Embracing Us (Embracing Series)

EMBRACING US

Copyright © Delisa Lynn

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ISBN-13:

978-1497340565

ISBN-10:

149734056X

Published in the United States of America.

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This book is dedicated to my wonderful husband—

Jay, I’ve loved you half of my life, and will continue loving
you until I take my last breath. Thank you for always supporting me in everything that I do. Without you none of this would be possible. I’m finally bringing my dreams to life, because of you. I will forever embrace our love.

“Liam, I’m on my way
home. I love you so much. Liam? Hello, can you hear me? Liam, I’m on my way home. I love you so much!”

The
plane is losing altitude? I almost lose my grip on my phone.
My phone
. “Liam? Liam? Can you hear me?” The emergency breathing apparatus falls from the overhead and slaps me square in the forehead. Crash after loud, thunderous crash echoes through the fuselage of the plane, and it’s not even phased by the screaming and the prayers being uttered by the passengers aboard flight 4762. It hits me. This is real. This is happening. I can’t tell if he’s on the phone anymore or not, but I scream into my phone, praying he can hear me, “Liam! I love you, baby. Kiss the girls for me. I love you. The plane…”

Dear God, this is awful. Please, please let everyone be okay.
There was an explosion-one of the engines has blown. I can smell smoke, it’s like nothing I’ve smelled before. The flames are so close I can feel the heat, and my body hurts. I can feel pain everywhere. I see blood running down my nose, from my forehead. I run to my left, trying to help other passengers, just as I was able to reach a younger woman, I tripped over another person. I don’t know what I hit, but it’s hard as a rock. My head is pounding. I reach my hand up to feel the back of it, and there is blood everywhere. I can still hear people screaming. Oh God, please let me get out of here; my husband, I have to get home to my husband. Oh God Liam. “Baby, can you hear me? Liam love can you hear me?” I yell into the phone I’m still clutching in my other hand, but I can’t hear him.

I
try talking to Liam, I want to tell him how much I love him and that I will be home soon… I can’t see anything. I can hear people screaming and crying. I suddenly feel someone pick me up and carry me to a cold wet surface. They are asking me a million questions, but my words won’t come out. I don’t know what is happening. I just need to tell my husband I love him and was sorry for what I have done. I need to tell him everything about Evan.

I
am put onto what I believe was a gurney and they strapped me down, I could feel a sharp pain in my neck. They put straps around my head and my arms. I can still smell the smoke. I’m so cold, but I also feel so warm. Blankets, they are covering my body in warm blankets. I can taste blood, it’s all over my lips, on the inside of my mouth.

I’m
put on another plane, it’s very loud, and then I realize it isn’t a plane at all, it’s a helicopter. A very loud one. They start hooking all kinds of machines to me. A young man keeps saying I will be fine and he will make sure I will be, just before shoving tubes in my nose and down my throat. I can’t breathe. Gasping, I try to tell him the tubes are choking me. My throat burns, I want to puke, and pull the damn things out, but he can’t hear me for some reason. I try moving my arms but still can’t, I know it isn’t a nice thing to do but I need him to see me. So I kick the guy in his ass. Maybe that will get his attention.

“Brantley,
she just kicked me. She’s alive but fading. Her pulse is still very faint. The oxygen seems to be helping, but we have to get the morphine in her. We have to get the IV started, but her veins keep blowing. She has her phone, we need to see if there is an emergency contact in it.”

“Miss, if you can hear me my name is Emmitt, and that’s Brantley. We are getting you to the hospital. Stay with me
, Ma’am.”

“Emmitt, she was on the phone with her husband. Her name is Lila. She need
s to go to General Hospital in San Francisco. She is allergic to penicillin. No other allergies.”

“Lila, it’s me
, Emmitt. Sweetie, stay with us. I’m trying to get the IV started. I have to get this medicine in you. We will be there soon. Just hang with me.”

