"At 0:30 a.m., Orarton time, a plane bound for Allath crashed when it landed, killing 136 people and leaving only three sur."
Gilda Lynch came back to her senses when she heard the report about the air crash on the hospital's TV.
As one of the three survivors, she was lying wounded in the ICU with her both legs bandaged.
And her phone kept saying, "Sorry, the subscriber you dialed is powered off. Please try it later."
Jensen Harrington, her husband, hadn't answered any of her calls since the accident.
She didn't believe that he knew nothing about the air crash that shocked the whole country.
Many people died in the crash, and she was still suffocated by the fear of being near death.
However, the man who had been married to her for three years was gone when she needed him most.
Gilda felt so disappointed in him.
After a long time, her phone suddenly rang. She came back to her senses and looked at it, but she didn't seem to be happy when she saw the caller ID. It was "Grandma".
"Hello..." She picked up the phone in a hoarse voice.
The next instant, she heard Marilyn Harrington say in an anxious tone, "The news scared me, Gilly! Are you okay? Is Jensen with you?"
Marilyn was Jensen's grandma and also the only one in the Harrington family who cared about her.
"He..."
Marilyn noticed her silence immediately. "He's such a jerk! As his wife and secretary, you went abroad for him this time. Now you had an accident but he's not there with you. Just wait. I'll teach him a good lesson!"
Then Marilyn continued, "Which hospital are you in? I'm sending Rick to get you home!"
Not long after Gilda told her the address, she hung up the phone.
Gilda lowered her head, silently removed the needle from her arm, and got out of bed in pain.
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