Previously on the last chapter...................
He shook his head and then shot me a glare with his lips turning up in disgust, and in a flash he had me suspended in the air by my throat as he hissed at me. "I will get rid of you once and for all!" He seethed as he starred at me with hatred.
"I love you Salvador!" I yelled before I felt a sharp pain in my stomach, and I looked down as I choked on blood to see that he had stabbed me with my dagger and the pool of blood around the dagger got bigger and bigger as the seconds ticked by. The pain stared to subside as every part of my being started to shut down and my mind welcomed the darkness forever.
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Chapter 7
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{Read Author's Note at the end!}
My eyes fluttered open, but then they immediately shut from the harsh light that I was abruptly exposed to. I kept my eyes closed for a few more seconds and then opened them slowly so that I wouldn't have the same reaction again. When I opened my eyes the light was still bright and my vision was fuzzy, 'Where am I?' As the thought came to my mind, I heard a noise which was weird, because the last time I checked I was deaf. AÂ silhouette was presented in front of me and I squinted my eyes at it, to try and figure out who was there, but the haze was still there.
"Ms. Lieberman, are you alright?" A soft female voice asked.
"Where am I?" I questioned pulling myself up to sit, but then the women stopped me halfway.
"You're in the hospital and I advise you to not move so abruptly, you're still healing." She said trying to make me lay back down. By now my vision had fully recuperated and I was staring at a woman with long black hair that she had put in a ponytail, green eyes, and she was in blue scrubs. 'Healing? Healing from what?' She must have seen the quizzical on my face and she spoke again.
"There was a terrorist attack, and many people died, but a lot were saved because of your brave soul, and you got stabbed by one of them, and the wound is still healing." She said with a smile.
"What are you talking about? I'm not brave." I said incredulously.
"Yes you are my dear, people came by to thank you and show their appreciation by leaving flowers for you." She said as she moved her hand around the room to show me, and sure enough, my room was filled with bouquets of flowers, balloons, stuff animals, and other things that I couldn't tell what they were because they were in a basket and wrapped in plastic.
"If I did something so courageous, then why can't I remember it? And how come I can hear, the last time I remembered I've been deaf since I was a child." A lone tear had escaped my eyes, I couldn't understand what was happening, my head was throbbing, and every time I tried to remember what she was talking about my head would throb even more.
"Well, the doctor said that you were slammed into something before you were stabbed and that it caused you to have a concussion and a vertical laceration, which can lead to short or long term memory loss, and as for the fact that your hearing, we don't really know, we just think it's a miracle." She smiled at me, even though this was good news, something in the back of my mind knew why I started hearing, but the throbbing in my head stopped me from exploring anymore.
"How long have I been out?" I asked her as I made the upper part of the bed lift up with a remote since that was the only way I was going to be allowed to sit.
"For a month." She said as she took a cup from another nurse.
"A m-month!" I croaked, I just realized how creaky and dry my throat felt.
"Yes now, drink this and get some rest so that you can be fully recovered by the end of the week." I wanted to protest, but she just handed me the drink and left the room. 'I've been resting for a month! Why would I want to rest any longer!' I was ready to jump out of the bed, but I felt a jolt of pain in my back and in my stomach, and I groaned. You'd think after a month of 'resting' I'd be fully energized and ready to get the hell out of here.
A few hours later after 'resting' I decided that I needed some entertainment since I was inevitably stuck in this bed, I picked up the TV remote and pressed power, and the 41 news was on, and I was going to change it until I saw a picture of me, and when I saw it, I put the volume up for me to hear.
Last month we informed everyone of the terrorist attack in a quiet neighborhood, and there was a brave woman who helped the people she could and saved many lives. And we were all heart warmed by bravery, she had been attacked and stabbed, and was in a coma, but now we are proud to announce that this morning, Brooke Lieberman had awakened...........
They continued their conversation and I was so shocked that I was on TV, even people who I painted for were saying they were glad I was awake and that they would keep my art as something really precious, and my heart swelled from that. Then they put up a picture of the neighborhood that was on fire and I squinted my eyes, and then grunted when a hard throb pang in my head.
I decided that turning off the TV and resting some more would help the migraine I had. I heard a knock at the door and I told the person to come in, thinking it was a nurse. I turned my head ready to ask the nurse if she could give me something for the migraine, but I was met with a blue-eyed, and blond hair guy.
My heart started to race, but then it slowed down as if my body wasn't scared of him at all, it confused and worried me deeply. Shouldn't I be afraid of a random stranger in my room, I was waiting for the moment that the guy would be like 'Sorry wrong room.' And scurry out of the room to find the right one, but he didn't, instead, he spoke.
"How are you feeling Brooke?" He asked and his voice was angelic but still deep. He stood in front of me, but not too close to make me feel uncomfortable.
"Who are you?" I asked him.
