DISCIPLINE✔ (DSD SERIES, BOOK THREE)

Explanations

"Daddy?" he asks in confusion but I barely have time to reply as his eyes roll back in his head and he's out cold.

Maybe it's from shock or pain... I have no idea.

"Daddy?" Diana calls shaking his arm frowning as she doesn't get a response.

She continues to shake him while I just stand there frozen looking down at him. His colour is healthy, he has a faint stubble on his chin and there are dark circles under his eyes. My mind keeps replaying the confusion and utmost shock that played on his face at hearing Diana call him Daddy.

Is it that he doesn't want kids? We'd never really had that discussion before. So I can't help wondering, will he want her?

"Momma, what's wrong with Daddy?" Diana asks and her trembling voice knocks me out of my thoughts.

Her hand clutches her father's tightly as stares at his unconscious form. Her brown contacts covered eyes are getting glossy and I know she's on the verge of tears.

"Momma... He's n-not walking u-up," she stutters, her lip trembling and in a flash, I'm at her side taking her into my arms.

"It's okay, baby," I coo rubbing her back. "Daddy's going to be fine okay. He's just sleeping... but I'm going to need you to do something so we can... um, ensure he's well-rested. Can you do it for me?"

She nods her head wiping away tears and I stoop down to kiss her chubby little cheeks. This is too much for her I need to get her out of the room...

"Baby. Can you go to mama for me please?" I ask gently taking her hand from Dylan's own. The pain in my chest intensifying. What if he doesn't want anything to do with her?

"Tell her to call the doctor and send him here... a-and I need you to stay with momma for a while, you know how worried she gets right?" she nods. "Just hug her and say everything will be okay... because it will. Please do this for mommy, baby... Daddy is going to be okay. He just needs his rest."

I say this in the calmest voice I can muster while on the inside there is a typhoon of emotions tearing me apart. She looks over at him, longingly and I feel the pain flare within me.

If I don't get her out now I'm going to break down right in front of her...

"Okay, sweetie?" I ask cup her face drawing her worried eyes from her father and putting on my best reassuring smile.

"Okay, momma..." Diana whispers kissing my cheek before doing the same to her daddy and rushing out the room.

And I break down in tears.

***

"The skin around the bite has almost healed," the doctor says as he checks the area between his shoulder blades.

He's short with salt and pepper hair and he's in casual, t-shirt and jeans attire.

Having to rush over here for a house call, he didn't bother to dress professionally. After all, it's now 7 pm in the night, plus today was his day off from the 24-hour clinic mom and dad financed in the main Bahamian island. It took him approximately half an hour to actually make it here and Dylan hasn't stirred since.

"So he's out of the woods?" I ask wringing my fingers as I hover over him like a shadow.

"His vitals are good," he says before taking out his stethoscope and listening to his heartbeat.

He then proceeded to check his blood pressure with the portable machine and I watch intently as he goes about checking Dylan. By the time he's done, it's quarter of an hour and I look at him expectantly.