He knows my name.
But why can’t he hear me. Why isn’t he listening to me? I try to kick again, but they not only put my arms in restraints but my legs as well. I can hear the plane landing. I hear the man say we are in California at General Hospital.

I also hear him say that my husband is waiting on us. The doctors have prepped
the OR. Oh my God, they’re operating on me, for what? I can still hear everything they were doing, but the taste of blood was getting worse with all the tubes and wires invading my personal space. The loud beeping noises were making my head ache even more. My body is very warm, I can feel the warmth running through my veins. I can feel my tongue pressing against the tube going down my throat. I’m dying, that’s all that is going through my mind. Being with Evan has cost me my life.

I hear a familiar voice, Liam
. Oh God, my Liam, he is crying and telling me how much he loves me. I wish he could hear me. I love him so much. I’ve realize that he and our girls are my life. Evan is my past and what happened will not happen again. I’ll always love Evan, he was there for me when I needed him the most. The love Evan and I share and the love that Liam and I share, are two different kinds of love.

When
I watched the reality shows and soaps, I was never able to understand how a woman claim to love two men at the same damn time. But now I know, without a doubt, it’s possible. What I did was wrong; I made love to another man, while my wonderful husband was at home taking wonderful care of our daughters.

I
can hear the doctors and nurses working all around me, telling me I will be fine. They are giving me more medicine through my IV. I’m terrified, and I can’t express my thoughts with anyone. I’m getting very sleepy, I try yawning but I can’t with these damn tubes everywhere. I feel my tears stinging my cuts and bruised cheeks as they fall from my eyes. I can still hear my husband sitting next to me, praying and confessing his love for me. He’s holding my hand and praying louder than I’ve ever heard him pray. I want to wipe his tears away so bad, tell him I’m here, and that I love him so much. His confession is the last words I hear before everything goes silent...

“Addie is that you? What’s
happening? Why can’t anyone hear me? This is freaking me out Ads.”

“Lila, you need to get it together and wake up. Liam loves you so much, you can’t leave him now, not like this. You need to tell him everything and he will understand, he will move heaven and earth to be with you
. He’s been fighting for you since the day he met you. I love you Li, but it’s not your time. You have so many people that need you, and the baby needs you.”

“Addie, what are you talking about? I miss you so much. I fucked up again. I love Liam with everything I am
, and I keep messing everything up.”

“It’s okay Li, sleep my friend. You will wake up soon and can tell Liam everything.”

I feel Ads kiss my forehead, then disappear. I can’t hear Liam anymore but now my mom, Eric, and Kaylin. The three of them are crying and stroking my hair. Eric sounds hurt, my brother is such a handsome guy, and I’m so glad he found Kaylin, she makes him happy. I know he will always love Ads, but he can’t morn forever.

I w
ake up from time
to time and hear different people sitting here talking to me. From what I can hear, I am in a coma and have been here for a while. Liam told the doctor he wasn’t giving up on me. That we have come too far to lose one another. He sits here every day telling me how much he loves me and things the girls are doing.

Evan? What’s he doing here? Holy hell, he can’t see me like this. He sounds like he’s crying. He lifts up my hand and I can feel his tears falling on my skin. As he begins talking, I can hear his voice choking up.

“Lila, I’
ll always love you darlin’. But I’ve moved on, her name is Tatum. She is wonderful and she is Zander’s sister. I’ve always loved her, but it wasn’t until I lost you that I realized she was whom I was supposed to be with. She was involved with someone else though, but she’s all mine now. You need to wake up for your family. Liam loves you so goddamn much, and that man is breaking, you need to wake up and put him back together. I have to go, but remember, I’ll always love you, my beautiful valley girl.”

I
feel him kiss my cheek, then I hear silence and then the door closing. He’s letting me go, I didn’t think it would hurt this much, I feel a sharp pain in my heart. I’ll always love him. He changed my life so much when Liam was missing. He was my shoulder, I didn’t mean to hurt him the way I did, and I feel like I just borrowed his heart.