Chapter 24

"So today you are going home. What a pity" the nurse teased Isabella. "We are going to miss seeing that handsome husband of yours."

Isabella gave her a brief smile. She had grown so used to her hospital bedroom these last two weeks. Felt so safe there that she felt reluctant to leave.

Everyone had been so kind to her; so protective of her. So ready to reassure her that she was very brave and very lucky.

Her worst injury had been the blood she had lost where the metal had pierced her flesh, but even the scar from that would fade in time, the doctor had assured her

jovially.

Her back had been badly bruised. So badly that she had been black and blue, but by some miracle no permanent damage had been done apart from a few fractures of some of her bones, which are thankfully on the way to healing after extensive surgeries.

The scratches that had covered her face had also totally healed, and now the doctor had decided that she was well enough to leave.

To go home…

Home to Benjamin a