Chapter 130: The Waiting Game

Alex and Isabella were on their way to the hospital to see the nurse regarding Isabella's condition. As they arrived at the hospital, they went straight to the nurse's office. She started discussing with them and told them that Isabella had to undergo a brain test to know what's really going on in her head and determine what they could do to heal her and help her regain her memory. The nurse explained different ways they could try to regain her memory, whether through surgery or shock treatment. Given that shock treatment was not an option, they had to proceed with surgery.

So, the nurse took Isabella into the scan room to scan her brain and see what was really going on there. Isabella and Alex followed the nurse quietly to the scan room. Isabella lay on the bed as the machine began the brain scan. Alex felt a bit scared watching Isabella as she underwent the procedure. He was looking at the monitor on which her brain activity was being displayed. The nurse was explaining everything that was happening in her head to Alex, and he felt a wave of pity for Isabella as she had to go through all these troubles.

“Isn't there a way other than surgery?” Alex asked the nurse.

The nurse shook her head, stating, “No, we have to just undergo surgery for her to gain her memory fully.”

Very soon, the scan was done, and both of them went back to the nurse's office to wait for the scan results. The nurse told Isabella not to worry, assuring her that everything was going to be fine and that she would come back to normal once the operation was completed.

Isabella and Alex sat in the nurse's office waiting for the scan results. Alex tried to convince her that nothing was going to happen to her and that she would be all right very soon.

“Don’t worry, Isabella, you’ll be fine and you’ll regain your memory. I can’t wait to have you back. I can’t wait for you to have your memories back so you remember me and your parents. Even your parents can’t wait for you to regain your memory. They have been waiting all this while for their daughter to return,” Alex said to Isabella.

Isabella looked at him, confused, and didn’t know what to say. She didn’t utter a word, but she also wanted her memories back. Yet, she was afraid. She didn’t want to remember all the terrible things she might have done or all the terrible things that might have happened to her.

Then the nurse walked back in and said, “The scan results are out. I have to talk to Alex. Alex, please can you make Isabella excuse us? I have to talk to you alone.”

She said to Alex. Alex looked in Isabella's direction and told her to step out for a bit.

“I need to talk to the nurse in private,” he said.

Isabella agreed and stepped out of the nurse's office, sitting in the waiting area. The chances of her coming out of that surgery room alive were 50/50.

“Did you say 50/50?” Alex asked, shocked and surprised.

“How come? What happened?” he said to the nurse. “This was not our agreement. You told me she would come out fine. You told me that the operation would go smoothly.”

Alex said to the nurse, feeling very angry.

“Yes, I told you that, Alex, but I didn't know her condition was this critical,” the nurse replied. “After the scan results came out and I saw everything that was going on in her head, I realized that her condition was worse than I expected. The chances of her coming out of the operating room alive are 50/50.”

Alex felt panic rising within him, “But you didn’t let me know about all this. You should have run a scan on her before telling me that everything is going to be fine and that everything is going to come back to normal. I only thought you were going to operate on her and then she’d regain her memory ASAP.”

He muttered to the nurse, clearly scared that Isabella might die. But at the same time, he felt that even if she died, he didn’t love her as much as he did before. So he calmed down a bit and said, “Okay. What are we going to do now?”

“You have to sign an agreement within the next five hours that you consent to us carrying out this operation. I can give you five hours to think about it,” the nurse said to Alex.

“No need for me to think about it. Just go on with your patient, make sure she’s fine. I just want her to regain her memory, and if she doesn’t come out alive, I will deal with it fine,” Alex said firmly to the nurse.

The nurse looked at Alex, shocked. “What? What did you just say?” she asked.

Alex didn’t even bother to elaborate. “Just carry out the operation or not,” he said. “I’ll sign the documents right away.”

“Okay. You just have to get her parents here. Let us speak to her parents and her loved ones for her last moments if she’s not going to come out of that operating room alive. She has to spend some time with her parents and her loved ones,” the nurse said.

Alex agreed to what the nurse said and immediately walked out of her office to meet Isabella, who was sitting.

“I have to go get your parents right now, Isabella,” he said to her. “Your operation is going to start in about six or seven hours from now.”

Isabella could see it in Alex stares like something was going to definitely happen to her in the operating room.

“Is anything going to happen to me?” She questioned and at that moment Alex was unable to bring himself to answer her, how would he tell her that she might not survive this.