Heartbeat

Chapter sixteen

"I don't even get to make you scream like that, so it better be something - "

He stopped himself from continuing when he saw her panic-stricken face. A look of confusion his crossed features.

When he shifted his gaze lower, that is when he noticed.

The red drops of blood.

It wasn't a lot of blood but knowing that she's pregnant made him freeze.

His pace stripped of colour making him look extremely pale.

Juliet felt a searing pain in her abdomen which made her scream out in pain. Another stabbing like pain slashed her abdomen, another agonizing scream sounded from her.

That made Deontay snap out of whatever daze he was in.

He acted so fast; it made her head spin. Her vision became blurred and that's when she noticed that everything in her line of vision was slowly starting to fade.

In less than a minute, everything became black.

Deontay's breathing stopped entirely when he felt her go limp in his arms.

"No, hang in there Juliet. Don't you dare let my son die." He muttered.

He grabbed the first thing that he saw, which was a gown and covered her naked body.

Nothing could compare to the emotions he had felt when he saw her frightened and panicked face in the shower. Panic rose and pumped through every vein of his body. At that time, he was good as paralyzed.

His heart might have been made of steel but there are some things that could easily penetrate through it. One little thing that will make him sacrifice everything he has ever worked for without a single doubt. He has been yearning for it for years. And that's a son. A son that might not even be growing in Juliet's womb. He is so infatuated by the idea of having one, that he is 110% sure that the life that is due in a few months is a baby boy. Thats if the foetus is not dead.

He isn't well acquainted with pregnancy. But a woman bleeding during pregnancy isn't normal.

As he wordlessly laid Juliet on the back seat of the car, got to the front seat, drove and nearly ran over one his men.

The engine revved to life, and he raced to the hospital.

He drove like a madman. He didn't once stop at a red light, nor did he pull over when the police signalled him to. The traffic was horrible, if he didn't hit someone's car in the process, it would be of great surprise.

He kept glancing over at her ever so often, but her eyes remained shut.

He only had one thought in mind and that was to get to the fucking hospital.

Once he had arrived, he didn't even mind switching off the engine and quickly swung the backseat door open.

Juliet still didn't wake up and Deontay's heart rate picked up.

He rushed to the secretary and growled out commands.

In a normal setting, he would've enjoyed watching the frightened secretary scurry off to get the nurses, but today, he didn't feel any satisfaction by scaring the poor lady.

Juliet was immediately rushed to the emergency room.

"I'm sorry Sir, but you aren't allowed to go in there." A scrawny nurse said to Deontay as he was about to enter the room.

Just then, the doctor that assigned to Juliet appeared.

He looked to be in his mid-forties almost the same height as Deontay, but just a tad bit shorter.