ROYAL MOMENTS | JEREMIAH HART³

Chapter Twenty-Two

[ Royal Moments ]

[ Chapter Twenty-Two: Hold My Hand ]

Age: 18

IT'S BEEN A FEW OF WEEKS since Jeremiah and I broke up, but I knew he was in Genovia since his plane didn't leave until a couple more days. I couldn't even get out of bed due to my crying and my face being blotchy so for the meantime, grandma was taking over once more until I felt much better. I couldn't even face my grandmother due to her being a partial reason why we broke up even though I knew she had our best (and my baby's) interest at heart.

"Queen Rosemarie, can both Ella and I come in?" I could hear Kenya ask from the other side of the doors

"Yes, you may enter." I spoke quietly but I knew they heard me since I heard the door opening a couple seconds later

"How are you, Mary?" Ella asked me with concern written across her face as she spotted me near the window, staring sadly across the garden

"I'm-ughh, okay." I winced in pain as I felt my stomach tightening and I couldn't help but frown at the feeling

"What's wrong, Mary?" Kenya asked me, coming to stand up next to her sister-in-law as they both eyed me up and down

"It's nothing to worry about." I waved them both off but they stared at me with a disbelief look and I raised an eyebrow at their direction

"Are you positive? We can help immediately." Ella offered and I winced as another pain shooted through me causing me to grip on the curtain beside the window

"Oh, just help me to my bed please. I think I just been standing here too long." I waved it off once more, letting go of the curtain

"We love you really, but we're getting the doctor up here just in case because I don't think this is normal." Kenya said to me as they both rushed up to me, catching me before I crumpled to the floor in pain

"Okay, ughh." I groaned, the pain at my side becoming larger and I lowered myself to my knees the pain becoming too much

"I'm getting the doctor right now." Ella said with wide eyes before rushing out of the room in a sprint

"Rosemarie, you're bleeding. Not that much but it's pretty noticeable." Kenya informed me and I looked down at pajama bottoms and you couldn't really tell due to my black bottoms but what I hoped was somehow pee and not a blood stain was trailing down my legs whenever I felt the pain hit me

"Ughh, can you call Nicholas? Tell him--ughhh--to come over and to force Jer--ughh here becuase I know that he's been hou--ughh-sing him." I managed to get out between grunts as Kenya did her best to lift me from the ground

"I think I'm losing the baby." I murmured to myself in shock at what was happening but I flinched when I heard Kenya yelling for her husband Maxwell and his brother, Lucian to come inside my bedroom

I could hear their footsteps coming closer to my bedroom as I blinked repeatedly as a wave of dizziness hit me. I took a deep breath before groaning as I slipped from Kenya's hold but she gripped me tightly in her arms. In a matter of seconds after the brothers spotted what was happening, they moved into action.

Maxwell and Lucian rushed up to us, the latter scooping me in his arms in a fireman carry and rushed me to my bed. I couldn't help but groan as another pain shot through me once he lowered me onto the bed, and neither of us cared that my blood was now staining my comforter. From the corner of my eye, I could see Maxwell consoling his wife who stared at the small pool of blood that I created.

I gripped Lucian's arm, not because I had feelings for him or for anything in a romantic sense but because I needed someone with me. I didn't want to be alone, I wanted Jeremiah and I hoped he would come. Another wave of dizziness hit me as I grunted and I couldn't help but ease into the darkness that was creeping on me in order to avoid the pain.

**Royal Moments**

When I came into consciousness again, I was no longer in my bedroom due to the fact that I could hear multiple beeping machines around me. I groaned as I opened my eyes, the whiteness of the room hurting my eyes a bit but I managed to open them wide to look around. I spotted Lucian and Maxwell outside my room, their backs onto the door but nobody was in the room with me.

Before I could crying that nobody was in the room to tell me what was happening, a door from inside my room opened to reveal a tired looking Jeremiah entering. He rubbed his hand over his face before opening them, only to be greeted at the sight of my tearing up. He rushed up to me, and I looked up at him before the tears started to fall as I cradled my barely there bump.

"Everything is okay, don't worry. Everything is okay, pretty girl." Jeremiah whispered to me softly, pressing a kiss against my forehead

"T-the baby? How's the baby?" I managed to ask Jeremiah, my voice hoarse and cracking in certain words but I knew he heard me

"The baby's okay, he's ok." Jeremiah answered me with a relived sigh and I smiled before clearing my throat

"What happened?" I asked him with confusion in my voice since the last thing I remembered was being in bed with Lucian but I doubted he wanted to hear that

"The doctors said you had a sub- a subchorionic bleeding due to an infection that you had when your cervix was beginning to change to accommodate him in your belly. Dr. Goldstein also said that all the stress that's been happening recently in the last couple of weeks certainly didn't help which caused you to have a high blood pressure so she's recommending you be on a bed rest for about eight weeks." Jeremiah explained to me and I froze at his explanation, my mind playing on repeat on certain words

"Him? It's a boy? We're having a boy." I said in realization and before I knew it, tears started to trail down my cheeks

"We are, we're having a boy, pretty girl." Jeremiah whispered to me, leaning his forehead against mine

"What's happening? What is this?" I asked him quietly my arms tightening as I cradled the bump closer to me as if to keep my baby from any harm that might come to him

"When they were looking over at you, I woke up in realization. I didn't want to be without you, I didn't want to live without the baby. I want to be with you. No matter what's coming because you're my soulmate. You're the only one that makes my foot pop and I'm the only one that makes your foot pop." Jeremiah said with a chuckle in the end, tears welling up in his eyes

"We better be the only to make our foot pop seeing as we've only dated each other." I whispered to him and he nodded his head repeatedly, the both of us leaning for a kiss