Bella woke in pain and then remembered she was in the hospital. She pressed the button for the nurse.
They came down and gave her something for the pain. She then noticed the large man sitting in the corner.
Zane had stayed with her. When the nurses left he walked over to her.
"Sorry" He said.
Bella was tired of that word he must of said it a thousand times now. Her jaws were swollen so she could not yell at him to stop.
Then she started thinking how was she going to pay this bill.
As if he could read her mind he says, "The bills have been taken care of."
Bella look at him. He was so big and handsome.
He walked over and took her hand again. "You Dad and brothers were here earlier. They said they will be back in the morning."
Bella could not say anything so she made a motion for a pen.
Zane grabbed a pad and took out his pen.
'Did they catch the guy?'
"No the police got him on camera but they are still looking. They will be here tomorrow to get your statement."
'Why did you not go home?'
"I'm sorry, I was upset you choose to be with your brother over me."
'???'
"I don't know, I just got jealous I can't explain why."
'Please stop saying sorry'
"I can't help it. I hurt because I failed you."
'It wasn't your fault. You are just my employer. Please don't blame your self.'
Zane shook his head 'just an employer'
"Can I be more to you?"
'I think of you as a friend too'
He wanted more, much more. He gently placed a kiss on the top of her head.
"Sleep it will help you heal." He then went back to the corner.
When Bella woke up the next morning some of the swelling had gone down and she had a voice now.
Bret had brought her a few things from home. Night gown, robe, slippers, and her library book.
Zane sat in the corner watching them talk. He head out and said he would be back later.
Zane was feeling jealous again but he refused to leave her side.
His secretary brought him some casual cloths and his laptop.
While they had her down in x-ray he showered and changed into jeans and a polo and started looking through email.
The nurses help Bella get cleaned up and into her own night gown.
'How come even in this state she is still the most beautiful woman he has ever seen' Zane asked himself.
As contained to works as Bella reads her book.
◇◇◇♡♡♡◇◇◇HANSEL AND GRETHEL cont.
"Get up, you lazy things; we are going into the forest to chop wood."
Then she gave them each a piece of bread, saying, "There is something for your dinner; do not eat it before the time, for you will get nothing else."
Grethel took the bread in her apron, for Hansel's pocket was full of pebbles; and so they all set out upon their way.
When they had gone a little distance, Hansel stood still, and peeped back at the house; and this he repeated several times, till his father said, "Hansel, what are you peeping at, and why do you lag behind? Take care, and remember your legs."
"Ah, father," said Hansel, "I am looking at my white cat sitting upon the roof of the house, and trying to say good-bye."
"You simpleton!" said the wife, "that is not a cat; it is only the sun shining on the white chimney." But in reality Hansel was not looking at a cat; but every time he stopped, he dropped a pebble out of his pocket upon the path.
When they came to the middle of the forest, the father told the children to collect wood, and he would make them a fire, so that they should not be cold. So Hansel and Grethel gathered together quite a little mountain of twigs.
Then they set fire to them; and as the flame burnt up high, the wife said, "Now, you children, lie down near the fire, and rest yourselves, while we go into the forest and chop wood; when we are ready, I will come and call you."
Hansel and Grethel sat down by the fire, and when it was noon, each ate the piece of bread; and because they could hear the blows of an axe, they thought their father was near: but it was not an axe, but a branch which he had bound to a withered tree, so as to be blown to and fro by the wind.
They waited so long that at last their eyes closed from weariness, and they fell fast asleep. When they awoke, it was quite dark, and Grethel began to cry, "How shall we get out of the wood?"
But Hansel tried to comfort her by saying, "Wait a little while till the moon rises, and then we will quickly find the way."
The moon soon shone forth, and Hansel, taking his sister's hand, followed the pebbles, which glittered like new-coined silver pieces, and showed them the path.
All night long they walked on, and as day broke they came to their father's house. They knocked at the door, and when the wife opened it, and saw Hansel and Grethel, she exclaimed, "You wicked children! why did you sleep so long in the wood? We thought you were never coming home again."
◇◇◇♡♡♡◇◇◇
Zane watched as she got lost in her reading. She was very beautiful.He loved the way her eyes light up.
He wondered if her eyes would ever light up when she looked at him. He still had to find away to make her his.
When lunch came he insisted on feeding her. "You are hurt let me help you."
"Silly I'm not a child" She said.
"No your not but please be good and let me feed you." He was trying to hold his temper in.
She laughed and opened her mouth.
He repeated his actions with supper and instead of arguing with him she just ate what he feed.
Soon her father and brothers were there for a visit and when she asked about her sisters they just said they were busy finding work.
She knew better, they never really cared for her and if they came, they would only call her ugly.