WILD RIDE (Rafe Cameron x OC) *COMPLETE*

Chapter Ninety (Rafe)

CHAPTER NINETY

Rafe

One Month Later

My phone died three days ago. I haven't even taken it out of my pocket to put it on the charger. I'm scared just looking away from Alana that something bad will happen. That she'll flatline again or she'll wake up and won't see me and think I abandoned her.

Sarah has been in touch with Rose every five minutes it feels like. Getting updates on Leah who doesn't understand why Mommy is asleep on FaceTime and why Daddy just doesn't say a damn word. I can't look at my daughter without tears flooding from my eyes because if worse goes to worst I will have to look my daughter in the eyes and tell her that Mommy is gone forever and it's all Daddy's fault.

The moment she started complaining about pains I shouldn't have told her to shut up and take an aspirin. I should have thrown her over my shoulder and brought her to a doctor in the city. I shouldn't have let her just sit in her own blood. I shouldn't have made her keep going further when she was bruised and had glass in her hip.

I.. I should have paid more attention to her body. To the type of pain she was having. To the fact she lost her fucking IUD and miscarried a baby that we didn't even know about. Everything we feared would happen when she was pregnant with Leah? Happened this time. And we didn't even fucking know.

Sarah sits in the chair next to me, my chair is so close to Alana's hospital bed that I'm shocked I haven't just crawled into it yet. I have a death grip on her hand and every once in a while I feel her grip back but then it fades away. The nurses say it's normal because she can hear everything she's just struggling to wake back up from the blood loss, infection, and surgeries she had to have.

"I just talked to the doctor again, he said we should try playing some music she likes and seeing if that wakes her up. Or maybe we should order some pizza- the smell would wake her up." My sister giggles and I glare at her. "What? It's just a thought."

"You're lucky you're pregnant or I'd be really mean to you."

Sarah places her hand on mine and looks at me sweetly. "You've done everything that there possibly is to be done. The only thing that needs to be done is her nails and her roots. You even had someone come to do her brows and lashes for her. I mean come on, Rafe, that's like number one husband shit right there."

"She'd be pissed if she woke up and I didn't have it done for her."

A very true fact. I know my wife. I know she'd get up and go to the look in the mirror and tell me not to look at her until she has her grooming done. If I could do her roots for her? I totally would. I even asked if I could get some press on nails for her but the doctor said no in case she needs another surgery.

"John B at the hotel?" I decide to change the subject. Sarah and John B are the only two who as of right now are still here in Lisbon with me and Alana. Pope, Kie, and Cleo went back to OBX to tell everyone what happened. To do the funeral for JJ and to be there for Sofia.

Sarah nods and then takes a sip from her bottle of water.

"He needed some sleep. He doesn't sleep like... At all. Last night I had to force him out of here which I don't know why I'm telling you because you were clearly here..."

I don't go anywhere unless it's to the bathroom but that's it. I go to the hotel once a day to shower and then I'm right back here again. Nurses have tried to tell me visiting hours are over. But I don't go. I'm not leaving my wife. Not alone in this room that is. It's bad enough I leave her with John B or Sarah to watch her.