38. Jock
My darlin’ Georgina looked absolutely devastated.
She was sitting on the only comfortable couch in the room, Miracle on one side of her and Hudson on the other. Together they were talking softly, my wife doing her best to put the kids comfort first over hers. I could see the way she was glaring at the emergency room door every few minutes she was holding herself back from barging in there and demanding to be with her child.
Soon my love.
The call from Judd telling us he was on the way to the hospital with Elle topped a very bad day in the Blessing household.
Judd had been very vague with the details, I got the impression that was deliberate, only telling us that Elle was having bad pains in her stomach and that he was on the way to Gracefield.
My wife jumped into action calling our daughters and within ten minutes we had a convoy of three cars speeding down the highway. Gisele and Jury with Miracle, Josh taking Claudia in their car. Georgina and me in the lead setting a furious pace with the only thought to get to our girl.
We arrived finding young Hudson sitting in the waiting room a terrified expression on his face, looking at the back of his brother barking orders at the nurses.
My mind was solely on my daughter who had disappeared through the emergency room doors an hour ago, Judd hot on the heels of the hospital trolly carrying my girl.
It was not hard to take the leap and figure out what was happening behind the doors where Elle was taken. The family had already been through this with Claudia last year, the feeling of dejavu overwhelming me.
My daughter, my family did not deserve this.
Elle did nothing to justify what she was going through.
Her life had been turned on its head lately, but my beautiful brave girl pushed through it, her head held high.
I was not so sure the same will happen if she suffers another loss.
A much worse one.
I knew Ellie was having a personal struggle with being a mother, but she was battling herself for nothing. Like her sisters, my Elle had nothing but love in her heart.
Looking around the waiting room, my eyes landed on my other two daughters, holding each other and crying quietly together, their fear for their sister painted plainly on the tears stained face.
Thank God for Jury and Josh.
The bond my three beauties had was unique and beautiful to watch as their father. Now they had to go through Elle’s pain together the same way they shared Claudia’s a year ago.
How can life be so cruel to my babies? Why take so much from them for no reason?
Elle did not deserve this, all the grief Jake put her through, killing her dog, killing her heart. Now this.
I wasn’t sure what Judd had to do with this, but my instincts told me what Elle had not.
There were too many secret in the Blessing family. Too many.
All I needed was word my Elle Naomi was okay then I was going to lay down the law.
No more secrets. We needed a new start, new blessings.
And I was going to make sure exactly that happened.
Mark my words.
TO BE CONTINUED