Page 51 of Trading In A Broken Heart

“If her heart stops while I’m sitting in a fucking waiting room, every person on this floor gon’ join her.”

Turning on my heels, I stormed out of there.

When I made it outside, the security I had watching Solei was parked at the entrance. I climbed into the back seat and said, “Pull around back.”

Nick nodded and pulled away from the curb. He stopped the truck in the back parking lot. “Where’s yo’ strap?”

Tay handed me his gun. “Y’all was supposed to protect her with your fucking life,” was all I said before lifting my hand and sending a bullet through both their skulls.

I woke up and saw Savion sitting in the chair next to me. That was when everything flooded back to my mind. I’d been in an accident.

Savion sat there looking exhausted. I wasn’t sure how long he’d been sitting next to my bed, but I was grateful to see him there. It let me know that he really cared about me. It wasn’t about the sixty days anymore. This man was here because he loved me.

I groaned as I shifted in the bed. Soon as he heard my voice, his eyes popped open.

“You’re awake.”

“My head is killing me.”

“I’ll get the nurse so that you can get some pain medicine,” he said and got up from the chair. I watched him leave the room and then come back with a nurse in tow.

“Hi. I’m Sheila. I’ll be your nurse for the day. The doctor said that the only thing we can give you is children’s Tylenol.”

“Do I look like a child to you?”

“No, ma’am, but you are carrying one.”

“The lies you tell. I’m on birth control.”

“Ma’am, you’re one hundred percent carrying a baby. They saw it on the scan when they checked you for internal bleeding.”

“This is a joke, right?” I looked from her to Savion. “This a joke?”

Savion brushed his hand across his waves.

“Doctor!” I screamed out.

“You don’t have to yell like that. I can go see if your doctor is still here.”

“Please do, because y’all lying.” The nurse left the room and shut the door behind her. “She’s lying, right?” I questioned Savion.

I wasn’t ready for kids, which was why I was on birth control in the first place.

“You’re not on birth control, Solei. You really ain’t notice that you didn’t have your string hanging anymore?”

I frowned. “How can I be off birth control? I never made an appointment to take it out. I’ve only been to the doctor once to—” That was when it dawned on me. Dr. Beck had to have taken the shit out at my appointment, but why would she do that? “Why would Dr. Beck take my IUD without my permission.”

“Because I told her to.”

“Are you out of your mind! You can’t just make decisions about my body without consulting me first!”

“You’re my wife, Solei, and now you’re carrying my heir. Do you not know how beautiful that is?”

“You’re fucking insane! Get out!”

“Solei . . .”

“Get out, Savion!”