Chapter 29
The police came the same time the paramedics came. As they took Raoul away to be locked in solitary confinement, they began to pick Erik up and put him on the stretcher. The bullet was fired straight into his heart and he needed surgery immediately to live. The tears streamed down my face as he grasped my hand in his.
"Christine...my little...angel."
I wiped the sweat from his head and he smiled at me.
"I'll never leave you." he whispered.
As they took him in the paramedic, I sat next to him the entire way. I couldn't leave his side. I was so fearful that he wasn't going to make it.
Once inside the hospital, they told me I could say one last thing before he went into surgery. I bent down and kissed his lips softly and whispered,
"You'll always be in my heart."
He smiled at me and ran his fingers down my face.
"Love me now forever, Christine."
I began to cry.
"I will Erik, I always will."
Sitting in the waiting room seemed like years. Finally, after 5 hours, a doctor came out and asked me if I was Miss. Daae.
"Yes, is my Erik alright? May I see him?"
The doctor tried to smile, but he just couldn't.
"Christine, I'm so sorry. There was a complication and he...just didn't make it."
Those words hit my body and I fell to the floor stone cold. All of a sudden, I was alone in the world. Erik had broken his promise to me. He wasn't here anymore. I was...all...alone...