"Don't worry about that, I just came to say a good job, you succeed." Before I could ask what he was talking about he disappeared, right before my eyes. I blinked my eyes numerous times and pinched my cheek, but the pain that I received told me that I was indeed awake. 'Was what I saw real?' Remembering that man's face made my head throb again, and this time it hurt so bad to the point I was crying and not realize the hoard of nurses and doctors that flowed into my room, and the darkness swallowed me.
~~~~~~ A week later~~~~~
A few days had gone by and I was ready to run out of here, I felt like a loony, sitting cooped up in the hospital for so long. I did get out of the room from time to time because I had to go through speech therapy because I apparently sounded really weird when I talked and it probably has to do with the fact that I didn't talk for most of my life. I also had to walk around to get used to it because my spinal cord got affected by whatever I had hit. They had made me do exercises that would help get my memory back, but it never worked, but now my head didn't throb anymore, so that was good.
I was now in full health and I would be released in a few hours, I was four o'clock in the morning and three more hours, I would be released, I was so excited about finally leaving the hospital that I didn't sleep much, a few hours maybe, but that didn't matter, getting home mattered.
After what felt like days passed by, which was honestly only two hours, I got up from the bed, took a shower, and put on the clothes that the nurse Ava was nice enough to buy for me from a local store. After that day, I had found out her name and throughout the week I met other nurses, and we all became friends, but Ava was the only one that became my best friend, something about her just drew me to her more... I put on the red tank top and dark blue jeans. something about the red tank top reminded me of something, but I couldn't put my finger on it, so I just shrugged it off and sat on the bed to wait thirty more minutes for my freedom.
Finally, the time came and nurse Ava came in with a smile on her face, she wasn't wearing her scrubs today, she just had on a pink blouse and ripped jeans. "Ready to get out of here?" She asked as she gave me a knowing smile, she knew that I was more than ready.
I nodded, took the hospital bag, and exited the room. I got to the front desk so that they could check me out and to my surprise, everyone that I talked to was waiting there, even the little kids and old people that I had talked to along the way. They were all smiling and some even had tears in their eyes, and that touched my heart deeply, I will always remember these people.
They all started saying how they are going to miss me, and that they are glad to see me in full health, and one of the old women, Gema, said that I better come visit from time to time and everyone agreed. After our long goodbyes. Ava and I left the hospital and headed towards her car, the breath of fresh air that I took when I exited the building had my body tingling with excitement.
"Can we stop by the grocery store, I probably am in need of new food, the ones at my house are probably spoiled rotten." Just thinking about it made my nose scrunch up in disgust and my house was probably really dusty.
"That's fine, I just need to stop and pick up something at my mother's, I'll drop you off, and when you're done, you'll call me, my mother's house is not too far from the market." She said and I agreed.
She dropped me off and I entered, my nose flaring from the familiar scent of fresh bread, and other things that they cooked at the bakery part of the store. I pulled a cart out and put in vegetables and fruits, I was in the aisle looking for Chex honey cereal when I bumped into something.
"I'm so sorry I didn't mean to hit you," I said frantically and then my heart pounded against my chest when I was met with piercing grey eyes, they seemed so familiar, and I tried remembering why they were so familiar. I saw that his eyes were wide, but then he mumbled 'it's OK,' and then walked away. 'That was weird.' I thought, but then I shrugged it off and pulled the cereal from the shelf that I was looking for.
Since I got all of my groceries, I got in line and called Ava to let her know that I was checking out right now and she said that she would be waiting for me outside. I pushed the cart outside, the sun was high in the air now, and it rays felt like it was penetrating my skin. Ava helped me put the groceries in the back seat, we got in the car, and I explained to her how to get to my house. We arrived in front of the house and I was shocked that I actually remembered where it was.
After the groceries were put away, Ava helped me clean the house, and then we had lunch. Since I was tired I told her that I would talk to her tomorrow, since we had each other's numbers. We had to clean the whole house except for my painting room, I wanted to do it myself. I entered the room and the smell of dried paint entered my nostrils. I looked at the blankets that covered all of my paintings, I had put those covers on them to protect them from dust, and judging by how dirty the white cover was, I was glad I did it.
I took off the first cover, I was going to take them off to wash them and put new ones on them. There were three big colorful paintings that I had painted when I had just moved here, and tried painting the bright outlook I had on life. One of them had all types of flowers, from roses to violets in it. Another one was a rainbow and unicorns. And the third one was a fall scene It did that still had green leaves falling from the tress and the sun beaming in the background.
I moved on to the next cover and pulled it off, I was met with nature paintings, and my eyes got fixed on a painting, it was fall like the last one just now, there were no green leaves, all the leaves were orange-yellowish, and when I looked closer I could just make out a small black figure in the distance. 'Why did I paint this over?' I couldn't even remember painting the first one.
And then I moved on to the last one, the biggest of them all, when I pulled it off a gasp escaped my lips. First, I looked at yet another fall painting, but this time the figure was a lot closer, but it was shadowy, so I couldn't make out its features. Then the next, another fall painting, the figure was way closer, but now I was able to tell that it was a man feature, from its broad shoulders and strong jaw, but the shadows in his face didn't let me see. And when I turned to look at the next painting I gasped, it was him, the guy that I bumped into at the market!
