"Conference?" Zen was dumbfounded since she hadn’t been inford about Wendy’s situation yet.
The doctor explained, "Mrs. Lucas can’t rember anything that happened after she turned twenty-one and you were her best friend in college during her sophomore year. Can you recall any significant conference Mrs. Lucas attended that year?"
Zen thought about the doctor’s question. Then, she glanced at Michael.
He couldn’t help feeling anxious when he saw Zen peeking at him.
"Could... could it be the thing I fear the most?" he thought.
The last thing he wanted was Wendy’s selective amnesia to be because of him. Zen pursed her lips as she wasn’t sure if she should say it or not.
"Zen, can you rember anything?" Wendy asked her worriedly.
"The speaker is Michael Lucas from the MC Group. Do you still rember our dream to join the MC Group after graduation, Wendy?" Zen still wasn’t sure what was happening, but she was willing to do everything to help Wendy recover.
"Michael Lucas?" Suddenly, Wendy recalled the image of a man, yet she wasn’t able to rember what he looked like no matter how hard she tried.
Her head started to hurt again as she struggled with her mory and she began hitting her head in frustration.
Zen grabbed her hand and said, "It’s alright, it’s alright. I’ll fill you in with the details later."
Both the doctor and Michael could understand the situation after Zen’s brief yet ssy conversation with Wendy.
The doctor turned to Michael and Zen. "Mr. Lucas, Zen, please co to my office."
After arriving at the doctor’s office, he asked Zen, "You’re Mrs. Lucas’s college friend, so I bet you know how much that eting ant to her, don’t you?"
"Yes, I do..." Zen answered awkwardly as she glanced at Michael. "That was when Wendy t Mr. Lucas for the first ti."
One day during Wendy’s sophomore year in college, Michael went to her college campus as a conference guest, and that was the first ti Wendy t Michael.
Love at first sight was the perfect description for Wendy’s feelings for Michael at the conference. After that, Wendy devoted all her energy and ti to him.
Coincidentally, she also bumped into Yvonne Taylor who tried to seduce Michael by drugging him. However, Wendy accidentally slept with him that night. After which, she married Michael.
For Michael, he used to go to many college conferences as a keynote speaker in the past, so he couldn’t rember any details of the event Zen ntioned. However, Zen’s elaboration of that day sent him in despair.
People who suffered from selective amnesia usually lost mories of the most traumatic events in their lives. In Wendy’s case, it seed that Michael was the most disastrous thing that had ever happened to her since eight years worth of mories were erased because of him.
Michael was on the verge of crying while staring at the floor.
He had always known that he caused Wendy a lot of pain and suffering and he tried to make up for it. But he didn’t know, until today, how incredible the extent of the damage he caused was.
It was so traumatic, that her brain completely shut out eight years of her life just so that she could forget Michael.
"Mr. Lucas, you don’t need to beat yourself up like this," the doctor started to try to console Michael. "In many cases, selective amnesia is temporary, and chances are she will recall what happened. It wasn’t necessarily Mrs. Lucas’s personal choice to forget what happened in the past eight years. It might be a self-defense chanism in her subconscious. Didn’t Mrs. Lucas forget about her children as well? Stop being so hard on yourself. We’ll try to get her mories back."
Unfortunately, the doctor’s comforting words worked the other way around and only made Michael bla himself more.
Michael raised his hand and struck his own face hard.
’Screw you, Michael!’ He thought to himself. ’How dare you hurt her like that?!’
***
Despite knowing that her blindness was only temporary, Wendy was still scared as she could see nothing but darkness.
Nevertheless, she didn’t want to let anyone know of her fear because she didn’t want to worry those who cared about her.
Mary and Wendy’s kids kept talking to Wendy when Michael and Zen were in the doctor’s office since the doctor said it would help jog her mory if she was told more stories from her past.
Jake and Leah were more upset than anyone else since their mother had forgotten about them.
Leah held Wendy’s hands as tears were about to burst from her eyes, "Mommy, please rember and my brother. Please don’t forget about us."
Wendy would’ve been shocked to find out that she had had two children if Mary hadn’t explained to her that she had been married with kids.
Wendy smiled and raised her hand, trying to figure out where Leah’s face was.
Leah grasped Wendy’s hand after seeing how lost Wendy was and put it on her face.
"Mommy, you used to love stroking my face, rember?" Leah said. "You used to tell how soft my face is, rember? You’ll definitely rember !"
"Leah. Give mommy so ti," Jake tried to comfort her seeing how red Wendy’s eyes were. "Mommy will definitely get there. She just needs so more ti."
Leah sniffed, wiped away her tears, and nodded.
As they were talking to Wendy, Michael and Zen ca back from the doctor’s office.
"How’s my mom?" Jake wasted no ti asking Michael as he couldn’t stop worrying about Wendy. "What did the doctor say?"
Michael suddenly didn’t have the guts to face Wendy. He looked down at his son who was just a kid, his own heart filled with guilt.
Zen interjected, "The doctor has assured us that your mommy will get her mories back if she cooperates well. Don’t worry too much."
Wendy was the most important thing in everyone’s mind, so they dropped everything that was on their plates and spent the entire afternoon chatting with her.
As dusk drew near, Michael asked the others to go take a break since he wanted to spend so ti alone with Wendy.
Mary was concerned about his health as he had been exerting so much energy for days while still recovering from his own injury. "You’d better take tonight off, Michael. I’ll look after Wendy tonight," she said.
"It’s alright, Ms. Stewart. There’s a spare bed right there and I’ll take a nap if I’m tired," Michael rejected her offer because he wanted to take care of Wendy himself.
"No, I won’t allow it. All of us had a good night’s sleep yesterday, except you. I know how concerned you are about Wendy, but I’m her mother. You can trust more than anyone else to take care of her. I’ll call you right away if anything happens. Does that sound alright?"
Mary had witnessed Michael protecting Wendy for almost a week straight.
She didn’t know what happened between Wendy and Michael in the past few years,
but she had confidence in her eyes, and what she saw told her that Wendy was in good hands with Michael.
Michael started pushing Mary away seeing how determined she was. "Ms. Stewart, please just help and Wendy by taking care of Jake," he said with a smile. "The doctor said that Wendy needs to be on a light diet for now. Would you mind making so veggie porridge for her?" He then took out a set of keys and handed them to Mary. "I have a house that’s close to the hospital. I’ll have Mr. York lead you there."
Michael then took a look at Todd and Leah and spoke, "The house is large enough for you and Leah to sleep there as well."
Mary sighed as she saw how exhausted Michael was and the bandages on his chest.
’Impressive,’ Mary thought. ’He’s a patient himself, yet he still insists on staying and looking after Wendy.’
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