Chapter Fourteen, Second Chance
It was early the next morning Jac stirred in her sleep. She'd spent the night at Jonny's side. The chair wasn't exactly the most comfortable. But she wanted to be by his side and that's what she had done instead of booking herself into a hotel. The previous night's events racing around inside her mind. Jonny's father had come to on her.
He made a pass at her. He wouldn't take no for an answer. So she had slapped him across the face before leaving the bar. Tears pouring down her cheeks. Everything was going wrong for her and Jac didn't like it one bit. Her life was spiralling out of control.
She needed Jonny to open his eyes, just so everything would be okay. So she could forget what his father did. She had a suspicion that it wasn't going to be the end of it. She had a feeling deep inside that Oliver wouldn't leave it there. He wouldn't let it go until he got what he wanted. Jac wasn't going to give him what he wanted.
Sleeping with Lord Byrne was a long time ago. And times had changed since then. But it still hurt to have it thrown back into her face. How dare Oliver bring it up when he hardly knew anything about her? He'd clearly done his research about her. How else would he know?
She just wanted the memory of the previous night to leave and it never appear again but as hard as she tried. It was still there. There was no escaping it. It was there at the back of her mind...
She looked at Jonny's form. It was almost like he was asleep. What she wouldn't do for his eyes to open and for him to smile at her. After last night at the bar Jac had made a heartbreaking choice. She wasn't going to transfer to Scotland after all.
She couldn't bear to work alongside Jonny's father after what he had done. It was a shame actually because they'd made plans to go house haunting and start a fresh. But now that had all changed Jac wasn't going to transfer.
Not only was Jonny's father one of the reasons. But Darwin was her home. It was what made her who she is and she couldn't turn her back on the ward now. And that's when Jac decided. She was going back to Darwin ward with or without Jonny. As she sat beside Jonny's side.
She held his hand wishing and praying for some sort of miracle and that Jonny would magically open his eyes. It had been two days since the operation even know the doctor had told Jac it would take a few days. She wished the day that he would wake up would eventually come. Because she needed him, she needed to hear him tell her that everything was going to be alright and that she had him.
She got up and left the ward in search of a coffee machine. She wasn't one for hospital coffee but at least it would give her a boost of energy, as she headed to the machine and pressed the button for her coffee. She noticed Oliver walking near by and to her surprise he completely avoided her, didn't even ask how Jonny was. He just walked on by as if she wasn't even there. Once the vending machine had finished Jac's coffee, she placed a lid on top of it and headed back into Jonny's ward only to find Oliver in there he got up from the chair and was about to leave the room.
"Don't leave on my count" Jac scowled.
"I have meetings to attend to" Oliver lied.
"So meetings is more important than your son?" Jac exclaimed
"I have a job to attend to, I do work here after all" Oliver scowled.
"More like you're just trying to avoid me after last night. Let me remind you Oliver, it was you that made the pass at me" Jac retorted.
"I don't know what your talking about, now if you don't mind I really have to be somewhere." Oliver scowled
"Go on leave, it shows your job is more important to you then the role of being a father." Jac said sarcastically
"Yes well I could say the same for you, your career means more to you then my son does. So don't give me that crap" Oliver retorted
"Oliver you messed with the wrong woman. I'm not to be messed with" Jac scowled.
"I'm really scared, remember Jacqueline I know all about your past. It could easily take a slip of the tongue to reveal all to Jonny, and I'm sure he'll think differently about you then, once he knows what a little slut you were" Oliver retorted
And with that Jac took the lid off the coffee the steam was still present which showed it was still hot before she chucked the whole contains over Oliver.
"And that was me throwing my drink over you which I should have done last night." Jac leaving the room leaving Oliver with a soaked coffee stained suit..