Sam sat on the bench beside Elaine and held her gently as he spoke up, "Elaine."Elaine spoke up before Sam could say anything, "No, it can’t be the truth."Sam shook Elaine gently, "Listen to me. The operation was a success. The doctors have made some progress with him. They made it to stop bleeding."Pausing for a moment, Sam added, "He is heavily sedated and they are moving him to the ICU now. So, they can monitor him closely over the next one or two days."Elaine seemed to be visibly somewhat relaxed hearing him. The thought that scared her to death was gone. Sam continued, "The doctor said one person can meet him at one time. You want to go first?"Elaine shook her head. Confused why Sam wasn't getting angry with her. But whatever be the reason for his still cool behavior, she wasn't ready to face Cannon now, not at least when she was drowning deep with her guilt.Sam left her there as he walked to the cabin. Pushing the door open, he entered and walked to Cannon. Hurt and angry

Elaine took Ryan to the room where Cannon was in without bothering others' protest. He wasn't looking as dreadful as he did when she first saw him in the hospital. There was machine beeping by his bedside but his face and body wasn't mangled as before.As soon as Ryan came face to face with Cannon, he turned to Elaine. His face flashed confusion. Elaine smiled at him as she sat on the chair by the bedside with Ryan in her arms, "Here he is, baby. Call him.""But he is sleeping." Ryan whispered. Whenever he tried to wake Cassandra up from her sleep, Elaine never let him do that. Then?"It's okay. He has slept enough. You can call him now." Elaine uttered as she turned to Cannon."Friend?" Ryan reluctantly uttered.Elaine corrected him softly, "He is not your friend, Ryan.""But he said he is." Ryan said. Elaine could feel Ryan liked the idea pretty much of being friends with Cannon. She added softly, "He is your Dad.""Dad?" Ryan asked Elaine as he visibly seemed to be confused. He had

Cannon never saw it coming to this point and couldn't be more relieved that Elaine and Ryan were in the penthouse within his sight. Otherwise he would have been hell worried given his condition, he wouldn't be able to get out of bed let alone reach them.When his little son kept laughing, running and jumping all around the penthouse, as much as he wanted to, he couldn't go after him. He would have gladly endured the pain and played with him but he was forced to do otherwise.Sam, Elaine, Hina, Mary, someone of them was always near and his standing on foot was forbidden. And they made it for a week.His parents also seemed to be enjoying their time with Ryan. As much as his relationship was bad with them, Cannon didn't say much about their being totally different people with Ryan. He kept silent, letting Ryan have all happiness in his life and feeling happy with it.Though it wasn't necessary, a checkup was conducted on him again after one week for Cannon in bed. And only when the res

In the penthouse, all of them were gathered in the living room with their eyes at the entrance, restless as they waited for Cannon to make an appearance there.Ryan was asking about his dad every few minutes as he didn't find Cannon in bed like he was seeing since he had been here."Dad is out for some work, baby. He will be home soon, okay?"Though he nodded, still he kept doing the same thing for times going to everyone. When Cannon made it to be back home, it was just noon. Just a glance of him and then everyone got relaxed and let out a breath in relief. With a smile, Cannon reached them but before he could say something, Ryan hugged his leg as he squealed in joy, "Dad."Cannon bent down a little and took him in his arms, "Yes, baby."Everyone stared at them with a smile as Ryan kept saying something. Cannon figured out some words from his long rant and that much was enough for him to understand what was Ryan asking from him.He wanted to go to the park and Cannon happily agreed

The house was full of life with Ryan running around, laughing, breaking things and all. Too much for his excitement, Cannon made his nursery in one of the room there, like it was in his penthouse.He wanted to build it by himself like before but Elaine didn't let him to do it seeing his struggle to set the screw properly. In between, he took one hit of the hammer on his hand and the next thing, he was pulled away from all of it.Elaine said in a calm tone, "Get healed first. You can make him things later." leaving no place for him to say otherwise.Giving it a thought, Cannon along with Elaine took Ryan out and let him choose his crib, rocking chair, lights and so many of moon and star things as per his demands.Mary was there at Cannon's place for almost all the time. She would have started living there with them if it wasn't for Aiden.After planning the accident of Cannon years back, his all evil works got exposed to Ethan. And the next thing Ethan removed Aiden from his business a