Chapter 40

Ajit

Blood drained out of my body as I heard the most inscrutable, unimaginable, and shredding words fall out of her lips. I became hypnotic, captured by the disturbing revelation. 

Adaah lost her memory. 

The devastating epiphany tore me into a million pieces. Not only is her image, but her total identity is also now a clean slate. All the beautiful moments that we shared once together are gone forever from her system. My feet stood rooted to the ground, disabling me from moving as I tried to assimilate every bit of her medical disorder.

Her heart begins to beat frantically, looking at me. I am now nothing but an alien to her. It was an understanding that shattered me to bits. The doctor who was examining her quickly noted the disturbance in her heartbeat, looking at the beeping monitor. He gestured for me to leave the room immediately. The nurse standing nearby instantaneously took hold of a syringe on the instruction of the doctor and adminis