Read Born Into Destiny: A Forsaken Sinners MC Series Novella Online
Authors: Shelly Morgan
Fifteen Minutes Later
Zane
I’m trying to get the rest of this room done so I can get home and cook for Dani. She’s been so uncomfortable these last few weeks and seeing what Jax did last week for her and how happy it made her to not have to do anything makes me want to do it for her as well. Though, I’m going to do one better and pamper her all night. First with dinner, then I’ll run her a bath, then I’m going to rub her back and feet for her. That will make her happy and hopefully feel a little better as well.
As I sand the rest of the putty off the wall so I can start painting, I hear my phone ring. “Yeah?” I ask into the phone, hoping whatever it is isn’t something that needs my immediate attention. I’ve left the surveillance of The Street Kings to my brothers, but if something goes down, they’ll need me to help take care of the problem. I’m just hoping that’s not what this phone call is about. I don’t want to have to stop what I’m doing or risk not being able to fulfill my plan for tonight. But my hopes are dashed as soon as I hear Louie’s frantic voice on the other end.
“It’s Dani! She’s gone and there’s blood everywhere!” The words Dani, gone, and blood are the only words that filter through my head.
“What the fuck do you mean she’s gone and there’s blood everywhere? What the hell happened and where the fuck is my woman?” I yell back into the phone, already running out to my bike. If something happens to her or our baby, I don’t think I’ll be able to go on. She and that baby are everything to me.
“I don’t fucking know! I came in and the door was busted in. When I searched the place, I found blood in her office and her purse and phone on her desk. I don’t know what happened! Just get here. Now!” he growls, though I know it’s not directed at me, but the situation. Dani is his best friend, but she’s the love of my life, so if anyone should be freaking out, it should be me. “Besides the door, does it look like there was a struggle?” I ask, needing all the information I can get.
I keep the phone plastered to my ear even though I’m now driving eighty to get to the shop. It doesn’t seem to faze Louie, though. “No, brother, doesn’t look like there was a struggle, but who the fuck knows? They could have taken her by surprise or maybe it was someone she knew,” he says in a hurry. Then I hear him say away from the phone, probably to another brother, “Get Mack on the phone and start putting calls out. Find her!” I don’t say anything else to him, I just keep driving, but keep the connection with him, not wanting to slow down or put any focus into putting my phone away.
A few minutes later, I’m pulling up to the shop and see Mack, Louie, Toby, Sara, Skinner, and Tom Tom standing out front, yelling at each other. Well, everyone but Sara. She’s just standing there with her arms wrapped around her middle, crying.
When I make it to them, Louie and Mack look at me with both anger and pain in their eyes. “Anything?” I ask, walking into the shop and back toward her office.
“We’ve got nothing, brother. But everyone is out looking and I’ve called in some favors to help find her,” Mack says.
“Where’s Slayer? Does he still have eyes on her piece of shit father?” I ask as we hurry toward Dani’s office. I don’t think her father would do something to harm her, but if he were desperate enough, maybe he would. Who knows at this point. I don’t know her father from Adam, so he could be some psycho and I wouldn’t even know.
“I called him as soon as I found out. Daniel hasn’t left Michigan since he got back,” he says just as we reach her office.
The scene before me looks like something out of a horror film: there’s blood covering a huge portion of the floor and then there are shoe prints leading out of the room. When I turn to look back out into the hallway, I see bloody hand prints.
Suddenly, I feel so beaten down and drained. I should have been here. She’s God only knows where, hurt, and I have no idea how to even begin looking for her.
My phone rings, interrupting my pity party, and I answer. “Did you find her?” I ask, not looking to see who is calling.
Jaxon starts talking through the phone, but I can’t understand him. Is he crying? “Dani…blood…found her…” That’s pretty much all I’ve been able to make out, but it sends relief through my body, giving me enough hope and will power to snap the fuck out of it and get to my girl.
“Where is she? Is she all right? Is the baby all right? How did you find her? What happened?” I ask the questions in rapid succession.
“We’re at the hospital. You need to get here fast. I think there’s something wrong with the baby and no one will fucking tell me anything!” he says, now sounding angry.
I hang up the phone without even saying goodbye, then turn toward Mack. “She’s at the hospital. Jaxon thinks it’s the baby,” I say before running outside and racing like a bat outta hell to get to the hospital.
Everyone follows me and but I don’t slow down to wait for them. Dani and the baby need me.
***
The drive to the hospital seems to take hours, but in reality, I make it there in less than ten minutes. I’m not stopping for anything, even if a pig flashes his cherries at me. They’ll just have to wait. My brothers stay right on my tail the whole time, but I barely even notice them, too lost in thought and praying that my family is okay.
