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“It is, but I’ll see you soon.” I looked at Alexander and Scarlet, “Paul is on his way.”
Scarlet reached out and touched my arm, “It’s not your fault, Jamie. There is no way you knew this would happen. She’s not dead. They would’ve come out already if she was to notify you.”
“I proposed to her.”
“What did she say?” Scarlet asked.
“She said yes. She fucking said yes.”
“It still amazes me that you got beyond her walls. She loves you very much. You changed her world for the better.”
“She changed mine for the better too, but now…” Again, the tears threaten to sting my eyes, “I miss her already.”
Alexander looks at me, “Focus on her getting better. Picture it. Think about one of your happiest moments with her. Don’t dwell on your fears.”
“Alexander, I don’t need your psycho babble shit right now.”
He laughed, “What do you need? What can we do for you?”
“I need Stella. That’s the only thing I need.”
The same doctor comes out, “Mr. Martin, Stella’s heart stopped. She’s stable again, but she has sepsis.”
“I don’t know what that means.”
“She has an infection in her blood.”
“Is she going to die?”
“That’s the worst-case scenario. Her organs could shut down, but we are trying to prevent that. We believe we got to the source of the infection. She’s on antibiotics now to try to clear the septic infection, but we have to see how she responds. We will have a cardiologist in to look at her heart. Normally, sepsis doesn’t cause a heart to stop. We usually see an increased heart rate, not the heart stopping altogether. We are doing our best. I can promise you that.”
“You can’t let her die, she can’t.”
“We will do everything we can to prevent that from happening. Do you want to see her?”
“Yes,” I turn to Alexander briefly, “You don’t have to stay.”
“We aren’t going anywhere. Go see your beautiful fiance’.”
I headed back to Stella’s room, grateful to be able to see her again. I enter the room and her eyes are on me. She says nothing, but her eyes follow me as I sit in the chair next to her bed. I planned to be strong for her. I was so grateful she wasn’t dead. I laid my head on her leg and sobbed. She put her hand in my hair. God, I love that. Her touch is so warm and filled with love.
“Jamie.”
I look up at her.
“I need you. Will you kiss me?”
“Are you kidding? Of course I will.”
Standing up, I take her face in my hands, gently. I move my lips to hers. Softly, I kiss her. Still holding her face, I stare at her very seriously, “I don’t know how to live without you. You have to stay. You cannot die. You can’t fucking leave me. Do you understand me?”
She smiles at me, “Mmm I do love dominant Jamie.”
I laugh and sit back down beside her, “I love you Stella. I don’t think I even realized how much until today.”
“I love you too. I’m so sorry for putting you through this.”
“Do you remember when I proposed to you?”
