Lahat ng Kabanata ng The Lansing House: Kabanata 141 - Kabanata 150

EmersonShe left the doctor’s office quickly, but she could still feel Asher’s presence behind her. She shouldn’t have told him about the appointments. He was going to have questions, ones she didn’t want to answer. He lost the chance to know anything else.“Emerson, wait,” Asher said, when she reached her car.“I’m tired, Asher. I want to go home.” She opened her door, got in her car, started it, and drove off as Asher stood looking at her.His truck parked in the street just as she reached her front door, and she sighed. She’d known it wasn’t going to be that easy. She unlocked the door and left it open for him. She kicked her shoes off in the living room, and headed to the kitchen. She heard the front door close, and left the bottle of juice on the table. He could help himself if he wanted anything to drink.She found him in the living room, pacing. She sat down on the couch, and leaned back, her feet automatically going up on the ottoman. She sipped her juice and waited for him t

AsherHis hands felt sweaty around the steering wheel, and his heart was hammering against his ribs. He was driving too fast, but it didn’t feel fast enough. Emerson still had a pulse, but the blood scared him half to death.He parked in front of the emergency doors, and got Emerson from the backseat. He left the doors open and ran inside, yelling for help. Lindy saw him first, and she reacted instantaneously.“She’s almost 36 weeks pregnant. Jeanette’s her doctor! She’s bleeding, and I found her unconscious. I don’t know how long she was on the floor.”“Dr. Blackwell’s on call tonight,” Lindy said. “Page Dr. Blackwell! I’m taking her down to surgery!”Asher was stopped by another nurse and he watched as Lindy disappeared with Emerson as more people joined her, and pushed her down the hall. He looked down and saw the blood that had stained his arm.He dragged his hands over his face and pulled his phone from his pocket. He dialed his father’s number and paced as he listened to the lin

AsherCassidy had brought him clothes, and he used the bathroom adjacent to her hospital room. He showered, brushed his teeth, and spent the night in the hospital with her. She whimpered in her sleep, saying Grover’s name, and the reality struck him that she was still trying to heal from her ordeal, as well. He hadn’t known that, hadn’t even considered that she wasn’t still a victim of her own abuse.The next morning, Jeanette discharged her and Henri, and he crawled through town. He wasn’t going to take any risks with both of them in the truck. Emerson was still sore, and he didn’t like the way she hissed over every bump in the dirt road.“He won’t break, Asher.” “I told everyone to stay away so you can have some time to adjust with having him home,” he said.“I appreciate that.”Asher unclipped the entire seat, and carried it with Henri inside the house. Emerson walked ahead to his bedroom and she took Henri once Asher had unclipped him. They stood in front of his crib, and watche

AsherHe couldn’t quite put his finger on it, but something was different. Emerson was different. He had no idea what had changed, but she was more withdrawn, and only answered him in monosyllables. “What’s going on?”Emerson had just taken the load of laundry out of the machine, but she glanced over her shoulder at him. “What do you mean?”“Did something happen? Are you not feeling well?”She smiled at him, but it didn’t reach her eyes. “I’m fine.”“The boys wanted me to invite you over for dinner,” he said.“The boys? Your brothers are hardly boys.”Asher huffed out a laugh. “Do you remember the two boys from my journal?”Emerson frowned. “Yes.”“The night of Winchester’s engagement party—”“When I hit your girlfriend?”“She wasn’t my girlfriend, you were. Anyway, Bear Claw told me that they would be living in my house before winter was over,” he said.“That’s not creepy at all.”Asher grinned, and sat down at the kitchen table as she loaded the clothes into the dryer. “I adopted t

AsherThey were sitting at the kitchen table. Henri had been fed and was asleep again. Something had shifted between them. He knew he had to tell her the truth. It wasn’t fair to her to only know half the story.“I think we should clear the air,” he said.“About what?”“I miss you, Emerson. I missed you the moment Mark’s car drove away. I opened your gift, and I tried to call you. You changed your number.”“There was no reason to keep that number. It was just a reminder of my past,” she said.“You haven’t come out and said it, so I will. The fact that I was mad at you didn’t change how I felt about you. It does scare me, the magnitude of my feelings. I don’t know how to accept the fact that you love me even after knowing the complete truth.”“Seven months is a long time when you’re pregnant, but I’ve grown, Asher. I made peace with your rejection.”Asher clenched his jaw. “I shouldn’t have told you to leave that day. I should’ve worked through it then, but I didn’t, and I can’t change