When I pull up to the doors, I almost flatten my bike on the asphalt with how fast I stopped and jumped off, barely putting my kickstand up, but I couldn’t care less.
I run up to the nurses’ station on the first floor with my brothers right behind me. “My girl was just brought in. She’s pregnant and bleeding.” My voice is raised and people are looking at me.
The nurse looks at me with annoyance. “Name, please.”
“Danielle DeChenne. Are her and the baby all right?” I ask, getting pissed that she doesn’t just point me to where I can find my girl.
“Are you family?” the nurse says, looking at me sternly.
“She’s pregnant with my fucking baby. Just tell me where the fuck she is!” I yell, leaning over the desk. I want to reach out and wrap my hands around this bitch’s throat, force her to show me where Dani is.
“Sir, if you don’t calm down, I’ll have to ask you to leave.” You’d think she’d be scared with a pissed off biker yelling at her, especially when he’s backed by at least three more, but no. She’s still speaking with annoyance, like I’m a fucking ant that she thinks she can crush under her shoe.
“If you don’t tell me where the fuck—” I start to yell, but Mack comes up and places his hand on my shoulder, holding me back.
“You need to calm down. Dani and the baby need you right now. You won’t be able to do anything for them if your ass is locked away in a jail cell.” I hate that he’s right, but the bitch nurse better start talking real fucking soon before I get so pissed off I start ripping this place apart and none of my brothers will be able to hold me back.
When Mack see’s that I’m calmer, he turns toward the nurse. “Ma’am, I’m sorry, but we’re the only family she has. Please just tell us where she is and if she and the baby are all right.” The nurse looks a little less irritated when she looks at Mack, but as soon as her eyes find mine again, they go hard.
Looking back to Mack, she says, “She’s on the fourth floor, but you’ll have to wait in the waiting area. She’s in surgery right now. That’s all I know. The doctor will come and find you when they have more news.”
Without waiting for anything else, I push my way to the stairs, ignoring Mack calling out for me to stop, and run up the stairs two at a time.
Barging into the waiting room, I see Jaxon hunched over a chair in the back. There’s no one else in the room, which I’m glad about. They’d probably just leave when they see all the bikers anyway.
“What happened? Did someone hurt her?” I ask Jaxon, needing to know everything.
He looks up and I can see that he’s trying to hold back his tears. “I don’t know, man. We were texting and I asked if she wanted to grab lunch. When she didn’t reply, I called, but got no answer. I just knew something was wrong, so I went to the shop as fast as I could. The door was locked and she wasn’t answering, so I kicked it in. When I got to her office, she was just lying there, unconscious. There was so much blood—”
“Did it look like someone attacked her?” I interrupt, not really wanting to hear about all the blood she lost. I fucking saw her office, I know what it looked like.
Jaxon shakes his head. “No. I think it was something to do with the baby.”
After he says that, I can do nothing but just drop to the floor. I’ve read all the books. I wanted to prepare myself for anything I would need to know for Dani’s pregnancy and awaiting our baby, so I know all the things that can go wrong.
I feel someone come up to me and place their hand on my shoulder. “They’ll be okay. Dani is strong, she’s a fighter. So is the baby. You need to stay strong, Blaze. They’re going to need you soon.” I can barely make out that it’s Louie talking to me, he speaks so low and I can tell that he’s holding back emotion of his own.
“It’s too early…it’s too early,” I whisper, knowing that if she delivers now, there’s a possibility the baby won’t make it.
I know my girl is a fighter. She’s been through so much worse so I know she’s going to be okay. I just hope our baby takes after her and will fight too.
Two Hours Later
Zane
Zeke, if you can hear me, I need you now, brother. I’m sorry I was so angry at you when you left and hated you when you died. I just couldn’t see why you felt the need to do what you did, but even though I never told you, I’m so very proud of you and I miss you every day.
But today isn’t about me. Dani and our unborn baby is in trouble. I don’t know what happened, or if they are even okay, but I need you to be with them. I need you to give them strength and courage to fight whatever it is they need to fight to come back to me. I need them, Zeke. I need them like I needed you, but I know if I lose them too, I won’t be able to live anymore.
Please help them, Zeke. I can’t be there right now for them, but you can. Please, brother. Please save them.
***
For the past two hours, I’ve done nothing but kneel on this floor and pray to God that my girl and baby are okay. I’ve pleaded with my brother to help them. I’ve begged God to let me take their place. I’ve willed the doctor to come in and tell me my family is all right.
I haven’t looked up into the eyes of my brothers, afraid of what I’ll see. I don’t want to see their fear that Dani and the baby are gone. I don’t want to see their hope that they’re okay and still with me. And I don’t want to see their pity. I can’t deal with any of it, so I just stare at the ground in front of me.
