Chapter twenty-six: Yes, I'm her husband

~~~ Back up the day now, what did I do to get us to this point? Me losing you in this moment. I feel it, deep in my chest, I can't breathe. I can't let go, broken yet holding on to you, to us. This love is too strong for me to let go... broken yet holding on...~~~

-Roni Tran Binh Trong-

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Samantha's POV:

"Hmm..."

"Sam?"

"Hmm?" I slowly opened my eyes when I recognized my best friend's voice, but she's not the first I saw but my husband who's wearing a serious expression

"Thank God, you're awake! Wait, I'm just going to call your doctor!" I turned to Jack who has the opposite expression of him.

And it's too late to ask her what happened as she got up immediately and ran to the door. Now I was left alone with Luke who's still staring at me. But the moment I opened my lips to ask him, he beat me with the same question I was going to ask.

"What happened?" My mouth hung not knowing what to say or what to answer him. I didn't even understand what he meant.

"What do you mean what happened? I should ask you that---oh, my God! What happened to my baby?" My eyes widened as I started to feel panic and was about to get up but he instantly held my shoulders. "Where is my baby? What happened to her?" Tears blurring my vision.

It was only then that I remembered what happened this morning and the pain I felt in the car. And my tears fell as my hands automatically raised over my belly.

"She's fine!" The only words he uttered and suddenly a sigh of relief washed over me. I closed my eyes as light sobs continued to escape from my lips. I don't even know what to do if there's something happened to her.

"You should have been careful!"

My eyes snapped open upon hearing what he had said. I looked at him confused.

"You know you're pregnant, you should have been careful of what you do! You're not in this situation if you didn't go out and stay home in those three days!"

I blinked repeatedly. My blood started to rise in my head due to anger. "Huh! Come again, what did you say?" I wiped my tears harshly and looked at him with narrowed eyes.

"You should have stayed at home! I told you, Samantha, if something bad happened to my child---"

"Fucking stop right there, Luke Marcus!" I couldn't help but yelled, raising my palm in front of him as a sign of stopping. "Don't you ever blame me for this situation, because if you were just a responsible father and a partner, I wouldn't be here lying in bed and almost lose my baby! Have you forgotten your immorality of fucking different woman in your room? I left and stayed in Jack's apartment for me to have a good sleep at least for those three nights without hearing your loud groans while fucking your mistresses!"

I finished my speech with a loud sob. I didn't hear anything from him but I noticed how he formed his fists into a hardball. I don't know what I did to experience this pain because the only thing I've done wrong was to love him.

I immediately dried my tears when I noticed the door opened and pretended as if there was no conversation happened between me and my husband. Jack and my OBgyne entered the door with both of them having a wide smile between their lips.

"Hi, Sam, how are you?" My doctor greeted me and I returned her smile. Jack stood next to her. "How are you feeling now? Are you dizzy or---"

"I'm fine now, Doctor Mary. Uhm, I just want to know what happened why I suddenly bleed?"

She smiled at me while getting my temperature and then my blood pressure. She started explaining to me what had really happened, but since my attention was half for her and for Luke who's also listening to her as she spoke, it was only her last line that seemed to register in my head.

"You should take rest for a week, eat nutritious food but don't forget to maintain your diet and drink all the vitamins that I will give you."

I nodded and smiled at her.

"And before I forget, please avoid those things or people, if ever, that caused or causes you stress." I simply glanced at Luke who kept a serious expression. "I already told you that during our last meeting and I will repeat it again, your baby also feels your emotions. If your happy, sad or stressed, she also feels it, do you understand?" She asked, adjusting her glasses.

"Yes, doctor Mary, thank you." I forced a smile and nodded at her at the same time. Out of the corner of my eye, I didn't miss the smirk that curled on Jack's lips.

"Oh, are you Mr. Williams?" Jack and I turned to look at Luke when my doctor asked him.

"Yes, doc, I'm Luke Williams and I'm---"

"Her husband, am I right?" she interrupted him.

"Yes, I'm her husband." He replied, his face didn't even show a different emotion.

"Ohh..." She said nodding. "Can I talk to you for a few minutes, Mr. Williams?"

"Uhm... sure." He nodded although I saw the mix of confusion and hesitation in his eyes.

"Well, please follow me to my office." And then she turned to me. "And Sam, you're a strong woman as well as your baby, but I don't want this to happen again. I want to see you every month in our monthly meeting but not again in the emergency room, did you get me? Well, of course, when you're already giving birth to your princess is an exception."

"I promise, this won't happen again." I smiled, tears started to form around my eyes but I blinked them in an instant.

"You're welcome. Anyway, I have to go, I still have another patient waiting for me." She winked at me. "Shall we go now, Mr. Williams?"

I sighed, closing my eyes when they left the room.

"Why do you think your doctor will talk to your jerk of a husband?"

My eyes snapped open as I turned to Jack with a chuckle. She pulled the chair near my bed and slumped herself comfortably.

"I don't know." I shrugged as I had no idea why she suddenly wanted to talk to him. It's the first time they've met each other since Luke never came with me every time I visit my doctor.

"Hmm... I think she's going to give him a potion."

"Potion?" I repeat, laughing. "She's a doctor, Jack and not some kind of a witch."

"Haist, we don't know her yet, Sam, except for the fact that she's your doctor. What if she gives him a potion with love and cares that after he leaves her office, he will start to take care of you?"

The laugh I gave her echoed throughout the four corners of the room.

"Why? What's wrong with what I said?"

"Haha... your insane, Jackeline. I think that's the result of your being addicted to the K-dramas! And that fantasy-romance with prince, princess and a witch has finally hit your head." I couldn't help rolling my eyes. "Anyway, how long have I been sleeping?"

"Uhm... I think two and a half hours. By the way, your in-laws have already left since you're still asleep and they said that they will come back when you're awake."

"How about my parents?"

"They were out of the country for some business meeting, but I've already sent them a message. Maybe they were in the middle of an important meeting so they couldn't answer back."

"What about Dale---?"

"I'm here!" We both turned to the freshly bathed Dale who just entered the door.

"Haist! Speaking of the devil!" Jack murmured softy and I chuckled when she rolled her eyes on him.

"I heard you, weirdo," Dale smirked at her.

Jack immediately stood up after giving him a snarl. "Tss! Freak!"

But my annoying brother sends her a flying a kiss. "The most handsome freak."

'Jeez!' I pronounced mentally.

"Oh, yeah, the narcissistic freak!"

And they started bickering inside the room. And since I couldn't stop them and I didn't know what to do to stop them, I just laid back in bed. I closed my eyes and uttered a silent prayer for my baby and also for these two important persons in my life.