sure who. The security guards didn’t see her slip in with the code team. Nurses and doctors crowded the room. Nick’s body jerked as they sent an electric shock through him.
Yet, the alarms didn’t stop.
“I refuse to let this man die,” an older doctor said.
Right, Elizabeth thought desperately. You can’t lose him.
She couldn’t lose him.
This world couldn’t lose him.
The line on the monitor went flat, and they shocked him again.
Nothing.
He was dying.
“Charge to 200!” The doctor paused. “Clear.”
Nick’s body jolted, but nothing changed.
A nurse performed chest compressions, but it was no use.
Elizabeth couldn’t take it anymore. “Nick,” she yelled. “You can’t die.”
“Someone get her out of here!”
A hand landed on her back to guide her out to where Sherrie waited in the hall. The other woman was too busy on the phone to notice her. No emotion showed on Sherrie’s face, no worry or fear. No tears.
Elizabeth didn’t know how she could be so calm. The twins approached, but then a doctor’s relieved voice filtered into the hall. “We got him back.”
The thousand-pound gorilla lifted from her chest, and she let out a sob.
The doctor’s next words made her heart start beating again. “His eyes are opening.”
