Through it All

Chapter 6

Robert's POV

I can't believe this has happened. I just want to see Cheyenne. I tell my supervisor to call and have the police contact Officer Nate Brown. I know Nate will make sure she gets to the hospital okay . I just need to see her before I die. I know that it is going to happen because I don't feel any pain. I just want to make sure that she knows I love her and to see her and our kids one more time. I am trying to answer the paramedics questions but I find myself fading out surrounded by blackness.
I hear people talking and it's so bright as I open my eyes. I realize I have made it to the hospital. The nurses and doctors start asking me questions. The only thing I can think about it Cheyenne. I have to let her know how much I love her. Please God just give me one more chance to see my wife and kids and say goodbye. Got to rest now so tired...

I feel a soft touch, on my forehead it's almost like an angel. I fight to open my eyes and I see the most beautiful woman in the world, my wife Cheyenne. I tell her I love her and she tells me that she loves me too and that she just wanted me to know that she was here. I smile but that really hurts I look up and see Nate standing in the doorway. As much as I don't like him I motion for him to come in. I tell him thanks for getting Cheyenne to see me before I die. He just nods then steps back out. See I can't stand him because he loves my wife. I don't blame him she is the most amazing wife and mother, I don't deserve her but so glad I can call her mine. If Nate had his way she would have left me a few years back when we hit a rough spot in our marriage. I screwed up and wasn't there for her when I should have been. Nate stepped in and was who she confided in during her leukemia scare. I just couldn't deal with the possibility of losing her, so I shut her out. I refused to acknowledge that she had been told she had leukemia. She went through several bone marrow biopsies all alone. She drove herself and they just gave her a local anesthetic . It was not my finest moments and I am ashamed I acted that way. Nate was the one who listened to her fears and kept her spirit up. I accused her of having an affair and she laughed at me. Cheyenne told me that Nate was a kid and more along our daughters ages. She said he was a friend a sounding board because I refused to let her talk about it and that was what she was for him. I know he loves her, it's plain to see even though he never stepped over the line. Cheyenne is so naive when it comes to men and how they think. We have been together since she was 16 years old, I was terrified because I couldn't lose her.

I let her down and it still eats me up that she turned to someone else because I couldn't man up and deal with it. Nate was the one who told her all the things that I should have been telling her. But we worked through it, I came to my senses. I wish that I hadn't wasted a second of the time I had with her. It's too late to go back now, I just hope she knows until my last breath on this earth that I love her and that she has been my world for the last 24 years.

BG's POV

I called Amber at work and she actually asked me why I felt like we should run back to Alabama since we were just there last night. I don't believe that she asked me that. Did she not hear what I said? Robert has been in an accident and is probably not going to make it and she asked me why we needed to go?!! I reminded her that they were like family to both of us or at least I thought they were to her. I mean her and Cheyenne talk everyday and she is like an aunt to those kids. It's like I don't know who Amber is anymore. Amber told me to go if I felt like I needed to that she was just going to stay home and work and for me to call when he died and give her the arrangements and she would see if it would work out with her schedule. I am so pissed right now at Amber I can't believe her!! I guess in one way it is good that I have a4-5 hour drive ahead of me cause God knows I need to calm the fuck down.  If it is as bad as Chey says it is my family is going to need me. Robert has been someone that I have come to love like a brother. He has been there as a sounding board and has given great advice these last couple of years. We talk everyday even when I am touring. They both are family to me now. It was meant to be that Cheyenne and I met through a wish granted for one of her students who was dying with leukemia. She was so thankful that I took time to grant the wish of her student. We got to talking that day and it was nice that she saw me as a person and not BG country superstar. Chey has a heart of gold that is going to get her in trouble one day, like Robert and I have talked about she is a little naive because she only sees the good in people. She doesn't think people have ulterior motives. I know that right before we met she had a health scare and Robert freaked out. I also know what Robert did was wrong and he knows that and has spent the past couple of years trying to make it up to her. The thing is Cheyenne wasn't mad at him said everyone deals with crisis differently. She continued to love him through it. She loves people and is a nurturer, so of course she befriended Nate. The jury is still out for me on him, I know he helped Chey but like Robert I think he was trying to get in Chey's  pants. If she knew I thought that she would get on to me.  Cheyenne thinks that she is ugly, but she isn't. She is 5'5" with blonde  hair and blue eyes. She has curves in all the right places and her smile lights up the room. Who wants a stick woman that you can feel the bones when you lay them down?!As the guys in the band have said she is a MILF! I have had to bust their heads a couple of times for saying that where I could hear it. Yes I am married and I love Amber with all my heart but I'm a man, I have eyes and I appreciate what beauty God has given us on this earth in the opposite sex.  So I understand why Robert didn't like Nate being around Cheyenne.