The return of La Principessa Gina von Amberg
Chapter 1 – Abandonment
"I can't believe you are over their again! I am sitting with a crisis on my hands and you are with Billy!Typical!What did I expect? Ciara is sick Brady!Lexie doesn't know what is wrong with her, the doctors are doing tests, and you are over at B..."
"Okay, okay! I get that, but Chelsea is going through a very bad time. She's..."
"Billy, Chelsea, Billy, Chelsea, is all I've ever hear, for months now, Brady, you have a WIFE, and another daughter that is sick – and no-one knows what is wrong with her."
"Look I'll get over there as soon as possible..."
"Don't bother."
Hope Williams Brady slams down the phone after speaking with her husband.
Husband? She closes her eyes and feel a complete wave of loneliness wash over her.
When did things start going wrong? AGAIN! A little over a year ago, things started going just the same as now. Bo forever over at Billy's, hiding the fact that Hope's niece's orphaned friend is in fact their daughter. Bo and Billy's daughter. And then the worst happened, the worst thing she has ever had to go through in her entire life, and she forgave him. SHE FORGAVE HIM! And now it is starting again!
She shakes her aching head, a tear wants to spill over onto her cheeks, but she isn't crying, she doesn't have the energy to cry.
Bo, hiding the fact that Chelsea is his daughter, wrote out a temporary drivers licence for her, and loaned her his truck, loaned his truck to his unlicensed teenage daughter and in the end Hope lost her little boy, that fatal day, she also lost her trust, her hope and her marriage soon after. If it wasn't for Patrick, she would never have gotten through it... AND SHE FORGAVE BO!
And now this is all starting again... She may loose her little girl as well, and yet again, his over holding Chelsea and Billy's hands, and drying their tears.
Patrick is gone, he picked up the peaces of her broken life in the midst of all that. He wasn't the love of her life, it wasn't the affair of all ages, but he was there. If John was here, he would've been there for her.
A sudden longing for her best friend grips her and she starts shivering.
He was big and strong with shoulders wide and available enough for everyone's tears. She would give anything to feel the comfort of his embrace again.
The feelings that broke in her the day of the funeral comes back and she shakes her head, not wanting to remember.
She is emotional and vulnerable, no point in dragging up the past. Strange how, when life throws you a curve ball there is no-one to turn to. When Zack died, she had no-one but Patrick, John was in a coma, now he is gone forever...
Then the anger boils over again.
"Damn you, Billy! Damn you for all your schemes and plots! And damn you Brady for falling for them!" She hits on the nurses counter with her small right hand balled into a fist.
"She's trying to control you, can't you see that?" Billy frowns as she watches Bo Brady pull on his jacket and hug their daughter goodbye.
"Ciara is sick, no matter what you think of Hope, there is no way she can conger up such a story if it isn't true. Beside, Hope is not the type to make up stories for attention. She's my wife and she needs me." He hugs Billy quickly, then dashes out the door.
"I'm going upstairs to take a shower."Chelsea announces, and runs up the stairs.
Billy is still standing in the middle of the living room, arms crossed over her chest.
"Little Miss goody-two-shoes. Her inane sense of morals can drive me to tears. No Bo, your little Hope could never tell a lie, and she wouldn't know how to manipulate anyone, but I do, and soon you will see her the way I want you to see her..."