CHAPTER 70

'Thank you detectives," I said as I walked them out. 'Hi baby, how are you?" Aria asked me as she came through the door an hour later. I was on my way out to see Jasmine at the hospital. 'I'm going out," I answered. 'Where?" 'The hospital." 'You're going to see her again, Evan? You've been there over one hundred times since she had been admitted to the hospital! So you're not going to spend time with me today, you'd rather go to see her instead?" 'Look, don't start this all over again please. I'm going to see her and be there for my kid." 'A kid that just might not be yours?!" My blood became hot. Just leave it to Aria to spoil my mood and throw that detail back into my face. Without another word, I took my car keys and left. I wasn't in the mood for the argument with her but I couldn't shake the thought from my head. What if she was right and he wasn't even my son? How would I take that? I got to the hospital and went towards a smiling Jasmine. 'You're back so soon?" she asked. 'Yes. I told you I'll be back and I brought you this. Your favorite, Chicken soup," I said and handed her a bowl with steaming soup. 'Thank you," she said and began eating. 'Oh Evan, I've been thinking that we should start choosing baby names although we don't know the sex of the baby. I could still be fun to choose a boy's name or a girl's name. Don't you think?" 'Wow. That hadn't even crossed my mind as yet. I don't know where to begin," I said with a small laugh and she laughed along with me. *Two Months Later* Jasmine's POV I was in the park with Emma Hollen- Evan's mom. She had been very supportive of me and the baby and she made time just to be there for us. Sometimes, we would go shopping or go have lunches at a restaurant, or go for a walk through the park or sit at the house and girl chat, as she called it. She was an incredible woman and I liked her. 'It's such a beautiful day outside," she said as we sat down on a bench in the lawn. Fisher and another guard were roaming close by. 'It is," I answered with a smile. 'So Jasmine, you said there was something you wanted to talk about. What's that sweetie?" she asked and handed me a bottle water to quench my thirst. I felt like I could vent to her and tell her anything. She was so down to earth and understanding and kind. I had no idea how her son could be so different. He must have rubbed off on his father. 'Do you believe Evan and I would get back together once the baby comes?" I asked her. I still loved Evan. And I couldn't help but imagine us being a solid family once the baby is born. I didn't want to co parent. I wanted the baby and me to have a stable relationship with Evan only. I couldn't see myself making love to another man but him. Emma raked her fingers through her long hair, just like what her son does. She let out a sigh and turned towards me. 'You still love him, don't you?" she asked. 'Yes I do," I answered her truthfully. I wasn't ashamed of saying it and never will be. 'I could see that in your eyes Jasmine but let me tell you something about my son. Evan Hollen is a complete different specimen when it comes to women. He's unreadable and unpredictable but believe me when I tell you he did loved you and the love is still there for you but he is afraid to show you how much he still does. I'm not going to judge why you did it, but you did hurt him in a place he had never been hurt before. His heart. But I believe that time heals everything and anything is possible." I sighed. 'The three of you could be a family again," she added and rubbed my baby bump gently and playfully. I was growing every day. 'I never thought he would of been with Aria Goode for so long though," I said as I recalled her coming over at the mansion last night with the tightest dress I had ever seen on a woman. 'Aria is just a prop. Evan has her around to aid his broken heart. In other words, her only purpose is to stop him from taking you back and she's only acting as a fence to separate the two of you. I don't believe he's in love with her." 'Why you say so Emma?" 'Because of you. He could tell me hundreds of excuses that you're only living with him because of the baby and he wants to give you protection and the police still hasn't solved the case about your attacker.. Blah blah blah, but I know there's more to it than that." A smile crept up on my face. 'But seriously Jasmine, you can't remember who attacked you?" she asked as her eyebrows ceased together.