Finding a Way to Love:Forever Yours (Book two of The Finding Series)

Chapter Seven

After my little confrontation with Sam, and a sad lunch with my Father, Lucas and I return to my house. As soon as I enter the house, he presses me to the wall and assualts my neck.  "Lucas." I bite back a moan. "Please stop."

"Why. Do. I. Have. To. Stop?" He says between kisses. I lean my head back on the wall and breath. "My mother's funeral was today and I am not in the mood right now!" I yell and push him off of me.  He sighs and runs a hand over his face. The look on his face isn't pleasant, and truthfully it scares me.

"If you love me Rachel, why won't you sleep with me?" He asks walking back over to me resting his hands on my face. I sigh and lean into his touch.  I think about it for a moment and Sam's face pops into my  mind. "If you love Lucas, why did you sleep with me?"  It plays over and over, like a CD stuck on repeat.  

"I'm sorry Lucas, maybe you should go." I say pushing myself off of him. "I' really tired and want to sleep." I turn and walk to the kitchen, but Lucas pulls on my wrist, pulling me to him. His face is very close to mine. "Rachel, I love you." He leans close to my ear.  I close my eyes and take a deep breath. He plants little kisses starting at my ear and all the way down to my collar bone. I open my eyes and stare at him. "I love you too." I whisper and bring my mouth to his. He leads me to the couch and I straddle his lap. His hands roam my body and when he reaches for my shirt, my cell goes off. "Ignore it." He mumbles against my neck, which he started kissing as soon as we sat on the couch. I do what he says and  he lays me back. He continues to kiss me, now removing my shirt and my phone goes off again. I push him off me and grab my phone from my purse. "Rachel, please come back." I roll my eyes. "It could be important." I say back.

When I look at my phone, I see three missed calls from Jamie. A little panic sets in. If Jamie's calling, something must be wrong. I dail him back and put my discarded shirt back on. After a few minutes, he answers frantically.  "Rachel, I am freaking out right now!" He screams through the phone.  I sit on the couch and hear the front door slam, well that means Lucas left. Good riddance. "What is wrong, Jamie... Is it Bell?" His breathing slows and I hear Annabel in the background claiming she is okay. 

"She told me she was having some chest pains and then I walk out of the room for a second and when I come back in the room, she is passed out on the floor." The panic is evident in his voice. "We are on the way to the hospital now." I hold my head in my hands. "Okay, I'll meet you there." I can hear arguing in the background. "Jamie let me talk to her, now!" I hear Annabel demand in the background. 

"Rachel, trust me I am fine. Mr. Father to be is overrecting. I am caving and letting him take me to the hospital, but I just got a little dizzy and passed out. I am sure the chest pains are heartburn." I shake my head and grab my keys off the table and grab my coat. "I don't care. I know you are when it comes to pain. You try to play it off like its no big deal. See you at the hospital." 

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I pull into the ER parking lot and and grab my purse and speed walk to the entrance. A blonde haired woman that is in her twenties, sits at the reception desk.  Her name tag reads Angel. I hit the little silver bell sitting on the edge of the desk.

Angel's little blue orbs sneer up at me. "May I help you?" She asks in a snooty voice. I sigh and roll my eyes. I don't have time for more blonde bimbos. "Annabel Matthews, please." Her nose raises and she glares at me with her eyes.

"Are you family?" I place both my hands on the counter and sneer back at her. "She is my cousin, basically my sister. And her father-in-law is the head ER doctor." I smile a little. 

"Oh. Just a minute." She types something on the keyboard and I look around the cramped waiting room. Being in here brings me back two years ago, almost three when Jamie and Bell met. Angel's nasal voice breaks me of my thoughts. "They are room two. I'll buzz you in." I bid her goobye and say thank you, which she ignores. I quickly find my way to Annabel's room and hear arguing. "Jamie I told you I am okay. So my blood sugar got a little low. And like I said the chest pains were heartburn." I hear Annabel say to her husband. 

"I don't care. You scared me. when I saw you lying on the floor, it freaked me out." I smile, Jamie is a sweetheart. "Jamie I love you." I walk in the room after a moment, and then I realize it was the wrong thing to do. Annabel and Jamie are caught in a lip lock. I clear my throat and the couple breaks apart. Annabel looks a little pale and her four month baby bump sticks up a little under the covers. 

Annabel smiles and a little red blush is on her cheeks. "Rach, I told you not to come. I am fine." She smiles again and looks loving at Jamie. I shake my head and look at Jamie. "What did the Doctor say?" He motions for me to follow him outside the room. "Bell I'll be right back, love." He leans in and kisses her lips.

I follow him out in the hall and he leans on the wall. "Her blood sugar was very low. And the chest pains were heartburn. But they think she has Gestational Diabetes. They are going to monitor her for a few days, but I guess I did overreact a little. But I can't help it. I worry like crazy, when she is hurt." I nod my head, because I do understand. With everything she has been through the past twenty years is nothing to play around with. 

"I know you do. But she is tough, you know that." Jamie frowns a bit. "Tell you the truth Rachel, I am scared." I look at him puzzled. "You scard about being a dad?" He nods and he lets out a long breath. "Yeah, never been more scared in my life. What if I screw the kids life up or something?" I laugh and shake my head. "Jamie, you are Bell are going to be amazing parents. That kid is going to be spoiled rotten too." 

"Rachel!" I hear Annabel holler from the room and I walk back in the room and plop into the chair beside her bed. "How you feeling, cuz?" I ask her looking up at her blue eyes. 

She groans and throws her head back on the pillow. "Frustrated. Jamie is driving me nuts, Rachel." She throws her hands in the air. "'Bell, did you take your Prenatel? Hey you aren't supposed to be lifting that, you need to be off your feet.'" She mimmicks Jamie. "I mean I am pregnant, not helpless." I reach over and grab her hand. "I know, but he has reasons to car for you. He loves you." She smiles back at me and her eyes glass over. Great I can't handle her tears. So I change the subject.

"So do you know if you are having a boy or girl?" Her face lights up and she grins to big. "Well... Dr. Lawson told me that I have a rare pregnancy..." my smile drops. "What did they say? Is everything okay?" 

She shakes her head. "No. Everything is fine... The babies are fine." Wait. What?

"Babies? What do you mean babies?" Jamie walks back in the room right at the exact moment I say babies. He comes over to the bed and and takes Annabel's hand in his. He smiles big and leans down and kisses his wife. "We are having twin girls." My hand files to my mouth. If my mother was here, she would say it is a miriacle, but I don't believe in those anymore.