10 Coma

Tobias’s PoV

I watched as the medics that are on my payroll resuscitated her for the third time, “If she fucking dies, I will kill Enzo,” I practically promised,

“She dies, You’ll be the least of his worries,” Eros piped up as he watched the scene in front of him,

“Let’s just hope she doesn’t die,” Nicholas sighed out,

“She’s stayed alive for this long,” Theo added, “I don’t think she’ll die.”,

“She’ll make it,” Aidan spoke as he tucked his hands into his pockets,

“Hopefully,” Elias breathed out just as Evangeline arrested again, The lines on the machines weren’t flat but they seemed irregular as the doctors pushed her full of fluid and other stuff,

“Doubt it,” I commented, backing away from the window,

Suddenly my phone rang, I let out an annoyed sigh when I saw it was Caterina, I ignored it only for her to call again and again, “What?,” I snapped,

“Don’t ‘what’ me asshole,” she spoke angrily through the phone, “Why the fuck didn’t you tell me about the business involving people?”,

“Because it has nothing to do with you,” I said in a duh tone,

“It has everything to do with me!, I’m supposed to be marrying you!,” she exclaimed like she was on the verge of tears,

“Your dad doesn’t have an issue with it,” I shrugged like I actually care what her family thinks of me and my businesses, Her family is pretty conservative which is why she isn’t living with me right now, They want to wait until after the wedding for us to live together,

“But I do,” she breathed out, “You’re putting people to work to clear debt, Tobias, as a decent human, I just don’t think I can marry you now.”,

“Don’t be stupid,” I told her sternly, “We’re getting married because it’s part of the deal.”,

“Forget the deal!,” she sobbed out, “I don’t want to be apart of this!”,

“Caterina, we are going to get married, And when we do, I get what I want and you get what you want, freedom,” I whispered harshly down the phone, I could hear her take a deep breath before she cut the call,

Hopefully, she’ll get herself together,

Evangeline’s PoV

Two months later

Suddenly, all I could hear was a beeping noise, It was deafening and made me want to rip my eardrums out, My body didn’t feel like mine because I wasn’t connected to it, It was just my soul, I relaxed my eyes,

“MOM TELL HIM TO STOP!,” I screamed out in agony as my father hit my back over and over again with his leather belt, All I could hear were the cries from my mom, the grunts from my dad and the slapping of the belt against my skin,

It was going to scar,

“Stupid bitch,” I heard him repeat over and over again,

After maybe over 100 slaps from his belt, he gave up and dropped it to the floor beside me, He gave me a kick on my side before spitting on me and walking away, After 30 or 40 slaps from his belt, I stopped screaming, I got numb to the pain,

Lying here on this dirty ground, I couldn’t feel my back, I cracked my eyes open to see my mother watching me with sad eyes as my father dragged her upstairs, This happens regularly,

He’ll want her to go upstairs and she’ll try and fight against him, He’ll punch her and she’ll cry so she ends up following him upstairs and then I just sit quietly while her screams and cries echo through the house,

That’s how this normally goes,

Wanting to get out and away from this nightmare, I try to wake myself up, I don’t know how but I try, I encourage myself to open my eyes, move a finger, anything, Suddenly, I wasn’t in my head anymore, I could hear what was happening around me,

I guess this is step one to waking up?,

I could hear that beeping noise more clear now, I have no idea what it is but that’s really annoying, I overheard people talking, “She’s not doing good,” a man’s voice sounded, Is he talking about me?, “She’s arrested a lot of times, And we’ve had to bring her back to life more than once, Because we shocked her a lot of times, we could’ve damaged her brain, We’ll have to wait and see if she wakes up.”,

So I died?, They brought me back to life and I died again?, That’s crazy,

“And she was heavily drugged beforehand so that also would’ve have contributed to the possible brain damage.”,

I need to wake up, I can’t be stuck in my head for much longer, It’s practically a death sentence,

So I’m in a hospital then, I guess,

“Come on,” someone groaned out making me wanna kill them, “Wake the fuck up.”, I really would prefer it if they wouldn’t swear but we all can’t get what we want, I guess, “Wake the fuck up before I kill you.”, He wouldn’t kill me, “I’ll kill you, resuscitate you, then kill you again, Oh shit, wait, that already happened to you.”, I’m like a survivor now, I mean, I would be if I actually woke up, “By the way, this is Aidan.”, I couldn’t have guessed,

“Woah!, Did you just see that!,” he exclaimed in shock making me wonder what he did, “I held her hand and the heart monitor spiked!”,

Really?, I can’t even feel my hand,

I wonder what made my heart rate increase then,

“I told you motherfuckers she won’t die!,” he exclaimed happily as I imagined him jabbing his finger at each of them,

They all assumed I would die then?,

“Shut the fuck up,” someone else spoke up, silencing him,

“Aha!,” Aidan exclaimed again, “Her finger just moved!”,

I can’t really feel my fingers,

I could hear the door open then close before a voice I didn’t recognise spoke, “It’s just a reflex.”,

“Dammit,” Aidan sighed out,

“But I’ll reduce her dosage,” a man, who I’m guessing is the doctor, spoke, “If she decides to wake up, it’ll be a few hours at best.”,

I might wake up in a few hours,

I really want to rip my eardrums out, Aidan hasn’t left my side which means he also hasn’t stopped talking to me, For some reason, I can feel my body again, It’s like I’ve just been reconnected,

I really really hope it’s been a few hours,

Thankfully, someone entered and asked him to leave, giving my mind and ears the much needed break they needed, Since I couldn’t do anything else, I couldn’t stop reliving the past,

“Don’t do it!,” my mother screamed at him as he tried to cut me, He didn’t listen to her as he chose the sharpest knife he could find, All I could hear were her screams and cries, My father walked towards me with the familiar evil grin on his face as he held the knife in his hand, pointing it at me,

Just as he prepared to hurt me, I forced myself to wake up in the midst of all the screaming, I pulled myself out of my thoughts but that memory wouldn’t stop playing,

By now, all I could hear were voices but I wasn’t sure if they were from that memory or if they were real life, I forced my eyes open, not wanting to stay in my head for much longer,

When I finally did wake up, I didn’t even get the chance to look around before I began panicking and choking on the thing that was pushed down my throat,

“Don’t pull it out!,” someone I didn’t know yelled at me, “It’s helping you!”,

It’s clearly not helping me if I’m choking on it,

Before I knew it, the thing in my throat was pulled out and I was no longer choking, The strange man handed me a glass of water as he helped me sit up before speaking, “Do you know where you are?,” he asked me, I shook my head, no, “I need you to use your words.”,

“N-No,” I got out hoarsely, my throat aching,

“You’re in the hospital and I’m your doctor, Do you remember what happened to you?”,

“N-No.”,

“Do you know your name?”,

“Y-Yes.”,

“What is it?”,

“Evangeline.”, The man who claimed to be my doctor shined a bright light in each of my eyes before ordering me to follow the movement of his finger,

“All good,” he said with a smile before it suddenly dropped, “Evangeline, you were heavily drugged and you might had an allergic reaction to whatever you were injected with, We had to resuscitate you more than once-.”,

“Wait,” I interrupted apologetically, “I-I don’t…”,

“That means your heart stopped and we had to bring you back to life more than once, To repair the damage, you were put in a medically induced coma.”,

It feels like he’s just throwing a lot of balls at me from a bunch of directions,

I didn’t say another word and he had left me with Aidan and Elias and all of the Moretti brothers minus Enzo,

Where is Enzo?,

“You really don’t remember anything, huh?”,