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I need Bambi in my life. She’s the light to my dark. The heaven to my hell. The bright sun on a cloudy day.

She’s everything I need in my life to make me a better man. While Doc works tirelessly to save her, I wait and pray that maybe karma is looking down and will give me a second chance.

Chapter Twenty-Six

Bambi

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MY HEAD IS POUNDING, and it feels like there are a million things attached to me through needles and tubes.

It hurts to open my eyes, so I just keep them shut as I try to call for somebody. Nothing comes out, so I blindly reach around for the small call button.

Finding it, I press it over and over until I can hear my door opening. Wheels squeak on the tile floor then suddenly stop.

“Baby, it’s me. Doc is coming.”

I reach out to find the warm, strong hand that has always been there for me. Goose intertwines his fingers with mine and squeezes.

“Goose? What’s going on?”

I hear him sigh as his thumb rubs the back of my hand.

“You’re in the hospital, babe. Can you try and open your eyes?”

I nod and slowly open them to see Goose sitting next to me in a hospital wheelchair. The lights are dimmed low, so it doesn’t hurt as much.

“What happened to you? Why are you in that chair?”

He shakes his head and looks at me. “Do you not remember what happened?”

I go to speak when the door opens and Doctor Tickner comes in with his clipboard. He smiles and sits on the small stool in the corner. He wheels it over and pats my bed.

“Glad to see you up and talking! We were worried there for a bit.”

I just shake my head as he checks all the wires connected to my body and the monitors surrounding me.

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