A Gym Love Story (Completed)

23 - Joe Manganiello

We are all heading to the expo's front door to leave. I bend down to cover Lola in her stroller with a blanket when I look up while Dassah was still talking to us and that woman from earlier this afternoon stood silently in front of Dassah and with one smooth motion stab Dassah in her side.

'Dassah!' I yelled and with that our security sprung into action and chase the woman down the street where they caught up with her. Bella took Lola in her arms while I ran to Dassah's side. She still stood upright but held her side and it is bleeding badly.

'Dassah? Talk to me, baby.'

'That bitch. She... She stabbed me.' She breathed and sink into my arms as we move towards the floor.

'Yes, Tommy and Andrew caught her for the police to take care off. Stay with me, baby.' I applied pressure to her one and a half-inch stab wound. Dassah yelled in pain when I did that. She started to mumble about something and that she loves me and Lola and Bella and with that, she breathed out her last breath. I'm covered in my wife's blood. I refused to have that and the second the ambulance stopped outside they rushed inside and performed CPR on Dassah.

The building crowd all had their phones out recording the whole scene. The police confiscate everyone's phones as evidence in this incident and it is a good thing the whole entrance of the Expo hall has an ocean of surveillance cameras for the police to work through. The ambulance took Dassah off while our group gave the police our statements and it took way to long, for me.

Afterward, we got a police escort to the hospital and Dassah is in surgery. Lola started to cry and I picked her up rocking her with her pacifier I gave her. I walked up and down the waiting room length rocking Lola to sleep.

'Mrs. Manganiello's family?' Dassah's doctor called us. I lay Lola down in her stroller.

'I am Mrs. Manganiello's husband. How is she doing doctor?' I asked feeling so on edge.

'The stab wound was really deep and it did its amount of damage.'

'Is my wife going to live doctor or are her injuries too extensive?'

'No, Mrs. Manganiello is stable but we are going to keep her sedated for a day or two, to keep her still, so her healing process can start.' The nice doctor explained.

'Good. Thank you for all your hard work doctor.'

'You're welcome, sir. Now but because of her extensive wound, we had to repair a rather large part of her intestines. She will have some nutritional issues once she's recovered.'

'Will there be treatments to help her in this matter?'

'Yes, sir there is.'

'Can you please give me a printed list so when we get back to Seattle I can get her the help she'll need.'

'Of course, I will print you a list. Come you may all see her now.' He guides us all the way to Dassah's room. I stood in her room door. Here we go again. I don't know how much of this type of stress I can handle anymore. It is bad enough to have every type of bad guy thinks I owe them something and now it starts to affect my wife and child. Enough is enough. It is time to go in claws and fangs out. Yet this woman is clearly crazy by attacking Dassah for no reason at all. We all settle around Dassah's bed.

An hour later the police arrived that we talked to earlier outside the building at the expo.

'Mr. Manganiello, how is Mrs. Manganiello doing?'

'She stable for now. How can we help you wonderful folks tonight?' I asked feeling annoyed.

'We have gathered the buildings surveillance and the backstage surveillance from the expo and we have gone over the footage.'