Page 22 of Lash’s Love

I remember being at that warehouse or whatever it was. Being beaten, stabbed.

My eyes flutter and the voices are starting to get clearer and not in such a fog.

“Sophie, baby girl, come on. Your babies are here, they want to see you. Then you’ve got two new babies that want to meet their mama. Come on baby girl. There we go, just open your eyes.”

I open my eyes and blink a couple of times to clear my vision and see my dad standing over me.

“Oh thank God. Sophie, sweetheart, we’ve been so worried.”

He then places his forehead on mine and soothes my hair back. “You had us so worried, my sweet girl.”

“Daddy, where’s Toby?”

“He’s on his way, he had to go home for a bit. The kids are here though. Studying with their nana.”

I take a deep breath not sure if I want to know the answer, “Where are my babies?”

“They are in the next room, you want me to get them?”

“Yes.”

I say to him. I want him to leave the room, the anger I’m feeling is building up. This is his fault. All of this that has happened is because he couldn’t be honest. Because he hid things. I feel myself starting to get angrier, my heart starting to race and the alarm on the monitors going off as I’m having difficulty catching my breath and calming down. Nurses start to rush in asking my dad to step out of the room and some of them are pushing him out the door as he’s arguing with them. I can’t hear what he’s saying because there is a ringing in my ears and all I can hear is my heartbeat. The nurses and now the doctor that I didn’t notice come in are surrounding me talking to me and I can’t hear a word being said to me.

The next thing I know they are placing an oxygen mask on my face and something is being placed in my iv. As soon as I’m assuming it hits my blood stream I feel my body calm down. My eyes are getting heavy and I hear someone scream.

“SOPHIE! WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?!?”

Then everything gets quiet.

Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep.

I slowly open my eyes to the annoying beeping noise and it is quiet in the room. I look over and Toby is sitting in the chair next to my bed, his head in his hands.

“Toby?”

His head whips up so fast and he looks at me with tears in his eyes.

“Oh thank God, baby! You scared me so much!” He says that as he stands by the bed and puts his forehead on mine while holding my hand.

“What happened? Where are the kids? The babies?”

He looks down at me and moves the chair closer to the bed and holds my hand.

“The babies are still here, in the other room. We got this suite because Peyton and the Untamed are on the board. The kids are with my parents. They brought them to their hotel because you scared everyone when you woke up and they wanted to make sure that they got their minds off everything.”

I nod my head still feeling heavy and foggy. “How long have I been here?”

He looks pained, “It’s been a little over two months.”

“W-what? I’ve been out for over two months?”

“I need you to stay calm baby, something happened earlier and your heart rate went up too high and they had to sedate you to calm you down. You can’t get worked up, it's not good for you.”

“Where is my father?”

He looked at me with that, I never call dad that. But I’m trying to stay calm, but I’m so angry. Angrier now that I found out I’ve missed over two months of our children’s lives.

“Um, he’s in the room with the twins.”