Billionaire Bad Boys of Romance 2(144)

“Keyonna…vita mia. Please. Wake up.”

Slowly regaining consciousness, Keyonna clung to the husky, familiar voice speaking so softly, calling her ‘his life’. She sighed, savoring the gentle hand stroking her knuckles even as she slowly, painstakingly blinked her heavy lids open.

The sight of Nick sitting right by her bed, his head bent over her hand clasped in his, made Keyonna’s heart constrict.

“Oh Nick,” she breathed, very softly. But he heard her, and his head jerked up instantly. His pained eyes brightened when he saw her looking wide-eyed at him.

“Keyonna, my darling, you’re okay!” Nick exclaimed, his grip on her hand tightening.

“Yeah, I think,” Keyonna said with a smile at the relief on his face. She suddenly became aware of her surroundings and realized she must be in some kind of private hospital room. Under the white and blue sheets, she noted that she was wearing only a light cotton hospital gown. The windows were open and it was daylight, and there were flowers all over the nearby drawers and shelves.

Keyonna was at a loss, not sure what had happened to her. “Nick…what am I doing here?” Her tone was anxious.

“You had an accident, tesoro,” Nick told her hoarsely. “Close to the hotel. That bike ran you down, remember?”

Keyonna frowned incomprehensively. “Remember what?”

Nick stared at her, squeezing that much harder on her hand and causing her to let out a small cry in surprise.

“I’m sorry,” he said, hastily loosening his grip. “But, you’re sure you don’t remember…anything?”

Keyonna’s eyes looked uncertain as she paused thoughtfully. “Well, we were supposed to be married…” This time her own fingers clutched tighter around his. “We did get married, didn’t we?”

Nick nodded, looking numb as he seemed unsure what to say.

“I remember now,” Keyonna said slowly. “We had this marvelous wedding, and then the reception with everything looking so perfect…But I can’t seem to recall anything after that. Nothing at all. Oh Nick, I’m scared,” she cried, and struggled to raise herself from the pillows on her elbows, but then the pain shattered through her whole body. Feeling faint, she gasped and then felt everywhere go black again.



Nick stared unseeingly at the tiled floor as he listened to what the doctor was saying.

“It must have been the terrible shock of the accident…sudden trauma can do that to people. It has been known to happen, Mr. Vitale. Some memory loss can occur whereby the patient will blank out certain events – events that may cause them pain to remember. It’s generally a temporary condition. I suggest that you take it slowly and not try to force her to remember anything. It will all come back to her naturally, I’m sure. Just give it time…”

Time, thought Nick with bitterness. That’s exactly what he’d had to fight against these past several weeks since Keyonna disappeared from the wedding reception. Since then he’d endured different stages of torture. His first fear was that she’d been kidnapped – but soon he found out she must have run away because her overnight cases and some other items were found to have been missing.

He’d been half-frantic, half-enraged and had done all he could to find her, to hear from her own lips why she had done this to him. Nothing had prepared him for this; he hadn’t seen it coming. Day and night for the past five weeks he’d born the speculations of onlookers who’d had a field day over her disappearance.

If it hadn’t been for her parents informing him that they’d received a single phone call from Keyonna saying she was okay, but wouldn’t tell them where she was. Nick had wanted to smash anything and everything he could lay his hands on. One thing he didn’t stand for was being made a fool of and Keyonna had done just that. He’d been itching to show her who was in charge and he swore that he’d teach her a lesson the first chance he got. He’d put the best people on the job to search for her but it had been like she’d dropped off the face of the earth. There were no credit card records and there was no way to track where she’d headed to and as the days went by and she didn’t contact him, it seemed impossible to ever find out anything about what had happened.

And then, just two days ago he’d received that call from Rachel who gave him the shocker that she’d run into Keyonna in Verona, Italy. He couldn’t believe she’d gone that far away. He’d thought that she was still in the country but now that he knew for sure she’d flown all the way to his home town almost made him feel like it was a slap in the face. He’d been so fucking furious it had been hard to see straight for a minute.#p#分页标题#e#