The Actress' Husband

Episode 71: Grateful

Episode 71: Grateful

Emily was in the waiting room with Jake sitting across from her. He hadn't said a thing to her since the doctors urgently catered to Stella who was now in the emergency room. Not a word of blame, expression of anger - nothing came from him. He was basically a shell of a man.

Though this sight of him was what she had longed for, the woman couldn't help feeling the total opposite in this case.

She hadn't meant for things to turn out this way.

Even if karma was supposed to reach them for all they had done to her, she never prayed for it to be in this form.

This...

It was all too cruel.

Emily wanted to ask if he was okay during the past two hours of them getting no news from the professionals here, but she knew that would be asking the obvious.

Of course he wasn't okay.

Who would be in a situation like this?

Heck, the woman didn't like either of them and she wasn't okay.

Bowing her head with a deep sigh, she couldn't help but begin to pray.

There was nothing else that could be done in a situation like this.

Amidst that, her phone buzzed in her pocket and the woman took it out to see that it was a text from Nicholas.

He was at work, why was he messaging her?

How's everything going?

She couldn't help how her mouth contorted at that.

Like hell.

His reply came instantly.

What do you mean? Aren't you supposed to be wrapping up at this point?

Her lips trembled.

Nicholas...

He answered.

Yes, sweetheart?

When her fingers typed the next sentence, the tear finally slipped out of her eyes and onto the phone's screen.

I think Stella's about to lose her baby.

It took a minute before he replied and she knew it was because of the shock he must have been experiencing.

The phone in her hand started to ring and when she saw his caller ID it didn't take long before she answered.

"Em," His voice addressed softly.

A silent sob wracked through her at this point.

"Tell me what happened."

She covered her mouth almost as if to keep in the awful sounds it was surely going to make. Then she took a deep breath before spilling everything to him.

"After I signed the contract with Jake I left his office only to bump into Stella. It didn't take long before she got fired up after eavesdropping on what I had been discussing with him...which was that I had planned everything from the start. His downfall that is. She got so angry that she lunged at me and out of instinct, I avoided her attack. I-I didn't expect for her to fall that hard, Nicholas. I didn't know that she would bleed like that..." Her mouth started to tremble as her voice cracked at the end.

"Do you...do you think that it's my fault?" She ended in a hushed whisper.

"It was an accident, Emily." He strongly assured her.