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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.

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"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."

about it right now. I told you; Phillip is her father." Tears rolled

rushed me up to the ICU wards. Anne is with

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

was playing and the next

her little face and those cheeks I love to

"Are you Abby's mother?"

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us any idea what's happening?" I rub her soft hand as I speak. I want to scream. My heart is breaking for

is stupid. I'm trying to protect her, to build a stable life for her and when she needs me

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there. My hands start

a seat with her for a few minutes. The doctor will be along shortly. He'll speak

Thank

hand, rubbing her cheek. Anne is behind me and she rubs my shoulders. What a mess I've gotten

stay where we were? Life was so

this would have still happened. You weren't to know Abby would get ill and I know you came back to face up to the past and try and make it right. So Abby could know her father." Tears pour down my

You have to face it sooner or later. May as well be now, while she's too young to

suck in a breath

nurse comes back in. "We need to do some

call me if anything happens," I

you, yes. Go wait for

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

wanted to start a wing for families going through trauma. So they could keep their support system with them and also get the care and attention

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 something until it was

him.

we'd have our little family and even if we had to

me from my

just text that he

you sure? I can

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