Ivanna"What are you thinking?" Christian holds my shoulder, startling me. I flinch and look at him, a bit alarmed. "Chris! I don't think I can be there. I really don't think I'll be able to see all that. Please!""It's okay. It's fine", he touches my cheek gently. "If you don't wanna go, you don't have to"I feel so bad that I couldn't have the courage to be next to her. I'm letting her be there, alone, believing that she's much more courageous than me. It makes me feel more awful than I actually am. "Well—" Dr Decker shrugs. "In such cases with children, we always let one of the parents accompany the kids. In fact, we really don't let them. We suggest they be there. Because children are sensitive. They are used to being taken care of by their parents, like a shield and suddenly letting them go through this alone is kind of terrifying for them, no matter how courageous they are. Their brain, their sanity, it's all sensitive. Any kind of fear and trauma can be harmful to them. So—"
TheaJohn isn't ready to get me a phone because he thinks I'll end up calling my dietitian and gym instructor. It was really foolish of him because I can do that from another phone too. But well, Tiffany is there to spy on me all the time. But I'm somehow feeling better these days, after cutting off from the outer world. I was more into that world than mine."Good afternoon", John's voice comes from the door as I move my eyes from the window and look at him. My eyes open wide in shock as I find him holding a bunch of lilies. He has a wide smile on his face too. "Hey!" I exclaim. "You're kind of early today""Yeah. I wasn't feeling like working much", he says and hands me the bouquet.I happily take it. "Pretty""You still love lilies?" He asks hesitantly. "I wasn't sure if that changed because I didn't really get you flowers for a long time""I still love them", I say, looking down at them as the fragrance fills my nostrils. "Sorry for not getting them for you at all", he says.I p
EmilyI enter the OT, wearing the essentials. Chrissie is still lying on her back and she looks extremely confused by her surroundings. I walk towards her when she has been looking at the monitor next to her. Two nurses are working beside the bed, waiting for the doctor. "Hey, beautiful!" I whisper as soon as I reach her. And her face lightens up right away."Emmy!" She excitedly whispers back. I hold her hand. "How're you doing?"She fluffs her cheeks. "Honestly? I'm scared""I know. But now you don't need to be. Since I'm here", I squeeze her hand."Why do you have that mask on?" She curiously asks. "Because it's important to put it on when I'm here", I chuckle.Suddenly, the air feels heavy when the doctor comes inside. I was indeed confident to be with Chrisanna but there's always a bit of nervousness surrounding me when I watch these children going through it. Especially when the last time I was in such a position was two years back. It's been a long time since I have been the
ChristianAfter two hours, Chrissie woke up and was shifted back to her cabin. That's what I got to know through Emily's message when I was in a conversation with Dr Decker. As I already expected, he said he couldn't be here for a long period. But he can assign a good team to be here and he'll be looking into her case closely until the transplant is finally successful. That means Chrisanna has to stay here for a while and I'll surely want that. I don't want her to be in Texas when I don't trust Thea at all. If she gets to know about this, she'll surely try to do something and I don't want her to be near Chrisanna at any cost. Between all this, things can be a little tougher for me to handle. I can't afford to stay away from work for months when the situation of the company isn't good enough. I can't leave everything to Kane since he also has his priorities, be it the lawsuit against Damien or Emily's pregnancy. Nor can I afford to be away from Chrissie. I wanna be there for her. I
ChristianI decided to move back to Texas and get started with my work again. It was tough to decide before but after a long conversation with Ivanna, it seemed to be so easy. I still don't know how things are gonna shape up once I move back to Texas. However, Ivanna is right. I don't have anything to be scared of right now. I don't have any weaknesses which Thea can use against us anymore. I don't need her. Our daughter doesn't need her. That's one of the biggest satisfactions I have ever felt. I'm confident enough to face anything she'll come up with.I'm almost done with all the preparation to leave. My bags are packed. The vehicle is ready. The last thing will be saying goodbye to Chrissie. I was feeling so guilty about all of it but now since I have believed that I'm doing all this only for her, I don't feel guilty anymore. Sometimes we have to do things differently. I'm convinced of myself and my actions. It'll all be worth it the moment everything will fall back into place. I h
ChristianHome sucks without Ivanna and Chrissie. It's been two days since I've been back in town. And it's already unbearable for me. I think about them all the time, especially about Chrissie. I have pissed Ivanna off until now, as I expected. Because I'm definitely being annoying. I have never annoyed her this much in the whole decade that I did in the last two days. I keep on calling her once every hour. She sounds patient enough with me. But until it's like four calls in an hour last night. She was angry and she lashed out at me, definitely not because she was annoyed but because she thinks I'm doing what I'm supposed to do over here. My mind is still stuck over there. She's indeed right. I can't focus on anything over here when everything is just messed up at work and needs my focus. I'm still trying to bring everything on track. "So, I'll mail them all the details, then send you the reminder", Nicole says as I nod. "Don't worry, Sir. Everything will fall back in place. The w
ChristianThe meeting has been fixed at Mr Fox's office. I reach there the next morning. He was late for the appointment which he never is. I have been waiting in his cabin for like an hour now and he shows up just before I was about to leave."Ah! I apologise, Mr Scott", he surges inside the cabin with a huge smile of apology on his face. Maybe, that's kind of weird, but he seems really cheerful which I never really thought he was. I immediately get onto my feet and shake hands with him. "Not a problem, Mr Fox. It's been a while since we met""Yeah. Yeah. And that's— I'm really sorry that the project didn't work out", he sighs, taking his seat and I also sit in front of him. "No. Please. You shouldn't be apologising for that. We both know the majority of the responsibility for that loss was because of me", I say."We did a partnership, Mr Scott. There's nothing like major and minor in partnership. It's equal. That's the main principle of business", he says. I smile. "I'm really ho
ChristianShe hardens her reaction as she sees me. Her eyes are literally burning like fire at me. There's immense anger and hatred in her eyes. And undoubtedly, it seems like she can even kill me at this point if we're left alone together. I can never believe she has changed, not after watching her now. She's still the same. Fucking same. Full of arrogance and anger. "Good evening, Mrs Fox!" I say it a bit louder, not getting any response from her. She's still silent. John passes a confusing look, looking at Thea and he slowly jerks her. "Thea!"She is startled as if she was literally in some deep thought and someone just pulled her out of it. "Yeah!" She stutters."Mr Scott has been greeting you. You just spaced out", he tells her. Thea looks back at me with the same aggressive gaze. "I didn't notice", she shrugs, glaring at me. "Good evening, Mr Scott""Heard you recovered from the injuries. Pleased for you", I tell her.She looks utterly surprised by my behaviour now."Thank