'But I don't understand, he didn't acknowledge me, as someone he once knew.' My head was starting to throb and when my eyes met with a painting of him in just boxers, and my head throbbed uncontrollably as the memories slowly came rushing back at once.
The rush of memories made me fall to my knees and in the next minute the darkness invaded my mind and I let it.
I woke up on the floor and realized that I was in the painting room. 'What happened?' I asked myself as I held my throbbing head. I looked around, and then instantly remembered what happened, and my memories. I was off up the floor quicker than my mind could process. I was going to find Salvador and speak to him, and if I have to, I will bloody handcuff me to him.
I was walking fast to my destination when I saw a glimpse of myself in the hallway wall mirrors, and it definitely wasn't a pretty sight. I decided that I would freshen up and wear something that would make me completely irresistible to him. I looked out the balcony door in my room and saw that it was dark out and when I checked the time, it was ten o'clock.
After I got out of the shower, I headed to my closet to look for the sexiest thing I could find, and my eyes landed on a red dress, and I knew, that it was the dress, and I put it on. It was a long sleeve red dress that had a V in the backed that covered my back with lace and the sleeves only covered my arms and left my shoulder bare, and the dressed length stopped mid-thigh. I paired the outfit with black pumps and black stud earrings, and for my makeup, I put on red glossy lip gloss and mascara.
I looked at the mirror and smiled at how I was ridiculous for dressing up like I was going to some fancy place, but I didn't care, I was going to have him wrapped around my finger once and for all. I turned off all the lights, locked the doors, and headed for his house that was right next door.
I stood in front of his door, my heart was thumping crazily in my chest in anticipation, even though before I was way over the top confidant, my legs were going numb from the thought of seeing him again with my memories fully back now.
I knocked on the door softly and waited for him to opened the door, his car was outside, so he had to be here right? I put my hand on the doorknob and twisted it, and to my surprise, it turned all the way. I opened the door and stepped into the house, hoping that I wasn't intruding. I closed the door behind me and looked around, it was pitch black, except for lights that I could see we're coming from the outside, in the back yard.
I walked towards the glass sliding doors and slid them open, I gasped when I saw candles everywhere, they were in containers that stopped the wind from putting them out. The candles made a path to somewhere and I followed the path until It stopped at a wooden cabin, and curiosity getting the better of me, I walked up the small stairs and opened the door.
I gasped again and my heart started racing, there were scented candles on a table, that look like it was set up for an intimate dinner. 'What's going on here?' I asked myself, I was so confused I didn't even know when my confusion started.
"I see you finally remembered me." I heard a deep baritone voice, and the chills that ran down my spine notified me who exactly I remembered. I turned around to face him and the heat that I felt was time times worst when my eyes landed on him. He was wearing a suit, and it suited him so well, his dark hair was short and he had a five o'clock shadow, To say that he was looking sexy would be an understatement of the year, he was simply dripping with sex, and I had to try with every fiber of my being to not attack him right then and there, I was here on a mission.
"Why didn't you tell me anything when I saw you in the market?" I asked raising a finely plucked brow.
"I wanted you to remember me on your own, I didn't want to make your head hurt from trying to remember. Plus what was I going to say? 'Hey, I'm the devil and your my soul mate, we've met before, but then you broke my heart so Satan took over and started killing people, and oh by the way I'm the one that stabbed you." He said in a mocking tone, I didn't like it, but I probably would have thought he was crazy.
"You didn't stab me Satan did," I answered simply not sure how to answer his previous statement.
"What I want to know now is if what you last said to me was true." He asked as his face became firm. 'Last said to him, what is the- oh.'
"Yes it is, I love you Salvador, and I loved you since the first moment I met you, I just kept denying it," I said looking straight into his eyes and then I smirked when I realized that even though he was hanging on to each word I was saying, his eyes were roaming my body like a predator ready to devour its prey. At least I know that my outfit didn't go to waste.
"So, what's with the mood lighting and the romantic dinner table?" I asked him with a smirk as he finally snapped from his lustful haze and looked at me in the eyes.
"I was planning on doing this every night until you remembered me and came to me. But you came today, and you were dressed for the occasion without knowing my plans, you are definitely my soul mate." He said smiling at me and when he said my, my body tingled with the need to get closer to him, and I felt my body become hot.
His nose flared, his eyes darkened as he approached me like a predator ready to pounce on me any minute, and that made my heart beat a mile a minute. When he was close enough to the point that our bodies were molded together, sending shocks of electricity through my body. I felt tingles on my ear when his breath tickled it teasingly. "I was going to woo you over diner, but I can't hold on anymore, I've been waiting for you for way more than a month. I love you mi amor, and I'm going to show you how much." He said huskily, and I shuddered, knowing full well where this was going, and I couldn't care less, I wanted this, I wanted him.
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