Page 51 of His to Love
Chapter Twenty-Four
Alexa
I felt as if chaos surrounded me, so I moved to get away from it–moved upward. My body felt so light, too light, like a balloon filled with helium. Drifting toward the ceiling, the light above me began to glow brighter and brighter until I couldn’t see a thing.
“It’s not working,” I heard a woman say from somewhere below me.
I didn’t want to listen to all those noisy people. I didn’t want to hear what they had to say. I just wanted them to be quiet and calm down.
“She’s my sister. What’s happening?” I heard my brother shout, his voice sounded shaky. I’d never heard such fear in his voice before.
A loud zapping sound jolted me for a moment, stopping me from rising any higher. Turning over, I faced the floor and saw all the people huddled in the middle of the room.
The room I’d given birth in not long ago.
“No,” I heard my brother whisper. “No, this can’t be.” Although I could hear him, I couldn’t see him. I moved toward the sound, wanting to see Luciano.
“Her heart stopped,” I heard Patton say.
Whose heart stopped?
I had no idea what he was talking about, but I had the idea that he was talking to my brother. So, I followed the sound of his voice as Patton went on. “I don’t know what happened. She was breathing fine and then she wasn’t breathing at all.”
Who wasn’t breathing?
Feeling confused, I suddenly felt desperate to see the faces of Patton and my brother.
Patton went on to say, “I was sitting there next to her with the baby in my arms when she flatlined.”
The baby! Is he talking about Patty?
“How could this happen? You can’t let this happen to her,” I heard my brother cry out with so much agony in his voice that it hurt me to think of him being in that much pain.
“Luci, I’m sorry. I really am,” Patton said. “I never meant to betray your trust. And I haven’t done a thing about my feelings for her. But—God help me, I love your sister.”
He loves me?
“I want our marriage to be real.”
He wants a real marriage?
“I don’t want to ever lose her.”
Why does he think he’ll ever lose me? I would never leave him.
“I hope you can learn to forgive me,” he said to my brother. “I’m not going to let another day go by without telling her my true feelings. She has to come out of this. She just has to.”
She? Is he talking about me?
I finally moved to the door then ducked and was able to go through it. And there I saw my brother and Patton. Patton held our son in his arms, a look of pure anguish on his handsome face.
Luciano looked at Patton with admiration. “You have my blessing, brother.”
I’d already known that my brother had given me his blessing, and now Patton had it too. Nothing stood in our way of becoming a happy family now.
Luciano held out his hand to Patton. “Let us join hands and pray.”
What is there to pray about? And for who?I couldn’t recall ever feeling so completely confused in my life.
