𝐿𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐴𝑢𝑏𝑟𝑒𝑦 𝐺𝑟𝑎𝒉𝑎𝑚( 𝐻𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝐴𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝐴𝑙𝑙?)

You Are My Life (Chapter Two)

Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles 

12:30 PM

As Adrianne drifted in and out of consciousness she could hear soft speaking.

The voice she recognized to be her fiancé's. The sensations almost immediately came flooding back and she could feel the warmth from his hand as he held her hand in his. Aubrey's thumb swiped back and forth on her skin. She hadn't opened her eyes yet but she was awake if that made sense.

"I'm not giving up on you mama. I just can't, there is nobody else for me. Not a soul in this world can compare to you and what we have together. I'm so deeply sorry for hurting you in the past. For not believing you with all the lies that Sophie fed me, I don't even know where to begin apologizing for that-" She heard him scoff with a laugh then she heard him sniffle.

"I was so stupid. I wasn't thinking about your feelings, I know in my heart that you would never do anything to hurt our family. I just let her get into my head. I-i can't lose you mama, you are my everything, the air that I breathe" Aubrey sniffles and pauses to take a deep breath before continuing.

"When she shot you…it was like my heart stopped. You are my life Adrianne and if you die… I die-" Her heart ached hearing his voice crack the way that it did.

Tears escaped her eyes, running down the sides of her face moistened her curls. They squeezed shut feeling herself mentally bawl out in tears.

She was his everything just as he was her everything. Adrianne didn't have room in her heart to hold any grudges against him for the past betrayals and not believing her side when those lies almost ruined everything she'd worked so hard to build family wise and financially.

No matter what she loved, Aubrey was her heart in the purest human form possible. Like he said; he was her life and if he died she would die right along with him.

Her mother was right. This is where she needed to be for the time being. She knew one day that she would be reunited but all for now she had unfinished business here on earth.

"Promise cries for you, Adonis too. He says he misses his bubba-" Aubrey sniffles again while letting out a soft chuckle.

There wasn't a moment that went by that she didn't think about her babies. Missed was an understatement.

"I love you princess. When you wake up we're not gonna waste anymore time walking down that aisle" It was time. She couldn't bare to lay there and hear him speak with such sadness and void in his voice but she couldn't move or speak.

In that moment she felt completely helpless knowing that he needed her and she couldn't tend to him.

Soon? She didn't know. She felt as though she was trapped in her own body which was an unusual feeling to her.  

"I love you too baby" She replied but Aubrey couldn't hear her which caused more tears.

Suddenly, there was loud beeping sounds that arised from the heart rate monitor. Aubrey's head immediately shot up from its droopy state and his eyes landed on the monitor. 

His brows furrowed in confusion but looking over at his fiancé, his heart started going miles per minute. He shot up out of his seat and shouted for the nurse.

The nurse scurried into the room and checked the heart monitor.

"W-what's going on? Is she okay?!" Aubrey was fearful and it could be heard in his voice.

The doctor came rushing in and Aubrey was backed away from Adrianne by one of the nurses as the doctor tried to discover what was wrong.

"She's in v-fib!" Yelled one of the nurses as they all hurried around Adrianne trying to save her life from this newfound threat.

"Can someone please tell me what the fuck is going on!?" Aubrey desperately asked with tears in his eyes.

There was still no answer. The doctor called for the chest paddles and charged them to the needed watts. 

Adrianne's body jerked up causing his eyes to go wide. "Please God don't let her die. Don't take her away from me just yet" He whispered hoping his silent prayer would help her situation.

He felt like he couldn't breathe at that moment. 

Her body jerked upwards twice more before the beeping had returned to its regular song.

The doctor's eyes met Aubrey's, giving him a knowing look causing him to finally take a deep breath.

"We need to run an x-tray to see what's going on with her. Most likely i think she's developed a blood clot or despite us fixing the intestine, liver and the other places where the bullets damaged i think she might have some internal bleeding" The doctor's words seemed to deafen Aubrey. 

"Bullets? I thought it was only one?" His face frowned at the plural word.

"She was shot twice. One was logged deep in her large intestine and the other damaged part of her liver and maybe other parts which is probably causing her to go into ventricular Fibrillation. V-fib is an abnormal heart rate

"Um will she be able to make it-"  

"Aubrey?" The voice caused Aubrey to turn around laying his eyes on Adrianne's father and his mother.

"What's going on? Is everything okay!?" Reese asked in a serious tone which only saddened Aubrey even more.

"And you are?" The doctor questioned.

Reese went to reply but he caught sight of his daughter laying on the bed. He immediately rushed to her side.

"I thought things were fine? Aubrey you told me that she was doing well after surgery, so what's going on!?" Argued Reese. He was becoming impatient because nobody was telling him anything. A delay in flights caused him to arrive when he did but Aubrey and Troy kept him up to date.

"ANSWER ME!" He yelled with tears starting to form. Reese rarely got upset but seeing his babygirl like this upset him in ways he couldn't explain.

"Doctor, this is Reese Smith, Adrianne's father!" Sandi did the honors of introducing them both. 

"Sir, please calm down. My name is doctor Richardson, your daughter needs an x-tray so we can see if she's bleeding internally. If internal bleeding is ruled out then we have to get a full body scan so that i can see if there's a clot or not. Maria, please prepare her for the lab we're taking her…now!" There was no time to waste. Doctor Richardson needed to know what was going on with Adrianne right away to see how best they could help her.

Reese was able to kiss her on the forehead goodbye before the nurses wheeled her out and Aubrey as well but on the lips. 

"Tell me what happened Aubrey?!" Reese asked, trying to keep himself calm.

"Reese, let's not do this right now, please! Adrianne is a fighter and God will get her through this. Let's go down to the cafeteria and get something to eat, come on" Reese's stare was intense.

Both men walked out behind Sandi. The tension was thick between her father and her husband to be. Only the survival of his daughter could make things right at this point.

Reese felt like Sophie was Aubrey's problem that he needed to fix. He allowed her so much leverage over his relationship with Adrianne, he allowed her to pry her way into what they had built and in the end of it all she tried destroying not just what they had but Adrianne along with it.

Aubrey hearing that Adrianne was shot not once but twice made every bit of him protecting her for their son out the door. She would pay the price for their actions.
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Poor Adrianne 🥺🥺

What do you guys think is going to happen to Sophie now?

Do you guys think Adrianne is going to be okay?