26. Ana
26
ANA
THREE WEEKS LATER
C aden had barely left my side since he brought me home from the hospital. Today he finally went somewhere that was more than 10 minutes away.
The doctors said I was fine and just needed rest. They had mixed a bunch of stimulants in together, including a few aphrodisiacs, and the drugs interacting with each other had caused me to have that one seizure, but I was fine now; it took days of being constantly hydrated and a lot of peeing before I was finally ready to be sent home. That hadn't been a ride in the park, either. Explaining how I got animal blood all over me was quite the challenge. Caden came up with the explanation that it was a prank gone bad. The doctors didn’t seem like they believed it but said nothing as they eventually signed my release forms.
I was currently in the bathroom, soaking in a tub. Ever since I got back, I had been taking more showers than some would consider normal . It's just that sometimes I still felt the sticky blood all over my skin and it made me gag. It had been why I hadn’t made love with Caden since I got back. I felt dirty still. He was so sweet and patient, not even trying to initiate sex in the slightest, and then when I felt ready, I had made several attempts to initiate sex, but he always calmly told me he didn’t feel I was ready. It was actually beginning to piss me off.
The elevator ding, and since I knew how he would react if he didn’t see me—he completely freaked out. I did what I had been doing for the past three weeks to lead him to where I was.