Chapter 16

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“You’ve got to wake up, my lovely. Please,” Sonny whispered to the still body in the dimly-lit hospital room. “You can’t leave me. I’d go crazy. I went thirty-six years of my life without you. I can’t go the next thirty-six alone. I’ll do anything you want, go anywhere you choose if you’ll just come back to me…any way you can.”I tried so very hard to become a good doctor,she thought, so I could help people. Now, the one person in my life that I love with all my heart is hurt and I’m powerless.What good did all that studying and work do? She put her head down into her hands.

Several minutes later, she felt a hand on her shoulder. When she looked up, it was Mycah’s father.

“She’ll wake up. She always comes back. She always has. Give her a little time.”

“I love her so very much, Mr. Arcebella, and I’ve only had her a few weeks.”

“Let’s cut out this Mister Arcebella crap, Sonny. If you’re going to be my daughter-in-law, call me Papa, or at least by my first name, Peleo.”