Outlawed Love

Chapter 22

Voicemail number one "Hey Shawn, its me Layla, I saw your note. Don't leave like this please baby, I want you to stay... Please stay." I could hear the pain in her voice and it broke me. I thought I was saving her but maybe I wasn't. I clicked on voicemail number two and listened to it with fear. "Hey Shawn, this is um Michelle, Layla's mum, she has been rushed to the hospital after having a stoke and we don't think she's going to last the night, please come quick. She needs you..." I ran, ran like I never ran before. Did I seriously run away and just leave thinking it would save her when it actually led her into a death trap.

I barged through the doors of the hospital and ran over to the waiting room, my eyes scanned nervously trying to find Michelle. I couldn't see her anywhere, I went to the reception and asked where Layla's room was. I ran over to the room and with each foot that hit the ground I became more anxious. When I finally got onto the corridor I heard slight beeps my baby was still alive. I rushed through the door and I went over and gave her a hug. My arms tightened around her when I heard her heart flat line. I instantly broke into tears. I never got to say goodbye in person. I said goodbye through a note thinking I could go back to this like nothing every happened. Her mum's eyes filled with tears as she handed me a note, It was my note, but she had replied to me on the back. *Hey baby, I cant bare thinking that you might get hurt like our little Gracie, I am going to sort this once and for all Layla, and I will come home and be the husband you knew I were on that first day of English. I don't know when I will be back but I will come back, stay strong my love. I love you so much.* I spun it over to see her note, it didn't look like her handwriting but I knew it would've only been her. *Hey Shawn, I have gotten the nurse to write this as I have got in a really bad state, I have advised my mother to give you this if I am no longer here. Just know that I loved you and that I was still awake when you tucked me up that night, so don't think you didn't say goodbye as I heard everything you said and everything you did to try and stop yourself from going to Darcy, I love you so much and I will see you again I promise, take care of my mother for me and make sure you treat her like you would your own. I love you Shawn, so much, but this is goodbye. This is the end for us.* I broke down right there and then, Michelle sat on the end of the bed with me and we both just cried, she fell into my arms. My world had been taken from me. At the start of this year I had been the happiest man alive and now I have nothing left. This was the end of fatherhood. This was the end of my happiness. This was the end of an Outlawed Love...