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“Because I love my wife, Anchor,” Dad whispers, and Anchor looks away.
He met someone who was already in a relationship, and even knowing that, he fought for her, but apparently, she cheated on him, fucked her ex-boyfriend, and the man is crushed.
We haven’t met her, fuck, we don’t even know her name, but what we do know is that she used him.
“And what about your son?” Canine asks, and even Doc snorts.
The fucker should not be chiming in right now when he’s trying to force his son into a marriage.
“You don’t have a leg to stand on, brother,” my dad reminds him, but Canine shakes his head and admits, “I do actually.While yeah I want my son to marry Smith’s daughter for the sake ofourclub and to piss the fucker off, he hasn’t found the one, he never believed in the one,” Doc flinches confusing me, “Your son found his one and you still tried to guilt trip him and force him to stay with Elsie and now his wife, his love is fighting for her life.”
“And what exactly was I supposed to say, huh, Brian?” Dad snaps, “Was I supposed to come to you with my wife hanging our marriage over my head like a fucking carrot if I said anything and admit I was basically raped?!”
My jaw ticks, and Canine looks down.
Mama had no right hanging their marriage like that, using it so he didn’t say anything, not when she fucking cheated.
“Yes,” Doc says firmly, shocking everyone. He points at Dad and states, “If your wife was using your marriage as a way for you to have to live with your trauma then she is no fucking wife. She’s a patch chaser wanting a good life and don’t get me wrong, I love Hayley, she’s family, she’s my aunt, but she was a bitch to do that especially when she fucked someone else before she got pregnant with Selena.”
The door opens, and I quickly look with my heart in my throat, but instead, I growl.
Mama.
Her hand is in a small cast, and she is completely oblivious to what she’s just walked in on.
“Any news?” she asks as she looks around the room, but then frowns seeing how tense it is. “What happened?” she demands, and my jaw ticks yet again.
“What happened, Mama”, I say, gaining her attention, “Is that you would have rather Dad suffer in pain with his trauma every fucking day and see me with a lunatic patch chasing bitch than to be embarrassed that your husband was basically sexually assaulted by another man.”
Mama's eyes widen in shock as her whole body locks, and I tell her, “You are a hypocrite. You fucking cheated on Dad who treated you like a queen, and he stayed with you because he loved you, and yet you couldn’t be there for him in his time of need?” I curl my lip at the woman I once promised to always protect and admit, “I’m fucking ashamed to call you my mother!”
Mamas tears fall but I turn away from her, linking my fingers behind my head as I lock eyes with Doc and demand, “You need to go back there before I begin tearing this hospital apart.”
Just as I say the words, the door opens again, and I swing around and have all the air sucked out of me as Dr. Chambers comes into the room, covered in blood, my wife’s blood.
Fuck.
Doc quickly grabs my arm before I can fall to my knees while Rose’s family rushes over to the doctor, whose eyes are on me.
“My daughter, how is my daughter?” William begs as he wraps his inconsolable wife and daughter under each arm.
They’ve been sitting in the corner, quietly listening to everything, not chiming in.
They blame me, and I don’t fucking blame them because I blame me too, and after this, I’m going to make the right decision for my wife even if it breaks me.
Dr. Chambers looks my way, and I give a subtle nod before he addresses Rose’s family.
“The knife just missed her heart,” is the first thing Dr. Chambers says, and I swallow hard, my body trembling. He continues, “I’m talking not even an inch. Rose was very lucky, and we managed to stop the bleeding.”
Her mama lets out a sob while Kimmy looks at me with tears trailing her cheeks. I tilt my head as she leaves her dad's embrace and comes into mine.
I wrap my arm tightly around her, and she grips my cut as the doctor admits, “She’s in a medically induced coma at the moment. She lost a lot of blood and required a blood transfusion, and now we’re giving her body a chance to heal and hopefully, when we wean her off the medication, she’ll wake up .”
“You think she won’t wake up?” Karen gasps with shock, and I tense.
“She lost a lot of blood and was deprived of oxygen for a while. There is a chance she may not wake up, but if she does, we don’t know what state she will be in, so you need to prepare yourself.”
Karen screams, causing William to catch her as she falls, and I hold Kimmy tighter to me as she sobs, all while I try not to fucking sob myself.
