The Abandoned Wife Dumped Him First (Victoria and Elias) novel Chapter 333

Hearing this, both Victoria and Tobias froze and exchanged a look.

Tobias's expression grew serious. He asked tentatively, "Mr. Sanger, you don't remember what happened before you lost consciousness?"

"Lost consciousness? What are you talking about?"

Garnett frowned, his gaze shifting to Victoria, full of searching and confusion, as if trying to pull something from the fog of his memory.

"Your brother's birthday was a couple of days ago. Didn't you two just come to visit me? We even had birthday cake together. Speaking of which, it really gets on my nerves. Your brother's almost thirty and doesn't even have a girlfriend..."

The more Victoria heard, the heavier her heart felt. She interrupted him, her voice strained, "Dad, what you're talking about... that was almost five months ago."

Garnett's voice stopped abruptly. He stared at Victoria in shock, his mind going blank as his pupils trembled. "Five months?"

Victoria nodded, pressing her lips together.

"How is that possible? I remember it so clearly—" Suddenly, as if realizing something, Garnett stopped mid-sentence.

If he really remembered so clearly, then why was he lying in a hospital bed? And how could Tobias, who was supposed to be overseas, suddenly be at his bedside? And...

The digital clock on the wall clearly showed that today was January 16th, but Grady was born in the fall.

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Soon, the attending physician arrived. After learning about Garnett's memory loss, he immediately scheduled a full-body examination.

Nearly a hundred different tests, from head to toe, were conducted, lasting late into the night before Garnett was finally returned to his room.

"A secondary hemorrhage isn't always caused by an injury. It can also be triggered by extreme emotional distress," Tobias explained. "I looked at Mr. Sanger's EEG records from this afternoon. Shortly after Grady was moved to the room next door, Mr. Sanger must have had a brief moment of consciousness."

This afternoon?

Only Mr. Flint was on watch this afternoon. If Garnett had woken up, Mr. Flint couldn't have missed it.

Mr. Flint, who was standing nearby, seemed to recall something. "Mr. Holt, now that you mention it, I do remember seeing Mr. Sanger's finger twitch this afternoon when I was giving him a sponge bath."

"I called out to him a few times, but Mr. Sanger didn't respond, so I thought I'd imagined it. A young nurse came in right then to change Mr. Sanger's IV bag, and I... I was so worried that I asked her a few questions about Gradyr's condition."

"That explains it. A brief moment of consciousness doesn't mean a full awakening. The patient is in a semi-conscious state and can hear the voices of people nearby."

Victoria's pale lips pressed into a thin line, her voice holding a slight, uncertain tremor. "Tobias, so are you saying it's possible Dad heard the news about Grady being in a vegetative state then, and the emotional shock caused..."