My Husband Turned Me To His Maid

The stark smell of bleach was overwhelming. I scrunched my eyes at the bright light that was sipping through my closed eyelids. I felt powerless and heavy. I could not move my hand, my head or my body.

I slowly started blinking, desperately trying to open my eyes and see what's around me. Where was I?

As the blinding light slowly subsided I took a look around my surroundings. I was at the hospital. I could hear the annoying beeping sound, my legs felt heavy and so did my eyes but the most pain came from my stomach.

The room was pristine clean and gloomy. Typical hospital bed, IV and monitors beeping. The walls were a sickly green color and the linens were grayish. The place looked nothing like a room where a patient should be motivated to get better. If anything the murky room was making me even more nauseous. But anyway I always hated hospitals.

I could not remember how I got here but I knew for sure that I wanted out as soon as possible. Preferably right now. I pulled on the IV line and felt a sharp pain. I need to see my daughter now.

My head started to ache, I held my head as bits and pieces of my memory started to come back. I was bleeding. Blood on my legs. Why?

My leg was filled with blood. I have been feeling nauseous could there have been, could I have been, no it's not possible. It's my period.

But last three weeks we made love, no protection. I had stopped taking my pills.

My hands started to shake and as realization dawned on me so did fear and a pounding headache. I was still in oblivion when I heard the door open. I closed my eyes and pretended to be fast asleep. I heard four feet's coming in, two people. I didn't know why I pretended to still be unconscious but it just felt like the right thing to do then.

"What was wrong with her," the first man asked. It was Cletus I could never mistake his voice. He sounded tired and weak, strained even. I yearned for the other man's voice knowing that he could answer all my unanswered questions. He must be the doctor.

"She had a miscarriage, she was pregnant with twin___" he was cut shut by Cletus strained scream. I could hear him kneel down

My heart started beating faster

Twin

I held onto the bed like my life depended on it, pressing hard on the bed sheet. I felt like there was more to say. And more to hear and getting carried away now would leave me with so many unanswered questions. So I stayed still and tried to keep my tears at bay but it hurt, it really hurt.

Still I stayed strong and still. I needed to know the truth and I could not blow off my cover by shouting out even though I had stopped breathing.

I was pregnant

Twins

Cletus killed my children

"You have to take heart and be a man she needs you more at this time," the doctor continued with a strain in his voice and from his voice I could tell that he too was saddened by what happened.

He should be, he was our family doctor and a close friend but I felt that there was more to it than that. "Her w.o.m.b was affected and it would be difficult for her to conceive again although by some miracle she might.

His voice turned hostile. "Cletus I warned you didn't I? I warned you to stop hitting her, now look what has happened, you have lost two kids and may not have another. What exactly did this woman do to deserve this maltreatment from you?" he asked angrily.

"Tobi you have to keep this between us she must not find out about the miscarriage you have to___" I heard Cletus beg.

"I do abortions for you and as if that's not enough to sour my reputation, you want me to hide a crucial information like this from her, I can't do this. I'm sorry, it's against my medical ethics.

Abortion!

Abortion!

Miscarriage!

Who the hell is Cletus? I kept asking myself. Who the hell did I fall in love with? Who the hell is my husband?

It all started ringing in my head and my heart race increased. So many questions so much pain. The beeping sound, the doctors voice, my mind shut down again.

"The patient is going into a cardiac arrest." was the last thing I heard before it all went blank.