Page 47 of Protecting Siena

After what seemed like the longest fucking time in my life, the doctor finally comes in the waiting room. When I stand up, he has a grim look on his face and my heart drops into my stomach. Closing my eyes, I run my hands up and down my face.

“There were some complications.” When he goes to say something else, I fucking lose it. I punch the wall as hard as I can and I watch as the sheetrock breaks under my fist, falling onto the ground around my feet. Gully gets up and tries to pull me back, but I don’t need his words. I already know what the doctor is going to say.

I lost them.

I don’t even bother to wait for him to say the words, instead I run past him and towards the room they kicked me out of. My head is pounding and I know that when I walk in that room, everything is going to change. I’m going to lose the only thing I have left, and it makes me sick to my stomach. When I get to the room I stop in the doorway, and I see her looking down at the baby in her arms.

My feet move without me even trying and when I get to the bed she looks up at me with a tired expression. Her face is pale, and she gives me a small smile.

“I thought…” I trail off as I look at her face. She’s fucking beautiful even when she looks like a mess. Moving the hair out of her face, I press a kiss to her forehead and look down at the baby she’s holding.

“You thought what?” She asks, her eyes scanning my face.

“The doc said there were some complications. I thought…” I can’t bring myself to say the words. Tears start to form in her eyes, and she looks down at the baby in her arms again.

“Meet our son.” Hearing the words takes my breath away, and I can’t help but let the tear slip from my eyes.

“Son.” I murmur. I don’t know maybe saying the word son would make this all seem more real. Kissing the top of her head, I pull her closer to me. She buries her face in my neck and I hold her tightly.

She offers him to me and I can’t help but grin as she places him in my arms. I watch his little lips move and he kicks his legs a bit before he falls back asleep in my arms. The door to the room opens and I see the doctor come in, followed by Gully.

“If you would have let me finish, I would have told you that they were both okay.” He grins. Looking at the doc, I can’t help but laugh.

“I guess so, but with the way my life has been, I wouldn’t have believed it if I didn’t see it for myself.” The doc nods and starts to make some notes on a chart before he walks back out of the room, leaving us to stare at the little man in my arms.

“He’s beautiful, guys.” Gully says from a few feet away. Siena looks up at him and I can see the glow on her face.

“That he is.” She runs the tip on her finger gently down his cheek, and she puts her head back on my shoulder.

“I love you, Siena.” I whisper. Her hand moves to my arm and she gives it a squeeze.

“I love you, too.” She yawns.

Before I know it, she’s asleep, and to be honest, I’m not ready to leave her side. I know I have some shit that I need to handle with Gully, but leaving her alone right now isn’t going to happen.

“What do you want me to do?” Gully asks when he sees that she’s asleep.

“He still alive?”

“Yeah. I have him hidden from the nosey ass fucking people in this town.” He groans. “I swear they want to know every fucking thing.”

I watch him take a seat in the chair by the door, and I shake my head at him. Looking down at the little boy in my arms, I know that I will do anything and everything in my power to make sure him and his mom are okay. I won’t let her brother touch them.

“I want him to tell Evan where we are. Well not here, but where the cabin is that Siena was hiding in when we came back. I’ll let him think he found us, and I’ll strike before he gets the chance.”

“You’re committing suicide by fucking doing this.” He grits out. He points to Siena, and I know he’s going to try and use her against me in my decision. “Once you’re gone, they are going to find her, force her back into this life, and make her marry that fucking prick Tony.” I watch him as his face turns red with anger, and I swear for the first time he’s become a version of me.

“I won’t be gone. I’m never leaving them.” My fingertip runs along his cute little nose, and I can’t help but grin. I feel Siena move beside me and when I look down at her, I see that her eyes are open.

“Evan is after us?” Her voice is hoarse and sounds choked up.

Looking down at her, I hand our son over to her. She takes him with a smile, and presses a soft kiss to his forehead. “He isn’t going to touch either of you. I will make sure of that.” She sucks in a breath, and I can see the tears as they well up in her eyes.

“He can’t get him.” She whispers. I know she heard the whole conversation. I want to prove to her that I would never let anyone touch either of them, but I know it’s hard to believe that it won’t happen.

Grabbing my phone, I send a text to a friend and ask for some help. I didn’t want to have to bring them into it, but I won’t let Siena be afraid.

Me: I need help

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