Page 83 of Lost Room Lawyer
“Pills?” Juri asked, surprised.
“I don’t know. I … uh …”
I was in freefall, plummeting through the air. All my efforts to get my life back on track since Tuesday now seemed utterly meaningless in light of this situation.
Save my marriage?
Reunite my family?
Preserve my good reputation?
None of that mattered anymore. The fact that my own wife had brought me to this realization put me in a sort of shock.
“If he’s in the hospital, he should be feeling better soon,” I heard Luca say in the distance.
“You can’t know that,” Juri countered.
No, nobody could know that.
What if he didn’t get better soon?
What if the reason he was in the hospital was intentional?
What if he had tried to kill himself?
Could it be that Leo had mentioned the internship to him yesterday?
That was just a suggestion.
No, I couldn’t avoid the truth any longer. It wasn’t just a suggestion. It had been a solution to my problem. If we sent the intern packing, my life could go back to how it was before. But right now, a voice inside me was screaming.
I don’t want things to go back to how they were before!
I want Nico to be okay!
I want to see him shine again!
I want to hold Nico in my arms. Have him with me. Be with him. Laugh with him.
I felt lightheaded and leaned against the railing for support.
Fuck! This is not good. Not good at all.
If I thought my life was falling apart before, this was like a seismic event of the century. The very foundations of my world were shaking, and everything I had buried deep within myself came rushing out, exposing the countless lies I had built my life upon.
Nico.
In my mind, there was only him.
I needed to be with him.
Somehow.
Maybe I could pass myself off as his lawyer. Were there laws regarding this? What were these rules that dictated only immediate family could visit patients anyway?
In my mind, I was already at the hospital, but my body was frozen in place, clinging to the cold stone.
“Hec? Can we do something? You’re starting to scare me.”
