CHAPTER 51: I STILL LOVE HIM

Belle's POV: When Alex ended the call, I felt a sudden anxious feeling inside me. It's a feeling that tells me.. something is wrong. But I just sighed and shake off those thoughts in my head. I take a seat on the couch and continue listening to the new music that we're going to use in our upcoming International dance competition. But thirty minutes... one hour... has passed, this uncomfortable feeling inside me still bothering me. And then I decided to stop what I was doing and walked towards the kitchen. I found Daniel and Rian's nanny cooking something for lunch. "Nanay Ems." (Nanay means Mother.. and Ems is short for Emily) I smiled and glanced on her work at the kitchen counter. "Hi, 'nak." ('Nak is their short term for 'Anak' which means 'daughter or son') "What's that Nanay? Do you need some help?" I cheerfully asked her and she smiled. "Oh, it's okay... It's just a simple recipe. This is your husband's requested food for his lunch today." "Requested for his lunch... why? He's here?" "Yes, he's in the gym." "Ohh.." I said nodding. "He didn't go to work?" "He said he wants to stay at home for one day."  She shrugged. And my eyebrow automatically find her way up as I can't believe what I heard.  -'Daniel.. stays at home? What happened to his 'my business is my top priority?'- But since I want to relax myself and avoid the unexplainable feeling inside my head, I decided to cook my own version and taste of fried chicken.. which is marinated with grapes vinegar, dried rosemary, basil leaves and more garlic. I am enjoying myself in cooking while dancing to the rhythm of the dance music 'Happy' by Pharrell Williams, when I noticed that there's someone watching me from behind. And I found my jerk and arrogant husband sniffing the air. I smirked. "Yes, my royal highness?" I asked while still dancing. "What are you cooking?" he ignored my question. I really wanted to say...'none of your business' but I'd changed my mind. "Fried chicken, your royal highness." I answered with my sweetest smile. He walked towards the stove where I am standing and take two pieces of my precious fried chicken. I gasped and I narrowed my eyes when he bite the thigh part. "What are you doing?" I screamed at him. "Eating my fried chicken." He smirked and shrugged. "But that's mine! Argh! I'm going to kill you!"  I tried to get it from him but he lifted his hand on top of his head so I can no longer reach his hands. "You're like Rian, you're going to kill me just because of the fried chicken?" "Because that's mine-----argh!" I didn't finish what I wanted to say when my phone vibrates from behind my shorts pocket. I crunched my eyebrows when I noticed it's an unregistered number.  "Who's that?" Daniel also glanced on my phone. I rolled my eyes on him before I decided to swipe the answer button. He's just watching me while eating my fried chicken. "Hello? This is Sophia from Sophia's workshop, speaking. How may I help you?" "Hello Ma'am, good afternoon. I am Mich, the head nurse from the emergency department. We're calling from Good Samaritan Hospital for patient Mr. Alexander Jonathan Smith. He's been rushed in the emergency room twenty minutes ago for a car accident." "W-What?" because I am too shocked with the news, I didn't know I gripped Daniel's arm, but he didn't complain. Instead, he hold my hand with concern and confusion in his eyes. "C-Car accident? Why? Oh my God!" "Yes Ma'am, he's now in the operating room. But Ma'am may we know what's your relationship with the patient? Because your number was the last listed in his call logs. It's stated here that you called him two and a half hours ago?" "Y-Yes. He's my friend and a co-brother-in-law. And I called him earlier because I told him that we already know where we can find his wife, my sister in law." "Okay Ma'am, thank you so much for the information. May we request from your side to contact his wife and his family? We will need to ask  their consent for Mr. Smith's following operations and some of his personal information for our records as well." "Y-Yeah, sure. Thank you. I'll call them immediately." and I ended the call. I looked at Daniel and he cupped both of my cheeks. "What happened? Who's that? And what is that car accident? Who met with an accident?"  "I-t's Alex. He had an accident, and he is now in the emergency room. We need to go there, and we need to contact, Rian. His eyes widened. "Oh fuck!" He said before pulling my hand and rushed towards the garage door. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Rian's POV: I am now heading to the hospital, with Jordan and Eric. They volunteered themselves to go with me in the hospital. When I opened my phone again this morning, I received a lot of text messages from my parents, my friends, Dani, Belle and Alex. But my hands' trembled with Belle's last text message. **Rian, this is an emergency. It's about your husband. Please call me immediately.** And when I called her, she told me that Alex had an accident and he's now in the hospital. I felt all my blood drained from all over my body. My both knees buckled as I screamed the name of my husband. And Jordan caught me when I was about to fall. And I can't help not to ask the Almighty One from above, about all of these happenings in my life. I got married at the age of eighteen.. 'contractually'... I lived within this marriage 'alone' for four years. And when we both decided to give this marriage a chance, then I found out.. that my husband has a child with another woman! Despite those sweet words that he told me... 'I am his only one'. And then now.. he got into an accident? What did I do, for me to suffer all these things? I love him so much and thinking without him beside me while raising our child... it's making me insane.  "Hey, Kelley. Don't think of this too much. Your baby needs you to be strong. Alex can survive this one, don't worry. Let's just pray."  Eric hold my hands and pulled me to him and hugged me in a brotherly hug. He's also in a backseat with me while Jordan is driving his car towards the hospital. I shook my head and my sobs continue to escape from my throat. I can't control my tears.. as I also can't control those negative thoughts that keeps on swirling and dancing in my head. There were so many questions of what-ifs and what-ifs and what-ifs, that repeatedly kicked inside my mind. But there's one thing I've realized about this situation.. it's the truth that... I love him.. I love him so much that even if Dino was his real child.. then so be it. I will just accept the truth, besides.. he doesn't even have a single fault about him being here in this world. It's all his parents' faults. He's just also an another innocent, who's been afflicted by someone else's mistakes. And I remember what Gelo has told me three days ago. 'How much do I love him? How much do I love my husband?' And you know what I found out? I love him, with every beat of this stupid heart. That even he lied and cheated on me, I still love him. That even there is a Dino in this scene and Francine from his past... I love him, I still love him. All I need right now is his explanation, but how can I ask him a single question, when I don't know if I can still see him breathing? -'Oh God!'-