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“Colt, you’ve got to pull your shit together and stop making this about you.Now let’s get inside.”
I didn’t want to.I didn’t want to see her lying in a hospital bed in heaven knew what condition.“Damon, she needs to be okay.”
“I know,” he said and patted my back.“I know.”
It always reeked inside hospitals.Too sterile.I hated that smell.I hated how cold it was.I hated wearing a name tag.I just hated being in hospitals, period.
I spotted Brooke as soon as we made into the ICU and rushed toward her.“Where is she?I want to see her.”
“Colt,” she began.
“Brooke, just tell me.”
She looked like she’d been crying for hours and I felt bad, but I just wanted to know what was going on.I didn’t want to be treated with kid gloves.
This time, she didn’t hold back.“It could’ve been a lot worse.She has a broken bone and some other minor injuries.”
“Like what?”
“She dislocated her arm, and the airbag caused some bad bruising and cuts on her collarbone.Her ankle is broken.”
“Okay,” I said, exhaling for the first time.“Are they doing surgery on her ankle?”
“The orthopedic surgeon will be in later to see her.Right now she’s relaxing with a powerful cocktail of sedatives and pain pills.”
I could understand the pain pills, but not the other.“Why sedatives?”
“Colt, she was screaming and wouldn’t stop crying and asking for you.”My stomach clenched.I was quickly turning sick.I didn’t want her to think I wasn’t coming.Before I could respond, Brooke added, “When they brought her in, she learned something.”
I ran a hand through my hair.“What?”
“Scarlet’s pregnant.”
I blinked back my surprise.Unbelievable.Life was unbelievable.A moment of what should’ve been great joy had been muddled by this hell.If it wasn’t for this accident, we would’ve been home right now with the same news she would’ve learned from the doctor today.I just couldn’t believe it.And we would have been celebrating, that I was sure of.
Sure, we hadn’t planned for this, but there’s never a guarantee that you wouldn’t get pregnant.Especially with how many times we’ve had sex lately, I guess there was no reason to be all that surprised.The odds weren’t really in our favor.But it didn’t matter because I already knew Scarlet was it.She was my forever.And now, this baby was going to be so damn loved.We were going to spoil him or her rotten and love our baby with all that we had.Girl or boy, it didn’t matter, just that they were safe, healthy, and happy.
Coming out of my stupor, I looked at Brooke and Damon and stated the obvious, “I’m going to be a dad.We’re going to have a baby.”
“Well,” Brooke started and again my stomach clenched.For the first time I noticed she was currently crying.“It was babies,” she clarified, “but she had a miscarriage.”
My mind was reeling.No wonder Scarlet needed sedatives.“What?”The word came out more as a scream than anything else.The nurses at the station looked up momentarily and I just nodded as though to apologize for my abrupt loudness.I just couldn’t wrap my head around the idea that I’d only known for two seconds and suddenly it was gone.Ripped from me.Just like that, everything I didn’t know I wanted—a family with Scar—vanished into thin air.
“She was pregnant with twins, Colt.Only one of them didn’t make it, so you’re still having a baby.”
My mind was reeling.“So one made it?”
“Yes.”
“Can I see her?”
“She’s out,” Brooke explained, “but I’m sure you can sit with her.”
“Come on,” Damon said, “let’s get you to her room, you can sit with her and I’ll get you a coffee.”
Brooke sobbed.“I have to call Max, so I’ll just be outside, okay?”
I nodded and put a hand on her shoulder.“I’m sorry, Brooke.Thank you for telling me.I know it wasn’t easy.”