When I hear the door to the waiting room open, I glance up and see a man in scrubs walk in. Jumping to my feet, I hurry toward him.
“Please tell me Dani and my baby are okay,” I plead in a broken voice. I have no idea if he’s here about Dani, but seeing as to how no one else is here waiting for news, it has to be.
“Are you her husband?” the doctor asks.
“Yes,” I say, hoping he doesn’t question me.
The doctor looks behind me to where I assume all my brothers are standing, waiting like me for news.
“Dani suffered from a placental abruption. This is when the placenta separates from the uterus before the baby is born. It can be minor, but in Dani’s case, the placenta was completely separated from her uterus, which caused severe blood loss. We had to perform an emergency C-section since this could cause serious complications.”
The doctor doesn’t say anything else and I find myself getting pissed the longer he doesn’t tell me that Dani and the baby are okay.
“Is the baby okay?” I say as calmly as I can, but Mack can hear the edge in my voice, so he places his hand on my shoulder, silently telling me to calm down.
“Well, one of the babies is just fine; breathing on his own and only seems to be a little underweight,” the doctor says.
Shocked, I have no idea what to say. Did he just say
babies
? As in, there’s more than one? Thankfully, Mack takes over asking the questions.
“You mean to tell us Dani gave birth to more than one baby?” I hear the surprise in his voice, but I also hear excitement. When he found out Dani was pregnant, he was over the moon happy. Now, knowing there’s more than one baby, he’s got to be fucking thrilled. But I can’t be happy about it. Not yet. I need to know that they all are okay.
“Yes. Twins, actually,” the doctor says this evenly, like it’s every day he drops a bomb like this on people, like it’s normal for them to think they’re only having one baby, then wind up having two.
“How is that possible? We only heard one heartbeat, saw only one baby on the ultrasound,” I say, trying to wrap my mind around the fact that I’m now a father of
two
.
“It doesn’t happen often, but sometimes, the second baby can hide behind the other. That’s the case here, but it’s also because your daughter is a lot smaller than her brother. That may be why they didn’t know Dani was carrying twins,” the doctor explains, but I think I only heard the word
daughter
. I have a son and a daughter.
“You said she was smaller than her brother. But she’s fine, right?” I think that’s Louie, but I can’t be sure. I’m still reeling from the news of twins, of having a son and daughter.
“She’s smaller by two pounds. Now, that may not sound like much, but for a baby, it’s the difference between a hundred pounds and two hundred pounds. But it’s not the weight that’s concerning us right now. She’s not able to breathe on her own, so we have her hooked up to a machine that does that for her. She also isn’t able to eat the way normal babies can, so we have a tube that will feed her so she’ll gain the weight she needs to get stronger. She’ll have to stay in the NICU for a couple of weeks, but if she puts on the weight and the steroids we gave her to help develop her lungs work as they should, she’ll be fine to go home and shouldn’t have any long term complications. As far as your son, he’ll stay in the NICU with his sister tonight, and given that he continues eating and keeping his body temperature up, he’ll be able to stay with you until he’s released in a few days.”
A huge weight is lifted now that I know the babies are going to be fine. I still can’t believe we have two. I can’t wait to tell Dani.
Smiling, I ask, “Have you told Dani we have a son and a daughter? When can I go see her?” She’s going to freak when she finds out if they haven’t told her already. But I know she’s going to be so happy.
The doctor’s face falls marginally, but it’s enough that I can tell that what he’s about to say isn’t good.
“You can see her soon, but she’s in a coma. She lost a lot of blood before she got here and even more during the delivery. We’ve given her two blood transfusions, but during that time, she started having seizures due to her extremely high blood pressure. We were able to stop them, but we couldn’t do anything until we got the babies out. I’m not sure yet what the damage is, but it could’ve caused minor brain damage. I’ve scheduled her for an MRI tomorrow to look for any swelling or abrasions, but for now, the only thing we can do is wait until she wakes up.”
And my whole world just dropped. I feel like I’ve just taken a ride on the most deadly of roller coasters. Sure, they’re not meant to be deadly, but they take you up so high and make you feel like you are on top of the world. Then they bring you down faster than your organs can keep up with or so fast that the car will slide off the tracks or you fall out, falling to your death. That’s the way I feel right now. I was so high, then when I thought there was no way I’d come down, the car loses traction and falls at a rapid pace toward the ground, and you’re dead.
But I’m very much still alive, it just
feels
like I’m dead. My whole world feels like it’s being ripped away from me.
Zeke, please…please don’t let Dani die. Please don’t take her away from me. I will do anything, just please let her be okay. We have a son and a daughter now. They need her. I need her. Please, Zeke, help her come back to us.