Chapter 57

• Claudia
• Richard, you have to wake up and get better, I am here waiting for you. I can't go on if you're not by my side, but I warn you from this moment on that there is nothing in this world that can keep me away from you. No, now that I have made my decision not to allow anyone to separate us, and that includes you, I know it will hurt to see yourself this way, but I assure you there is a solution and even if there isn't, I love you just the way you are, you just have to trust yourself and this great feeling that binds us. The desire to see you open your eyes reverberates inside me in a unique and unparalleled way, perhaps because I thought we would never be together in life again.
• Every day for a week now, I talk to him without getting any answers, the doctor assures me it's normal, as they keep him under minimal sedation to help his wounds heal as best as possible while feeding him through a tube, but I know he hears me, I feel his heart is attentive to each of my words, every day I hold his hand in mine and share that warmth he so desperately needs while whispering softly how much I love him and miss him, perhaps it's illogical to miss someone who wasn't in a person's life for long, but those milliseconds we shared were so genuine and real that they seem to have been the best of my life, except for the times when Hannah's presence ruined our existence.