Early Bird (Erkenci Kus)(Part 2)

98. Increasing interest

Leyla slowly pushes open the door to room 1016, her lips feeling dry and her heart beating out of her chest. She was so worried coming to the hospital that she didn't eat or drink a thing.

Emre's eyes are closed when she enters and clutching her purse, goes to his side and pulls a chair closer to sit down.

He opens his eyes and looks at her as soon as she does. "Leyla?"

"Mr Emre," Leyla is on her feet again in a second and next to him in another. "Mr Emre, I was so scared when I heard I came immediately. No one told me last night, if they did I would have come then."

He gives her a small smile, finding her rambling endearing.

"How are you? Are you okay? Do you need anything? I can call - "

"Leyla," he stops her and then nods. "I'm fine. Calm down." He puts his hand over her shaking one on his arm. "Thank you."

"I'm glad," she says in relief and puts her left hand over his right, sniffing and wiping the tears from her eyes.

The door opens again and she looks up to see who came in, only to take her hands away quickly and stepping back.

Emre frowns and turns his head as well at the loss of contact.

"Emre, my love, how are you?" Aylin comes in further to get to his side, taking his hand. "You scared the living daylights out of me when you said you had an accident. I thought you were joking."

"I'm fine," Emre says quietly. "I told you on the phone, you didn't need to come."

"Of course I wasn't going to listen to you. I couldn't not come and see you, Emre."

Leyla scoffs silently and turns to get her purse from the chair. "I'm going to see if I can find Sanem."

"Leyla, wait, just a minute, please?" Emre begs and Leyla stops at the foot of the bed. "Stay."

She looks at Aylin and his gaze intensifies, begging her not to go. She nods after a moment and goes back to her previous spot.

"Anyway, I'm here," Aylin says, completely ignoring Leyla. "Are you okay? Are you comfortable?"

The door opens once more, and from her spot, Leyla could see Can coming in and closing it behind him.

Can frowns in question at her sitting in the corner and she slides her eyes to the right. He moves in more to see what she was trying to tell him and then grinds his teeth. This fucking woman... He clears his throat passing to Emre's side and Aylin stands away when he kneels next to Emre. "Emre, I spoke to your doctor. You're good enough to go home in an hour or so."

"Okay," Emre says and glances at him thankfully.

"Great," Aylin also speaks at the same time, and looks from Emre to Can and back. "I'll go and handle the checkout," she continues and starts for the door.

"I already did it, it's done," Can says without looking at her, his eyes on Emre's hand under his, trying to keep his anger reigned in. Aylin stops and turns back to look at him. "And from here I'll be taking my brother home but you won't be coming with us." Can stands and turns to her, his eyes cold on her. "In fact, I don't want you coming to the house, or to the agency or back into our lives."

Aylin looks at Emre for some kind of reaction, but his eyes are turned to Leyla, who is now standing as well, a small smile on her lips that she just manages to hide, but he could see it.

"You can leave now." Can stares Aylin down.

She takes a deep breath and nods without a word, a stiff smile on her face as she walks past him.