I Married My Childhood Sweetheart in His

I truly believed it was mine too.
Then one of the nurses caught me alone in the hallway.
She glanced toward Ben’s room to make sure he could not hear us.
Then she quietly said,
“Don’t tell him I told you this.”
My breath caught.
She leaned closer.
“Before you leave tonight…”
“Look under his mattress. He is not telling you everything. He and his doctor have a plan.”
“He doesn’t know I’ve seen it.”
Then she disappeared.
I walked back into my new husband’s room, smiling like nothing had happened.
But all I could think about…
Was what the man I had loved for twenty years could possibly be hiding beneath his hospital bed.
I waited until Ben slowly shuffled toward the bathroom with his IV pole.
The second the door clicked shut…
I carefully lifted the edge of the mattress.
And what I saw there made my knees nearly give out
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