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"I'll drive you."

""You don't have to."

""It'll be faster. Come on."

"Thanks Jayden."

He leaves a wad of cash to cover dinner and tips on the table and takes me by the arm as he ushers me out. That touch burns into my skin but I can't think about that right now. My baby is in intensive care and I need to get there. The valet brings the car and Jayden opens my door. I get in and before long we roar off into the traffic, weaving and beeping.

"Jayden, slow down, I don't want to have an accident or be delayed if the traffic cops stop you.

"Sorry. Look, you relax, just let me drive. I understand how this must make you feel."

"No, no you don't. Only a parent could understand what it's like to have their only child, maybe the only child they can ever have, in a life-threatening situation. I almost yell the words because stress has me wired so high. He glares across at me. "Only a parent huh?

"That's right." I snap back.

T

"Well, isn't that what I am? She's my kid, isn't she? You go on about honesty, but you can't even tell me the truth about something so important. You're a hypocrite."

you; Phillip is her father." Tears rolled down my

rushed me up to the ICU wards.

need to stay." I tell Jayden as I walk into her room and choke up at

minute she was playing and the next she was unresponsive. I'm so sorry. The ambulance was

face and those cheeks I love

"Are you Abby's mother?"

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her soft hand as I speak. I want to scream. My heart is breaking

I'm trying to protect her, to build a stable

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there. My hands start to

her for a few minutes. The doctor will be along shortly. He'll speak to you outside the room. We don't want any...excitement,

"Of course. Thank

hand, rubbing her cheek. Anne is behind me and

Why didn't I just stay where we were?

try and make it right. So Abby could know her father." Tears pour down my face. "But I could have just married Phillip and Abby would have known him as

you. There's no easy way out of the past. You have to

suck in a breath as

nurse comes back in. "We need to do some more

be okay? You'll call me if anything happens," I

you, yes.

I were both very distraught because we had no clue what was happening at the time and there was so much excruciating pain and blood. He'd had a hard time when they wouldn't let him in with me. He carried on in his pretentiously entitled way but they stuck to their rules and said he'd

trauma. So they could keep their support system with them and also get the care and attention

him in, and he heard I was pregnant and had a complicated miscarriage, and also that I may never be able to conceive again, I thought he was going to cry. He said he'd never realized how much he wanted

him.

our little family and even if we had to start with nothing,

buzzed pulling me from my daydream. It's

you go home. Phillip just text that he is on

you sure? I

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