Chapter 82 Recovery
The first thing Melissa saw was the white ceiling with a diamond-shaped design on it. She exhaled, still trying to warp her head around reality. The whole dream world and the real world gave her a hard time when she was just waking up. She shifted the weight of her body and she felt bodies shuffling beside her.
She glanced beside her and immediately saw three people standing at her bedside. She was obviously in a hospital and she knew instinctively that it was her people. She needed to give them a name.
"You are awake?" Richard's voice said as he knelt beside her.
She looked at him with a smile. "Yeah," she looked at him and then remembered what the witch had said.
"You had me worried for a second there," he said with a smile and Melissa replied with a wide grin.
She shifted her body and pulled herself to a seating position. She turned sideways and it was Beatrice sitting beside her with the most wicked grin in the entire world. In her hand was a bowl of soup and she held a spoon in her hand.
"Oh, God! No," Melissa cursed, shifting her weight away from her.
Beatrice shook her head while grinning at her like a mad woman. "Oh, you are not escaping this," she said.
Melissa was feeling very fine. She just felt a bit tired. The kind of tiredness you feel when you haven't done anything all day, it was as if her body was in sleep mode. She looked at Beatrice. "What if I say I'm sorry?" she pleaded.
Everyone chuckled.
"It is good to see you alright, child. That won't happen again," he said.
Melissa realized they all must have been feeling like it was their fault. If it were her, she probably would have felt the same way. But she knew it would have happened anyway, no matter what they did. The entire situation was saved because of them. If it wasn't for her miscalculations, she shouldn't have gotten shot.
"Guys, Today went well," she began, then she realized her possible mistake. "It is today, right?" She asked.
"Yeah, you have only been out for two hours," Richard said, and she nodded in a relaxed manner.
"So, like I was saying," she replied. "I am okay, and it's because of you guys," she said. "I had an entire protection detail that turned on me." She replied, “Were you able to get anything on them?”
"No, the Sentinels took over their case, it was a case of national security, we couldn't force them to do anything, we were all waiting for you to wake up and give some orders," Avalors replied.
Melissa relaxed her head, lampooning. The entire situation was fishy. How could her detail turn against her just like that? "Who gave the details out for protection?" She asked, and she could see Beatrice stretch a spoon towards her and nod. She gave her a death glare, but the woman didn't budge, she nodded for her to swallow it and she did.
"Richard already went back to the palace. He almost strangled the council member. Her name is Mya. He probably would have killed her if he hadn't taken me, but then we discovered that the people who tried to kill you were swapped. We found their dead bodies in the Lake of Flowers," Avalors answered her again.
The Lake of Flowers was just a lake near the palace grounds that flowers were planted around, so every time it always had flowers floating above it.
Melissa took another spoonful of the soup, which didn't taste too good. It was okay but Melissa didn't think she could survive the entire plate. But she couldn't talk, she was getting treated with her poison. But every time she took a spoon, she scowled at Beatrice, but the woman replied with a smile.
"So we don't have any clues as to who tried to kill me?" She asked.
"We do," Beatrice answered this time. "When Avalors and I were rounding them up, one of them got a phone call, so Avalors picked it. The voice was a woman's. It was a bit muffled, but it was feminine." She sighed.
"Okay, I have to think about all these later, if I do it now, my head will explode," she said, taking another spoon of soup.
"Yeah," Avalors said. "I can understand that," he smiled. "You are really strong though, I can't believe you caught a bullet," he smiled.
"I don't know what happened either, everything just… slowed down." Melissa tried explaining. "It was like my body was moving faster than I was thinking. I really can't understand it," she concluded.
"Well, you are all over the news now," Beatrice said, force-feeding her another spoon.
"All over the news?" She asked. "How did that happen?" she bulged her eyes in response.
"Seems, one of the journalists caught you on camera. There is a clear video of you catching the bullet," she said. "You looked as if you knew exactly what you were doing," Beatrice said with a smile.
"But I didn't,” Melissa argued.
"Show her the video," Beatrice urged Richard.
Richard exhaled and brought out his phone. He clicked for a few seconds then pointed it towards Melissa's view. There she was giving a speech and then she suddenly wafted through the air like there was a mosquito, then she opened her palm and there was a bullet.
Melissa exhaled. "That is bad," she said. "What about the ambassador?" Melissa asked...
"That wimp?" Beatrice said. “He is in the second room with his council members. Once he heals, he is planning to take the earliest flight home."
"Heal from what?" she asked.
"He claimed you kicked him," he said. "So he twisted his ankle from the fall," Richard replied.
Melissa facepalmed. "I need to get this meeting done. We will do it in this hospital," she said. "Beatrice, feed me that. We need to set up a meeting panel."
"That is my girl," Richard said and those words made Melissa shake in fear.