Alex
The ambulance came and took us to the hospital, even in the ambulance I couldn't stop staring at the purplish looking bruises, I felt like finding Sam and beating him up, inflicting the pain he inflicted on Tracy on him, he should be thankful he is already far from me.
We got to the hospital and Tracy was taken away for a check-up, while I paced waiting for the doctor to bring me any news about Tracy.
Tracy's parents and her brothers met me at the hospital, we waited for over an hour after they came in before the doctor eventually came out to meet us.
"How is my wife doing?" I asked moving closer to the doctor.
"She is fine, her child? whatever substance she was given affected the child but...."
"Wait!, What child?" I asked surprised and he gave me weird look.
"You don't know your wife is with child?" He asked
"She is what?" I asked
"Congratulations?"
I didn't know how to feel but her parents and brothers were happy.
"How is the baby doing?" I asked and everyone stopped talking, I prayed that he won't say anything bad happened to our child.
"Quite strong, but whatever substance your wife was so strong that she almost had a miscarriage, in fact, nothing is sure at the moment, she has to be on complete bed rest for a while, she needs to be here so that we can watch her, for now, they are both fine."
"Can I see her?" I asked but he shook his head.
"Not now, she is still being attended to, I'll tell the nurses to let you know when she is awake." He said and I nodded then he left, I bowed my head and sent a quick prayer to God.
I felt someone's hand on my shoulder and I opened my eyes to see my father-in-law's hand on my shoulder.
"Don't worry, she'll be fine." He said and I nodded.
It was not an easy task but I was able to convince all of them to go home and let me stay with Tracy.
I sat down for hours waiting for the nurses to tell me that Tracy was awake but that didn't happen, I was already when I felt someone sit beside me, I looked to see the doctor that treated me when I got hurt last time.
"Hi."
"Hello." I greeted back and there was silence for a while.
"Let me guess, your wife got hurt now?
." He said and I bowed my head.
"It's okay, things happen, take care." He said and he left.
A nurse came minutes later to tell me Tracy was awake and she took me to where she was, there I saw my queen lying on the bed looking very weak.
"My love." She called in a very low voice and the tears fell.
"Baby," I called back wiping my tears.
"Why are you crying?"
"I'm sorry Tee, I'm sorry, I'm sorry you had to go through all that, I'm sorry," I said kneeling beside her bed and holding one of her hands.
"Oh, Alex."
"I'm sorry I left you six years ago, I'm sorry I was not there for you when you were pregnant, I'm sorry I was not there for you on the day you gave birth to the twin, I'm sorry I couldn't prevent what happened, I'm sorry for everything baby," I said crying and she was crying too.
"You don't have to be sorry anymore, you left then but you came back to me now, you returned to me at the time I needed you the most even though I didn't admit, you returned and made me and the kid's lives complete again, you left but you came back for me again."
"Please don't cry, my queen," I said wiping her tears with my thumbs
"You should stop crying too, my king." She said wiping my tears too and I smiled.
"I love you, baby."
"I love you too."
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