Rita was discharged seven days after she'd been admitted, with medication, home care advice, a future appointment for check-up and the big news.
"Who else knows this?" she asked the doctor gravely while sitting on the hospital bed, dressed, left hand in a sling while waiting for her friends to come take her home.
"I...no one. I believe as there were no relatives, just friends, you needed the option of not sharing until you're ready."
Rita smiled at the doctor, nodding, because she hadn't even known she'd needed that option. The first day here, it'd been Ben handling everything and when she'd woken up, he'd been gone and her friends, who'd taken over from him, told her nothing. She'd received the message loud and clear, he didn't want her. Maybe, he was afraid of what people would think, him being with the same person that had sent his uncle to prison.
