Longing You

CHAPTER 17

"Thank you very much ... yes ...I will be there tomorrow..."

Cole sighed as soon as he heard the click that ended the communication.

"A free day ...” - he thought while smiling slightly.

Luckily they had not put any obstacles in his workplace but, to his surprise, Jax had been asking about him since the first hour of the morning ...

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“He seems to be quite angry ...” - Mary commented from her own office

“imagine that he is in the meeting room and that, in just fifteen minutes, he has called at your extension seven times already".

Seven?!

“I don't even want to imagine what will happen if he calls again and doesn't find you here..."

Cole began to feel guilty.

After all, the last thing he wanted was to create a problem for his teammates, much less for Mary.

“If I hurry, I can still get on time. I ..."

“DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT THAT!” - exclaimed the young woman from the other side of the phone

”Don't you dare to come here while being sick!"

Cole felt that the knot of guilt he had inside his stomach was getting much bigger.

As ...

After all...

He had never been good with those kinds of things ... lying, skipping an exam, cheating ...

All those things that many others did as if it were the most normal thing in the world.

And that, for him, they were truly an ordeal.

But there was no turning back now ... it was simply impossible.

“Thank you ...” - he murmured to his companion who, hastily, said goodbye from the other side of the line to quickly cut the conversation.

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Cole sighed and left the phone in its place near a lamp.

“Ma ... I'm going to take a shower” - he commented to the woman who, in the kitchen, was preparing breakfast.

“Good idea! You know...you smell like you have not stepped in the bathroom in three days” - she answered without even turning around and making the young man reddened to the roots of his hair.

“Mum!"

“No mum! And, by the way, fix those dark circles under your eyes. Son, if it was at night and I met you on a lonely street, I would think you were trying to steal from me. "

Cole puffed up his cheeks and with a surly gesture, he sighed too, immediately after, lock himself inside his bedroom.

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Cole sat on the dining table with his hair slightly wet.

His mother, sitting next to him, gave him a disapproving look but, for once, it seemed that she was not going to say anything.

The young man smiled and, taking the plate of toasts that was in front of him, began to fill his empty plate with the food.

“Son ... that hair ..."

"Damn, I talked too soon!"

“Mother, could we have breakfast first?” - the young man asked as he let out a tired sigh

“and, now that I think about it, what are you doing here?"

Mrs. Powell stared at him.

“I left Ellie at school and ... I thought I could come and fix the flat a bit” - the woman muttered as she indicated towards the clothes scattered on the chairs, the half-finished food packages that were on the tables and. .. and now ... the bags with the empty bottles of liquor that were near the main door

“son... Couldn't...Couldn't you go back to the Mansion? I think that..."

“NO!” - exclaimed, however, Cole while giving a strong blow on the table with one of his hands

”I'm sorry but I'm not going to set foot in that house again ... not until father stops trying to control my life!".

Mrs. Powell sighed sadly.

“I just thought that... in the house, I could take better care of you two ... I ..."

Cole shook his head.

“Mum .. I'm sorry but I can not return ... not after what happened ...” - the young man murmured as he remembered his father's words, so hurtful, so cruel

“he ... he even talked about asking for the custody of my daughter, my daughter! "

And he will never allow it ...

Never!

“My love ... I do not think your father meant it, it's just that you were in such a bad state that ..."

However, a laugh from Cole made the woman shut up in the middle of the sentence.

“Mum...” - the young man said as he placed a hand over the woman's

“I spoke with our family's lawyer ... Father started the procedures before I was even admitted to that place and... and he didn't stop until I told him I would fight it in the court.".

That's what made him react.

That and the promise he had made to Brie.

A promise that he did not intend to fail, no matter what it cost him as, after all, he had already failed her too many times...

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The doctors took Brie away quickly, at the same instant in which they saw her enter through the doors of the Hospital.

Cole, on the other hand, could only sit in one of the seats that were inside the waiting area while waiting for news of the doctor who was carrying his wife's pregnancy.

It had been months since they went to see one of the best doctors at the hospital. One who, without a doubt, was an expert not only in gynecology but also in patients who also have a disease like Brie's.

"It will be very complicated ... and the risk is enormous.

Are you sure you want to continue with the pregnancy?” - He had asked them one-morning several months ago.

But Brie had not hesitated.

Not even for a second.

After all the girl, from the moment in which she knew that she was pregnant, had decided that she was going to take all the risks and that, if she did not succeed, she already had a plan that could not fail her.

A plan that, no matter what it costs, she would make happen.

Cole, however, said nothing.

As... what good would it do?

Knowing her ... she wouldn't change her mind.

It was because of this, that he had decided to accept whatever decision the young woman made, because, after all, he had nothing to do with the matter.

But now...

Now he could only think that... if something happens to her... it would be his fault.

His as he didn't try to stop her at all.

He didn't even talk to her, trying to make her understand that it was too risky.

"Yes, it would be the only mine if... if something bad happens to her” - Cole told himself.

The young man, already sitting alone in the narrow corridor, had a terrified expression on his face, especially when her doctors had assured him that the delivery was going to be more complicated than they expected.

“What am I going to do ...” - Cole said to himself as he looked towards the ground.

His hands joined together, could hardly stop shaking.

Suddenly, a hand came to rest on his shoulder, pulling the young man out of his thoughts.

His mother smiled at him with sad eyes while his father, with a proud expression, could only talk about how happy he was because he was finally going to be a grandfather.

“Without a doubt, it was the best thing that could happen to us... imagine if you get to continue living with...with that young man!” - he muttered with total calmness while sitting in one of the nearby chairs.

Mrs. Powell, who had noticed the change of expression of her son with the comment, turned towards her husband with an angry expression on her face.

“Why do not you go to buy us some coffee?” - said the woman in a tone that did not admit a reply.

Her husband growled but, getting up again from the seat, started walking towards the stairs. A few seconds later, already alone, Cole looked up at his mother.

“Thank you” - he said simply.

To which Mrs. Powell nodded wearily and sadly.

“I know that this was not the future you wanted... I am sorry".

Cole looked at one of the walls where there was a poster of a newborn smiling.

“It's too late for that ... I've lost Jax, and now I'm married and waiting for the birth of my daughter... I just hope that one day he can forgive me, because I know I'll never be able to do it."

Mrs. Powell could only nod as she watched her son's destroyed expression.

After all, she could not say anything.

Not after having always been against the relationship he had had with that boy, with that Jax.

But now, seeing Cole like that, she had begun to think that, perhaps, the wrong ones had been them and not the young man who, on his knees, had asked once and again to be allowed to marry his son.

“Everything will be fine ... you'll see ...” - she murmured as she put an arm around his son's shoulders and pulled him towards her.

Even though...

She was beginning to doubt that this was going to happen.

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