503 The Push Forward

(Winona)

"Dr Harris will be with you soon. How are your pain levels?"

"It's okay. A dull ache at most." Physically anyway.

She finishes fluffing the pillows behind me and checks the monitors one last time. "I'll make a note for the doctor."

I nod.

My hand covers my stomach. There's no baby anymore. No heartbeat to wait for. Just a dull ache where hope used to be.

I hear the door click open. I look over but it isn't the doctor, it's Jayden back again.

"Can I get a moment with Winona? I won't be long..." he asks the nurse.

"Sure, if it's okay with Winona."

"It's fine." I tell her.

"Hey," he says quietly, walking over to the chair by my bed.

"Hey," I reply.

"I'm going to head to the penthouse for a shower and go see the kids, okay?"

"More than okay. I feel better knowing you're with them."

want to leave you if

to feel. But I do know we have to push forward

him, and the raw emotion in his eyes nearly

this, about everything that's happened since I saw those damned photos-" "Stop," I say sharply, cutting him off. "Don't do that. Don't put all of this on yourself. My choices put us here too. But getting pregnant, losing the baby, both of

to meet mine, and for a moment,

through this.

man would do under the circumstances," I whisper, my own voice trembling. "I'm sorry for hall pass week and making

His grip is firm, grounding, and I cling to it

in this whole thing. We'll never know if any different choice might have meant we got to keep the

It's unquantifiable.

something," he says quietly, his eyes

I nod, waiting.

"Are we okay?"

me off guard, and I'm not sure how to answer it. "I don't know," I admit. "I don't even know where I stand with myself right now, let alone us. Do you want us to

flinch. He

as if

"That's fair," he

stairs. I knew in that second, I'm all in. Whatever it takes, whatever you need, I'm here. I'm not going anywhere. I

and I know it's what I wanted to hear before I fell but

myself. This app Lance left me... I'd like a chance to develop it further. But I know we talked about running Nexus

will still be there later for us to run together. If your own thing is what you need right now, you do that.

forward, pressing a

"I need to go home for a bit," he says reluctantly. "Graba shower, check in on the kids. I'll have dinner with them and settle them into bed. Lisa's waiting outside if you're up for some company after the doctor has checked

Tell her I'd love

I know she needs to get back to Brussels soon for her job." Jayden

Harris walks in

says with a nod before turning her

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